autism , through a social lens
... Because their goal is to teach children with autism to better understand social life and the world around them, clinicians who treat autism draw directly (if not always consciously) upon sociological ideas. In particular, treatments for autistic children employ George Herbert Mead’s insights about h ...
... Because their goal is to teach children with autism to better understand social life and the world around them, clinicians who treat autism draw directly (if not always consciously) upon sociological ideas. In particular, treatments for autistic children employ George Herbert Mead’s insights about h ...
The underclass debate
... roles place them more or less permanently at the economic level where benefits are paid by the state to those unable to participate in the labour market at all … they are ‘the poor’ of today…’ ...
... roles place them more or less permanently at the economic level where benefits are paid by the state to those unable to participate in the labour market at all … they are ‘the poor’ of today…’ ...
Darwin and the Body Politic
... As was typical of German economists of the time, Schäffle’s approach to his subject was far broader than that of the classical economists. Well versed in contemporary law and sociology, he wrote in a tradition still bound legally, as well as culturally, to the GrecoRoman legacy of jurisprudence codi ...
... As was typical of German economists of the time, Schäffle’s approach to his subject was far broader than that of the classical economists. Well versed in contemporary law and sociology, he wrote in a tradition still bound legally, as well as culturally, to the GrecoRoman legacy of jurisprudence codi ...
Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism
... tainted in other sectors of academic and public life. So are other words such as group selection, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. All of these words had face-value definitions when they were first coined (sociobiology is the study of social behavior from a biological perspective, evolutio ...
... tainted in other sectors of academic and public life. So are other words such as group selection, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. All of these words had face-value definitions when they were first coined (sociobiology is the study of social behavior from a biological perspective, evolutio ...
Levels and Dimensions of Discourse Analysis
... along the precise delimitation of the levels and dimensions of the structural theories. They may involve complex cognitive strategies of processing information, online procedures, handling simultaneous levels and parallel information and so on. Other notions such as goals, plans, scripts, or cogniti ...
... along the precise delimitation of the levels and dimensions of the structural theories. They may involve complex cognitive strategies of processing information, online procedures, handling simultaneous levels and parallel information and so on. Other notions such as goals, plans, scripts, or cogniti ...
- Covenant University Repository
... One of the earliest definitiqns of conflict was by Karl Marx ( 18181883). Marx defines conflict as resulting from divergent interests within a group and as a result of each group trying to pursue their own selfish interests which leads to disagreement and misunderstanding, hence conflict emerges. Fo ...
... One of the earliest definitiqns of conflict was by Karl Marx ( 18181883). Marx defines conflict as resulting from divergent interests within a group and as a result of each group trying to pursue their own selfish interests which leads to disagreement and misunderstanding, hence conflict emerges. Fo ...
Three Ways to Do Sociology
... Verstehen The German word for ‘understanding” Observing more than “what” people do, but “why” they do it ...
... Verstehen The German word for ‘understanding” Observing more than “what” people do, but “why” they do it ...
Jürgen Habermas - Iowa State University, Department of Sociology
... Jürgen Habermas considers his own major achievement the development of the concept and theory of communicative reason or communicative rationality, which distinguishes itself from the rationalist tradition by locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather than in ...
... Jürgen Habermas considers his own major achievement the development of the concept and theory of communicative reason or communicative rationality, which distinguishes itself from the rationalist tradition by locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather than in ...
1 Societies as organized power networks
... with a proximate methodology - and perhaps even eventually with a proximate answer - for the issue of ultimate primacy, but only by devising concepts suited to dealing with a mess. This, I claim, is the virtue of a sociospatial and organizational model of the sources of social power. Human nature an ...
... with a proximate methodology - and perhaps even eventually with a proximate answer - for the issue of ultimate primacy, but only by devising concepts suited to dealing with a mess. This, I claim, is the virtue of a sociospatial and organizational model of the sources of social power. Human nature an ...
A Gentle Introduction to Soar, an Architecture for Human
... perceive and act on the world are limited, the world we perceive and act on is not a simple one. There are a huge number of objects, qualities of objects, actions, and so on, any of which may be key to understanding how to achieve our goals. Think about what features of the environment you respond t ...
... perceive and act on the world are limited, the world we perceive and act on is not a simple one. There are a huge number of objects, qualities of objects, actions, and so on, any of which may be key to understanding how to achieve our goals. Think about what features of the environment you respond t ...
Attitudes, Values and Culture: Qualitative Approaches to
... For social psychologists, attitudes occupy a significant place within the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1989). Put crudely, TPB looks at attitudes in relation to social norms and Perceived Behavioural Constraints (PBC). That is to say, attitudes are theorised in relation to (i) ‘social norms’ ...
... For social psychologists, attitudes occupy a significant place within the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1989). Put crudely, TPB looks at attitudes in relation to social norms and Perceived Behavioural Constraints (PBC). That is to say, attitudes are theorised in relation to (i) ‘social norms’ ...
A2-Level Sociology
... relation to positivism? How can those key words be applied to suicide? What types of research methods do Positivists use? ...
... relation to positivism? How can those key words be applied to suicide? What types of research methods do Positivists use? ...
Chapter 21 Collective Behavior and Social Movements
... spontaneous and unstructured than others, and some forms are more likely than others to involve individuals who act together as opposed to merely being influenced by each other. As a whole, though, collective behavior is regarded as less spontaneous and less structured than conventional behavior, su ...
... spontaneous and unstructured than others, and some forms are more likely than others to involve individuals who act together as opposed to merely being influenced by each other. As a whole, though, collective behavior is regarded as less spontaneous and less structured than conventional behavior, su ...
D EVIANCE
... through an initiation ritual called a “beat-down” in order to be admitted to the gang. He eventually converted to Christianity and chose to leave the gang. He qualified his comments by saying, “No one ever really leaves the gang.” Typically to go on an inactive status with the gang there is a beat d ...
... through an initiation ritual called a “beat-down” in order to be admitted to the gang. He eventually converted to Christianity and chose to leave the gang. He qualified his comments by saying, “No one ever really leaves the gang.” Typically to go on an inactive status with the gang there is a beat d ...
Anselm L. Strauss, 1917-1996 - University of California, San Francisco
... an important biographical milestone in Strauss's own trajectory. The theoretical basis for a number of themes in his work that would be developed later are sketched: the problematics of social worlds and the ways in which they are formed; the question of degrees of belonging to a group, which leads ...
... an important biographical milestone in Strauss's own trajectory. The theoretical basis for a number of themes in his work that would be developed later are sketched: the problematics of social worlds and the ways in which they are formed; the question of degrees of belonging to a group, which leads ...
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT
... government will thus mean a way or system of thinking about the nature of the practice of government (who can govern; what governing is; what or who is governed), capable of making some form of that activity thinkable and practicable both to its practitioners and to those upon whom it was practised. ...
... government will thus mean a way or system of thinking about the nature of the practice of government (who can govern; what governing is; what or who is governed), capable of making some form of that activity thinkable and practicable both to its practitioners and to those upon whom it was practised. ...
Sociology of knowledge
The sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. It is not a specialized area of sociology but instead deals with broad fundamental questions about the extent and limits of social influences on individual's lives and the social-cultural basics of our knowledge about the world. Complementary to the sociology of knowledge is the sociology of ignorance, including the study of nescience, ignorance, knowledge gaps, or non-knowledge as inherent features of knowledge making.The sociology of knowledge was pioneered primarily by the sociologists Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their works deal directly with how conceptual thought, language, and logic could be influenced by the sociological milieu out of which they arise. In Primitive Classification, Durkheim and Mauss take a study of ""primitive"" group mythology to argue that systems of classification are collectively based and that the divisions with these systems are derived from social categories. While neither author specifically coined nor used the term 'sociology of knowledge', their work is an important first contribution to the field.The specific term 'sociology of knowledge' is said to have been in widespread use since the 1920s, when a number of German-speaking sociologists, most notably Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim, wrote extensively on sociological aspects of knowledge. With the dominance of functionalism through the middle years of the 20th century, the sociology of knowledge tended to remain on the periphery of mainstream sociological thought. It was largely reinvented and applied much more closely to everyday life in the 1960s, particularly by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality (1966) and is still central for methods dealing with qualitative understanding of human society (compare socially constructed reality). The 'genealogical' and 'archaeological' studies of Michel Foucault are of considerable contemporary influence.