Normalcy-preface
... definitions of normality and its discoursive articulation, we are aware that our hypothesis is not determined by predictive value, but rather by “strategic value in relation to the question raised” (Lyotard, 2004, p. 7). From a philosophical point of view, normality is a meta-concept created by peop ...
... definitions of normality and its discoursive articulation, we are aware that our hypothesis is not determined by predictive value, but rather by “strategic value in relation to the question raised” (Lyotard, 2004, p. 7). From a philosophical point of view, normality is a meta-concept created by peop ...
Ethics—Walk the Talk
... moral behavior in your corporation by taking the task seriously. When company executives behave unethically, that behavior often ends up in the news. While most companies have ethics policies, they don't necessarily enforce or even follow them. By incorporating ethics into the very heart of the bus ...
... moral behavior in your corporation by taking the task seriously. When company executives behave unethically, that behavior often ends up in the news. While most companies have ethics policies, they don't necessarily enforce or even follow them. By incorporating ethics into the very heart of the bus ...
Anthropology at the Intersections between the local, the national and
... constantly changing entity, only exists in the act of being performed. referring to the anthropological tradition, Joppke and lukes (1999) spell out the key distinction between culture (in the singular) as a ‘context-transcending’ product of symbol specialists and the social practices that take plac ...
... constantly changing entity, only exists in the act of being performed. referring to the anthropological tradition, Joppke and lukes (1999) spell out the key distinction between culture (in the singular) as a ‘context-transcending’ product of symbol specialists and the social practices that take plac ...
On Microsociology of Toys: Material Turn and Non
... pole of the interactionists‟ scale while affordances are a part of its “material” side? Or, in terms of Harre, inscriptions belong to the symbolic orders while affordances characterize only simple “bits of stuff”? No. There is no dualism of inscription and affordance, no multiplication of the toy ca ...
... pole of the interactionists‟ scale while affordances are a part of its “material” side? Or, in terms of Harre, inscriptions belong to the symbolic orders while affordances characterize only simple “bits of stuff”? No. There is no dualism of inscription and affordance, no multiplication of the toy ca ...
Ethnic and Racial Identity
... them to one another. Identity is how we interpret our own existence and understand who we are in our world" (p. 30). • For the emerging adult, the task is to find a personally "owned" identity in a variety of areas. This involves distancing oneself from others such as parents and significant adult r ...
... them to one another. Identity is how we interpret our own existence and understand who we are in our world" (p. 30). • For the emerging adult, the task is to find a personally "owned" identity in a variety of areas. This involves distancing oneself from others such as parents and significant adult r ...
introduction to sociology
... aspirations, traditions, customs, etc. Sociology emerged as a distinct intellectual endeavour with the development of modern societies, and the study of such societies remains its principal concern. 4. Sociology gives us an awareness of cultural difference that allows us to see the social world from ...
... aspirations, traditions, customs, etc. Sociology emerged as a distinct intellectual endeavour with the development of modern societies, and the study of such societies remains its principal concern. 4. Sociology gives us an awareness of cultural difference that allows us to see the social world from ...
Celtic Cultures- Spring 2011 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Issues such as who has power and voice in a society) are critical to postmodern scholars. Postmodernism states that we cannot accurately describe any culture completely because we will always be limited by our subjective perspectives and the perspectives of the informants that we use. They assert th ...
... Issues such as who has power and voice in a society) are critical to postmodern scholars. Postmodernism states that we cannot accurately describe any culture completely because we will always be limited by our subjective perspectives and the perspectives of the informants that we use. They assert th ...
Psychological Science in Cultural Context
... Interestingly, these deliberations on alternatives have not grown primarily out of North American soil. As many see it, they reflect the misgivings of myriad scholars in non-American, non-Western, and/or Third World locales, and particularly their doubts about the implicit presumption that 1) there ...
... Interestingly, these deliberations on alternatives have not grown primarily out of North American soil. As many see it, they reflect the misgivings of myriad scholars in non-American, non-Western, and/or Third World locales, and particularly their doubts about the implicit presumption that 1) there ...
The Social Condition of Knowledge
... rationally assessed. The only absolute value is the formal principle of the scrutinization of everything. Rationalist Fundamentalism does not accept the relativistic idea that there can be as many truths and standards of rationality as can be determined by different ‘life forms’. However, paradoxica ...
... rationally assessed. The only absolute value is the formal principle of the scrutinization of everything. Rationalist Fundamentalism does not accept the relativistic idea that there can be as many truths and standards of rationality as can be determined by different ‘life forms’. However, paradoxica ...
Functional Analysis and Mass Communication
... needed in order to discover the socially shared interpretations about these matters and prescriptions for reacting to them, everything about the values, rules and expectations of members of their society, everything that might serv~ as social iubricant-jokes, stories, songs, etc.-all these things we ...
... needed in order to discover the socially shared interpretations about these matters and prescriptions for reacting to them, everything about the values, rules and expectations of members of their society, everything that might serv~ as social iubricant-jokes, stories, songs, etc.-all these things we ...
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
... addressed in the second half. This book is more challenging than some of the other texts, ...
... addressed in the second half. This book is more challenging than some of the other texts, ...
Rethinking Power Relations in Critical/Cultural Studies: A Dialectical
... scholars have embraced this notion—as well as, as I explain below, the turn towards particular (re)readings of other critical theory keywords such as Gramsci’s “hegemony.” Thus, even though discourse is often described in Foucault’s work as encompassing both linguistic and nonlinguistic aspects, in ...
... scholars have embraced this notion—as well as, as I explain below, the turn towards particular (re)readings of other critical theory keywords such as Gramsci’s “hegemony.” Thus, even though discourse is often described in Foucault’s work as encompassing both linguistic and nonlinguistic aspects, in ...
Global diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture
... concerned, power distance may manifest itself in the following ways. In low power distance countries subordinates expect to be consulted and the ideal boss is a resourceful democrat. Consequently, in low power distance countries the more equal status of subordinates may provide a grass roots path fo ...
... concerned, power distance may manifest itself in the following ways. In low power distance countries subordinates expect to be consulted and the ideal boss is a resourceful democrat. Consequently, in low power distance countries the more equal status of subordinates may provide a grass roots path fo ...
The Exposure Society Experience as a new aspect of social status
... perceived as remarkable. They may be remembered as positive – Csikszentmihalyi (2002) talks about experience as an attempt to get happiness. However, it may also be sad or dramatic events that provoke an experience; the individual can feel himself enriched by them, it may have provided a better com ...
... perceived as remarkable. They may be remembered as positive – Csikszentmihalyi (2002) talks about experience as an attempt to get happiness. However, it may also be sad or dramatic events that provoke an experience; the individual can feel himself enriched by them, it may have provided a better com ...
Answers
... How are the preordained evolutionary stages of Tylor's and Morgan's theories of cultural evolution ethnocentric? What effect did limited empirical data on non-Western societies have on the development of this theory? ...
... How are the preordained evolutionary stages of Tylor's and Morgan's theories of cultural evolution ethnocentric? What effect did limited empirical data on non-Western societies have on the development of this theory? ...
From Who am I to When am I?: Framing the Time and Shape of the
... of the state and social movements, or the individual and the transcendental, for example. Each of these views has a perspective of the world ‘out there’ in which the future can be known. In the predictive, the universe is by and large stable, with discernible laws. In the interpretive, there might b ...
... of the state and social movements, or the individual and the transcendental, for example. Each of these views has a perspective of the world ‘out there’ in which the future can be known. In the predictive, the universe is by and large stable, with discernible laws. In the interpretive, there might b ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... (Barnard 1969: 17). The Lutheran pastor Herder3 did away with the view that language has a divine origin. Instead he introduced the idea of slow and gradual development of language ‘from rude beginnings’ (Sapir 1907: 110). Language for Herder was an organic product grown in time, determined by the h ...
... (Barnard 1969: 17). The Lutheran pastor Herder3 did away with the view that language has a divine origin. Instead he introduced the idea of slow and gradual development of language ‘from rude beginnings’ (Sapir 1907: 110). Language for Herder was an organic product grown in time, determined by the h ...
IDEOLOGY AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: NKRUMAH`S
... phenomena operate on means-end relation. Like, the Machievellian aphorism, “the end justifies the means”, this suggests that political actors can use any means available to them in order to achieve their goal. Such means might include violence, whether overt or covert. This is how ideology has been ...
... phenomena operate on means-end relation. Like, the Machievellian aphorism, “the end justifies the means”, this suggests that political actors can use any means available to them in order to achieve their goal. Such means might include violence, whether overt or covert. This is how ideology has been ...
TRUTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY: FROM NATURE AND CULTURE TO
... they all had the capacity for truth.2 However, alongside other obvious markers (such as degrees of technological sophistication, social complexity, and moral refinement), one of the things that made human beings naturally different from each other was that they had developed this capacity to differ ...
... they all had the capacity for truth.2 However, alongside other obvious markers (such as degrees of technological sophistication, social complexity, and moral refinement), one of the things that made human beings naturally different from each other was that they had developed this capacity to differ ...
nigerian dress culture in - Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics
... In Sociology culture is the belief, behaviors, language and people’s entire way of life. Culture includes customs, ceremonies, works of arts, dress, inventions, technology and people’s traditions. Culture distinguishes human beings from other animals. Social anthropologists are interested in how cul ...
... In Sociology culture is the belief, behaviors, language and people’s entire way of life. Culture includes customs, ceremonies, works of arts, dress, inventions, technology and people’s traditions. Culture distinguishes human beings from other animals. Social anthropologists are interested in how cul ...
FRANZ BOAS AND BRONISLAW MALINOWSKY: A CONTRAST
... 1889. He left his position at Clark and from 1892-1894 he worked on the anthropological exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair, which he left due to personal conflicts. From Chicago, Boas moved to the American Museum of Natural History in New York (where he again was forced to resign due to further p ...
... 1889. He left his position at Clark and from 1892-1894 he worked on the anthropological exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair, which he left due to personal conflicts. From Chicago, Boas moved to the American Museum of Natural History in New York (where he again was forced to resign due to further p ...
- Digital Commons @ New Haven
... Youth culture studies can be traced at least as far back as the Chicago School (Levine and Stumpf 1983). This body of work applied existing theories of crime, delinquency, and social deviance to youth lifestyles and behaviors. From this perspective individuals in general, and youth in particular, ma ...
... Youth culture studies can be traced at least as far back as the Chicago School (Levine and Stumpf 1983). This body of work applied existing theories of crime, delinquency, and social deviance to youth lifestyles and behaviors. From this perspective individuals in general, and youth in particular, ma ...
Cultural industries and public policy
... The critical innovation of such a definitional and conceptual shift is significant. Whereas previously only ‘cultural outputs’ were considered (and prior to this indirect impacts (Pratt 2001); the new approach is concerned more with process and context. This brings into view a range of institutional ...
... The critical innovation of such a definitional and conceptual shift is significant. Whereas previously only ‘cultural outputs’ were considered (and prior to this indirect impacts (Pratt 2001); the new approach is concerned more with process and context. This brings into view a range of institutional ...
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... often suffer from inadequacies in the understanding of their complexity and dynamics. Theories are imposed from the top rather than generated organically, an ideal is always set that is outside of rather than directly tied to current conditions. Particularly in the context of the current global orde ...
... often suffer from inadequacies in the understanding of their complexity and dynamics. Theories are imposed from the top rather than generated organically, an ideal is always set that is outside of rather than directly tied to current conditions. Particularly in the context of the current global orde ...