McGraw-Hill - the political economy of war
... • The Functionalist Perspective – Societies are adaptive social structures that help human beings adjust to their physical, political, economic, and cultural environment. – Also called Structural- Functionalism: because it takes note of social structure • Human society is naturally stable • Maintain ...
... • The Functionalist Perspective – Societies are adaptive social structures that help human beings adjust to their physical, political, economic, and cultural environment. – Also called Structural- Functionalism: because it takes note of social structure • Human society is naturally stable • Maintain ...
Social Network Effects on Performance and Layoffs
... is a fundamental tradeoff in the social-structural foundations of power and knowledge. The same mechanism that endows brokers with power as the providers of information also reduces their power as acquirers of information because network contacts in a non-redundant network are also monopolist themse ...
... is a fundamental tradeoff in the social-structural foundations of power and knowledge. The same mechanism that endows brokers with power as the providers of information also reduces their power as acquirers of information because network contacts in a non-redundant network are also monopolist themse ...
SOC1013 Introduction to Sociology
... not lend itself to an investigation of freedom and individuality. Yet sociologists will almost always become defensive when people charge that their perspective does not account for at least some freedom. ...
... not lend itself to an investigation of freedom and individuality. Yet sociologists will almost always become defensive when people charge that their perspective does not account for at least some freedom. ...
SOC1013 Introduction to Sociology
... not lend itself to an investigation of freedom and individuality. Yet sociologists will almost always become defensive when people charge that their perspective does not account for at least some freedom. ...
... not lend itself to an investigation of freedom and individuality. Yet sociologists will almost always become defensive when people charge that their perspective does not account for at least some freedom. ...
Technological or Media Determinism
... slide forward into extrapolation, and to picture devices still less controllable, still more independent than anything of which they had direct experience. ...
... slide forward into extrapolation, and to picture devices still less controllable, still more independent than anything of which they had direct experience. ...
Important notice to the Finnish sociological community Call for Acta
... Important notice to the Finnish sociological community Call for Acta Sociologica Editors, 2015–2018 The Nordic Sociological Association is looking for new Editors to edit Acta Sociologica from January 2015 when the editorship will be transferred from Norway to Finland. Therefore, the Finnish sociolo ...
... Important notice to the Finnish sociological community Call for Acta Sociologica Editors, 2015–2018 The Nordic Sociological Association is looking for new Editors to edit Acta Sociologica from January 2015 when the editorship will be transferred from Norway to Finland. Therefore, the Finnish sociolo ...
Communication within the Triadic Context
... Toward the end of the 1990s another trend in triadic studies emerged. In 1973 Guerin, Jr., and Fogarty, two psychiatrists from a medical perspective, founded the Center for Family Learning in Rye Brook, New York. Over the next twenty five years they developed an approach that used relationship trian ...
... Toward the end of the 1990s another trend in triadic studies emerged. In 1973 Guerin, Jr., and Fogarty, two psychiatrists from a medical perspective, founded the Center for Family Learning in Rye Brook, New York. Over the next twenty five years they developed an approach that used relationship trian ...
复旦大学本科生(非英语专业)外语能力培养方案
... to the draft with a fresh, more objective point of view. _______, Second in revising a paper, you should read and reread it several times, for it is impossible to notice all the errors and things that need changing Finally as you read your paper, add in one or two hasty readings. ______, your though ...
... to the draft with a fresh, more objective point of view. _______, Second in revising a paper, you should read and reread it several times, for it is impossible to notice all the errors and things that need changing Finally as you read your paper, add in one or two hasty readings. ______, your though ...
Establishing the Rural Sociological Society
... [Tab 1a; Tab 2a] . Chaired by Dwight Sanderson, this committee was later referred to as the “Sanderson Committee.” When the committee was formed, only one member (O.D. Duncan) favored creating an organization separate from the ASS. The others, including Dwight Sanderson and Carl C. Taylor, were ...
... [Tab 1a; Tab 2a] . Chaired by Dwight Sanderson, this committee was later referred to as the “Sanderson Committee.” When the committee was formed, only one member (O.D. Duncan) favored creating an organization separate from the ASS. The others, including Dwight Sanderson and Carl C. Taylor, were ...
The underclass debate
... • The underclass exists because the material resources needed to succeed in society are distributed unequally. • Field (1989) supports this idea because he argues that in times of economic recession and failure, there is more evidence of an underclass emerging, an example being the end of the Thatch ...
... • The underclass exists because the material resources needed to succeed in society are distributed unequally. • Field (1989) supports this idea because he argues that in times of economic recession and failure, there is more evidence of an underclass emerging, an example being the end of the Thatch ...
Social Science History - Six essays for budding theorists
... ¶9 State of nature theorists try to work out what society is about by imagining what human beings would be like stripped of their social characteristics (in a "state of nature"). They put forward a picture of individuals in this state and try to show how the needs of those individuals explain their ...
... ¶9 State of nature theorists try to work out what society is about by imagining what human beings would be like stripped of their social characteristics (in a "state of nature"). They put forward a picture of individuals in this state and try to show how the needs of those individuals explain their ...
1 Societies as organized power networks
... even this is usually conceived of as a single, bounded culture, a kind of "national culture." True, some modern sociologists and historians reject nation-state models. They equate "society" with transnational economic relations, using either capitalism or industrialism as their master concept. This ...
... even this is usually conceived of as a single, bounded culture, a kind of "national culture." True, some modern sociologists and historians reject nation-state models. They equate "society" with transnational economic relations, using either capitalism or industrialism as their master concept. This ...
The Case for Communication in Sustainable Development
... governance, peace and prosperity. Like other public goods, communication processes cost money to produce but the producer does not always profit from them, and many kinds of knowledge and information become more valuable the more they are used (as do the networking systems linking them together). ...
... governance, peace and prosperity. Like other public goods, communication processes cost money to produce but the producer does not always profit from them, and many kinds of knowledge and information become more valuable the more they are used (as do the networking systems linking them together). ...
The History and Systematics of Functional Differentiation in Sociology
... reception there existed a fear that specialization would result in one-sidedness and isolation and loss of collective consciousness, but some prominent theorists – Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich Wilhelm Schleiermacher probably being the most well-known among them – chose another path. They inter ...
... reception there existed a fear that specialization would result in one-sidedness and isolation and loss of collective consciousness, but some prominent theorists – Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich Wilhelm Schleiermacher probably being the most well-known among them – chose another path. They inter ...
Harriet Martineau
... components of human capability and levels of intelligence that had not yet been explored that could have an impact of the future of society. She believed in free will as part of a complex social system and had no appreciation for deterministic and pre-destination theories (Hill, 2002:186). Harriet M ...
... components of human capability and levels of intelligence that had not yet been explored that could have an impact of the future of society. She believed in free will as part of a complex social system and had no appreciation for deterministic and pre-destination theories (Hill, 2002:186). Harriet M ...
Part 1 - Intro to Soc & Soc Imag
... • Today, we want to go deeper into what it means to do sociology by discussing the unique approach sociologists bring to their work as they seek to make the familiar strange. • The Sociological Imagination – In order to think critically about the world around us -- to make the familiar strange - we ...
... • Today, we want to go deeper into what it means to do sociology by discussing the unique approach sociologists bring to their work as they seek to make the familiar strange. • The Sociological Imagination – In order to think critically about the world around us -- to make the familiar strange - we ...
The Ignorance Society
... is incomparably superior to everything that existed before it. Likewise, a process of technological convergence is taking place that is making the underlying complexity of the system increasingly invisible to its users, who tend to integrate a wide range of services into all the realms of our lives, ...
... is incomparably superior to everything that existed before it. Likewise, a process of technological convergence is taking place that is making the underlying complexity of the system increasingly invisible to its users, who tend to integrate a wide range of services into all the realms of our lives, ...
Chapter 8 Section 1: Deviance
... society and “________________” – the nonconforming members. This “us against them” attitude reinforces the sense of __________________ and the belief in shared values. Durkheim suggested that deviance is so important to the maintenance of group ____________; it would have to be invented if it did no ...
... society and “________________” – the nonconforming members. This “us against them” attitude reinforces the sense of __________________ and the belief in shared values. Durkheim suggested that deviance is so important to the maintenance of group ____________; it would have to be invented if it did no ...
Ch. 8 S. 1
... the nonconforming members. This “us against them” attitude reinforces the sense of community and the belief in shared values. Durkheim suggested that deviance is so important to the maintenance of group unity, it would have to be invented if it did not exist naturally. ...
... the nonconforming members. This “us against them” attitude reinforces the sense of community and the belief in shared values. Durkheim suggested that deviance is so important to the maintenance of group unity, it would have to be invented if it did not exist naturally. ...
... have found that w hen a group’s hierarchy is based on expertis e it performs better w hich supports the notion that meritocratic hierarchies promote group success. b. M otivating members To help overcome the second major challenge, that of motivating indiv idual members to contribute to the group, h ...
the role of narrative methods in sociology
... methods and tools of modernity, but also felt as if they were living in an “iron cage”. These kinds of metaphors used by Weber and others helped the discipline of sociology to narrate its own claims in a clear way. After all, if sociology was to explain, understand, and describe certain patterns of ...
... methods and tools of modernity, but also felt as if they were living in an “iron cage”. These kinds of metaphors used by Weber and others helped the discipline of sociology to narrate its own claims in a clear way. After all, if sociology was to explain, understand, and describe certain patterns of ...
Deviance: Functionalist Explanations
... concepts, can be traced back to the thinking of Emile Durkheim. But perhaps now we should ask whether the functionalist analysis is still of value to sociologists. Looking at the quote, in other words much Functionalist theory has been found wanting in its explanation of society in recent years. It ...
... concepts, can be traced back to the thinking of Emile Durkheim. But perhaps now we should ask whether the functionalist analysis is still of value to sociologists. Looking at the quote, in other words much Functionalist theory has been found wanting in its explanation of society in recent years. It ...
Chapter Two: Types of Societies and Social Groups
... means that relationships are founded on spontaneous attraction. In Gemeinschaft, relationships are warm, personal, direct, and diffuse (in that they are founded on contact between whole people rather than on contact between just parts of people). That is, in a Gemeinschaft, you know people in all th ...
... means that relationships are founded on spontaneous attraction. In Gemeinschaft, relationships are warm, personal, direct, and diffuse (in that they are founded on contact between whole people rather than on contact between just parts of people). That is, in a Gemeinschaft, you know people in all th ...
Chapter 8, Deviance
... Provides insight into power relationships in definition, identification, and handling of deviance. Describes different systems of justice for disadvantaged and privileged groups. Less effective in explaining deviance other than crime. ...
... Provides insight into power relationships in definition, identification, and handling of deviance. Describes different systems of justice for disadvantaged and privileged groups. Less effective in explaining deviance other than crime. ...
Revisiting the Concepts of Mass Communication, the Audience
... of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, 2003), one set of propositions about traditional media audiences that has not been t ...
... of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, 2003), one set of propositions about traditional media audiences that has not been t ...