HERBERT SPENCER`S SOCIOLOGY
... of all. knowledge, which Spencer took to be the ultimate aim of philosophy; now seems more than ever difficult of achievement owing to the growing specialization of the sciences, and there are few, if any, philosophers who would now venture on an ambitious synthesis of all knowledge on the scale att ...
... of all. knowledge, which Spencer took to be the ultimate aim of philosophy; now seems more than ever difficult of achievement owing to the growing specialization of the sciences, and there are few, if any, philosophers who would now venture on an ambitious synthesis of all knowledge on the scale att ...
EVOLUTION EXPERIMENTS WITH MICROORGANISMS: THE DYNAMICS AND GENETIC BASES OF ADAPTATION
... especially affected by this phenomenon, further delaying their spread. Finally, it is likely that there are more mutations that confer small advantages than those that provide large benefits21,22. Hence, the supply of small beneficial mutations will not be exhausted as readily as the supply of large ...
... especially affected by this phenomenon, further delaying their spread. Finally, it is likely that there are more mutations that confer small advantages than those that provide large benefits21,22. Hence, the supply of small beneficial mutations will not be exhausted as readily as the supply of large ...
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems
... However, and interestingly, mainstream sociology and complexity science tend to have quite different ideas on how to approach these kinds of dynamics; which methods are considered suitable and what conclusions that can be drawn. This of course raised questions about whether we can make use of the sa ...
... However, and interestingly, mainstream sociology and complexity science tend to have quite different ideas on how to approach these kinds of dynamics; which methods are considered suitable and what conclusions that can be drawn. This of course raised questions about whether we can make use of the sa ...
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... book „Signatura rerum“ closes the loop back to the idea of the paradigm (Agamben, 2008). And by doing so he brings forward a comprehensive concept of the so to speak implicit paradigm as the reference-giving example. He draws on the works of Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn and eventually Michel Foucault. ...
... book „Signatura rerum“ closes the loop back to the idea of the paradigm (Agamben, 2008). And by doing so he brings forward a comprehensive concept of the so to speak implicit paradigm as the reference-giving example. He draws on the works of Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn and eventually Michel Foucault. ...
Sociology of the Future
... dimension of technology. As society adopts, rejects, uses, and modifies such technologies, it is likely that power relations will shift, new social identities will emerge, and the meaning of inequality will change. So while the actual production of new technologies may affect the contours of the fut ...
... dimension of technology. As society adopts, rejects, uses, and modifies such technologies, it is likely that power relations will shift, new social identities will emerge, and the meaning of inequality will change. So while the actual production of new technologies may affect the contours of the fut ...
Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio
... resilience. The intention here is to assess the degree of vulnerability, which does not simply emerge from the interactions between external natural hazards and internal factors (such as social inequality). To a great extent it is also shaped by a system’s capacity to deal with threats. It is for th ...
... resilience. The intention here is to assess the degree of vulnerability, which does not simply emerge from the interactions between external natural hazards and internal factors (such as social inequality). To a great extent it is also shaped by a system’s capacity to deal with threats. It is for th ...
Shanks Tilley 1987
... new theoretical orientations: lithic and ceramic analyses (including trace element analysis); analysis of botanical, faunal, skeletal and environmental material. All of these have refined and augmented archaeological data quite considerably. Clarke conceived a unity or a logic behind this proliferat ...
... new theoretical orientations: lithic and ceramic analyses (including trace element analysis); analysis of botanical, faunal, skeletal and environmental material. All of these have refined and augmented archaeological data quite considerably. Clarke conceived a unity or a logic behind this proliferat ...
PowerPoint
... In the 1980s, evolutionary biologists realized that if transmission and virulence were positively coupled, natural selection acting on individuals could favor the evolution and maintenance of some level of virulence ...
... In the 1980s, evolutionary biologists realized that if transmission and virulence were positively coupled, natural selection acting on individuals could favor the evolution and maintenance of some level of virulence ...
Migration and Social Transformation
... sociology and other social sciences were concerned with the control and integration of potentially deviant groups (notably the working classes and colonised peoples) and with the maintenance of social order (Connell 1997). Economic, social and political relations were constituted within the borders ...
... sociology and other social sciences were concerned with the control and integration of potentially deviant groups (notably the working classes and colonised peoples) and with the maintenance of social order (Connell 1997). Economic, social and political relations were constituted within the borders ...
Franz Jakubowski (1936)
... This identity of thought with being can only be asserted by eliminating one of the two elements (in this case, being); it prevents a real, dialectical unity between the two. "Logical laws are at the same time ontological laws ... the basis of thought and of being is identical."[4] Being is refined ...
... This identity of thought with being can only be asserted by eliminating one of the two elements (in this case, being); it prevents a real, dialectical unity between the two. "Logical laws are at the same time ontological laws ... the basis of thought and of being is identical."[4] Being is refined ...
Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies
... If values have little explanatory power, why expect cultureto play any causal role in human action? Why not explain action as the result of interestsand structuralconstraints,with only a rational, interest-maximizingactor to link the two? The view that action is governed by "interests" is inadequate ...
... If values have little explanatory power, why expect cultureto play any causal role in human action? Why not explain action as the result of interestsand structuralconstraints,with only a rational, interest-maximizingactor to link the two? The view that action is governed by "interests" is inadequate ...
The Positive Philosophy Auguste Comte Batoche Books
... them. With this modification, the definition is unexceptionable enunciating the one phenomenon which is common to all living beings, and excluding all inert bodies. Here we have, in my view, the first elementary basis of true biological philosophy. It is true, this definition neglects the eminent di ...
... them. With this modification, the definition is unexceptionable enunciating the one phenomenon which is common to all living beings, and excluding all inert bodies. Here we have, in my view, the first elementary basis of true biological philosophy. It is true, this definition neglects the eminent di ...
Social Chaosmos: Michel Serres and the emergence of social order
... ordering of social practices across space and time, together with its arguing for the non-independence of structure and agency, was a definite move in the right direction. But there are problems. Critics of this theory point to the lack of detailed explanation as to how this might actually work and ...
... ordering of social practices across space and time, together with its arguing for the non-independence of structure and agency, was a definite move in the right direction. But there are problems. Critics of this theory point to the lack of detailed explanation as to how this might actually work and ...
Class, property, and structural endogamy: Visualizing networked
... variable strategies “of biological, cultural and social reproduction that the whole group set in motion to transmit, maintain or increase, the powers and privileges it had inherited to the next generation.” Our goal is to operationalize fully the concept of relinking in a graph-theoretic perspective ...
... variable strategies “of biological, cultural and social reproduction that the whole group set in motion to transmit, maintain or increase, the powers and privileges it had inherited to the next generation.” Our goal is to operationalize fully the concept of relinking in a graph-theoretic perspective ...
Two Ways of Thinking about Fitness and Natural Selection
... that change as to make no difference from a scientific point of view-explaining one is the same as explaining the other. Now, what is the relationship between vernacular fitness and predictive fitness? As we have seen, conventional wisdom holds that vernacular fitness is a cause of evolution. If pre ...
... that change as to make no difference from a scientific point of view-explaining one is the same as explaining the other. Now, what is the relationship between vernacular fitness and predictive fitness? As we have seen, conventional wisdom holds that vernacular fitness is a cause of evolution. If pre ...
on the origin of species
... In modern retrospect, the whole Darwinian dispute of "Science" versus "Religion" has an increasingly antiquated sound. The Christian and Judaic religions—their most obstinately fundamentalist branches excepted—once more accommodated themselves to a non-Genesis theory of the world. (They had already ...
... In modern retrospect, the whole Darwinian dispute of "Science" versus "Religion" has an increasingly antiquated sound. The Christian and Judaic religions—their most obstinately fundamentalist branches excepted—once more accommodated themselves to a non-Genesis theory of the world. (They had already ...
Formalizing Darwinism and inclusive fitness theory
... do not reflect a biologist’s concept of fitness maximization is not hard to see. Both these functions are about a choice of direction in genotype frequency space and a direction that is taken by the whole population. The biological concept of fitness maximization is quite different. It is about a ch ...
... do not reflect a biologist’s concept of fitness maximization is not hard to see. Both these functions are about a choice of direction in genotype frequency space and a direction that is taken by the whole population. The biological concept of fitness maximization is quite different. It is about a ch ...
After Virtue chapter guide
... changed meaning over time so that the evaluative expressions themselves have also changed their meanings. If these characteristics are symptoms of moral disorder, he argues, then it should be possible to construct a history of moral discourse in which, at an earlier stage, moral utterance is not reg ...
... changed meaning over time so that the evaluative expressions themselves have also changed their meanings. If these characteristics are symptoms of moral disorder, he argues, then it should be possible to construct a history of moral discourse in which, at an earlier stage, moral utterance is not reg ...
Notes - Brookings School District
... he filled notebooks with his ideas, but he did not publish his ideas because they ________ with the fundamental scientific beliefs of his day. He asked his wife to publish his ideas when he ______. ...
... he filled notebooks with his ideas, but he did not publish his ideas because they ________ with the fundamental scientific beliefs of his day. He asked his wife to publish his ideas when he ______. ...
THE ROLE OF METAPHOR IN THE DARWIN DEBATES: NATURAL
... Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon, reveals two categories of counter-metaphors used to defend natural theology: metaphors of awe and wonder associated with nature, and metaphors of sin and destruction associated with evolution. The language of the counter-metaphors reveals the thinking of nineteenth ...
... Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon, reveals two categories of counter-metaphors used to defend natural theology: metaphors of awe and wonder associated with nature, and metaphors of sin and destruction associated with evolution. The language of the counter-metaphors reveals the thinking of nineteenth ...
Social dominance theory and the dynamics of intergroup relations
... and discrimination at multiple levels of analysis, including cultural ideologies and policies, institutional practices, relations of individuals to others inside and outside their groups, the psychological predispositions of individuals, and the interaction between the evolved psychologies of men an ...
... and discrimination at multiple levels of analysis, including cultural ideologies and policies, institutional practices, relations of individuals to others inside and outside their groups, the psychological predispositions of individuals, and the interaction between the evolved psychologies of men an ...