Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... between universalism and relativism (ibid:74). Rather than essentialising one’s informants, the heroic activist-anthropologist uses activism to engage with them. Yet with this move, the ones who do end up as an essentialised group seem to be anthropologists themselves. The last sentence of Speed’s a ...
... between universalism and relativism (ibid:74). Rather than essentialising one’s informants, the heroic activist-anthropologist uses activism to engage with them. Yet with this move, the ones who do end up as an essentialised group seem to be anthropologists themselves. The last sentence of Speed’s a ...
DO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CREATE PHENOMENA?
... two features are inter-linked: what makes the existence of rapid-discovery science possible is high consensus itself. It is because there is so much basic agreement on the results and discoveries of ‘science-already-made’ that scientists can be left to concentrate, at the level of science-in-the-mak ...
... two features are inter-linked: what makes the existence of rapid-discovery science possible is high consensus itself. It is because there is so much basic agreement on the results and discoveries of ‘science-already-made’ that scientists can be left to concentrate, at the level of science-in-the-mak ...
Reading social science - University of London International
... We will therefore be looking at questions about ‘human nature’, social and political order, the ‘self’, knowledge and tradition, social and economic processes and the question of ‘agency’. These texts have been chosen because they are very important in their own right. They have also been chosen bec ...
... We will therefore be looking at questions about ‘human nature’, social and political order, the ‘self’, knowledge and tradition, social and economic processes and the question of ‘agency’. These texts have been chosen because they are very important in their own right. They have also been chosen bec ...
The Explanation of Social Action
... compromise on both false and true dualisms alike. It has been common “in our syncretistic age” for recent discussions of practically any conventional opposition (the list includes but is not limited to the following: macro/micro, social/individual, nature/nurture, static/dynamic, structure/agency, q ...
... compromise on both false and true dualisms alike. It has been common “in our syncretistic age” for recent discussions of practically any conventional opposition (the list includes but is not limited to the following: macro/micro, social/individual, nature/nurture, static/dynamic, structure/agency, q ...
Sport and Modern Social Theorists: Theorizing Homo Ludens
... Bourdieu and Foucault pick themselves. Others like Gramsci and Elias are arguably less prominent within the world league of modern social theory, but clearly exercise strong conceptual influence within the social scientific study of sport, leisure and culture. A similar point might be made for appar ...
... Bourdieu and Foucault pick themselves. Others like Gramsci and Elias are arguably less prominent within the world league of modern social theory, but clearly exercise strong conceptual influence within the social scientific study of sport, leisure and culture. A similar point might be made for appar ...
journal of economic sociology
... from the works of Plato and Aristotle? Or does sociology start only from the year 1832 when the word itself was coined by Auguste Comte? The common viewpoint is that some sociological concepts were produced long before the 19th ...
... from the works of Plato and Aristotle? Or does sociology start only from the year 1832 when the word itself was coined by Auguste Comte? The common viewpoint is that some sociological concepts were produced long before the 19th ...
Otis Dudley Duncan`s Legacy: The
... thus trivial and ignorable, unworthy of a true scientist’s attention. The core of this philosophy is that a scientist can make a great scientific discovery only if he/she knows how to go beyond the nuisances posed by deviations in the world of being. Plato's definition of science dominated the scien ...
... thus trivial and ignorable, unworthy of a true scientist’s attention. The core of this philosophy is that a scientist can make a great scientific discovery only if he/she knows how to go beyond the nuisances posed by deviations in the world of being. Plato's definition of science dominated the scien ...
Norms and Values
... into our everyday conduct (Korsgaard 1996; Smith 1994). If so, the bridging problem must be solvable in principle for a value even to count as a value. The conceptual aspects of the bridging problem refer also to the fundamental philosophical question of how moral and nonmoral values can be justifie ...
... into our everyday conduct (Korsgaard 1996; Smith 1994). If so, the bridging problem must be solvable in principle for a value even to count as a value. The conceptual aspects of the bridging problem refer also to the fundamental philosophical question of how moral and nonmoral values can be justifie ...
May 2013
... Speaking of birds, another story on Science Daily and Live Science claims that a bird that “lived after the time of dinosaurs” is the ancestor of hummingbirds and swifts: the analyses“ suggest that the bird was an evolutionary precursor to the group that includes today’s swifts and hummingbirds.” Th ...
... Speaking of birds, another story on Science Daily and Live Science claims that a bird that “lived after the time of dinosaurs” is the ancestor of hummingbirds and swifts: the analyses“ suggest that the bird was an evolutionary precursor to the group that includes today’s swifts and hummingbirds.” Th ...
Social Silicon Valleys (March 2006)
... social innovators – from Robert Owen to Wangari Maathai – and at the roles played by social movements, governments, businesses and NGOs. It makes the case for much more systematic initiatives to tap the ubiquitous intelligence that exists in every society and to increase the chances of social innova ...
... social innovators – from Robert Owen to Wangari Maathai – and at the roles played by social movements, governments, businesses and NGOs. It makes the case for much more systematic initiatives to tap the ubiquitous intelligence that exists in every society and to increase the chances of social innova ...
Niche Inheritance
... Organisms do not live very long. Because they don’t, the only way they can affect evolution is by contributing to one or more inheritance systems. In this connection standard evolutionary theory (SET henceforth) is restricting. It only recognizes a single general inheritance system, genetic inherita ...
... Organisms do not live very long. Because they don’t, the only way they can affect evolution is by contributing to one or more inheritance systems. In this connection standard evolutionary theory (SET henceforth) is restricting. It only recognizes a single general inheritance system, genetic inherita ...
Disability Studies: Theory, Policy and Practice
... of life for thousands of people in the long transition from feudal to capitalist society. We know how by the 19th century in Britain this newly constructed, economically rooted, form of social oppression meant that children and adults with physical or cognitive characteristics that set them apart as ...
... of life for thousands of people in the long transition from feudal to capitalist society. We know how by the 19th century in Britain this newly constructed, economically rooted, form of social oppression meant that children and adults with physical or cognitive characteristics that set them apart as ...
Trust in Society - Russell Sage Foundation
... the significance of these bases of trust in various social settings. Toshio Yamagishi, for example, treats trust as based on social intelligence—a kind of intelligence that allows individuals to assess the degree of risk they may face in social situations when confronted with the possibility of inte ...
... the significance of these bases of trust in various social settings. Toshio Yamagishi, for example, treats trust as based on social intelligence—a kind of intelligence that allows individuals to assess the degree of risk they may face in social situations when confronted with the possibility of inte ...
"Social innovation". - Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund
... The rule of the great many of gradual and, over time, large numbers of remarkable innovations instigated by few “basic innovations” (turning points in social change) applies to social innovations as well. Society develops and breeds social innovations in forms of new practices, institutions, “rites, ...
... The rule of the great many of gradual and, over time, large numbers of remarkable innovations instigated by few “basic innovations” (turning points in social change) applies to social innovations as well. Society develops and breeds social innovations in forms of new practices, institutions, “rites, ...
The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory
... a highly contested field of academic and intellectual activity in the social sciences. Analytic difficulties and debates in the social sciences are not easily resolved, and hence contests between paradigms often appear interminable. The accumulation of theoretical results is often difficult to prove ...
... a highly contested field of academic and intellectual activity in the social sciences. Analytic difficulties and debates in the social sciences are not easily resolved, and hence contests between paradigms often appear interminable. The accumulation of theoretical results is often difficult to prove ...
3. The biographical research perspective in the
... and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and patterns presented by society’ (Fischer-Rosenthal and Rosenthal 1997: 138). The main questions of interest to biography-theoretical research are how people ‘produce ...
... and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and patterns presented by society’ (Fischer-Rosenthal and Rosenthal 1997: 138). The main questions of interest to biography-theoretical research are how people ‘produce ...
Aalborg Universitet From Modern Utopia to Liquid Modern Anti-Utopia? Jacobsen, Michael Hviid
... claimed that Bauman at that time when working in Warsaw embraced a “Marxist worldview in the light of the utopian belief and hope that the Soviet Union was genuinely a country of justice, equality, freedom; that an ethnic pedigree really did not matter” (30). However, embittered by the experience o ...
... claimed that Bauman at that time when working in Warsaw embraced a “Marxist worldview in the light of the utopian belief and hope that the Soviet Union was genuinely a country of justice, equality, freedom; that an ethnic pedigree really did not matter” (30). However, embittered by the experience o ...
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
... Along with the fossils, Darwin was certainly set on the path to evolution by the distributions of the organisms – birds and reptiles particularly – that he saw when the Beagle in 1835 visited the Galapagos Archipelago in the mid-Pacific. Even more certainly, his thinking solidified early in 1837 wh ...
... Along with the fossils, Darwin was certainly set on the path to evolution by the distributions of the organisms – birds and reptiles particularly – that he saw when the Beagle in 1835 visited the Galapagos Archipelago in the mid-Pacific. Even more certainly, his thinking solidified early in 1837 wh ...