Extending the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning
... solutions to social problems based on professional diagnosis and service provision, and as facilitating community self-help activities (Lapp6 & Du Bois, 1994). In this project, however, the city government accepted the responsibility of creating the architecture of and then participating in conversa ...
... solutions to social problems based on professional diagnosis and service provision, and as facilitating community self-help activities (Lapp6 & Du Bois, 1994). In this project, however, the city government accepted the responsibility of creating the architecture of and then participating in conversa ...
Destabilizing Social Communication Theory
... This is best achieved by making use of concepts taken from diverse disciplines. These include information theory, vagueness theory and constructivist theories of communication since these are, in certain important aspects to be explored below, more sensitive to the precariousness of communicative in ...
... This is best achieved by making use of concepts taken from diverse disciplines. These include information theory, vagueness theory and constructivist theories of communication since these are, in certain important aspects to be explored below, more sensitive to the precariousness of communicative in ...
Graduate Training in Sociological Theory and Theory Construction
... Nor must a definition encompass every notion to which the term has ever referred.3 Because there are so many referents, however, those who use the term bear a responsibility to communicate what they mean by it. And because some of its current meanings are mutually exclusive, every theorist has to ta ...
... Nor must a definition encompass every notion to which the term has ever referred.3 Because there are so many referents, however, those who use the term bear a responsibility to communicate what they mean by it. And because some of its current meanings are mutually exclusive, every theorist has to ta ...
The Concept of “Communication” in Contemporary Research
... Currently, each communication message can be changed and substituted by quite a different message. On the contrary, in traditional societies, each communicative action was unique and predetermined social stratification. At the same time, the range of scientific disciplines studying both the phenomen ...
... Currently, each communication message can be changed and substituted by quite a different message. On the contrary, in traditional societies, each communicative action was unique and predetermined social stratification. At the same time, the range of scientific disciplines studying both the phenomen ...
Liberal International Relations Theory
... Liberal theory thereby rejects the utopian notion of an automatic harmony of interest among individuals and groups in society. Rather, scarcity and differentiation render some competition inevitable. Patterns of political order and conflict result from the variations in the underlying pattern of int ...
... Liberal theory thereby rejects the utopian notion of an automatic harmony of interest among individuals and groups in society. Rather, scarcity and differentiation render some competition inevitable. Patterns of political order and conflict result from the variations in the underlying pattern of int ...
Pre-Class Survey 1 Running Head: PRE
... direction (information)” (para 1). Communication can be used for a number of reasons, but it is how people share and receive information with each other. The Purpose of Communication There are two primary reasons to communicate with other people – either to tell them necessary information or to caus ...
... direction (information)” (para 1). Communication can be used for a number of reasons, but it is how people share and receive information with each other. The Purpose of Communication There are two primary reasons to communicate with other people – either to tell them necessary information or to caus ...
Applied to negotiation
... Differences in the negotiators’ own motivational orientation—cooperative versus competitive--didn’t cause differences in their view of the appropriateness of using the tactics, but the negotiators’ perception of other’s expected motivation did! ...
... Differences in the negotiators’ own motivational orientation—cooperative versus competitive--didn’t cause differences in their view of the appropriateness of using the tactics, but the negotiators’ perception of other’s expected motivation did! ...
What is the Hegelian Dialectic?
... to the conspiracy theory label and will only listen to what the propaganda machines tell them. Now our people don't believe anyone other than maybe the Arab world "hates our freedom." Most modern Americans will never know what went wrong with their "great experiment in democracy." While the Marxist- ...
... to the conspiracy theory label and will only listen to what the propaganda machines tell them. Now our people don't believe anyone other than maybe the Arab world "hates our freedom." Most modern Americans will never know what went wrong with their "great experiment in democracy." While the Marxist- ...
Identity Diversity in Family Firms: Concept and Implications
... This concept of identity allows the distinction between family firms and non-family firms in the first place. Although one’s family is a relevant social category for everyone, family firms distinguish themselves from non-family firms in that the family becomes a relevant social category in the worki ...
... This concept of identity allows the distinction between family firms and non-family firms in the first place. Although one’s family is a relevant social category for everyone, family firms distinguish themselves from non-family firms in that the family becomes a relevant social category in the worki ...
On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict
... former the contested prize is endogenous and resources are locked into the contest (i.e., there is no safe haven; Neary, 1997a). These models are distinct from the literature on tournaments in that they focus on cases where there are no positive externalities for third parties, which exclude, for ex ...
... former the contested prize is endogenous and resources are locked into the contest (i.e., there is no safe haven; Neary, 1997a). These models are distinct from the literature on tournaments in that they focus on cases where there are no positive externalities for third parties, which exclude, for ex ...
Fuck Nuance - Kieran Healy
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
The Theory Question In Research Capacity Building In Education
... studies in educational research. The argument here is that ‘strong’ causal explanations are only possible if we can assume the existence of a reality in which there are ‘strong’ deterministic connections. While this might be a valid assumption for what is commonly referred to as physical reality – a ...
... studies in educational research. The argument here is that ‘strong’ causal explanations are only possible if we can assume the existence of a reality in which there are ‘strong’ deterministic connections. While this might be a valid assumption for what is commonly referred to as physical reality – a ...
Turning to practice – what does it mean and why is it important?
... research has mostly turned its back on theory. I think both should turn more to practice in the third way, however, and I will try to explain why. As I indicated already, my contentions here are not really directed neither at specific action researchers in particular nor at specific organisation res ...
... research has mostly turned its back on theory. I think both should turn more to practice in the third way, however, and I will try to explain why. As I indicated already, my contentions here are not really directed neither at specific action researchers in particular nor at specific organisation res ...
challenges to grounded theory - Swedish Collegium for Advanced
... the notion of theory was reoriented with neoclassical economics as the main model. Although Goldthorpe emphasizes that he is skeptical of the full-fledged neoclassical thinking (the kind of “economics imperialism” promoted by scholars such as Gary Becker), the way he legitimates his move is not in p ...
... the notion of theory was reoriented with neoclassical economics as the main model. Although Goldthorpe emphasizes that he is skeptical of the full-fledged neoclassical thinking (the kind of “economics imperialism” promoted by scholars such as Gary Becker), the way he legitimates his move is not in p ...
A Theory for Social & Health Behavior Change
... Rasa is so called because it is relished. How is rasa relished? Just as healthy men, eating food dressed with manifold accessories enjoy the different tastes (the sweet, the sour etc.), even so, spectators with attuned minds relish permanent emotional states (love, heroism etc.), which are presented ...
... Rasa is so called because it is relished. How is rasa relished? Just as healthy men, eating food dressed with manifold accessories enjoy the different tastes (the sweet, the sour etc.), even so, spectators with attuned minds relish permanent emotional states (love, heroism etc.), which are presented ...
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization
... primary level cuts our research into what is acceptable and unacceptable. Epistemology in KO, results in an epistemic stance that outlines knowledge claims. In the case of KO we are concerned with assumptions about language, and how we can work with it in harmony with our conceptions of reality, how ...
... primary level cuts our research into what is acceptable and unacceptable. Epistemology in KO, results in an epistemic stance that outlines knowledge claims. In the case of KO we are concerned with assumptions about language, and how we can work with it in harmony with our conceptions of reality, how ...
Meaning-Making in AAC Intervention.pttx
... Engagement, on the other hand refers to the ability to be attentive to and respecting of others in interaction (Alant, 2005; Clarke, 1996). It includes the ability to be interested in others on a cognitive (perspective-taking) but also on an emotive (emotional resonance) level. It is the intersubjec ...
... Engagement, on the other hand refers to the ability to be attentive to and respecting of others in interaction (Alant, 2005; Clarke, 1996). It includes the ability to be interested in others on a cognitive (perspective-taking) but also on an emotive (emotional resonance) level. It is the intersubjec ...
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
... France) remind me of national borders on an almost daily basis. They also remind me of, and inscribe, my identity as a German citizen because this is the passport I carry, and this is the passport I must not forget to put in my car in case I am checked as I cross one of those borders. Furthermore, i ...
... France) remind me of national borders on an almost daily basis. They also remind me of, and inscribe, my identity as a German citizen because this is the passport I carry, and this is the passport I must not forget to put in my car in case I am checked as I cross one of those borders. Furthermore, i ...
Comments on Leonard Binder`s “Identity, Culture, and Collective
... Second, when we look at individual motivations closely, we often find them to be so complex or obscure as to be inscrutable. They are the proper domain of talented novelists, not social scientists, who may be better off trying to trace out macro-level implications of reductive, somewhat unrealistic ...
... Second, when we look at individual motivations closely, we often find them to be so complex or obscure as to be inscrutable. They are the proper domain of talented novelists, not social scientists, who may be better off trying to trace out macro-level implications of reductive, somewhat unrealistic ...
The End of Theorists:
... the graduate level dynamic has been noted before (in particular in a revealing piece by Michele Lamont in Perspectives in the mid-2000s) but its impact is only now beginning to be felt. Most top graduate programs have cut back the required theory class to a single “omnibus” course that attempts the ...
... the graduate level dynamic has been noted before (in particular in a revealing piece by Michele Lamont in Perspectives in the mid-2000s) but its impact is only now beginning to be felt. Most top graduate programs have cut back the required theory class to a single “omnibus” course that attempts the ...
- NSUWorks
... mediation has outgrown its origins and emerged as a social intervention that takes us to a new threshold in conflict resolution. A dignified and dignifying method of decision making, it affirms that the process by which people arrive at a decision is related to the efficacy of that decision. This is ...
... mediation has outgrown its origins and emerged as a social intervention that takes us to a new threshold in conflict resolution. A dignified and dignifying method of decision making, it affirms that the process by which people arrive at a decision is related to the efficacy of that decision. This is ...
Kent Academic Repository
... argument). Callero 1994 (discussed in *Beyond Interactionalism versus Structuralism*) and McCall & Simmons 1978 criticize the more structural types of role theory for not taking agency enough into account. The more structural version of role theory is also criticized, for example by Callero 1994 (di ...
... argument). Callero 1994 (discussed in *Beyond Interactionalism versus Structuralism*) and McCall & Simmons 1978 criticize the more structural types of role theory for not taking agency enough into account. The more structural version of role theory is also criticized, for example by Callero 1994 (di ...
On the ethics and practice of contemporary social theory: from crisis
... While such a situation highlights an interesting limit case, the more salient and general underlying problem in the engagement of experts remains sociological, one of jurisdiction, which Andrew Abbott terms the ‘‘defining relation’’ in professional life (1988:3). In other words: it poses the questio ...
... While such a situation highlights an interesting limit case, the more salient and general underlying problem in the engagement of experts remains sociological, one of jurisdiction, which Andrew Abbott terms the ‘‘defining relation’’ in professional life (1988:3). In other words: it poses the questio ...
1 CCER Working Paper Series Not for circulation or quotation
... conflict interactions. And when Winslade and Monk published their book on narrative mediation7, she thought, this must be it. But the more she read and compared and practiced, the less affinity she found with those approaches. Where the interest-based approach did not penetrate to the adequate depth ...
... conflict interactions. And when Winslade and Monk published their book on narrative mediation7, she thought, this must be it. But the more she read and compared and practiced, the less affinity she found with those approaches. Where the interest-based approach did not penetrate to the adequate depth ...
A pragmatic aspect of communication - G
... However the model of the self-speaker might have been much richer if this will be taken into account, for example, the self is formed, displayed in intercourse, and, according to the point of social psychology view, he presents “a model of interpersonal relationship”. In order to understand the phen ...
... However the model of the self-speaker might have been much richer if this will be taken into account, for example, the self is formed, displayed in intercourse, and, according to the point of social psychology view, he presents “a model of interpersonal relationship”. In order to understand the phen ...