Critique and Social Change
... the possibilities and necessities for social and cultural change. Prominent sociological theories place critique at the center of their analyses by pointing at more or less contradicting principles which characterize modern societies, e.g. rationalization and subjectivation (Touraine 1995) or system ...
... the possibilities and necessities for social and cultural change. Prominent sociological theories place critique at the center of their analyses by pointing at more or less contradicting principles which characterize modern societies, e.g. rationalization and subjectivation (Touraine 1995) or system ...
Ten Proposals for Restructuring Journal Article Publishing
... social worlds that are important, interesting, and useful for both the larger project of social science and for the self-reflexive, real-life social world which we study. Second, social science requires the skillful combining of both humanistic and naturalistic science approaches to understanding hu ...
... social worlds that are important, interesting, and useful for both the larger project of social science and for the self-reflexive, real-life social world which we study. Second, social science requires the skillful combining of both humanistic and naturalistic science approaches to understanding hu ...
Sociology and the Sociological Perspective
... description of their interaction over the next few minutes? What do they say? If they are like a typical couple who just met, they will ask questions like, What’s your name? Where are you from? What dorm do you live in? What’s your major? Now, such a description of their interaction is OK as far as ...
... description of their interaction over the next few minutes? What do they say? If they are like a typical couple who just met, they will ask questions like, What’s your name? Where are you from? What dorm do you live in? What’s your major? Now, such a description of their interaction is OK as far as ...
Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music
... revisionist and interventionist writing, the interplay between popular music and culture continues to be explained away in a largely abstract fashion. Culture is considered as a constraint, something imposed from above which manifests itself most readily through issues such as teenage boredom, racia ...
... revisionist and interventionist writing, the interplay between popular music and culture continues to be explained away in a largely abstract fashion. Culture is considered as a constraint, something imposed from above which manifests itself most readily through issues such as teenage boredom, racia ...
Value-Freedom - Sociology Central
... 3. The interpretations about the collected data the researcher makes: In particular, this involves questions about how to interpret data that does not fit into the expectations we have, as human beings, already formulated. This is important because it is impossible for us, as human beings, not to ha ...
... 3. The interpretations about the collected data the researcher makes: In particular, this involves questions about how to interpret data that does not fit into the expectations we have, as human beings, already formulated. This is important because it is impossible for us, as human beings, not to ha ...
Understanding The Structure of Social Action - Assets
... to the analysis of substantive tenets. On the one hand, the conceptual model of what constituted a fact and therefore apparently was taken for granted in an economic or social theory evidently had to be scrutinized. (In this vein, positivist utilitarianism failed the test of methodological modernity ...
... to the analysis of substantive tenets. On the one hand, the conceptual model of what constituted a fact and therefore apparently was taken for granted in an economic or social theory evidently had to be scrutinized. (In this vein, positivist utilitarianism failed the test of methodological modernity ...
103-123 Mackintosh
... economists of his day, that social systems cannot be expected to achieve equilibrium. His objective value theory requires that prices be interpreted as mere market phenomena. That is, prices are seen as oscillating with respect to their objective values. It follows from this that the momentary price ...
... economists of his day, that social systems cannot be expected to achieve equilibrium. His objective value theory requires that prices be interpreted as mere market phenomena. That is, prices are seen as oscillating with respect to their objective values. It follows from this that the momentary price ...
Modern social system theory and the sociology of science
... between the micro-sociological action approach and macro-sociological institutional approach was accepted in the sociology of science. As I shall try to show further, the modern social system theory, with its de-ontologised character of the basic categories, succeeded to surmount these classical for ...
... between the micro-sociological action approach and macro-sociological institutional approach was accepted in the sociology of science. As I shall try to show further, the modern social system theory, with its de-ontologised character of the basic categories, succeeded to surmount these classical for ...
Sociological Theory and Warfare
... Warfare has been one of the most important social phenomena that has shaped the history of the world and especially the modern world. As Wimmer and Min’s (2009, 2006) recent, empirically comprehensive, quantitative studies of 464 wars fought in the last 200 years clearly demonstrate, war has been th ...
... Warfare has been one of the most important social phenomena that has shaped the history of the world and especially the modern world. As Wimmer and Min’s (2009, 2006) recent, empirically comprehensive, quantitative studies of 464 wars fought in the last 200 years clearly demonstrate, war has been th ...
C&E Soc 140: Introduction to Community and Environmental
... specifically, we examine the linkages between the human society and the natural environment. The key topics include growth and development, globalization and localism, social construction of nature, environmental justice, local food, and climate change. Throughout the course, we will also spend time ...
... specifically, we examine the linkages between the human society and the natural environment. The key topics include growth and development, globalization and localism, social construction of nature, environmental justice, local food, and climate change. Throughout the course, we will also spend time ...