Primitivism, Transgression, and other Myths: The Philosophical Anthropology of Georges Bataille
... ‘philosophical anthropology.’ If Bataille’s own cross-cultural studies did not survive as good ethnography, in ways I will discuss, at least on the direction set out here they are an interesting philosophical anthropology in Clifford’s sense – that of a holistic, comparative, and humanistic investig ...
... ‘philosophical anthropology.’ If Bataille’s own cross-cultural studies did not survive as good ethnography, in ways I will discuss, at least on the direction set out here they are an interesting philosophical anthropology in Clifford’s sense – that of a holistic, comparative, and humanistic investig ...
DIFFE/ RENCES INEQUA/ LITIES
... A profound challenge that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, are now called upon to confront has to do with the depth and extraordinary acceleration of global processes of social and cultural change … ...
... A profound challenge that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, are now called upon to confront has to do with the depth and extraordinary acceleration of global processes of social and cultural change … ...
After Adorno Rethinking Music Sociology
... Adorno could not have been more serious. His work explored the failure of reason that culminated in the catastrophic events of the twentieth century: the rise of fascism, genocide, terror, and mass destruction. More specifically, he sought to understand what he perceived as a transformation of consc ...
... Adorno could not have been more serious. His work explored the failure of reason that culminated in the catastrophic events of the twentieth century: the rise of fascism, genocide, terror, and mass destruction. More specifically, he sought to understand what he perceived as a transformation of consc ...
PARIS
... element of negotiations in this history seems a powerful addition to us. In exploring this distinctive contribution to Mannheim's reorientations, we are not simply discarding earlier findings. In our own most recent analysis, we emphasized changes in philosophical and political contexts, made especi ...
... element of negotiations in this history seems a powerful addition to us. In exploring this distinctive contribution to Mannheim's reorientations, we are not simply discarding earlier findings. In our own most recent analysis, we emphasized changes in philosophical and political contexts, made especi ...
Untitled - University of Helsinki
... sociology, they thus are actively involved in inhibiting the very social change that a sociology of critique shows them to be advocating for. While not making the world a better place in itself, bringing together both sociological perspectives might at least help explaining why it is so hard to chan ...
... sociology, they thus are actively involved in inhibiting the very social change that a sociology of critique shows them to be advocating for. While not making the world a better place in itself, bringing together both sociological perspectives might at least help explaining why it is so hard to chan ...
HERBERT SPENCER`S SOCIOLOGY
... 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 attempted by Spencer. A grasp of broad generic truths is, however, of the greatest importance in the interpretation of human life, and the lack of agr ...
... 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 attempted by Spencer. A grasp of broad generic truths is, however, of the greatest importance in the interpretation of human life, and the lack of agr ...
AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH AMISH EYES: PERSPECTIVES
... Despite the absence of police, courts or prisons, Amish communities are almost free of adult crime and their members are often reluctant to become involved with the larger culture's criminal justice system - as complainants or witnesses - even when they are victimized by outsiders. Although the Amis ...
... Despite the absence of police, courts or prisons, Amish communities are almost free of adult crime and their members are often reluctant to become involved with the larger culture's criminal justice system - as complainants or witnesses - even when they are victimized by outsiders. Although the Amis ...
Vita - FHSS Faculty Listing
... Darron T. Smith, Brenda G. Juarez, and Cardell K. Jacobson, 2011. “White on Black: Can White Parents Teach Black Adoptive Children How to Understand and Cope with Racism?” Journal of Black Studies, 42:1195-1230. Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton, 2011. “Prologue: The Incident at Eldorado, Texas,” ...
... Darron T. Smith, Brenda G. Juarez, and Cardell K. Jacobson, 2011. “White on Black: Can White Parents Teach Black Adoptive Children How to Understand and Cope with Racism?” Journal of Black Studies, 42:1195-1230. Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton, 2011. “Prologue: The Incident at Eldorado, Texas,” ...
Max Weber on Property: An Effort in Interpretive Understanding
... distinct phases: (1) the legal phase of his first dissertation, in which he first defined property in sociorelational terms and articulated a number of themes to which he would return in later work; (2) the economic-historical phase, in which he articulated a narrative of fundamental historical chan ...
... distinct phases: (1) the legal phase of his first dissertation, in which he first defined property in sociorelational terms and articulated a number of themes to which he would return in later work; (2) the economic-historical phase, in which he articulated a narrative of fundamental historical chan ...
The Meaning of Consumption
... you consume? What makes a consumer? What are the individual consequences of being a consumer? Could you not be a consumer? How does consumption sway our communicative and cognitive experience of self and other? What is the relationship between society and consumption? How did consumer society come a ...
... you consume? What makes a consumer? What are the individual consequences of being a consumer? Could you not be a consumer? How does consumption sway our communicative and cognitive experience of self and other? What is the relationship between society and consumption? How did consumer society come a ...
Goffman Encyclopedia Soc Theory
... information about ourselves and our social relationships. This will often be sensitive material that has to be handled delicately by others, with appropriate ritual care. In Relations in Public (1971) Goffman used an ethological perspective to analyze how people negotiate their way around often pack ...
... information about ourselves and our social relationships. This will often be sensitive material that has to be handled delicately by others, with appropriate ritual care. In Relations in Public (1971) Goffman used an ethological perspective to analyze how people negotiate their way around often pack ...
Lester F. Ward: Pure Sociology
... the Summer School of the University of Chicago, one on Pure Sociology and the other on Applied Sociology. These two courses of lectures under the same titles, but with ever increasing volume of data, I repeated in 1898 at the University of West Virginia, and in 1899 at Leland Stanford Junior Univers ...
... the Summer School of the University of Chicago, one on Pure Sociology and the other on Applied Sociology. These two courses of lectures under the same titles, but with ever increasing volume of data, I repeated in 1898 at the University of West Virginia, and in 1899 at Leland Stanford Junior Univers ...
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... a solution, Bertaux suggests, sociologists should adopt “a different form of discourse, namely ‘le recit’ (narration).” Briefly, he argues that sociologists should tell stories. Bertaux frames this method of narration primarily as a matter of the style of writing sociology, whereas thirty years late ...
... a solution, Bertaux suggests, sociologists should adopt “a different form of discourse, namely ‘le recit’ (narration).” Briefly, he argues that sociologists should tell stories. Bertaux frames this method of narration primarily as a matter of the style of writing sociology, whereas thirty years late ...
THE THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION
... chology and the analysis of language and theory of science developed in formal-pragmatic terms. Mead analyzed phenomena of consciousness from the standpoint of how they are formed within the structures of linguistically or symbolically mediated interaction. In his view, language has constitutive sig ...
... chology and the analysis of language and theory of science developed in formal-pragmatic terms. Mead analyzed phenomena of consciousness from the standpoint of how they are formed within the structures of linguistically or symbolically mediated interaction. In his view, language has constitutive sig ...
Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory
... theory in a post-national and post-disciplinary era. It also identifies what is distinctive about European social theory in terms of themes and traditions. It is divided into five parts: disciplinary traditions, national traditions, major schools, key themes, and the reception of European social theor ...
... theory in a post-national and post-disciplinary era. It also identifies what is distinctive about European social theory in terms of themes and traditions. It is divided into five parts: disciplinary traditions, national traditions, major schools, key themes, and the reception of European social theor ...
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... 45. According to Durkheim, public rituals, including punishment, are important because a. they make people afraid of authority and less likely to commit crime. b. they create a bond among the members of society. c. they give members of society an opportunity to meet the key figures of authority. d. ...
... 45. According to Durkheim, public rituals, including punishment, are important because a. they make people afraid of authority and less likely to commit crime. b. they create a bond among the members of society. c. they give members of society an opportunity to meet the key figures of authority. d. ...
- Wiley Online Library
... Durkheim) (Agnew and Passas 1997, pp. 9–11). Their answer, in other words, is appropriate relative to the external, social context of the Mertonian tradition, but it leaves unaddressed the question on the (internal) systematics of theory, which— as Merton (1968, pp. 1–38) himself has argued—has to b ...
... Durkheim) (Agnew and Passas 1997, pp. 9–11). Their answer, in other words, is appropriate relative to the external, social context of the Mertonian tradition, but it leaves unaddressed the question on the (internal) systematics of theory, which— as Merton (1968, pp. 1–38) himself has argued—has to b ...
Harriet Martineau And The Sociology Of The American South
... with a class of men of whom none now remain, – the founders of the Republic and their immediate successors. She was in Richmond while the Virginia Legislature was in session, and then made a long winter journey through North and South Carolina. Thence she traversed the State of Georgia to Augusta, a ...
... with a class of men of whom none now remain, – the founders of the Republic and their immediate successors. She was in Richmond while the Virginia Legislature was in session, and then made a long winter journey through North and South Carolina. Thence she traversed the State of Georgia to Augusta, a ...
Elias, Norbert - Ulster Institutional Repository
... Zivilisationwas published only two years after Talcott Parsons’sThe Structure of Social Action (1937). Supposing that Elias’s book had been translated immediately into English, how different, Dunning asked, would modern sociology now look if Elias had had a post at Harvard University, while Parsons ...
... Zivilisationwas published only two years after Talcott Parsons’sThe Structure of Social Action (1937). Supposing that Elias’s book had been translated immediately into English, how different, Dunning asked, would modern sociology now look if Elias had had a post at Harvard University, while Parsons ...