Anthropological and Sociological Critiques of Bioethics
... subjects, yet are in truth largely driven by selfinterest, then disclosure of unpleasant truths is surely more honest than self-serving accounts to the contrary. The problem, though, is not that social scientists provide a mirror upon whose surface we can see bioethics with all its flaws. Rather, th ...
... subjects, yet are in truth largely driven by selfinterest, then disclosure of unpleasant truths is surely more honest than self-serving accounts to the contrary. The problem, though, is not that social scientists provide a mirror upon whose surface we can see bioethics with all its flaws. Rather, th ...
Thesis Eleven - capacité d`affect
... In a sense, every object worthy of being studied transgresses disciplinary boundaries. For instance, both the cordon sanitaire and the procedures of variolization and vaccination analysed by Foucault (1975; 2004[1977–8]) are objects that lie precisely in between the domains of medicine, law, policy, ...
... In a sense, every object worthy of being studied transgresses disciplinary boundaries. For instance, both the cordon sanitaire and the procedures of variolization and vaccination analysed by Foucault (1975; 2004[1977–8]) are objects that lie precisely in between the domains of medicine, law, policy, ...
`Spatial Articulation of the State: Reworking Social Relations and
... from the late 1960s, serving to weaken the impression of national autonomy and to prompt theorisation of the supranational state (Mandel 1967, 1970; Murray 1971; Warren 1971; Rowthorn 1971; Radice and Picciotto 1971, and Poulantzas 1975; Holloway 1976). To Mandel the internationalisation of capital ...
... from the late 1960s, serving to weaken the impression of national autonomy and to prompt theorisation of the supranational state (Mandel 1967, 1970; Murray 1971; Warren 1971; Rowthorn 1971; Radice and Picciotto 1971, and Poulantzas 1975; Holloway 1976). To Mandel the internationalisation of capital ...
HSSC 532 Medicalization: History and Theory syllabus
... Many books written today on the history and sociology of twentieth-century medicine invoke the term “medicalization.” We are told that everything from childbirth and allergies to hyperactivity and hospitals have become dominated by the medical profession and its explanation of health and illness. Th ...
... Many books written today on the history and sociology of twentieth-century medicine invoke the term “medicalization.” We are told that everything from childbirth and allergies to hyperactivity and hospitals have become dominated by the medical profession and its explanation of health and illness. Th ...
Why Goffman Never Made it into the Swedish Textbooks 1
... hospitals and other similar total institutions, Tengvald represents Goffman as “… a pioneer of the sociological research that have been studying the institutional injuries that falls upon people that are exposed to such social isolation, in particular the serious consequences for self-image, identit ...
... hospitals and other similar total institutions, Tengvald represents Goffman as “… a pioneer of the sociological research that have been studying the institutional injuries that falls upon people that are exposed to such social isolation, in particular the serious consequences for self-image, identit ...
Preview Sample 1
... 38. The Industrial Revolution transformed the nature of work in which one of the following ways? a. Machine production was replaced by hand production. b. People now could say, “I made this; this is a unique product of my labor.” c. Products became standardized, and workers performed specific tasks ...
... 38. The Industrial Revolution transformed the nature of work in which one of the following ways? a. Machine production was replaced by hand production. b. People now could say, “I made this; this is a unique product of my labor.” c. Products became standardized, and workers performed specific tasks ...
Social Movements and Environmentalism, a Luhmannian
... words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as an example of, on one hand, how these instances of collective action perform their role and, on the other hand, an observation of how society relates to its en ...
... words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as an example of, on one hand, how these instances of collective action perform their role and, on the other hand, an observation of how society relates to its en ...
Theories of Culture and Mobility
... rebels, and critics challenge capitalism, though most students do not. Bowles and Gintis’s theory of change, like Bourdieu’s theory of hysteresis, maintained that class reproduction and the perpetuation of unequal class systems occurs in ordinary times, whereas class mobility and greater equality ex ...
... rebels, and critics challenge capitalism, though most students do not. Bowles and Gintis’s theory of change, like Bourdieu’s theory of hysteresis, maintained that class reproduction and the perpetuation of unequal class systems occurs in ordinary times, whereas class mobility and greater equality ex ...
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
... depression and post-traumatic stress—integral to common sense in BiH. Such clinical-sounding assessments have the effect of emphasizing damage over possibility, determination over flight, painting the city primarily in terms of its wounds (which are indeed deep and bleed still) while disregarding th ...
... depression and post-traumatic stress—integral to common sense in BiH. Such clinical-sounding assessments have the effect of emphasizing damage over possibility, determination over flight, painting the city primarily in terms of its wounds (which are indeed deep and bleed still) while disregarding th ...
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... 41. What do Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber all have in common? a. They are largely discredited sociologists. b. They are classical thinkers whose ideas continue to influence the social sciences. c. They were all German economists. d. They were all political rebels who were imprisoned for t ...
... 41. What do Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber all have in common? a. They are largely discredited sociologists. b. They are classical thinkers whose ideas continue to influence the social sciences. c. They were all German economists. d. They were all political rebels who were imprisoned for t ...
Imagining The Sociological Imagination
... society, history and the social structure and the public-private relationship. This gives social reality a three dimensional quality. First, social reality is simultaneously microscopic, based around individuals’ personal worlds, and macroscopic, in that the social structure impacts on people’s pers ...
... society, history and the social structure and the public-private relationship. This gives social reality a three dimensional quality. First, social reality is simultaneously microscopic, based around individuals’ personal worlds, and macroscopic, in that the social structure impacts on people’s pers ...
1 Educating the Nation: III. Social Mobility* In my first two addresses
... First, the golden age of social mobility: there seems little question that the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s was a golden age of social mobility, during which large proportions of the population experienced upward mobility from their class of birth, and the traditionally pyramid-shap ...
... First, the golden age of social mobility: there seems little question that the period from the late 1940s to the early 1970s was a golden age of social mobility, during which large proportions of the population experienced upward mobility from their class of birth, and the traditionally pyramid-shap ...
2014 Learning Goals and Objectives for the Sociology Major 1) How
... scheduled exams and quizzes and the proportion of the class correctly identifying the appropriate answer is determined. For Goals 1 and 2, the knowledge-based goals, in some courses a pre-/post-test defining features matrix is used. This assessment technique asks students to correctly identify a soc ...
... scheduled exams and quizzes and the proportion of the class correctly identifying the appropriate answer is determined. For Goals 1 and 2, the knowledge-based goals, in some courses a pre-/post-test defining features matrix is used. This assessment technique asks students to correctly identify a soc ...
COMMUNICATION, CONTEXTS AND CULTURE A communicative
... attempt to do so via communicative action, i.e. we indicate what we mean by way of some form of „objectivation“, „expression“ or „sign“. These objectivations are products of action (to be more exact, of ‘acts of working’), yet at the same time they are intended to ‘signify’ our intentions. Communica ...
... attempt to do so via communicative action, i.e. we indicate what we mean by way of some form of „objectivation“, „expression“ or „sign“. These objectivations are products of action (to be more exact, of ‘acts of working’), yet at the same time they are intended to ‘signify’ our intentions. Communica ...
Joe Painter
... Moreover, for Doreen politics and ethics were closely connected - both to each other and to geography. In her writings on ‘responsibility’ she argued that, in a highly unequal world, a relational understanding of place raised vital questions about our responsibilities to others who are distant from ...
... Moreover, for Doreen politics and ethics were closely connected - both to each other and to geography. In her writings on ‘responsibility’ she argued that, in a highly unequal world, a relational understanding of place raised vital questions about our responsibilities to others who are distant from ...
Philosophy of Social Science
... some crucial way from those addressed in the physical or biological sciences. Neither of these choices has been vindicated by success that was conspicu ous enough to make the choice anything less risky than a gamble. Whether these gambles really pay off will not be known within the life times of t ...
... some crucial way from those addressed in the physical or biological sciences. Neither of these choices has been vindicated by success that was conspicu ous enough to make the choice anything less risky than a gamble. Whether these gambles really pay off will not be known within the life times of t ...
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT
... philosophy of nihilism and despair. Foucault introduced his lectures on governmentality as being, among other things, an answer to the first of these objections. The same style of analysis, he argued, that had been used to study techniques and practices addressed to individual human subjects within ...
... philosophy of nihilism and despair. Foucault introduced his lectures on governmentality as being, among other things, an answer to the first of these objections. The same style of analysis, he argued, that had been used to study techniques and practices addressed to individual human subjects within ...
Paper 1 Emergence of Sociology
... a distinct science of society which he first called “Social Physics” and later “Sociology” that should concern itself with an analysis and explanation of social phenomena. Sociology has been defined as the science of society. It is the scientific study of social relationships or activities. It studi ...
... a distinct science of society which he first called “Social Physics” and later “Sociology” that should concern itself with an analysis and explanation of social phenomena. Sociology has been defined as the science of society. It is the scientific study of social relationships or activities. It studi ...
The Training of Foreign Language Teachers: Developments in Europe
... instability on the young of the 1970s who sought to assert their authority through 'a historicist critique of truth (and the sciences)' (ibid.). For Bourdieu, this evolution in the 1970s was the cause of overturning of the dominant philosophical trends. Formal logic based on mathematics, analytical ...
... instability on the young of the 1970s who sought to assert their authority through 'a historicist critique of truth (and the sciences)' (ibid.). For Bourdieu, this evolution in the 1970s was the cause of overturning of the dominant philosophical trends. Formal logic based on mathematics, analytical ...