Racism, Sociology of - Scholars at Harvard
... In this first phase, defining racism as prejudicial beliefs and attitudes provided little difficulty for the social scientist, as individuals, organizations, and the state were explicit about how race mattered for the distribution of material and symbolic resources. For example, income inequality betwe ...
... In this first phase, defining racism as prejudicial beliefs and attitudes provided little difficulty for the social scientist, as individuals, organizations, and the state were explicit about how race mattered for the distribution of material and symbolic resources. For example, income inequality betwe ...
The uncritical realism of realist evaluation - Pure
... argument by using Bhaskar’s own examples from experimental physics to demonstrate that even these do not involve total closure, an exercise that is rendered redundant if we accept Bhaskar’s description of experimentation as ‘an attempt’ to attain ‘relative isolation’ (1986: 35). Moreover, by fixatin ...
... argument by using Bhaskar’s own examples from experimental physics to demonstrate that even these do not involve total closure, an exercise that is rendered redundant if we accept Bhaskar’s description of experimentation as ‘an attempt’ to attain ‘relative isolation’ (1986: 35). Moreover, by fixatin ...
Chapter 3 (In `Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory
... services. Who has the power, and how is it wielded? What are the decisions made, the words said, the meanings conveyed, in these networks of relationships? And what are the effects on disabled individuals’ sense of self, selfesteem, and existential security? In my own research on disabled women’s li ...
... services. Who has the power, and how is it wielded? What are the decisions made, the words said, the meanings conveyed, in these networks of relationships? And what are the effects on disabled individuals’ sense of self, selfesteem, and existential security? In my own research on disabled women’s li ...
FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: ISSUES FOR
... in positions of subordination, although the best way to do this is open to debate. Wylie suggests that there may be a third requirement for feminist social science, “that problems addressed. . . are of concern to particular groups of women and useful to them” [1992, 237]. Examining the work of those ...
... in positions of subordination, although the best way to do this is open to debate. Wylie suggests that there may be a third requirement for feminist social science, “that problems addressed. . . are of concern to particular groups of women and useful to them” [1992, 237]. Examining the work of those ...
Magazines and the Making of America
... customs, manners, and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so rare, and their knowledge of each other so imperfect, that to unite them the same principles in theory and the same system of action was certainly a very difficult enterprise” (John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 ...
... customs, manners, and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so rare, and their knowledge of each other so imperfect, that to unite them the same principles in theory and the same system of action was certainly a very difficult enterprise” (John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 ...
'Risk-based Regulation' in The Future of the Legal Services : Emerging Thinking, Legal Services Board, June 2010 - FULL TEXT
... negotiations of meaning. Regulation of risk provides an obvious example; but conversations will also be important in the more general situation in which regulators are given broadly defined and conflicting objectives to fulfil or principles to follow, where they operate in a dynamic context in which ...
... negotiations of meaning. Regulation of risk provides an obvious example; but conversations will also be important in the more general situation in which regulators are given broadly defined and conflicting objectives to fulfil or principles to follow, where they operate in a dynamic context in which ...
After International Relations: Critical Realism and the
... policy. When some time had passed since the dark days of the world wars, and the twenty years of crises between them, political realists began to recognise that international economic co-operation is possible, but usually only if it accords with the interests of the great powers. A new factor may no ...
... policy. When some time had passed since the dark days of the world wars, and the twenty years of crises between them, political realists began to recognise that international economic co-operation is possible, but usually only if it accords with the interests of the great powers. A new factor may no ...
Discourse Theory: Achievements, Arguments, and Challenges
... the symbolic construction of identity of organizational actors in their assessment of their interests and preferences. Finally, students of political change pay increasing attention to the path-dependence that is produced by sedimented meaning structures that define what it is appropriate to do in a ...
... the symbolic construction of identity of organizational actors in their assessment of their interests and preferences. Finally, students of political change pay increasing attention to the path-dependence that is produced by sedimented meaning structures that define what it is appropriate to do in a ...
Latin American Critical Thought
... as a source for the production of the Latin American idea of historical-structural heterogeneity, thus breaking with Cartesianism’s radical dualism, which is at the origin of Eurocentrism and the positivist propensity to reductionism and evolutionism. And without this new starting point we would b ...
... as a source for the production of the Latin American idea of historical-structural heterogeneity, thus breaking with Cartesianism’s radical dualism, which is at the origin of Eurocentrism and the positivist propensity to reductionism and evolutionism. And without this new starting point we would b ...
Otis Dudley Duncan`s Legacy: The
... Individuals can vary a lot in their behaviors and opinions. The social scientist’s job is to describe the regularities in such variations. For the physical scientist, variations are undesirable measurement errors, i.e., extraneous noises to be eliminated. For the social scientist, variations are the ...
... Individuals can vary a lot in their behaviors and opinions. The social scientist’s job is to describe the regularities in such variations. For the physical scientist, variations are undesirable measurement errors, i.e., extraneous noises to be eliminated. For the social scientist, variations are the ...
1 COLLECTIVE INTENTIONALITY AND SOCIAL AGENTS Raimo
... shared we-belief; also social collectives which are not groups capable of action can, of course, have shared we-beliefs. Two features that I have emphasized in my developments (in Tuomela, 1995, Chapters 5-7, especially) are the topic-relative distinction between operative and non-operative members ...
... shared we-belief; also social collectives which are not groups capable of action can, of course, have shared we-beliefs. Two features that I have emphasized in my developments (in Tuomela, 1995, Chapters 5-7, especially) are the topic-relative distinction between operative and non-operative members ...
Biographical Analysis as an Interdisciplinary
... of social phenomena. Especially in the interdisciplinary field of migration studies, the biographical approach is well suited to empirical investigations of migration processes because it offers us a way of empirically capturing the diversity, complexity, and transformational character of migration ...
... of social phenomena. Especially in the interdisciplinary field of migration studies, the biographical approach is well suited to empirical investigations of migration processes because it offers us a way of empirically capturing the diversity, complexity, and transformational character of migration ...
3. The biographical research perspective in the
... of social phenomena. Especially in the interdisciplinary field of migration studies, the biographical approach is well suited to empirical investigations of migration processes because it offers us a way of empirically capturing the diversity, complexity, and transformational character of migration ...
... of social phenomena. Especially in the interdisciplinary field of migration studies, the biographical approach is well suited to empirical investigations of migration processes because it offers us a way of empirically capturing the diversity, complexity, and transformational character of migration ...
Opening the Black Box: Theory of Human Needs Reconsidered
... One might ask, “What is wrong with that?” Indeed, if it is true that positivism is the dominant paradigm of the Western tradition, such a question would be expected. Facts (without their subjective conditions) and rationality are the two beacons of objectivity in the positivistic view. There are oth ...
... One might ask, “What is wrong with that?” Indeed, if it is true that positivism is the dominant paradigm of the Western tradition, such a question would be expected. Facts (without their subjective conditions) and rationality are the two beacons of objectivity in the positivistic view. There are oth ...
Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
... Let us dwell briefly on these three dichotomies, since they are of vital importance for the theme of this book. We start with the last mentioned, that between a more philosophical discussion about the base of social science, metatheory, on the one hand, and social science research practice on the ot ...
... Let us dwell briefly on these three dichotomies, since they are of vital importance for the theme of this book. We start with the last mentioned, that between a more philosophical discussion about the base of social science, metatheory, on the one hand, and social science research practice on the ot ...
A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Self and Society
... apparent. They were speculative thinkers, but they developed an empirical, quantita tive method of reporting social observations. Though the substructure was set by many figures, Comte is called the father of sociology because he coined the term. He conceived o f it as an inclusive social sci enc ...
... apparent. They were speculative thinkers, but they developed an empirical, quantita tive method of reporting social observations. Though the substructure was set by many figures, Comte is called the father of sociology because he coined the term. He conceived o f it as an inclusive social sci enc ...
Social Structure
... reward or a return for their actions. • Reward might be tangible or intangible • Reciprocity is the idea that if you do something for someone, that person owes you something in return. • Basis of exchange interactions • Exchange theory is the idea that people are motivated by selfinterest in their i ...
... reward or a return for their actions. • Reward might be tangible or intangible • Reciprocity is the idea that if you do something for someone, that person owes you something in return. • Basis of exchange interactions • Exchange theory is the idea that people are motivated by selfinterest in their i ...
semiotic mediation, language and society: three exotripic theories
... for both, thus enriching his field by recognising the complexity of its object of enquiry. This was a remarkable achievement, particularly when we realise that Vygotsky took this stance in the heyday of Piagetian psychology and at a time when the enormous influence of Pavlovian psychology was by no ...
... for both, thus enriching his field by recognising the complexity of its object of enquiry. This was a remarkable achievement, particularly when we realise that Vygotsky took this stance in the heyday of Piagetian psychology and at a time when the enormous influence of Pavlovian psychology was by no ...