Gabriel Abend, The Meaning of `Theory`
... I would like now to distinguish seven different things that sociologists may mean when they use the word ‘theory.’ My task in this section is not evaluative but descriptive. Like the lexicographer, I want to give an empirical account of different ways in which a particular word is used by competent ...
... I would like now to distinguish seven different things that sociologists may mean when they use the word ‘theory.’ My task in this section is not evaluative but descriptive. Like the lexicographer, I want to give an empirical account of different ways in which a particular word is used by competent ...
the mission of the church in the theology of the social gospel
... I begin with the anthropology that formed a basis for the thought of each of these thinkers. At least three anthropological factors influenced the theology of Mathews. First, in Mathews' view human existence is primarily spirit or spiritual. He assumed an evolutionary perspective and saw in specific ...
... I begin with the anthropology that formed a basis for the thought of each of these thinkers. At least three anthropological factors influenced the theology of Mathews. First, in Mathews' view human existence is primarily spirit or spiritual. He assumed an evolutionary perspective and saw in specific ...
- NSUWorks
... move away from the mainstream and toward the margins of the field, they begin to look toward the margins of other fields that may overlap and fill in those gaps. This interaction outside of disciplinary boundaries provides the grounds for intellectual cross-fertilization, and it is often the site at ...
... move away from the mainstream and toward the margins of the field, they begin to look toward the margins of other fields that may overlap and fill in those gaps. This interaction outside of disciplinary boundaries provides the grounds for intellectual cross-fertilization, and it is often the site at ...
Cultural and Social Geography
... cultural and social facts. Thanks to the new epistemological turn, they could rely on ideas developed either by sociologists, anthropologists or economists. Since the majority of them accepted the neo-positivist conception of scientific enquiry, they remained, however, more interested into the obser ...
... cultural and social facts. Thanks to the new epistemological turn, they could rely on ideas developed either by sociologists, anthropologists or economists. Since the majority of them accepted the neo-positivist conception of scientific enquiry, they remained, however, more interested into the obser ...
Sociology - UTAS Home
... Sociological Analysis of Modern Society Enrolment code: HGA202 Offered: Hbt: sem 1, Ltn: sem 2, dist.ed: sem 2 Special note: core unit for Sociology major Unit description: Examines the sociological concepts, theoretical models and methods of inquiry that have been developed for the analysis of mode ...
... Sociological Analysis of Modern Society Enrolment code: HGA202 Offered: Hbt: sem 1, Ltn: sem 2, dist.ed: sem 2 Special note: core unit for Sociology major Unit description: Examines the sociological concepts, theoretical models and methods of inquiry that have been developed for the analysis of mode ...
Call for Papers for an International Conference Marseilles, 10
... For Marc Bloch, time is the “very plasma in which phenomena and […] the place of their intelligibility are immersed”. Fernand Braudel describes the Mediterranean as a territory in a triple timeframe: a political period of events, a social period of collective movements, and a geographical period ove ...
... For Marc Bloch, time is the “very plasma in which phenomena and […] the place of their intelligibility are immersed”. Fernand Braudel describes the Mediterranean as a territory in a triple timeframe: a political period of events, a social period of collective movements, and a geographical period ove ...
1 The Future in Max Weber`s Methodological Writings Barbara Adam
... The Future as Challenge for Social Science as a Science As a science, Weber argued, the social sciences are bound by the logic of the scientific form of inquiry, which deals with empirical (present-based) sense data, gives guidance about technical (present-based) means to pre-given ends and provides ...
... The Future as Challenge for Social Science as a Science As a science, Weber argued, the social sciences are bound by the logic of the scientific form of inquiry, which deals with empirical (present-based) sense data, gives guidance about technical (present-based) means to pre-given ends and provides ...
The Social Construction of Whiteness
... This paper focuses on the social construction of “race” with a special attention to the social construction of whiteness; the political significance of “race” and whiteness in America; and, the implications of both as intervening structural barriers in social interaction patterns and in formal and in ...
... This paper focuses on the social construction of “race” with a special attention to the social construction of whiteness; the political significance of “race” and whiteness in America; and, the implications of both as intervening structural barriers in social interaction patterns and in formal and in ...
Social Situatedness: Vygotsky and Beyond
... ontogenetical period (epigenesis), in which our biological factors become shaped and constrained through social interactions in our particular culture. Vygotsky’s most important and unique claim is that these cognitive processes only can be understood if we actually understand the arbitrary stimuli ...
... ontogenetical period (epigenesis), in which our biological factors become shaped and constrained through social interactions in our particular culture. Vygotsky’s most important and unique claim is that these cognitive processes only can be understood if we actually understand the arbitrary stimuli ...
Anselm L. Strauss, 1917-1996 - University of California, San Francisco
... Strauss then undertook his master's thesis under Blumer. The subject was "a critical analysis of the concept of attitude," a preoccupation of Blumer who proved to be an extremely demanding teacher. This study was most important for Strauss's intellectual formation. A trace of it can be found in an ...
... Strauss then undertook his master's thesis under Blumer. The subject was "a critical analysis of the concept of attitude," a preoccupation of Blumer who proved to be an extremely demanding teacher. This study was most important for Strauss's intellectual formation. A trace of it can be found in an ...
SPORT FITNESS CULTURE
... scientists are interested in the underlying order of social life, whether it is from a political perspective, historical, psychological, economic or anthropological venue. Each of these social sciences is useful to aid sport sociology research, since they are important indicators of the general soci ...
... scientists are interested in the underlying order of social life, whether it is from a political perspective, historical, psychological, economic or anthropological venue. Each of these social sciences is useful to aid sport sociology research, since they are important indicators of the general soci ...
Bunge :Ten Modes of Individualism—None of Which Works—And
... meaningless even though its constituents make sense. Another example is that the sentence “That will do” gets its meaning from its context. A third one is that the proverbial propositions “Dog bit man” and “Man bit dog” are not the same although they have the same constituents. As a last example, th ...
... meaningless even though its constituents make sense. Another example is that the sentence “That will do” gets its meaning from its context. A third one is that the proverbial propositions “Dog bit man” and “Man bit dog” are not the same although they have the same constituents. As a last example, th ...
International Political Theory Final Paper
... exclusively as empirically and quantitatively, i.e. as rational forces only. The English School is concerned with the social order, observing that states function as social actors with a patterned interaction that leads to a specific result. States may arise from mechanical processes, but they can a ...
... exclusively as empirically and quantitatively, i.e. as rational forces only. The English School is concerned with the social order, observing that states function as social actors with a patterned interaction that leads to a specific result. States may arise from mechanical processes, but they can a ...
How social representations of attitudes have informed attitude theories
... This point is vital to an understanding of how theories of attitude differ to those of social representations. Theorists from the social representations perspective have criticised attitude theorists for their failure to conceptualise the inherently social nature of attitudes (Fraser, 1994; Purkhard ...
... This point is vital to an understanding of how theories of attitude differ to those of social representations. Theorists from the social representations perspective have criticised attitude theorists for their failure to conceptualise the inherently social nature of attitudes (Fraser, 1994; Purkhard ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change is very different in different countries, but also, and above all, to our societies. ...
... globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change is very different in different countries, but also, and above all, to our societies. ...
Ellwood`s Europe - University of South Florida
... Sociology department, was part of what Ellwood referred to as ‘the Germanizing School’ of social and political thinkers who believed, as Small is quoted by Ellwood, that ‘knowledge of reality passes directly and naturally into conceptions of contained possibility’, meaning conceptions of the ideal ...
... Sociology department, was part of what Ellwood referred to as ‘the Germanizing School’ of social and political thinkers who believed, as Small is quoted by Ellwood, that ‘knowledge of reality passes directly and naturally into conceptions of contained possibility’, meaning conceptions of the ideal ...
Harriet Martineau
... Martineau’s ideas were based on Comte’s work, she did not take sociology to be a religion in itself, as Comte did (Yates, 1985). Through her deafness, she championed the rights of not only people with a handicap, but anyone who has been denied, such as slavery, and women's rights. Deafness profoundl ...
... Martineau’s ideas were based on Comte’s work, she did not take sociology to be a religion in itself, as Comte did (Yates, 1985). Through her deafness, she championed the rights of not only people with a handicap, but anyone who has been denied, such as slavery, and women's rights. Deafness profoundl ...
Nicholas Maxwell
... problems of living: all these must be ruthlessly excluded from the intellectual domain of inquiry as having no relevance to the pursuit of knowledge – although of course inquiry can seek to develop factual knowledge about these things, within psychology, sociology or anthropology. Within natural sci ...
... problems of living: all these must be ruthlessly excluded from the intellectual domain of inquiry as having no relevance to the pursuit of knowledge – although of course inquiry can seek to develop factual knowledge about these things, within psychology, sociology or anthropology. Within natural sci ...
From Knowledge to Wisdom - Society for Research into Higher
... problems of living: all these must be ruthlessly excluded from the intellectual domain of inquiry as having no relevance to the pursuit of knowledge – although of course inquiry can seek to develop factual knowledge about these things, within psychology, sociology or anthropology. Within natural sci ...
... problems of living: all these must be ruthlessly excluded from the intellectual domain of inquiry as having no relevance to the pursuit of knowledge – although of course inquiry can seek to develop factual knowledge about these things, within psychology, sociology or anthropology. Within natural sci ...
Conceptualizing Ethnicity
... Throughout the history of sociology the concern of scholars with ethnicity as an essential aspect of social interaction is found under a variety of research themes, including social stratification, race or ethnic relations, culture, comparative research and, more recently, under the rubric of cultur ...
... Throughout the history of sociology the concern of scholars with ethnicity as an essential aspect of social interaction is found under a variety of research themes, including social stratification, race or ethnic relations, culture, comparative research and, more recently, under the rubric of cultur ...
