Assessing the glue that holds society together: social
... Next, I will turn to the scientific discourse, where one finds disagreement as to the causes of the threat. The literature predicates causation of globalization and/or modernity (Dickes, Valentova, and Borsenberger, 2010, p. 453; Jansen, Chioncel, and Dekkers, 2006, p. 190; Lafaye, 2009, p. 393). Th ...
... Next, I will turn to the scientific discourse, where one finds disagreement as to the causes of the threat. The literature predicates causation of globalization and/or modernity (Dickes, Valentova, and Borsenberger, 2010, p. 453; Jansen, Chioncel, and Dekkers, 2006, p. 190; Lafaye, 2009, p. 393). Th ...
Public Sociology and the Future, final edited
... Accurate evaluation itself may be among the most basic, yet least recognized, of human values. For to know what is truly good or bad for human well-being and to choose the good and not the bad courses of action are obviously essential for the future survival and flourishing of both individuals and g ...
... Accurate evaluation itself may be among the most basic, yet least recognized, of human values. For to know what is truly good or bad for human well-being and to choose the good and not the bad courses of action are obviously essential for the future survival and flourishing of both individuals and g ...
Chapter 4
... by imitating significant others 2. Children pretend to be other people. 3. Around age 7, children play games that require them to take the role of other people. 4. Once a child can think in this way, she can begin the fourth stage which involves taking the role of the generalized other. ...
... by imitating significant others 2. Children pretend to be other people. 3. Around age 7, children play games that require them to take the role of other people. 4. Once a child can think in this way, she can begin the fourth stage which involves taking the role of the generalized other. ...
Towards a New Sociology of the Future
... normative concern with the future went out of social science favour until the 1960s when a renewed interest in the future began to flourish. Once more, the focus on the future drew in key social thinkers in both the US and Europe, who rose to the challenge that such engagement with the future presen ...
... normative concern with the future went out of social science favour until the 1960s when a renewed interest in the future began to flourish. Once more, the focus on the future drew in key social thinkers in both the US and Europe, who rose to the challenge that such engagement with the future presen ...
Caste an Exclusion of Theory and Policy - SAS
... The issue really is about the prolonged non-recognition by the sociologists of the kind of transformations the caste system was undergoing and their implications for legitimizing the policies and the terms of political discourse concerning the issue of caste, and generally about the nature of social ...
... The issue really is about the prolonged non-recognition by the sociologists of the kind of transformations the caste system was undergoing and their implications for legitimizing the policies and the terms of political discourse concerning the issue of caste, and generally about the nature of social ...
Discourse Theory And Political Analysis
... environmentalist discourses they might represent essential components of a viable eco-system or objects of intrinsic value and beauty. Each of these discourses is a social and political construction that establishes a system of relations between different objects and practices, while providing (subj ...
... environmentalist discourses they might represent essential components of a viable eco-system or objects of intrinsic value and beauty. Each of these discourses is a social and political construction that establishes a system of relations between different objects and practices, while providing (subj ...
unit 30 social control
... This is also known as primary social control, as it is more effective in what sociologists call primary groups. The primary groups are relatively more homogeneous, small, compact and intimate groups. Members are tied to each other, and to the group by feelings of personal loyalty. A family, playgrou ...
... This is also known as primary social control, as it is more effective in what sociologists call primary groups. The primary groups are relatively more homogeneous, small, compact and intimate groups. Members are tied to each other, and to the group by feelings of personal loyalty. A family, playgrou ...
Unit Four
... Stages of Socialization. The socialization process continues throughout all stages of the human life cycle. But it is important Lo understand that we do not move from one stage to another in the clear-cut way that we are promoted from one school grade to another. Our social development varies with t ...
... Stages of Socialization. The socialization process continues throughout all stages of the human life cycle. But it is important Lo understand that we do not move from one stage to another in the clear-cut way that we are promoted from one school grade to another. Our social development varies with t ...
Interpretivist Approaches to Organizational Discourse
... and several scholars emphasize this point. For Weber (1922), for example, the search for generalizations derived inductively from first-order data was compatible with, and indeed dependent on, the need for meaningful understanding of social action. His ideal types were aimed inductively to derive se ...
... and several scholars emphasize this point. For Weber (1922), for example, the search for generalizations derived inductively from first-order data was compatible with, and indeed dependent on, the need for meaningful understanding of social action. His ideal types were aimed inductively to derive se ...
Sociological Theory and Social Control
... Moreover,the and Gesellschaft be relatedto bothGemeinschaft conceptof social controlis directlylinkedto the notionof voluntaristic action, to articulatedhuman purposeand actions-that is, to various schemesof means and ends. Thereforeit is designedto avoid the over4 Robert A. Nisbet is representative ...
... Moreover,the and Gesellschaft be relatedto bothGemeinschaft conceptof social controlis directlylinkedto the notionof voluntaristic action, to articulatedhuman purposeand actions-that is, to various schemesof means and ends. Thereforeit is designedto avoid the over4 Robert A. Nisbet is representative ...
A-Level Sociology Transition Booklet 2016/17
... Welcome to A Level Sociology! You’ve made an excellent subject choice. What you learn on this course will benefit you throughout the rest of your life, whether you pursue Sociology at university or not. Sociology is the objective study of all of the groups of people that make up society. You will le ...
... Welcome to A Level Sociology! You’ve made an excellent subject choice. What you learn on this course will benefit you throughout the rest of your life, whether you pursue Sociology at university or not. Sociology is the objective study of all of the groups of people that make up society. You will le ...
sewell 1992 - Rochelle Terman
... 1979, 1981, 1984). By this he means that they are "both the medium and the outcome of the practices which constitute social systems" (Giddens 1981, p. 27). Structures shape people's practices, but it is also people's practices that constitute (and reproduce) structures. In this view of things, human ...
... 1979, 1981, 1984). By this he means that they are "both the medium and the outcome of the practices which constitute social systems" (Giddens 1981, p. 27). Structures shape people's practices, but it is also people's practices that constitute (and reproduce) structures. In this view of things, human ...
The BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group will be holding its
... There are, nevertheless, deep tensions between sociology and theology. They both have their own inherent fragilities and they face battles about their public credibility. The root and branch critique both of them face arises from the privileging of ‘science’ as the only real knowledge. For those wh ...
... There are, nevertheless, deep tensions between sociology and theology. They both have their own inherent fragilities and they face battles about their public credibility. The root and branch critique both of them face arises from the privileging of ‘science’ as the only real knowledge. For those wh ...
and History (post
... history enables individual students to develop a sense of identity and belonging. At the same time, the pursuit of this subject brings us into contact with different cultures and traditions that provide both new stimuli and a basis for critical reflections. History is a humanistic subject that provi ...
... history enables individual students to develop a sense of identity and belonging. At the same time, the pursuit of this subject brings us into contact with different cultures and traditions that provide both new stimuli and a basis for critical reflections. History is a humanistic subject that provi ...
On Peter Winch and Qualitative Social Research
... (which is the aim of the social sciences), therefore, necessarily involves the examination of the concept of social behaviour, which leads to the point that “what constitutes social behaviour?” (Winch, p. 17) (just like ‘what should be considered as ‘real’?’) is a conceptual question, not an empiric ...
... (which is the aim of the social sciences), therefore, necessarily involves the examination of the concept of social behaviour, which leads to the point that “what constitutes social behaviour?” (Winch, p. 17) (just like ‘what should be considered as ‘real’?’) is a conceptual question, not an empiric ...
File - David Morrison
... my study is a descriptive analysis of a single social context, contrasts with other empirical work (here, primarily Baumgartner’s) may make it possible to identify the major social causes of such conflicts. 2) Social processes shaping the management of overtly expressed conflict, and subsequent pers ...
... my study is a descriptive analysis of a single social context, contrasts with other empirical work (here, primarily Baumgartner’s) may make it possible to identify the major social causes of such conflicts. 2) Social processes shaping the management of overtly expressed conflict, and subsequent pers ...
Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency
... Any society is made up of a number of differing arenas of action and decision (science, health, law, education, etc.). Communication is central to these both in the sense that the mass media impinge on all arenas and in the sense that each arena has its own specific relations of communication. Each ...
... Any society is made up of a number of differing arenas of action and decision (science, health, law, education, etc.). Communication is central to these both in the sense that the mass media impinge on all arenas and in the sense that each arena has its own specific relations of communication. Each ...
Exploring reality through new lenses
... we will, likewise, find a dominating sequential logical structure mainly consisting of premisesconclusions and cause-effect relationships. These seem to be very different genres, but they are still both based upon strict linearity, meaning that different content elements must appear in a certain orde ...
... we will, likewise, find a dominating sequential logical structure mainly consisting of premisesconclusions and cause-effect relationships. These seem to be very different genres, but they are still both based upon strict linearity, meaning that different content elements must appear in a certain orde ...
The promise of public sociology
... postgraduates--seeking courses of study that translate readily into good employment prospects challenge traditions of more open-ended inquiry, critical scholarship, and indeed public sociology. Professionalism is not simply a stylistic choice, in other words, but the product of pressures that work o ...
... postgraduates--seeking courses of study that translate readily into good employment prospects challenge traditions of more open-ended inquiry, critical scholarship, and indeed public sociology. Professionalism is not simply a stylistic choice, in other words, but the product of pressures that work o ...
Carreira da Silva 2013 European Journal of Social Theory
... sometimes denied. I thus endorse the criticism of the liberal notion that rights and identities are formed prior to political struggles in the public sphere.1 One important aim of a social theory of rights is thus to help explain the ways in which the social institution of rights came about in parti ...
... sometimes denied. I thus endorse the criticism of the liberal notion that rights and identities are formed prior to political struggles in the public sphere.1 One important aim of a social theory of rights is thus to help explain the ways in which the social institution of rights came about in parti ...