Motility: mobility as capital
... intergenerational mobility, i.e. changes in the degree and kind of inheritance of advantage from parents to their children, and intragenerational mobility, i.e. changes of individuals' social position over a period of time. Social mobility of a collective over time is usually termed social change. T ...
... intergenerational mobility, i.e. changes in the degree and kind of inheritance of advantage from parents to their children, and intragenerational mobility, i.e. changes of individuals' social position over a period of time. Social mobility of a collective over time is usually termed social change. T ...
here - University of Kent
... distinction arose from his research on the simplest forms of society known at the timethe aboriginal tribes in Australia. And led to his book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. For Durkheim, ‘Sacred’ knowledge is that knowledge that is not tied to specific contexts; it is knowledge that takes o ...
... distinction arose from his research on the simplest forms of society known at the timethe aboriginal tribes in Australia. And led to his book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. For Durkheim, ‘Sacred’ knowledge is that knowledge that is not tied to specific contexts; it is knowledge that takes o ...
Technology and institutions: living in a material world
... signs. Fligstein’s (2001) recent call for a neoinstutionalist focus on fields and micro domains is important and meshes well with other approaches in microsociology. Fligstein draws upon symbolic interactionism to posits a new social theory of agency, whereby agency is conceived as a social skill. F ...
... signs. Fligstein’s (2001) recent call for a neoinstutionalist focus on fields and micro domains is important and meshes well with other approaches in microsociology. Fligstein draws upon symbolic interactionism to posits a new social theory of agency, whereby agency is conceived as a social skill. F ...
The promise of historical sociology in international relations
... explore in this article, aims to work alongside, and perhaps even to underpin, a range of IR paradigms. It is, I argue, through just such an approach that the major trends, causal patterns and analytical properties of contemporary world politics can be usefully unpacked, surveyed and explained. My a ...
... explore in this article, aims to work alongside, and perhaps even to underpin, a range of IR paradigms. It is, I argue, through just such an approach that the major trends, causal patterns and analytical properties of contemporary world politics can be usefully unpacked, surveyed and explained. My a ...
Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision
... be, however, broken down into two major areas. The first area involves using photographs in the conventional sense of data gathering. The "visual-methods" people are usually working on a specific research problem and a middle-range theory. Visual sociologists also study photographs produced by the c ...
... be, however, broken down into two major areas. The first area involves using photographs in the conventional sense of data gathering. The "visual-methods" people are usually working on a specific research problem and a middle-range theory. Visual sociologists also study photographs produced by the c ...
- roar@UEL
... are seen to inhabit transnational spaces (like multicultural cities where global goods and cultures meet) as well as having continuing bonds with homelands and other localities, this makes it easier to see what is shared by migrants from different ethnic origins. These transnational spaces, particul ...
... are seen to inhabit transnational spaces (like multicultural cities where global goods and cultures meet) as well as having continuing bonds with homelands and other localities, this makes it easier to see what is shared by migrants from different ethnic origins. These transnational spaces, particul ...
Concepts of Urban Sociology - Department of Higher Education
... is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so provide inputs for planning and policy making. In other words it is the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society. Like most areas ...
... is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so provide inputs for planning and policy making. In other words it is the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society. Like most areas ...
Philosophy of Science: Values in science
... reasoning besides direct and indirect roles. Social and moral values can be “encoded” in background assumptions that are necessary to establish the relevance of evidence for a hypothesis or a theory (Longino 1990). Insofar as social and moral values enter into scientific reasoning via background ass ...
... reasoning besides direct and indirect roles. Social and moral values can be “encoded” in background assumptions that are necessary to establish the relevance of evidence for a hypothesis or a theory (Longino 1990). Insofar as social and moral values enter into scientific reasoning via background ass ...
Journal of Economic Issues New Perspectives on Institutionalist
... Any system can be characterized by a specific composition (the set of nodes), an environment and a certain structure or organization (the collection of relations between the nodes as well as between the nodes and the environment). The latter is a novel and necessary element of any system as well as ...
... Any system can be characterized by a specific composition (the set of nodes), an environment and a certain structure or organization (the collection of relations between the nodes as well as between the nodes and the environment). The latter is a novel and necessary element of any system as well as ...
1. Basics of Pedagogics. Subject and tasks of Pedagogics
... However, like children, adults do not need to do this on their own. For -- to pursue Gehlen's argument -- human beings are also characterized by the fact that together they create a culture which functions as a second nature within which they can live a human life especially with the aid of institut ...
... However, like children, adults do not need to do this on their own. For -- to pursue Gehlen's argument -- human beings are also characterized by the fact that together they create a culture which functions as a second nature within which they can live a human life especially with the aid of institut ...
Sample essay - University of Otago
... they have provided unhappily married couples with "access to a legal solution to pre-‐existent marital problems" (p.301). Bilton et al. therefore believe that changes in divorce rates can be bes ...
... they have provided unhappily married couples with "access to a legal solution to pre-‐existent marital problems" (p.301). Bilton et al. therefore believe that changes in divorce rates can be bes ...
Lecture I Introduction to Sociology
... exact and less uncertain. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Astronomy etc. are the examples of physical science. Physical scientists create or acquire knowledge using scientific method. In physical science experiments are conducted to verify the facts. Theories and laws of univers ...
... exact and less uncertain. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Astronomy etc. are the examples of physical science. Physical scientists create or acquire knowledge using scientific method. In physical science experiments are conducted to verify the facts. Theories and laws of univers ...
1. Theory as Puzzle-Solving or Map-Reading
... Compte (1854) writes: “The first characteristic of Positive Philosophy is that it regards all phenomena as subject to invariable natural laws.” According to such conceptions, there is a single, elementary, and unchangeable reality that theories can be further or closer to, and there is a unique, exa ...
... Compte (1854) writes: “The first characteristic of Positive Philosophy is that it regards all phenomena as subject to invariable natural laws.” According to such conceptions, there is a single, elementary, and unchangeable reality that theories can be further or closer to, and there is a unique, exa ...
A Sociological View of Music Education: An Essay in the
... aims which he argues are both "anti-educational" and "practically impossible to carry forward in schools." This paper, like Swanwick's, could also be described as a case study of my own work and the particular sociological approach to music education that it has adopted. Not surprisingly, however, i ...
... aims which he argues are both "anti-educational" and "practically impossible to carry forward in schools." This paper, like Swanwick's, could also be described as a case study of my own work and the particular sociological approach to music education that it has adopted. Not surprisingly, however, i ...
Angermuller, Johannes (2015): Why There Is No Poststructuralism in
... as much is abstracted in the international debate as from their international reception in the French context (cf. Angermuller, 2004a). A telling example is the reaction of many feminist theorists from North America who, after their return from France, expressed surprise about the lack of prominence ...
... as much is abstracted in the international debate as from their international reception in the French context (cf. Angermuller, 2004a). A telling example is the reaction of many feminist theorists from North America who, after their return from France, expressed surprise about the lack of prominence ...
Triadic Analysis - Digital Commons@Wayne State University
... the social sciences in general, its utility for clinical sociologists has not yet been fully realized. Micro-sociological research has continued to emphasize dyadic or two-person interaction over triadic exchanges as the basic unit of small group interaction (Borgatta, 1960). Transactional perspecti ...
... the social sciences in general, its utility for clinical sociologists has not yet been fully realized. Micro-sociological research has continued to emphasize dyadic or two-person interaction over triadic exchanges as the basic unit of small group interaction (Borgatta, 1960). Transactional perspecti ...
Between Culture an Politics - Revista Estudos PolÃticos
... in a corporate dimension and collective identity through modernism. In this way, “the results of collective activity were embedded in spaces of action that were culturally defined. This implies that the effect of social class on collective action is mediated by the cultural fabric.” (EDER, 2002: 36) ...
... in a corporate dimension and collective identity through modernism. In this way, “the results of collective activity were embedded in spaces of action that were culturally defined. This implies that the effect of social class on collective action is mediated by the cultural fabric.” (EDER, 2002: 36) ...
Bureaucracy, Institutional Change, and Deegan`s Theory of Core
... as Victor Turner (1982) discovered when members of his graduate seminar ritually burned an effigy of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Administrators pressured him to desist from future acts of liminality. At Albion College, where costumed members of my sociology class ...
... as Victor Turner (1982) discovered when members of his graduate seminar ritually burned an effigy of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Administrators pressured him to desist from future acts of liminality. At Albion College, where costumed members of my sociology class ...
Functionalism - SAGE Publications
... effect, part–whole and positive value ideas. Had he added the Durkheimian idea that ‘Religious ritual activity is necessary to maintain a primitive society’, then his explanation would also fulfil the necessary condition idea. Émile Durkheim, who was mainly interested in the ‘function’ of moral soli ...
... effect, part–whole and positive value ideas. Had he added the Durkheimian idea that ‘Religious ritual activity is necessary to maintain a primitive society’, then his explanation would also fulfil the necessary condition idea. Émile Durkheim, who was mainly interested in the ‘function’ of moral soli ...
Sociology 2251 Syllabus 2017 - Cambridge International
... trends. The Cambridge O Level curriculum places emphasis on broad and balanced study across a wide range of subject areas. The curriculum is structured so that students attain both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Cambridge O Level Sociology is accepted by schools universities and employe ...
... trends. The Cambridge O Level curriculum places emphasis on broad and balanced study across a wide range of subject areas. The curriculum is structured so that students attain both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. Cambridge O Level Sociology is accepted by schools universities and employe ...
Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes
... genes as causes and as parts of explanations. First are actions, whether interesting in single occurrences (e.g., vote choice, Manza and Brooks 1998; first intercourse, Bearman and Bruckner 2001) or as a recurrent pattern over time (e.g., parental investment in children, Freese and Powell 1999; poli ...
... genes as causes and as parts of explanations. First are actions, whether interesting in single occurrences (e.g., vote choice, Manza and Brooks 1998; first intercourse, Bearman and Bruckner 2001) or as a recurrent pattern over time (e.g., parental investment in children, Freese and Powell 1999; poli ...
schedule overview 2017 - The Pacific Sociological Association
... Race/Ethnicity Reflections on Teaching and Research on Microaggressions, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Racial and ...
... Race/Ethnicity Reflections on Teaching and Research on Microaggressions, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Racial and ...
Conversation proposal
... daily life effortlessly proceeds if we agree to index this as “an apple” and that as “an orange”. More formally, Berger and Luckmann (1967) would say that the social order depends importantly on sedimented understandings. With Bourdieu’s (1977) concept of the habitus, it is to recognize the common-s ...
... daily life effortlessly proceeds if we agree to index this as “an apple” and that as “an orange”. More formally, Berger and Luckmann (1967) would say that the social order depends importantly on sedimented understandings. With Bourdieu’s (1977) concept of the habitus, it is to recognize the common-s ...