Urbanism Changes Personality Types, or Is Just a Way
... traditional villages and towns. Many contacts between city-dwellers are fleeting and partial, they are means to other ends, rather than being satisfying relationships in themselves. Wirth calls these “secondary contacts”, compared to the “primary contacts” of familial and strong community relationsh ...
... traditional villages and towns. Many contacts between city-dwellers are fleeting and partial, they are means to other ends, rather than being satisfying relationships in themselves. Wirth calls these “secondary contacts”, compared to the “primary contacts” of familial and strong community relationsh ...
Can Social Systems be Autopoietic? Bhaskar`s and Giddens` Social
... (the domain of the real ). These interact in such a way that actual events occur (or do not occur) (the domain of the actual ) and some of these are observed or experienced by people (the empirical ) as part of the process of developing knowledge. These mechanisms (or perhaps systems) do not have to ...
... (the domain of the real ). These interact in such a way that actual events occur (or do not occur) (the domain of the actual ) and some of these are observed or experienced by people (the empirical ) as part of the process of developing knowledge. These mechanisms (or perhaps systems) do not have to ...
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn Heather
... institutional and ethical questions. In this essay, I outline an approach to literary texts that derives not from hermeneutics but from a different tradition. The encounter between literary studies and sociology that I stage here does not rely on a complete renunciation of the text (to focus, for in ...
... institutional and ethical questions. In this essay, I outline an approach to literary texts that derives not from hermeneutics but from a different tradition. The encounter between literary studies and sociology that I stage here does not rely on a complete renunciation of the text (to focus, for in ...
Deviance - Annapolis High School
... social inequality Interactionists – as either natural in people with weak ties to the community (control theory), as a learned behavior (cultural transmission theory), or as a label (labeling theory) ...
... social inequality Interactionists – as either natural in people with weak ties to the community (control theory), as a learned behavior (cultural transmission theory), or as a label (labeling theory) ...
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On the meaning of compromise [Virginia]
... latter may occur because we may either lack any of the feelings associated with the ritualised behaviour we are enacting and talking (we are pretending an emotion) or we are performing behaviours and talking entirely contrary to how we feel (we are disguising an emotion). The social and cultural pra ...
... latter may occur because we may either lack any of the feelings associated with the ritualised behaviour we are enacting and talking (we are pretending an emotion) or we are performing behaviours and talking entirely contrary to how we feel (we are disguising an emotion). The social and cultural pra ...
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... Mydral: Mydral argues that sociologists should not only spell out their values-they should also openly take side by espousing the values and interests of particular individuals or groups. Committed sociologists who advocate this approach argue that it is neither possible nor desirable to keep values ...
... Mydral: Mydral argues that sociologists should not only spell out their values-they should also openly take side by espousing the values and interests of particular individuals or groups. Committed sociologists who advocate this approach argue that it is neither possible nor desirable to keep values ...
Ontological Foundations of EAP
... efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social institutions. Accordingly, it is assumed that realities of the social world are subject to construction by different interpretive communities according to their own ideas, believes or even vested interests. As a result, ...
... efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social institutions. Accordingly, it is assumed that realities of the social world are subject to construction by different interpretive communities according to their own ideas, believes or even vested interests. As a result, ...
Isaac Martin: The comparative historical sociology of W. E. B. DuBois
... Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1986 [1896]). Is there such a thing ...
... Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1986 [1896]). Is there such a thing ...
Symbolic lnteractionism:Themes and Variations
... experience. The objective facts are constituted by situations, circumstances calling for some adjustive response on the part of persons or groups. Intervening between situations and adjustive responses, however, are definitions of the situation, in Thomas's (1937:18) words, "an interpretation, or po ...
... experience. The objective facts are constituted by situations, circumstances calling for some adjustive response on the part of persons or groups. Intervening between situations and adjustive responses, however, are definitions of the situation, in Thomas's (1937:18) words, "an interpretation, or po ...
View/Open
... peasantry. With the introduction of the plantations, first with coffee and then tea, there was a fundamental transformation of the economy and society that changed the traditional role of the dominant classes as well as the condition of the poor peasantry. The introduction of the plantation system b ...
... peasantry. With the introduction of the plantations, first with coffee and then tea, there was a fundamental transformation of the economy and society that changed the traditional role of the dominant classes as well as the condition of the poor peasantry. The introduction of the plantation system b ...
Nonviolent Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity
... Collective Identity Shaping Tactical Choices • “Taste in tactics” (Jasper 1997) • Movement organizations are inclined to adopt tactics that express or reflect their shared identity, beliefs, and experience – “Tactics are rarely, if ever, neutral means about which protestors do not care. Tactics rep ...
... Collective Identity Shaping Tactical Choices • “Taste in tactics” (Jasper 1997) • Movement organizations are inclined to adopt tactics that express or reflect their shared identity, beliefs, and experience – “Tactics are rarely, if ever, neutral means about which protestors do not care. Tactics rep ...
The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility
... Management with its roots in the welfare officer’s role in the original philanthropic business organisations such as Cadburys and Rowntrees in the 1900s • HRM is seen to promote working relationships, employee involvement, development, equal opportunities and justice. Yet it is unitarist in its appr ...
... Management with its roots in the welfare officer’s role in the original philanthropic business organisations such as Cadburys and Rowntrees in the 1900s • HRM is seen to promote working relationships, employee involvement, development, equal opportunities and justice. Yet it is unitarist in its appr ...
Performing environmental change
... empirical and analytical work. Indeed, it may be rendered problematic in this context. Assuming a more agnostic position regarding the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘society’, we might observe that it requires a lot of work to insert ‘nature’ or environmental issues as a relevant concern into social ...
... empirical and analytical work. Indeed, it may be rendered problematic in this context. Assuming a more agnostic position regarding the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘society’, we might observe that it requires a lot of work to insert ‘nature’ or environmental issues as a relevant concern into social ...
- Universität Bielefeld
... In the last thirty years, both life span psychology and the sociology of the life course experienced a take-off with regard to theory building and conceptualization, the advancement of longitudinal methodology, as well as established research programs and numerous empirical studies. At first glance, ...
... In the last thirty years, both life span psychology and the sociology of the life course experienced a take-off with regard to theory building and conceptualization, the advancement of longitudinal methodology, as well as established research programs and numerous empirical studies. At first glance, ...
Introduction: Symbolic Power and Democratic
... behaviors, meanings, and organizations; and, second, that we locate not only political capacities inscribed in formal structures but also the varied political proclivities and expectations of concrete agents and how they come to be endowed (or not) with the categories, skills, and desires required t ...
... behaviors, meanings, and organizations; and, second, that we locate not only political capacities inscribed in formal structures but also the varied political proclivities and expectations of concrete agents and how they come to be endowed (or not) with the categories, skills, and desires required t ...
Socialization
... with another baby in the maternity ward and went home with the ‘wrong’ family and were raised by them. ...
... with another baby in the maternity ward and went home with the ‘wrong’ family and were raised by them. ...
Curriculum Vitae
... The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, ...
... The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, ...
Sociology, Economics, and Gender
... (Econometrica), and the deleted word is “economic.” It was drafted by a group of fifteen men (Roos 1933), and its gender is decidedly masculine. While the founders of the Econometric Society represented the mathematical vanguard of their time, the entire profession of economics has since shifted in ...
... (Econometrica), and the deleted word is “economic.” It was drafted by a group of fifteen men (Roos 1933), and its gender is decidedly masculine. While the founders of the Econometric Society represented the mathematical vanguard of their time, the entire profession of economics has since shifted in ...
Being stuck in (live) time: the sticky sociological imagination
... The fact that so much information can be time-space stamped has led to an increased focus on ‘real-time’ methods, where streaming real-time data is harnessed as a way of capturing live trends, real time events. Research that exploits micro-blogging sites such as Twitter are excellent examples of the ...
... The fact that so much information can be time-space stamped has led to an increased focus on ‘real-time’ methods, where streaming real-time data is harnessed as a way of capturing live trends, real time events. Research that exploits micro-blogging sites such as Twitter are excellent examples of the ...
Social and Behavioral Theories - e-Source: Behavioral and Social
... in broad reviews of the literature (above), and show that a relatively small number of theories are being used to develop and test interventions. Few of these reviews compared the relative effects of using different theories as the basis for interventions, but several explored whether using a theore ...
... in broad reviews of the literature (above), and show that a relatively small number of theories are being used to develop and test interventions. Few of these reviews compared the relative effects of using different theories as the basis for interventions, but several explored whether using a theore ...
An overview of French Interactionist Sociology
... than its title suggests and introduces a large part of the heritage of those known as members of the second Chicago School or the interactionist sociology: Hughes, Blumer, Freidson, Goffmann, Strauss, etc. Even if these labels were criticized by some of these authors, including Becker himself (Plumm ...
... than its title suggests and introduces a large part of the heritage of those known as members of the second Chicago School or the interactionist sociology: Hughes, Blumer, Freidson, Goffmann, Strauss, etc. Even if these labels were criticized by some of these authors, including Becker himself (Plumm ...
The Trouble with Gender: Tales of the Still
... individual and society, mind and body, nature and nurture, rationality and irrationality-are being challenged and upset. One philosopher has observed that "there is a growing sense that something is wrong with the ways in which the relevant issues and options are posed-a sense that something is happ ...
... individual and society, mind and body, nature and nurture, rationality and irrationality-are being challenged and upset. One philosopher has observed that "there is a growing sense that something is wrong with the ways in which the relevant issues and options are posed-a sense that something is happ ...
New Institutionalism in the Analysis of Complex
... economics, political science, and sociology. In economics, rational choice institutionalism emphasizes coordination mechanisms that solve collective action problems by generating new forms of commitment and rule-following or norm-abiding behavior. Historical institutionalism, a cornerstone of compar ...
... economics, political science, and sociology. In economics, rational choice institutionalism emphasizes coordination mechanisms that solve collective action problems by generating new forms of commitment and rule-following or norm-abiding behavior. Historical institutionalism, a cornerstone of compar ...