Cultural Sociology as Social Research: A conversation with Jeffrey
... Clifford Geertz is guilty on this score. He tells us he is doing thick description, but we have to accept these accounts entirely on his own ethnographic authority. So it's impossible to get a ...
... Clifford Geertz is guilty on this score. He tells us he is doing thick description, but we have to accept these accounts entirely on his own ethnographic authority. So it's impossible to get a ...
Chapter II Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical
... that sickness is constituted and only knowable through interpretive activities” (idem).32 The interpretive activities according to Good involve interaction of biology, social practices and culturally constituted frames of meanings, through which “clinical realities” are constructed” (idem). Accordin ...
... that sickness is constituted and only knowable through interpretive activities” (idem).32 The interpretive activities according to Good involve interaction of biology, social practices and culturally constituted frames of meanings, through which “clinical realities” are constructed” (idem). Accordin ...
BETWEEN STRUCTURES AND PEOPLE: SOME THOUGHTS ON
... Ileto's Theoretical Framework Ileto does not explicitly state his theoretical framework; the task belongs to us. Note, however, that this attempt to identify the sociological underpinnings of Ileto's work will be limited to a specific range of contemporary sociological theories. Ileto, we must also ...
... Ileto's Theoretical Framework Ileto does not explicitly state his theoretical framework; the task belongs to us. Note, however, that this attempt to identify the sociological underpinnings of Ileto's work will be limited to a specific range of contemporary sociological theories. Ileto, we must also ...
PROPOSAL FOR CO-EDITORSHIP OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL
... study—e.g., ethnographic field work and survey design—to address a particular question. It also could mean multiple and combined data analysis strategies, such as qualitative textual analysis, historical analysis, and quantitative analysis. We will seek innovative methodological approaches when the ...
... study—e.g., ethnographic field work and survey design—to address a particular question. It also could mean multiple and combined data analysis strategies, such as qualitative textual analysis, historical analysis, and quantitative analysis. We will seek innovative methodological approaches when the ...
Amédée or how to get rid of it: social representations... Ivana Markova, University of Stirling
... transformed and further developed in the present socio-cultural theories of the mind (e.g. Wertsch, 1991; Hermans and Kempen, 1993; co-constructivism (Valsiner, 1998) , dialogism in language (Linell, 1998, Rommetveit, 1998; Heen Wold, 1992; Markova and Foppa, 1990; 1991; Markova , Graumann and Foppa ...
... transformed and further developed in the present socio-cultural theories of the mind (e.g. Wertsch, 1991; Hermans and Kempen, 1993; co-constructivism (Valsiner, 1998) , dialogism in language (Linell, 1998, Rommetveit, 1998; Heen Wold, 1992; Markova and Foppa, 1990; 1991; Markova , Graumann and Foppa ...
Understanding Social Problems
... Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in other formats) from a student-friendly publisher, Unnamed Publisher, tries to answer these questions with the latest theory and research from sociology and other ...
... Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in other formats) from a student-friendly publisher, Unnamed Publisher, tries to answer these questions with the latest theory and research from sociology and other ...
Institutional Economics, the Individual Actor and - C
... Such strategies have notably ended up with the readmission of the problem in another form. We have to proceed from the starting point that individuals and their institutions are the stuff of social life. The agency-structure problem is to explore and explain the articulation between the two. There a ...
... Such strategies have notably ended up with the readmission of the problem in another form. We have to proceed from the starting point that individuals and their institutions are the stuff of social life. The agency-structure problem is to explore and explain the articulation between the two. There a ...
Seeing Crime and Punishment through a Sociological Lens
... portant for sociologists to understand the public and behind-thescenes decisionmaking processes among organizations and authorities (such as courts, prisons, asylums, police departments, agents) charged with controlling crime and deviand parole ...
... portant for sociologists to understand the public and behind-thescenes decisionmaking processes among organizations and authorities (such as courts, prisons, asylums, police departments, agents) charged with controlling crime and deviand parole ...
chapter - TEST BANK 360
... however, continues to have an enormous influence on sociological research and theory even to this day. (Ironically, Marx and Spencer are buried next to each other in London’s High Gate Cemetery). A number of contemporary social theorists, many from the United States, have also made contributions to ...
... however, continues to have an enormous influence on sociological research and theory even to this day. (Ironically, Marx and Spencer are buried next to each other in London’s High Gate Cemetery). A number of contemporary social theorists, many from the United States, have also made contributions to ...
Seeing Crime and Punishment through a Sociological Lens
... portant for sociologists to understand the public and behind-thescenes decisionmaking processes among organizations and authorities (such as courts, prisons, asylums, police departments, agents) charged with controlling crime and deviand parole ...
... portant for sociologists to understand the public and behind-thescenes decisionmaking processes among organizations and authorities (such as courts, prisons, asylums, police departments, agents) charged with controlling crime and deviand parole ...
chapter - Test Bank wizard
... however, continues to have an enormous influence on sociological research and theory even to this day. (Ironically, Marx and Spencer are buried next to each other in London’s High Gate Cemetery). A number of contemporary social theorists, many from the United States, have also made contributions to ...
... however, continues to have an enormous influence on sociological research and theory even to this day. (Ironically, Marx and Spencer are buried next to each other in London’s High Gate Cemetery). A number of contemporary social theorists, many from the United States, have also made contributions to ...
Japan Sociological Society
... collaborative lifestyle and shared common interests typical of people’s everyday lives before the war completely disappeared after the war. The issue lies in the ways in which Western civil society relates to this lifestyle, and how this relationship will develop in the future. Regardless of whether ...
... collaborative lifestyle and shared common interests typical of people’s everyday lives before the war completely disappeared after the war. The issue lies in the ways in which Western civil society relates to this lifestyle, and how this relationship will develop in the future. Regardless of whether ...
INTRODUCTION OF SOCIOLOGY
... The post-Darwinian natural sciences presented explanations of life on Earth with the theory of growth and the source of the class. Finally, it was expected that the social sciences would extend this ´explanation project´ into explanations of the collective activities and relationships of human being ...
... The post-Darwinian natural sciences presented explanations of life on Earth with the theory of growth and the source of the class. Finally, it was expected that the social sciences would extend this ´explanation project´ into explanations of the collective activities and relationships of human being ...
Max Weber
... both research and the classroom. When teaching, he argued, sociologists ought to teach students the facts, rather than indoctrinating them to a particular political or personal point of view. Weber did argue, however, that the values of one's society often help to decide what a scholar will study. H ...
... both research and the classroom. When teaching, he argued, sociologists ought to teach students the facts, rather than indoctrinating them to a particular political or personal point of view. Weber did argue, however, that the values of one's society often help to decide what a scholar will study. H ...
The Society of Society: The Grand Finale of Niklas Luhmann
... Leaving the Dark Ages of sociology behind him, Luhmann presents a sociology that removes human beings from the center of the social system and throws them, body and soul, into the system’s environment ~30!. He characterizes this new perspective on society as “radically antihumanist, radically antire ...
... Leaving the Dark Ages of sociology behind him, Luhmann presents a sociology that removes human beings from the center of the social system and throws them, body and soul, into the system’s environment ~30!. He characterizes this new perspective on society as “radically antihumanist, radically antire ...
Anselm L. Strauss, 1917-1996 - University of California, San Francisco
... undergraduate studies, he had been introduced to sociology through a textbook by Dawson and Gettys, a junior version of the famous Park and Burgess (1921) text, Introduction to the Science of Sociology. Thus, the Chicago spirit was already present. The first theoretical memo by Strauss the graduate ...
... undergraduate studies, he had been introduced to sociology through a textbook by Dawson and Gettys, a junior version of the famous Park and Burgess (1921) text, Introduction to the Science of Sociology. Thus, the Chicago spirit was already present. The first theoretical memo by Strauss the graduate ...
Berk DEV-CH 5 - California State University, Los Angeles
... diminish society's power to regulate the individual's conduct and thus deviant behavior can be expected. There are four main elements of bonds or points of control: 1. Attachment--refers to the individual's sensitivity to feelings of others. When the individual cares about the wishes of others, they ...
... diminish society's power to regulate the individual's conduct and thus deviant behavior can be expected. There are four main elements of bonds or points of control: 1. Attachment--refers to the individual's sensitivity to feelings of others. When the individual cares about the wishes of others, they ...
Postmodern approach to chronic illness
... Kelly & Field argue that sociologists focused too much on Meaning of chronic illness Paid insufficient attention the body, especially in culture dominated by individualism, self awareness & body maintenance How does chronic illness impact on the body? Impinges on people’s capacities/shapes ide ...
... Kelly & Field argue that sociologists focused too much on Meaning of chronic illness Paid insufficient attention the body, especially in culture dominated by individualism, self awareness & body maintenance How does chronic illness impact on the body? Impinges on people’s capacities/shapes ide ...
Non-Sociological Theories
... 2. The idea of personality is one that many sociologists (in particular Interactionist writers such as Mead, Becker, Garfinkel and Berger) have questioned. In this respect, we can identify two basic problems with Eysenck's concept of personality: a. The nature of human personality is by no-means cle ...
... 2. The idea of personality is one that many sociologists (in particular Interactionist writers such as Mead, Becker, Garfinkel and Berger) have questioned. In this respect, we can identify two basic problems with Eysenck's concept of personality: a. The nature of human personality is by no-means cle ...
Social Situatedness: Vygotsky and Beyond
... Hence, the cognitive abilities of an ‘enculturated’ adult human are the product of these processes of cognitive development, in which ‘primitive’ humans are transformed into cultural ones. The major goal of Vygotsky’s research was to explain these qualitative changes by identifying the influence of ...
... Hence, the cognitive abilities of an ‘enculturated’ adult human are the product of these processes of cognitive development, in which ‘primitive’ humans are transformed into cultural ones. The major goal of Vygotsky’s research was to explain these qualitative changes by identifying the influence of ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... on tracing associations (which is also a case lesson in Gieryn’s “boundary work” [1983, 781]). Latour’s admiedly self-serving historical portrayal of sociology is perhaps forgivable because, in exchange, we get to see how performativity works among sociologists (rather than just economists). Sociol ...
... on tracing associations (which is also a case lesson in Gieryn’s “boundary work” [1983, 781]). Latour’s admiedly self-serving historical portrayal of sociology is perhaps forgivable because, in exchange, we get to see how performativity works among sociologists (rather than just economists). Sociol ...