Georg_Simmel_SYA 3010
... The Stranger “The stranger” in Simmel’s terminology, is not just a wanderer “who comes today and goes tomorrow,” having no specific structural position. On the contrary, he is a “person who comes today and stays tomorrow…He is fixed within a particular spatial group…but his position…is determined…by ...
... The Stranger “The stranger” in Simmel’s terminology, is not just a wanderer “who comes today and goes tomorrow,” having no specific structural position. On the contrary, he is a “person who comes today and stays tomorrow…He is fixed within a particular spatial group…but his position…is determined…by ...
Symbolic lnteractionism:Themes and Variations
... Once developed, the self becomes critical to the understanding of behavior. Mead envisions two aspects of self: the "me," or the organized attitudes (expectations) of others incorporated into the self; and the "I," or the responses of the person to the organized attitudes of others. For Mead, the "I ...
... Once developed, the self becomes critical to the understanding of behavior. Mead envisions two aspects of self: the "me," or the organized attitudes (expectations) of others incorporated into the self; and the "I," or the responses of the person to the organized attitudes of others. For Mead, the "I ...
Organization
... While the instability of the concept has been, and continues to be, a source of ongoing discomfort and critique (e.g. Banerjee, 2008; Bartlett and Devin, 2011; Woolfson and Beck, 2005), it is possible to argue, as we will do in this article, that the open-ended nature of CSR is an advantage to the f ...
... While the instability of the concept has been, and continues to be, a source of ongoing discomfort and critique (e.g. Banerjee, 2008; Bartlett and Devin, 2011; Woolfson and Beck, 2005), it is possible to argue, as we will do in this article, that the open-ended nature of CSR is an advantage to the f ...
Draft Conference Paper - Inter
... I am using the term ‘agent’ […] in its older-and “grander”-sense as someone who acts and brings about change, and whose achievements can be judged in terms of some external criteria as well. This work is particularly concerned with the agency role of the individual as a member of the public and as a ...
... I am using the term ‘agent’ […] in its older-and “grander”-sense as someone who acts and brings about change, and whose achievements can be judged in terms of some external criteria as well. This work is particularly concerned with the agency role of the individual as a member of the public and as a ...
Ideology and Utopia in Mannheim
... importance, though in the deceptive clothings of changing research field names, interests, and titles introduced by different sociologists of knowledge. The specific approaches of particular sociologies of knowledge may have turned in time to be transitory and limited in content; however, as a schol ...
... importance, though in the deceptive clothings of changing research field names, interests, and titles introduced by different sociologists of knowledge. The specific approaches of particular sociologies of knowledge may have turned in time to be transitory and limited in content; however, as a schol ...
Introduction to Sociology
... something about the both the way sociologists study social behaviour and the kind of knowledge they are trying to produce about social life. While we will develop these ideas in much greater detail in another part of the course (“Theory and Methods”), we need to note a couple of things about them no ...
... something about the both the way sociologists study social behaviour and the kind of knowledge they are trying to produce about social life. While we will develop these ideas in much greater detail in another part of the course (“Theory and Methods”), we need to note a couple of things about them no ...
Alvin W. Gouldner and Industrial Sociology at Columbia University
... namely, tlie fact tliat people will alter tlieir beliavior if tliey know tliey are being observed. The Western Electric studies were concerned with understanding the conditions under which worker productivity and efficiency would increase. Pliysical conditions at work, sucli as liglit ing, and othe ...
... namely, tlie fact tliat people will alter tlieir beliavior if tliey know tliey are being observed. The Western Electric studies were concerned with understanding the conditions under which worker productivity and efficiency would increase. Pliysical conditions at work, sucli as liglit ing, and othe ...
CSR as aspirational talk
... While the instability of the concept has been, and continues to be, a source of ongoing discomfort and critique (e.g. Banerjee, 2008; Bartlett and Devin, 2011; Woolfson and Beck, 2005), it is possible to argue, as we will do in this article, that the open-ended nature of CSR is an advantage to the f ...
... While the instability of the concept has been, and continues to be, a source of ongoing discomfort and critique (e.g. Banerjee, 2008; Bartlett and Devin, 2011; Woolfson and Beck, 2005), it is possible to argue, as we will do in this article, that the open-ended nature of CSR is an advantage to the f ...
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... architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its commencement” (Marx 1867: 193). Such activity is based on ...
... architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its commencement” (Marx 1867: 193). Such activity is based on ...
Critiquing and Expanding the Sociology of Inequality
... 1. Society is an organic system whose various components work together to contribute to the health of the system. Some of the positions within the system, though, are more important than others for the survival of the society. 2. For a society to remain healthy, the most functionally important posit ...
... 1. Society is an organic system whose various components work together to contribute to the health of the system. Some of the positions within the system, though, are more important than others for the survival of the society. 2. For a society to remain healthy, the most functionally important posit ...
Georg Simmel: Study Guide
... concern with distance is manifest in various places in Simmel's work. We will discuss it in two different contexts—in Simmel's massive The Philosophy of Money and in one of his cleverest essays, "The Stranger." In The Philosophy of Money, Simmel enunciated some general principles about value-and abo ...
... concern with distance is manifest in various places in Simmel's work. We will discuss it in two different contexts—in Simmel's massive The Philosophy of Money and in one of his cleverest essays, "The Stranger." In The Philosophy of Money, Simmel enunciated some general principles about value-and abo ...
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... Men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their ...
... Men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their ...
My talk today has its roots in a conversation that Bo Bernhard and I
... So the question that Matt Wray and I asked ourselves, in thinking about the two stories I just told you, was how could these two people have difficulties in engaging with the same technology and yet have such very different outcomes. ...
... So the question that Matt Wray and I asked ourselves, in thinking about the two stories I just told you, was how could these two people have difficulties in engaging with the same technology and yet have such very different outcomes. ...
The History and Systematics of Functional Differentiation in Sociology
... analyzing growth and differentiation processes in the life histories of individual organisms, and not for describing collective, macrosocietal trends. Consequently sociology became ...
... analyzing growth and differentiation processes in the life histories of individual organisms, and not for describing collective, macrosocietal trends. Consequently sociology became ...
Adolescence - Annapolis High School
... SOCIOLOGY THE STUDY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS Some sociologists have called adolescence a time of “storm and stress”. Others disagree and believe that for most young people it is a very happy time. ...
... SOCIOLOGY THE STUDY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS Some sociologists have called adolescence a time of “storm and stress”. Others disagree and believe that for most young people it is a very happy time. ...
Journalism in a Globalizing World Society. A Societal
... to identify journalism and to differentiate between journalism and other highly complex social systems such as public relations, advertisement or propaganda, a unique function of journalism has to be defined (Rühl, 2001). A quarter of a century ago, I described performance and provision of themes fo ...
... to identify journalism and to differentiate between journalism and other highly complex social systems such as public relations, advertisement or propaganda, a unique function of journalism has to be defined (Rühl, 2001). A quarter of a century ago, I described performance and provision of themes fo ...
Essentials of Sociology, 7th Edition
... 13 infant whose mental 12 infants remained in the retardation was very obvious orphanage and no one wanted to adopt These children were also them. retarded, but they were 2 ½ years later considered to have higher intelligence Gained an average of 28 IQ points 2 ½ years later 20 years l ...
... 13 infant whose mental 12 infants remained in the retardation was very obvious orphanage and no one wanted to adopt These children were also them. retarded, but they were 2 ½ years later considered to have higher intelligence Gained an average of 28 IQ points 2 ½ years later 20 years l ...
Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social
... b) the micro/macro distinction stifle any attempt at understanding how society is being generated. In other words, I want to make a little thought experiment and imagine what the field of social sciences would have become in the last century, had Tarde’s insights been turned into a science instead o ...
... b) the micro/macro distinction stifle any attempt at understanding how society is being generated. In other words, I want to make a little thought experiment and imagine what the field of social sciences would have become in the last century, had Tarde’s insights been turned into a science instead o ...
The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
... contradiction of each other. So Marx used the term ‘utopian’ for those socialists whom he saw as ‘unscientific’, in that they did not address or understand the material basis of social change. They would have disagreed: Robert Owen’s, model factory at New Lanark is now a World Heritage Site thanks t ...
... contradiction of each other. So Marx used the term ‘utopian’ for those socialists whom he saw as ‘unscientific’, in that they did not address or understand the material basis of social change. They would have disagreed: Robert Owen’s, model factory at New Lanark is now a World Heritage Site thanks t ...
The Reality of Social Constructions
... ever entirely separate from what is real. To suggest that social reality is constructed means only that, from a human point of view, reality is forever dependent upon the natural-historical and psychic-social contexts in which selective knowledge of the real world is assembled. This is not to dismi ...
... ever entirely separate from what is real. To suggest that social reality is constructed means only that, from a human point of view, reality is forever dependent upon the natural-historical and psychic-social contexts in which selective knowledge of the real world is assembled. This is not to dismi ...
Formal and Informal Organization
... Hart (2001, p. 15): “it has been difficult to incorporate norms into the theory of organizations… although there has been some interesting recent work on this topic, this work has not to date greatly changed our views about the determinants of organizational forms.” ...
... Hart (2001, p. 15): “it has been difficult to incorporate norms into the theory of organizations… although there has been some interesting recent work on this topic, this work has not to date greatly changed our views about the determinants of organizational forms.” ...
Sample Chapter 1 (PDF, 42 Pages
... categories of people, however, being an outsider—not part of the dominant category— is an everyday experience. The greater people’s social marginality, the better they are able to use the sociological perspective. For example, no Black person grows up in the United States or Canada without understan ...
... categories of people, however, being an outsider—not part of the dominant category— is an everyday experience. The greater people’s social marginality, the better they are able to use the sociological perspective. For example, no Black person grows up in the United States or Canada without understan ...
Student-Driven Test Questions Master List
... 19. Karl Marx saw 4 social classes in industrial societies. Name those social classes and say something about their relationship to the “means of production.” –Joe L. 20. Why is Harriet Martineau so concerned about the morals/manners binary? Why is this important to our understanding of culture? –Wi ...
... 19. Karl Marx saw 4 social classes in industrial societies. Name those social classes and say something about their relationship to the “means of production.” –Joe L. 20. Why is Harriet Martineau so concerned about the morals/manners binary? Why is this important to our understanding of culture? –Wi ...