Futures in the Making: Contemporary Practices and Sociological
... Feuerbach, ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it’ (McLellan ed. 1977: 158). While Marx did not rate very highly the work of his French predecessors, he nevertheless took a similar stance regarding his commitment to science on the one hand and the p ...
... Feuerbach, ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it’ (McLellan ed. 1977: 158). While Marx did not rate very highly the work of his French predecessors, he nevertheless took a similar stance regarding his commitment to science on the one hand and the p ...
Overcoming veriphobia - Indiana University Bloomington
... an external view of ourselves that may lead to the abandonment of quite fundamental assumptions, particularly if we discover that judgements we had assumed to be of universal validity turn out not to be so. However, this process of self-analysis breaks down if it is stretched too far. If we decide t ...
... an external view of ourselves that may lead to the abandonment of quite fundamental assumptions, particularly if we discover that judgements we had assumed to be of universal validity turn out not to be so. However, this process of self-analysis breaks down if it is stretched too far. If we decide t ...
chapter - Test Bank wizard
... theory is simply a set of statements that seeks to explain. The strongest theories are those which both explain and predict. Sociologists rely on a variety of theories, each with a different set of assumptions and a unique perspective. Several European social theorists made long-standing contributio ...
... theory is simply a set of statements that seeks to explain. The strongest theories are those which both explain and predict. Sociologists rely on a variety of theories, each with a different set of assumptions and a unique perspective. Several European social theorists made long-standing contributio ...
chapter - TEST BANK 360
... theory is simply a set of statements that seeks to explain. The strongest theories are those which both explain and predict. Sociologists rely on a variety of theories, each with a different set of assumptions and a unique perspective. Several European social theorists made long-standing contributio ...
... theory is simply a set of statements that seeks to explain. The strongest theories are those which both explain and predict. Sociologists rely on a variety of theories, each with a different set of assumptions and a unique perspective. Several European social theorists made long-standing contributio ...
VITA - UCSB Department of Sociology
... I am a social psychologist who studies the formation and change of the self in families. More specifically, I examine how change in the social context (e.g., the adoption of new roles in the family) affect individuals’ self-views. The examination of the processes that underlie self-formation (e.g. t ...
... I am a social psychologist who studies the formation and change of the self in families. More specifically, I examine how change in the social context (e.g., the adoption of new roles in the family) affect individuals’ self-views. The examination of the processes that underlie self-formation (e.g. t ...
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 ...
sociology 1: introduction to sociology
... behavior is not simply the outcome of individual free will. We are powerfully shaped by the social and historical context in which we live. Further, sociologists study social structures, institutions, division of power and resources, and social relations as outcomes of human action, not simply as na ...
... behavior is not simply the outcome of individual free will. We are powerfully shaped by the social and historical context in which we live. Further, sociologists study social structures, institutions, division of power and resources, and social relations as outcomes of human action, not simply as na ...
SOCIOLOGY (SOC) - The University of Winnipeg
... a “sociological imagination” which is a quality of mind that provides us with the ability to understand our own personal experiences as they are shaped by the society in which we live. Sociologists help us to understand how common sense comes to be common sense. In other words, sociology tells us ho ...
... a “sociological imagination” which is a quality of mind that provides us with the ability to understand our own personal experiences as they are shaped by the society in which we live. Sociologists help us to understand how common sense comes to be common sense. In other words, sociology tells us ho ...
Forthcoming in Bhaskar, R., Esbjörn
... Alderman come from IT. In Wilber’s writings, they have found a “big picture theory”. They espouse his holarchic developmental approach with its hierarchical rainbow (turquoise, yellow, ...
... Alderman come from IT. In Wilber’s writings, they have found a “big picture theory”. They espouse his holarchic developmental approach with its hierarchical rainbow (turquoise, yellow, ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... their devastating criticism of Popper’s falsifiability, the issue remained open; the debates focused on the shortcomings of the alternative theories (“incommensurability” (Kuhn), “anything goes” (Feyerabend), “a whiff of inductivism” (Lakatos)) and not on the shortcomings of Popper’s criterion. It i ...
... their devastating criticism of Popper’s falsifiability, the issue remained open; the debates focused on the shortcomings of the alternative theories (“incommensurability” (Kuhn), “anything goes” (Feyerabend), “a whiff of inductivism” (Lakatos)) and not on the shortcomings of Popper’s criterion. It i ...
- Philsci-Archive
... Somewhat arbitrarily, we may begin with a dreadful blunder made by Feyerabend. On Popper's behalf, he assailed the logical empiricists, Hempel, Carnap and Nagel, for holding that meaning had to be transported up from evidence to theory.14 No, Feyerabend argued, that was not possible, for observation ...
... Somewhat arbitrarily, we may begin with a dreadful blunder made by Feyerabend. On Popper's behalf, he assailed the logical empiricists, Hempel, Carnap and Nagel, for holding that meaning had to be transported up from evidence to theory.14 No, Feyerabend argued, that was not possible, for observation ...
How Popper`s `Three Worlds Theory` Resembles Moscovici`s
... examples for world 3 objects that transcend their physical embodiments (pp. 144-145). Next, Popper addresses the main issue: scientific theories cannot be reduced to their world 1 ‘materializations’ (for example formulations in books) and to states of mind as well. To a certain degree, a theory is a ...
... examples for world 3 objects that transcend their physical embodiments (pp. 144-145). Next, Popper addresses the main issue: scientific theories cannot be reduced to their world 1 ‘materializations’ (for example formulations in books) and to states of mind as well. To a certain degree, a theory is a ...
1 introduction - New Age International
... industrial councils, adjudication etc. Popularly known as Industrial Relations, they literally go more extensively. Informal relations spontaneously arise everywhere in industry. Though hardly ever officially regulated, they are ordinarily sustained by common rules of ethics and customs. Informal re ...
... industrial councils, adjudication etc. Popularly known as Industrial Relations, they literally go more extensively. Informal relations spontaneously arise everywhere in industry. Though hardly ever officially regulated, they are ordinarily sustained by common rules of ethics and customs. Informal re ...
Popper`s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy - Philsci
... In Praise of Natural Philosophy Most 20th century philosophers of science assume without question that they pursue a meta-discipline – one that takes science as its subject matter, and seeks to acquire knowledge and understanding about science without in any way affecting, or contributing to, scienc ...
... In Praise of Natural Philosophy Most 20th century philosophers of science assume without question that they pursue a meta-discipline – one that takes science as its subject matter, and seeks to acquire knowledge and understanding about science without in any way affecting, or contributing to, scienc ...
A Science of Context: The Qualitative Approach as Fundamental to
... Iraq surge) and assumed effect Y (success in Iraq) meant strategic-level decision-makers had to rely on little but a guess about cause and effect. And even if the time lag from X to Y is discounted, the internal variables grouped under the title “the surge” meant even more lack of clarity. What abou ...
... Iraq surge) and assumed effect Y (success in Iraq) meant strategic-level decision-makers had to rely on little but a guess about cause and effect. And even if the time lag from X to Y is discounted, the internal variables grouped under the title “the surge” meant even more lack of clarity. What abou ...
The Theoretical Base of Clinical Sociology
... manner on behalf of one's client. (Lee, 1984:45) As I point out elsewhere . . . (1978:14–15), "sociological scientists who wish to continue to function as creative contributors to their discipline do not sell or knowingly give their services to those whose activities they diagnose as antisocial". . ...
... manner on behalf of one's client. (Lee, 1984:45) As I point out elsewhere . . . (1978:14–15), "sociological scientists who wish to continue to function as creative contributors to their discipline do not sell or knowingly give their services to those whose activities they diagnose as antisocial". . ...
03 Clough 099643F - Home Cooked Theory
... is a one-to-one relationship between political economy and knowledge production, the former determining the latter or vice versa. For him, it is a matter of resonance between two different forms of practice, a matter of ‘formal and structural homologies rather than any sort of direct mimesis’ (Stein ...
... is a one-to-one relationship between political economy and knowledge production, the former determining the latter or vice versa. For him, it is a matter of resonance between two different forms of practice, a matter of ‘formal and structural homologies rather than any sort of direct mimesis’ (Stein ...
The IDEA of a Social Science
... each with criteria of intelligibility peculiar to itself. Equally, greater clarity about the way the notion of a rule relates to human behaviour would, if anything, have strengthened the force of the contrasts I drew between the social and natural sciences. Some of my points would have had to be for ...
... each with criteria of intelligibility peculiar to itself. Equally, greater clarity about the way the notion of a rule relates to human behaviour would, if anything, have strengthened the force of the contrasts I drew between the social and natural sciences. Some of my points would have had to be for ...
Sociology in America - Herbert J. Gans Online
... roles, to see if we can establishfindings about the effects of their exposure to sociology. Since sociology has begun to drift down to the high schools, similarresearchcan be done there. Schools not being the only teaching institutions in America, however, someone should also take a look to see whet ...
... roles, to see if we can establishfindings about the effects of their exposure to sociology. Since sociology has begun to drift down to the high schools, similarresearchcan be done there. Schools not being the only teaching institutions in America, however, someone should also take a look to see whet ...
From knowledge to wisdom: the need for an
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
Social Laws, the Unity of Scientific Method, and Situational
... knowledge, it might encourage the taking of measures to alter the social regularity. For instance, steps could be taken to counter Popper’s “law” regarding agricultural tariffs and the cost of living, price controls being the most obvious. This might have some unwanted consequences, but it nonethele ...
... knowledge, it might encourage the taking of measures to alter the social regularity. For instance, steps could be taken to counter Popper’s “law” regarding agricultural tariffs and the cost of living, price controls being the most obvious. This might have some unwanted consequences, but it nonethele ...
Reclaiming the Sociological Imagination
... In his second reference, Mills describes the sociological imagination as "the quality of mind that seems most dramatically to promise an understanding of the intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities" (15), and speculates halfheartedly about the probability of it eve ...
... In his second reference, Mills describes the sociological imagination as "the quality of mind that seems most dramatically to promise an understanding of the intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities" (15), and speculates halfheartedly about the probability of it eve ...
Japan Sociological Society
... the legal basis of the conventional family system was abolished. Furthermore, an American-style educational system was introduced, and sociology in higher education came to be viewed as being a ...
... the legal basis of the conventional family system was abolished. Furthermore, an American-style educational system was introduced, and sociology in higher education came to be viewed as being a ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... value of literary texts. David Hume , the British philosopher also opined that there must be a logical gap between description of facts and value-judgments we might make on the basis of knowledge of these facts. The quest for objectivity in the subjective world of the humanities and the social scien ...
... value of literary texts. David Hume , the British philosopher also opined that there must be a logical gap between description of facts and value-judgments we might make on the basis of knowledge of these facts. The quest for objectivity in the subjective world of the humanities and the social scien ...