ON PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: CAN IT BE A SCIENCE?
... the reduced science as the secondary science. In reductions, principles or laws in the secondary science must be logically reducible to that of the primary science. For instance, if we take biology as the primary science and anthropology as the secondary science, then anthropology is logically reduc ...
... the reduced science as the secondary science. In reductions, principles or laws in the secondary science must be logically reducible to that of the primary science. For instance, if we take biology as the primary science and anthropology as the secondary science, then anthropology is logically reduc ...
ACCREDITING KNOWLEDGE: JOURNAL STATURE
... The institutional goal of science is the extension of accre&xi knowledge (Merron, 1942). In order to achieve this goal, scholars need to communicate with one another through regular, open channela. This exchange of ideas is thus an inescapable aspect of aeientificresearch and development. The questi ...
... The institutional goal of science is the extension of accre&xi knowledge (Merron, 1942). In order to achieve this goal, scholars need to communicate with one another through regular, open channela. This exchange of ideas is thus an inescapable aspect of aeientificresearch and development. The questi ...
Lesson 1: What is Sociology?
... an orderly world before us Society is a social construction, that is, it is an idea created by humans (i.e. doesn’t exist in the biological world but only in the social world) through social interaction and given a reality through our understanding of it and our collective actions. Introduction to ...
... an orderly world before us Society is a social construction, that is, it is an idea created by humans (i.e. doesn’t exist in the biological world but only in the social world) through social interaction and given a reality through our understanding of it and our collective actions. Introduction to ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... science provides genuine causal explanations. Importantly, he notes that this puts him at odds with leading French philosophers of science like Pierre Duhem;· ·who, notes Maritain, "thought that a physical theory is not an explanation," but rather "a system of mathematical propositions, which have, ...
... science provides genuine causal explanations. Importantly, he notes that this puts him at odds with leading French philosophers of science like Pierre Duhem;· ·who, notes Maritain, "thought that a physical theory is not an explanation," but rather "a system of mathematical propositions, which have, ...
Subliming and Subverting
... consists of norms that can guide scientific practices, such as framing hypotheses, conducting experiments, making observations, collecting data, constructing models and testing theories. To deduce these norms, sublimers use abstraction. When they study successful scientific practices, they draw out ...
... consists of norms that can guide scientific practices, such as framing hypotheses, conducting experiments, making observations, collecting data, constructing models and testing theories. To deduce these norms, sublimers use abstraction. When they study successful scientific practices, they draw out ...
John Dewey and American Social Science
... about this. Dewey believed, rightly, that human sciences could help us to understand ourselves: how we think and inquiry and why, when thinking and inquiry is successful, it is successful. They would give us insight into what were our genuine interests and purposes and their relations, and most obvi ...
... about this. Dewey believed, rightly, that human sciences could help us to understand ourselves: how we think and inquiry and why, when thinking and inquiry is successful, it is successful. They would give us insight into what were our genuine interests and purposes and their relations, and most obvi ...
COMPTE RENDU Nickel, Patricia Mooney. 2012. Public Sociology
... really about theory building or research but is designed to allow sociologists to work together and not fight among themselves excessively as was certainly the case in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, and here in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. But the core problem with Public Sociology and ...
... really about theory building or research but is designed to allow sociologists to work together and not fight among themselves excessively as was certainly the case in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, and here in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. But the core problem with Public Sociology and ...
Invitation to Sociology
... insights from their everyday affairs. But it is a rather difficult feat to perform in good faith. The sociologist moves in the common world of men, close to what most of them would call real. The categories he employs in his analyses are only refinements of the categories by which other men live—pow ...
... insights from their everyday affairs. But it is a rather difficult feat to perform in good faith. The sociologist moves in the common world of men, close to what most of them would call real. The categories he employs in his analyses are only refinements of the categories by which other men live—pow ...
Chapter 1: Sociology: Theory and Method Third Edition
... economy, but also in ideas and values. – In particular Weber argued that Christianity, in the form of the Protestant work ethic, played an important role in the development of capitalism. ...
... economy, but also in ideas and values. – In particular Weber argued that Christianity, in the form of the Protestant work ethic, played an important role in the development of capitalism. ...
Ten Proposals for Restructuring Journal Article Publishing
... knowledge, we know that social structures and institutional routines of production and dissemination are crucial in forming the long-term practices, character, quality, and contribution of any field or discipline. There is more than one way to produce and distribute scholarly knowledge. And differen ...
... knowledge, we know that social structures and institutional routines of production and dissemination are crucial in forming the long-term practices, character, quality, and contribution of any field or discipline. There is more than one way to produce and distribute scholarly knowledge. And differen ...
Understanding The Structure of Social Action - Assets
... Structure, he made it clear that he fully agreed with Weber. To observe Weber’s quest for value neutrality of social science did not mean that sociology should refrain from recognizing the undemocratic nature of authoritarian regimes. He asserted: “By distinguishing politics from sociology, I do not ...
... Structure, he made it clear that he fully agreed with Weber. To observe Weber’s quest for value neutrality of social science did not mean that sociology should refrain from recognizing the undemocratic nature of authoritarian regimes. He asserted: “By distinguishing politics from sociology, I do not ...
History and sociology in Britain: a review article
... Giddens, the most prominent theorist in British sociology today, made his most influential contributions largely through synthesizing and commenting on Continental European social theory.13 Others have done the same for modern American sociology's only theory of "classical" stature—Parsonsian functi ...
... Giddens, the most prominent theorist in British sociology today, made his most influential contributions largely through synthesizing and commenting on Continental European social theory.13 Others have done the same for modern American sociology's only theory of "classical" stature—Parsonsian functi ...
article - Jan Baars, Ph.D.
... eventually be shared by everybody who lives long enough. On the other hand, we know also that institutionalized forms, psychological characteristics (Schaie 1988) and even physiological manifestations of aging (Maddox & Douglas 1974; Dannefer 1987) show considerable variation depending on cultural, ...
... eventually be shared by everybody who lives long enough. On the other hand, we know also that institutionalized forms, psychological characteristics (Schaie 1988) and even physiological manifestations of aging (Maddox & Douglas 1974; Dannefer 1987) show considerable variation depending on cultural, ...
The Sociological Perspective Revisited
... relationship are never as consistent to the extent of mathematical or scientific laws, but they would lead to probability statements that would contribute to useful conclusions. In fact, this new sociology would facilitate scouting reports to promote individual, group and organizational improvements ...
... relationship are never as consistent to the extent of mathematical or scientific laws, but they would lead to probability statements that would contribute to useful conclusions. In fact, this new sociology would facilitate scouting reports to promote individual, group and organizational improvements ...
Wisdom: Object of Study or Basic Aim of Inquiry
... then, there has been an upsurge in scientific research into wisdom.2 Allied to this, no doubt, is the University of Chicago’s Arete Initiative, a $2 million research program on “the nature and benefits of wisdom” which seeks in part to arrive at a definition of wisdom.3 Does this upsurge in scientif ...
... then, there has been an upsurge in scientific research into wisdom.2 Allied to this, no doubt, is the University of Chicago’s Arete Initiative, a $2 million research program on “the nature and benefits of wisdom” which seeks in part to arrive at a definition of wisdom.3 Does this upsurge in scientif ...
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... number of landmark papers on narrative, including ‘Narrative’s moment and sociology’s phenomena: toward a narrative sociology’ (The Sociological Quarterly 34, 1993) and ‘Writing the self vs writing the other: comparing autobiographical and life history data’ (Symbolic Interaction, 24, 2001), he is t ...
... number of landmark papers on narrative, including ‘Narrative’s moment and sociology’s phenomena: toward a narrative sociology’ (The Sociological Quarterly 34, 1993) and ‘Writing the self vs writing the other: comparing autobiographical and life history data’ (Symbolic Interaction, 24, 2001), he is t ...
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Physical Cultural Studies [Redux]
... Thiele’s (2005, p. 214) words regarding the outdated, detached fence straddling position cherished among sociocultural researchers ring true: By taking strong politico-moral stands, the modern sociologists made themselves attractive to a huge audience willing to believe that they were making a contr ...
... Thiele’s (2005, p. 214) words regarding the outdated, detached fence straddling position cherished among sociocultural researchers ring true: By taking strong politico-moral stands, the modern sociologists made themselves attractive to a huge audience willing to believe that they were making a contr ...
theoretical pluralism and sociological theory
... for a third). All of these thinkers are Europeans and none is known for an especially scientific outlook or for conducting anything resembling rigorous scientific research (Bourdieu, however, did a lot of ethnographic work in his early years). Of the list of theorists that respondents were given, tw ...
... for a third). All of these thinkers are Europeans and none is known for an especially scientific outlook or for conducting anything resembling rigorous scientific research (Bourdieu, however, did a lot of ethnographic work in his early years). Of the list of theorists that respondents were given, tw ...
Social studies of social science
... The social sciences are currently going through a reflexive phase, one marked by the appearance of a wave of studies which approach their disciplines’ own methods and research practices as their empirical subject matter. Driven partly by a growing interest in knowledge production and partly by a des ...
... The social sciences are currently going through a reflexive phase, one marked by the appearance of a wave of studies which approach their disciplines’ own methods and research practices as their empirical subject matter. Driven partly by a growing interest in knowledge production and partly by a des ...
Lesson 1 - What is Sociology
... Three revolutions had to take place before the sociological imagination could crystallize: The scientific revolution (16th c.) encouraged the use of evidence to substantiate theories. The democratic revolution (18th c.) encouraged the view that human action can change society. The industrial ...
... Three revolutions had to take place before the sociological imagination could crystallize: The scientific revolution (16th c.) encouraged the use of evidence to substantiate theories. The democratic revolution (18th c.) encouraged the view that human action can change society. The industrial ...
Lesson 1 - What is Sociology
... Three revolutions had to take place before the sociological imagination could crystallize: The scientific revolution (16th c.) encouraged the use of evidence to substantiate theories. The democratic revolution (18th c.) encouraged the view that human action can change society. The industrial ...
... Three revolutions had to take place before the sociological imagination could crystallize: The scientific revolution (16th c.) encouraged the use of evidence to substantiate theories. The democratic revolution (18th c.) encouraged the view that human action can change society. The industrial ...
Lesson 2 – Theories and Theorists How we understand the
... Herbert Spencer was the first great English-speaking sociologist. Spencer was an advocate of the idea of evolution, even before Darwin made it famous and coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.” He believed that societies, like living organisms, evolve through time by adapting to their cha ...
... Herbert Spencer was the first great English-speaking sociologist. Spencer was an advocate of the idea of evolution, even before Darwin made it famous and coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.” He believed that societies, like living organisms, evolve through time by adapting to their cha ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... review (2009). And this is where a review might end, and certainly this is what has been emphasized in other reviews of the book. The book’s more lasting impact, we contend, is to be found in its second half. While the first part redresses the problems of social science research, Latour devotes the ...
... review (2009). And this is where a review might end, and certainly this is what has been emphasized in other reviews of the book. The book’s more lasting impact, we contend, is to be found in its second half. While the first part redresses the problems of social science research, Latour devotes the ...
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 ...
The Impact of Kuhn`s Structure of Scientific Revolutions on
... What are the assumptions of the 'positivists' that sociologists think truncate the set of questions that can be asked about the process of scientific change? First and foremost, it is the assumption that change is necessarily progressive. Another assumption is that the process of change can also be ...
... What are the assumptions of the 'positivists' that sociologists think truncate the set of questions that can be asked about the process of scientific change? First and foremost, it is the assumption that change is necessarily progressive. Another assumption is that the process of change can also be ...