on some peculiarities of sociological knowledge constructing
... In this article some problems concerning the reliability of sociological knowledge will be discussed. This problem is of current interest in sociology because some opinions concerning the problem of reliability of sociological knowledge sometimes lead to the question: whether the sociology does exis ...
... In this article some problems concerning the reliability of sociological knowledge will be discussed. This problem is of current interest in sociology because some opinions concerning the problem of reliability of sociological knowledge sometimes lead to the question: whether the sociology does exis ...
learn more - Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D.
... neglect that major task, if we refuse the challenge to answer these questions, we shall forfeit our birthright and degenerate into congeries of rival sects and specialized researchers who will learn more and more about less and less."5 Social work has yet to begin the critical examination of logical ...
... neglect that major task, if we refuse the challenge to answer these questions, we shall forfeit our birthright and degenerate into congeries of rival sects and specialized researchers who will learn more and more about less and less."5 Social work has yet to begin the critical examination of logical ...
Level Sociology
... 1. A perspective can be defined as a way of looking at and seeing something. To have a perspective, therefore, means to look at something (whatever that thing might be) in a particular way. For sociologists, the thing we are looking at is the social world - in effect, the various ways that human bei ...
... 1. A perspective can be defined as a way of looking at and seeing something. To have a perspective, therefore, means to look at something (whatever that thing might be) in a particular way. For sociologists, the thing we are looking at is the social world - in effect, the various ways that human bei ...
American Social Science: The Irrelevance of Pragmatism
... with the maturation of the distinct social sciences. Explaining the emergence of the disciplines, then, takes the form of showing how pathfinders, interested in constituting analogues to the successful modern natural sciences, broke from the “prescientific” past and established restricted domains fo ...
... with the maturation of the distinct social sciences. Explaining the emergence of the disciplines, then, takes the form of showing how pathfinders, interested in constituting analogues to the successful modern natural sciences, broke from the “prescientific” past and established restricted domains fo ...
Physics - Amazon S3
... academic discipline: Plato and Aristotle, Confucius, Khaldun, and Voltaire all set the stage for modern sociology. (Photos (a),(b),(d) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; Photo (c) courtesy of Moumou82/Wikimedia Commons) ...
... academic discipline: Plato and Aristotle, Confucius, Khaldun, and Voltaire all set the stage for modern sociology. (Photos (a),(b),(d) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; Photo (c) courtesy of Moumou82/Wikimedia Commons) ...
Gender in the Substance of Chemistry, Part 2: An Agenda for Theory
... their content. My central claim is that one should be looking for general metaphysical principles which serve as the conceptual foundation for the scientific theory, and which, in other contexts, constitute the philosophical foundations of a worldview that legitimates social inequalities. Because of ...
... their content. My central claim is that one should be looking for general metaphysical principles which serve as the conceptual foundation for the scientific theory, and which, in other contexts, constitute the philosophical foundations of a worldview that legitimates social inequalities. Because of ...
THE SOCIOLOGY – FACING THE NON
... interference. The intensification of changes undoubtedly charts certain social fields, but on the other hand, the multiplication of mediators and the emergence of many new ‘global’ players make the differentiation of these spheres increasingly difficult. On the surface this process is expressed in c ...
... interference. The intensification of changes undoubtedly charts certain social fields, but on the other hand, the multiplication of mediators and the emergence of many new ‘global’ players make the differentiation of these spheres increasingly difficult. On the surface this process is expressed in c ...
Sociology: From Science to Pseudoscience
... Sir Karl came to the rescue of science based on inductivism. Popper argued that a theory could not be tested or verified by inductive logic as the very process of producing a theory, as shown above, to explain the observed “facts”, was its own proof. But without really abandoning the positivist ways ...
... Sir Karl came to the rescue of science based on inductivism. Popper argued that a theory could not be tested or verified by inductive logic as the very process of producing a theory, as shown above, to explain the observed “facts”, was its own proof. But without really abandoning the positivist ways ...
Introduction to Industrial Sociology
... study of human relations as they grow and operate in the field of industries. It deals with the sociological concepts that have relevance to industry. It also focuses on the social organizations of the work place/industry. It studies the patterns of interaction between people in terms of their ...
... study of human relations as they grow and operate in the field of industries. It deals with the sociological concepts that have relevance to industry. It also focuses on the social organizations of the work place/industry. It studies the patterns of interaction between people in terms of their ...
The Debate transcribed in English
... Last July, the 10th International Sociology Congress was dedicated to the ‘Relations between psychology and sociology’. Following on from this theme, we have chosen to dedicate a series of conferences to the ‘Relations between sociology and other social sciences and auxiliary disciplines’ in the com ...
... Last July, the 10th International Sociology Congress was dedicated to the ‘Relations between psychology and sociology’. Following on from this theme, we have chosen to dedicate a series of conferences to the ‘Relations between sociology and other social sciences and auxiliary disciplines’ in the com ...
Experience and Sociology Mariam Fraser PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE
... programme, which aims to 'transform Islam from within'. Or that the relation between religion, education and the empirical is not, often, or even usually, deeply problematic (one need only consider creationism in this context, and/or the claim that the empirical is a betrayal of religious faith). I ...
... programme, which aims to 'transform Islam from within'. Or that the relation between religion, education and the empirical is not, often, or even usually, deeply problematic (one need only consider creationism in this context, and/or the claim that the empirical is a betrayal of religious faith). I ...
OVERCOMING OBJECTIONS TO OPEN
... Having said that, endorsing replication initiatives because of economics envy would obviously be no better than resisting them because of economics envy. Whatever one’s feelings about “positivism,” many research questions in the discipline are indeed posed as having answers, with researchers exerti ...
... Having said that, endorsing replication initiatives because of economics envy would obviously be no better than resisting them because of economics envy. Whatever one’s feelings about “positivism,” many research questions in the discipline are indeed posed as having answers, with researchers exerti ...
One More Turn after the Social Turn: Easing Science Studies into
... which philosophy of science had been carried on in the Anglo-American tradition before we begun to work. When, for instance, Harry Collins added to the gravitation waves, animals such as replication, negotiation, styles, coresets, and authority, philosophers of science mistook that zoo for the socia ...
... which philosophy of science had been carried on in the Anglo-American tradition before we begun to work. When, for instance, Harry Collins added to the gravitation waves, animals such as replication, negotiation, styles, coresets, and authority, philosophers of science mistook that zoo for the socia ...
A Different Society Altogether - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... a generalization of the findings to a population. Even though they might give us different “societies” as a result, they are mainly understood in terms of epistemology, the way we extract knowledge about our object of study. The critique levelled at sociology in this book is not so much concerned wi ...
... a generalization of the findings to a population. Even though they might give us different “societies” as a result, they are mainly understood in terms of epistemology, the way we extract knowledge about our object of study. The critique levelled at sociology in this book is not so much concerned wi ...
Modern social system theory and the sociology of science
... constructions based on hypotheses which demand further empirical verification. Luhmann’s theoretical conclusions are based much more on the generalization of a set of crossed evidences stemming from various domains of sociological and historical observations than on a priori transcedental assumption ...
... constructions based on hypotheses which demand further empirical verification. Luhmann’s theoretical conclusions are based much more on the generalization of a set of crossed evidences stemming from various domains of sociological and historical observations than on a priori transcedental assumption ...
Introduction to Sociology Year 11 to 12
... believes in men having multiple wives while another culture does not, social psychology would study how the individual people within a marriage feel about their partner. So basically sociology looks at the 'big picture' on the group level, while social psychology studies the attitudes or feelings of ...
... believes in men having multiple wives while another culture does not, social psychology would study how the individual people within a marriage feel about their partner. So basically sociology looks at the 'big picture' on the group level, while social psychology studies the attitudes or feelings of ...
Book Prospectus - Stanford University
... But some humanities fields – namely art, modern Western language and literature, philology and linguistics, history, modern non-Western language and literature – are better able than others to adapt to the modern assertion of integrated systems. One adaptation occurs in subject matter, in changes to ...
... But some humanities fields – namely art, modern Western language and literature, philology and linguistics, history, modern non-Western language and literature – are better able than others to adapt to the modern assertion of integrated systems. One adaptation occurs in subject matter, in changes to ...
CHAPTER 1 The Sociological Point of View
... Answer 3 of the following 5 questions. 1) How did Max Weber’s approach (perspective) to sociology differ from that of Comte, Spence, Marx, and Durkheim? 2) Explain how the focus of Sociology is both different and similar to the focus of the other Social Sciences. You must address at least 4 other So ...
... Answer 3 of the following 5 questions. 1) How did Max Weber’s approach (perspective) to sociology differ from that of Comte, Spence, Marx, and Durkheim? 2) Explain how the focus of Sociology is both different and similar to the focus of the other Social Sciences. You must address at least 4 other So ...
Beyond the Comtean Schema: The Sociology of Culture and
... break with long-entrenched anti-cognitive, dualistic, anti-mentalistic (and, ultimately, anti-naturalistic) prejudices inherited from the both the classical Descartian and Kantian traditions as well as post-Wittgensteinian approaches to the “Philosophy of Mind and Action.”6 While today the Philosoph ...
... break with long-entrenched anti-cognitive, dualistic, anti-mentalistic (and, ultimately, anti-naturalistic) prejudices inherited from the both the classical Descartian and Kantian traditions as well as post-Wittgensteinian approaches to the “Philosophy of Mind and Action.”6 While today the Philosoph ...
The Hybridization of Social Science Knowledge
... was Karl Jaspers, but he was a philosopher (Mommsen & Osterhammel, 1987). As was noted by Raymond Aron, each of the three great sociologists-Weber, Durkheim, Pareto-followed a “solitary path.” Many examples could be cited of scholars co-existing in the same discipline without influencing one another ...
... was Karl Jaspers, but he was a philosopher (Mommsen & Osterhammel, 1987). As was noted by Raymond Aron, each of the three great sociologists-Weber, Durkheim, Pareto-followed a “solitary path.” Many examples could be cited of scholars co-existing in the same discipline without influencing one another ...
knowledge, sociology of
... matter extends beyond the problem of relativism and the social location of ideas and ideologies. Prominent among its current themes are the ‘‘local’’ features of knowledges and the study of their functions in everyday life. This redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to th ...
... matter extends beyond the problem of relativism and the social location of ideas and ideologies. Prominent among its current themes are the ‘‘local’’ features of knowledges and the study of their functions in everyday life. This redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to th ...
D S T
... product of the meanings we attach to the world? The answer seems to be: both, and neither. A relational sociology claims that the social is made up of networks of relationships, which constrain individuals but are inseparable from them. In the process, relational sociology rejects a whole series of ...
... product of the meanings we attach to the world? The answer seems to be: both, and neither. A relational sociology claims that the social is made up of networks of relationships, which constrain individuals but are inseparable from them. In the process, relational sociology rejects a whole series of ...
Sociological Amnesia - Herbert J. Gans Online
... Under such conditions, noncumulation may be occupationally extremely useful. Sociology, like much of the rest of the academic piecework industry, puts a high value on originality; forgetting the past is functional for increasing (artificially to be sure) the number of original findings, and the numb ...
... Under such conditions, noncumulation may be occupationally extremely useful. Sociology, like much of the rest of the academic piecework industry, puts a high value on originality; forgetting the past is functional for increasing (artificially to be sure) the number of original findings, and the numb ...
What is Sociology and How Can I Use It?
... can I do with this stuff?” It’s a good question, and one with a good answer. Let’s look at how sociology can be used. All sciences have at least two thrusts: basic (some people like to call this “pure”) and applied. In basic science, the goal is to produce good theory. You are probably saying, “Theo ...
... can I do with this stuff?” It’s a good question, and one with a good answer. Let’s look at how sociology can be used. All sciences have at least two thrusts: basic (some people like to call this “pure”) and applied. In basic science, the goal is to produce good theory. You are probably saying, “Theo ...
