Article - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
... loosely defined normative1 concept and, as such, is used with differing meanings in accordance with rather ambiguous definitions. A clear definition of what constitutes its essence seems to be lacking in most documents on the subject, while a review of the most important of these documents reveals, ...
... loosely defined normative1 concept and, as such, is used with differing meanings in accordance with rather ambiguous definitions. A clear definition of what constitutes its essence seems to be lacking in most documents on the subject, while a review of the most important of these documents reveals, ...
The Economic Approach to the Social Sciences – Scope and
... One can never know for sure ex-ante that the respective actors will indeed agree ex-post.. How does the change of preferences come about? (by “brainwashing”?) Justification of public intervention based on non-rationality is not in accordance with the economic approach ! However: There may exist a ...
... One can never know for sure ex-ante that the respective actors will indeed agree ex-post.. How does the change of preferences come about? (by “brainwashing”?) Justification of public intervention based on non-rationality is not in accordance with the economic approach ! However: There may exist a ...
Liberal International Relations Theory
... relations at the center of world politics. It is based on the fundamental premise that a critical causal factor influencing a state’s behavior is the relationship between the state and the domestic and transnational society in which it is embedded. This basic insight can be restated in terms of the ...
... relations at the center of world politics. It is based on the fundamental premise that a critical causal factor influencing a state’s behavior is the relationship between the state and the domestic and transnational society in which it is embedded. This basic insight can be restated in terms of the ...
The historicity of human geography
... bequeath an immutable legacy, if only because history is continually rewritten by its inheritors. And, as David Lowenthal remarks, ’The contingent and discontinuous facts of the past become intelligible only when woven together as stories’ (Lowenthal, 1985: 218). History is only lived once, but hist ...
... bequeath an immutable legacy, if only because history is continually rewritten by its inheritors. And, as David Lowenthal remarks, ’The contingent and discontinuous facts of the past become intelligible only when woven together as stories’ (Lowenthal, 1985: 218). History is only lived once, but hist ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change is very different in different countries, but also, and above all, to our societies. ...
... globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change is very different in different countries, but also, and above all, to our societies. ...
theoretical framework and genesis of cultural materialism
... of material factors (not just economic ones, but demographic and climate as well), like true Marxist historical materialism, Annales School highlighted the lack of attention to the effects of consciousness on the historical process. However, in other social sciences, besides historical ones, researc ...
... of material factors (not just economic ones, but demographic and climate as well), like true Marxist historical materialism, Annales School highlighted the lack of attention to the effects of consciousness on the historical process. However, in other social sciences, besides historical ones, researc ...
A polylogue? Where and how to move with and in
... embodied life. We don’t just exchange positional statements with each other, but we participate with others in a world that is both ’shared’ and intimately our own. For Bakhtin dialogicality belongs to the domain of lived experience and if dialogicality is therefore a phenomenological notion, it is ...
... embodied life. We don’t just exchange positional statements with each other, but we participate with others in a world that is both ’shared’ and intimately our own. For Bakhtin dialogicality belongs to the domain of lived experience and if dialogicality is therefore a phenomenological notion, it is ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
Fighting Precarity with Co
... version of capitalism became visible, not only in the form of economic crisis but also through an increasing dissatisfaction of people with hierarchical social structures, Fordist control and inflexibility at the workplace, global inequality and gender injustice, among others. It is in this context ...
... version of capitalism became visible, not only in the form of economic crisis but also through an increasing dissatisfaction of people with hierarchical social structures, Fordist control and inflexibility at the workplace, global inequality and gender injustice, among others. It is in this context ...
Lecture 6: The Sociology of Anomie
... Durkheim argued that the condition of anomie could explain at least three kinds of suicidal phenomena. First, in historical data on suicide rates in Europe, Durkheim found that sharp increases or decreases in the economic prosperity of a society were associated with increasing rates of suicide. Suic ...
... Durkheim argued that the condition of anomie could explain at least three kinds of suicidal phenomena. First, in historical data on suicide rates in Europe, Durkheim found that sharp increases or decreases in the economic prosperity of a society were associated with increasing rates of suicide. Suic ...
