Positivism, Postmodernism, or Critical Theory? A Case Study of
... Critical theory is materialistic in the sense that it addresses phenomena and problems not in terms of absolute ideas and predetermined societal development, but in terms of resource distribution and social struggles. Reality is seen in terms that address ownership, private property, resource distri ...
... Critical theory is materialistic in the sense that it addresses phenomena and problems not in terms of absolute ideas and predetermined societal development, but in terms of resource distribution and social struggles. Reality is seen in terms that address ownership, private property, resource distri ...
Experiments in Context and Contexting
... else. There is a richness in the world that is already there for us to read and trace, if we only take our time to read or to follow. Sadly and paradoxically, this irreductionist program has sometimes tended to be, precisely, reduced. Actor-network theory, which is a better known labeling of the irr ...
... else. There is a richness in the world that is already there for us to read and trace, if we only take our time to read or to follow. Sadly and paradoxically, this irreductionist program has sometimes tended to be, precisely, reduced. Actor-network theory, which is a better known labeling of the irr ...
National education policy constructions of the `knowledge economy
... • the full-employment society was becoming the part-employment society; • ‘labour’ and ‘manual skills’ were yielding to ‘knowledge’ as the basis for new business and new work; • ‘industry’ was declining and ‘services’ were growing in importance; • ‘hierarchies’ and ‘bureaucracies’ were losing appeal ...
... • the full-employment society was becoming the part-employment society; • ‘labour’ and ‘manual skills’ were yielding to ‘knowledge’ as the basis for new business and new work; • ‘industry’ was declining and ‘services’ were growing in importance; • ‘hierarchies’ and ‘bureaucracies’ were losing appeal ...
Rationality, ideology, and morality in Marx`s social theory
... and not that of the worker, its immediate producer.9 Capital also developed into a coercive relation, and this compels the working class to do more work than would be required by the narrow circle of its own needs. As an agent in producing the activity of others, as an extractor of surplus labour an ...
... and not that of the worker, its immediate producer.9 Capital also developed into a coercive relation, and this compels the working class to do more work than would be required by the narrow circle of its own needs. As an agent in producing the activity of others, as an extractor of surplus labour an ...
Chicano Social Work: A Critical Analysis
... concepts such as resignation, fatalism, or "traditional culture." The task for Chicanos, according to these critics, was to enter academia to redefine the Mexican-American through the articulation of culture, history, and socio-political self-view, and to work toward empowerment and liberation. This ...
... concepts such as resignation, fatalism, or "traditional culture." The task for Chicanos, according to these critics, was to enter academia to redefine the Mexican-American through the articulation of culture, history, and socio-political self-view, and to work toward empowerment and liberation. This ...
Floating high
... and capital. It assumes that the model is built on a basic compromise between the interests of employers and employees, in which a strong labor movement has pressed employers to make political and economic concessions – historically to stop ideological contagion from the Soviet Union. This capital-a ...
... and capital. It assumes that the model is built on a basic compromise between the interests of employers and employees, in which a strong labor movement has pressed employers to make political and economic concessions – historically to stop ideological contagion from the Soviet Union. This capital-a ...
For a Relational Musicology - American Musicological Society
... Is there something especially complex about music as an object in the world, and as an object of study? In this article I offer some new perspectives on these old questions, and I will twice answer ‘yes’. But this complexity does not excuse us from the imperative to advance the intellectual framewor ...
... Is there something especially complex about music as an object in the world, and as an object of study? In this article I offer some new perspectives on these old questions, and I will twice answer ‘yes’. But this complexity does not excuse us from the imperative to advance the intellectual framewor ...
Territorial Capital and Regional Growth
... organizations such as universities will generate entrepreneurial opportunities, because not all of the new knowledge will be pursued and commercialized by the incumbent firms. The knowledge filter (Acs et al. 2004) refers to the extent that new knowledge remains un-commercialized by the organization ...
... organizations such as universities will generate entrepreneurial opportunities, because not all of the new knowledge will be pursued and commercialized by the incumbent firms. The knowledge filter (Acs et al. 2004) refers to the extent that new knowledge remains un-commercialized by the organization ...
The Qualitative Foundations of Political Science Methodology
... Social Science. The first section critiques mainstream quantitative approaches in social science, which are contrasted with case-oriented research. As he did in The Comparative Method, Ragin takes aim in particular at the assumption in statistical inference of unit homogeneity and additive causation ...
... Social Science. The first section critiques mainstream quantitative approaches in social science, which are contrasted with case-oriented research. As he did in The Comparative Method, Ragin takes aim in particular at the assumption in statistical inference of unit homogeneity and additive causation ...
fallkinship
... can anything worthwhile be said on the matter. Later, kinship came to be subsumed more and more under studies into gender, personhood, the body, ritual etc. – something re ecting this very same anti-formalist tendency. (: : :) quite a number of anthropologists, refusing to be either seduced or brow ...
... can anything worthwhile be said on the matter. Later, kinship came to be subsumed more and more under studies into gender, personhood, the body, ritual etc. – something re ecting this very same anti-formalist tendency. (: : :) quite a number of anthropologists, refusing to be either seduced or brow ...
Working Paper Number 107 Does it matter that we don`t agree on
... updated his minimum requirements for people to be non-poor to include having a bath and a garden. Sen has pointed out that even if requirements can be set as absolute in terms of needs anchored to some standards with intrinsic value, they would generally need to be interpreted as relative in terms o ...
... updated his minimum requirements for people to be non-poor to include having a bath and a garden. Sen has pointed out that even if requirements can be set as absolute in terms of needs anchored to some standards with intrinsic value, they would generally need to be interpreted as relative in terms o ...
The Effect of Globalization on International Trade: The Black Sea
... evolve the organization into a stronger form of integration. However the uncertainties encountered by the exSoviet Bloc members and newly independent states, the BSEC did not start off by requiring strong commitments from its members towards any kind of economic integration and it was later agreed t ...
... evolve the organization into a stronger form of integration. However the uncertainties encountered by the exSoviet Bloc members and newly independent states, the BSEC did not start off by requiring strong commitments from its members towards any kind of economic integration and it was later agreed t ...
