Fuck Nuance - Kieran Healy
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
... wide-ranging. This is a polite way of saying that Sociology is only weakly disciplinary. Interesting work in the field is varied in scope, method, and style. Factions in Sociology have at various times tried to subsume or expel one another, but their successes have never been more than partial and t ...
- Economic Thought
... We endeavour to examine our own conduct as we imagine any other fair and impartial spectator would examine it… We suppose ourselves the spectators of our own behaviour, and endeavour to imagine what effect it would, in this light, produce upon us (Smith, 1759 (1967), III.1.2, p. 110, III.1.5, p. 112 ...
... We endeavour to examine our own conduct as we imagine any other fair and impartial spectator would examine it… We suppose ourselves the spectators of our own behaviour, and endeavour to imagine what effect it would, in this light, produce upon us (Smith, 1759 (1967), III.1.2, p. 110, III.1.5, p. 112 ...
Transitions from an Agrarian to an Industrial Mode of Subsistence
... sustainability as a resource for improving sustainability strategy development, especially the further elaboration and implementation of the European Sustainability Strategy. This requires the creation of a trans-disciplinary project focused on sustainable development, bringing together technical, e ...
... sustainability as a resource for improving sustainability strategy development, especially the further elaboration and implementation of the European Sustainability Strategy. This requires the creation of a trans-disciplinary project focused on sustainable development, bringing together technical, e ...
Czech Structuralism in a nutshell
... Structuralist tendencies in scientific disciplines investigating complex phenomena had one common thesis: they rejected positivist causality, replacing it with the concept of function, i.e they do not attempt to discover the causes of phenomena, but to locate them in a higher entity. The functional ...
... Structuralist tendencies in scientific disciplines investigating complex phenomena had one common thesis: they rejected positivist causality, replacing it with the concept of function, i.e they do not attempt to discover the causes of phenomena, but to locate them in a higher entity. The functional ...
What is the Eros Effect?
... upheavals which dramatically transform established social orders. As I will discuss, the eros effect occurs in moments when the basic assumptions of a society--patriotic nationalism and the authority of the government; hierarchy, the division of labor, and specialization--vanish overnight. During mo ...
... upheavals which dramatically transform established social orders. As I will discuss, the eros effect occurs in moments when the basic assumptions of a society--patriotic nationalism and the authority of the government; hierarchy, the division of labor, and specialization--vanish overnight. During mo ...
The Knowledge Society: Innovation, Multimedia and the Postmodern
... · City-centred regions are the core of the knowledge economy. These social environments are intensively networked, knowledge-rich, organisationally diverse and culturally vibrant. · The role of the government in a small, post-colonial nation is as a negotiator with the agencies of globalisation, and ...
... · City-centred regions are the core of the knowledge economy. These social environments are intensively networked, knowledge-rich, organisationally diverse and culturally vibrant. · The role of the government in a small, post-colonial nation is as a negotiator with the agencies of globalisation, and ...
Socio-cultural Aspects of Neo-nationalism in Crisis Contexts
... Following both Stuart Hall’s conceptualization of identities as “not the so-called return to roots but a coming to terms with our ‘routes’” (Hall 1996: 4) and a social movement theorization of collective identity as a process (as opposed to an essence) which is heavily conditioned by the contingent ...
... Following both Stuart Hall’s conceptualization of identities as “not the so-called return to roots but a coming to terms with our ‘routes’” (Hall 1996: 4) and a social movement theorization of collective identity as a process (as opposed to an essence) which is heavily conditioned by the contingent ...
“Root Causes”
... at the same time a matter of debate whether sweeping explanations of the nature of small, new wars actually risks misconstruing the complexity of the subject under study. As suggested by a number of anthropologist and political scientists of war and political violence it is rather a question of stri ...
... at the same time a matter of debate whether sweeping explanations of the nature of small, new wars actually risks misconstruing the complexity of the subject under study. As suggested by a number of anthropologist and political scientists of war and political violence it is rather a question of stri ...
after the end of theory. Why do Cultural Studies need to be
... cultural studies. The specificity of this discipline lies in the fact that it has never been fully developed. It could be said that its basic state is grounded in the mode of being developed from the beginning. The reasons for this are different: the need to choose the tools to analyze problems that ...
... cultural studies. The specificity of this discipline lies in the fact that it has never been fully developed. It could be said that its basic state is grounded in the mode of being developed from the beginning. The reasons for this are different: the need to choose the tools to analyze problems that ...
Purpose of culture and its relationship to various spheres of
... Teachers understand the notion of „culture” as coherent, harmonious system of knowledge, thinking, feelings, communication and creative constructive activity that has being formed for thousands of years and passed from generation to generation in the process of training and education. Sociological ...
... Teachers understand the notion of „culture” as coherent, harmonious system of knowledge, thinking, feelings, communication and creative constructive activity that has being formed for thousands of years and passed from generation to generation in the process of training and education. Sociological ...
ECONOMIC AGENDA OF THECOMMUNIST PARTIES OF NEPAL A
... third world countries like Nepal, will gain certainly something by the process of globalization. In spite of it they will get mass poverty, depletion of natural resources, heavy burden of loan and so on. Karl Marx, who brought forth new economic principle after criticizing capitalist economic and ea ...
... third world countries like Nepal, will gain certainly something by the process of globalization. In spite of it they will get mass poverty, depletion of natural resources, heavy burden of loan and so on. Karl Marx, who brought forth new economic principle after criticizing capitalist economic and ea ...
The Future of Development Assistance
... (the situation is particularly pitiful in Sub-Saharan Africa). Therefore we are already seeking to answer the questions: „How should we proceed after the year 2015? What should replace the Millennium Development Goals?9 What vision can be credible and feasible?“ There is example from the past which ...
... (the situation is particularly pitiful in Sub-Saharan Africa). Therefore we are already seeking to answer the questions: „How should we proceed after the year 2015? What should replace the Millennium Development Goals?9 What vision can be credible and feasible?“ There is example from the past which ...
Introduction: The spatial turn in social theory
... produced by various ideological mechanisms, such as mainstream literature and popular cinema. Using fringe literary texts that bring to light the hidden experiences of immigrants, the poor and the excluded, Fruchter and Harris challenge the rosy depiction of Toronto and unearth its reality. In the n ...
... produced by various ideological mechanisms, such as mainstream literature and popular cinema. Using fringe literary texts that bring to light the hidden experiences of immigrants, the poor and the excluded, Fruchter and Harris challenge the rosy depiction of Toronto and unearth its reality. In the n ...
Materialized Landscapes of Practice:Exploring Native American
... access to one—the material dimension—in the present day. And it is only by using these material traces in the reconstruction of the past spatial distribution of practices that we can evaluate the specific social and historical context of these practices at different scales of analysis, which in turn ...
... access to one—the material dimension—in the present day. And it is only by using these material traces in the reconstruction of the past spatial distribution of practices that we can evaluate the specific social and historical context of these practices at different scales of analysis, which in turn ...
Crafting Interdisciplinarity in Education Programmes - SADC-REEP
... This paper discusses challenges of an educational program, where interdisciplinarity is an important ambition. A theoretical perspective on interdisciplinarity must be more than adding insights from different disciplines as surprisingly many actors still take it to be. Interdisciplinary candidates m ...
... This paper discusses challenges of an educational program, where interdisciplinarity is an important ambition. A theoretical perspective on interdisciplinarity must be more than adding insights from different disciplines as surprisingly many actors still take it to be. Interdisciplinary candidates m ...