Reconciling behavioural and neoclassical economics - Hal-SHS
... complex models of behavior – neutrally-based descriptions, for example – cannot easily be used to study the behavior of many people interacting. Hence the focus by economists on axiomatic models that provide a reasonable description of particular data while also giving decent results over a broad ra ...
... complex models of behavior – neutrally-based descriptions, for example – cannot easily be used to study the behavior of many people interacting. Hence the focus by economists on axiomatic models that provide a reasonable description of particular data while also giving decent results over a broad ra ...
Using mixed methods for analysing culture: The cultural capital and
... film very often. Given that Bourdieu himself says relatively little about these media, and that these forms of media have become increasingly important, we can draw the conclusion that this field is not marked so clearly by differentiation and discrimination as music, in particular. This confirms th ...
... film very often. Given that Bourdieu himself says relatively little about these media, and that these forms of media have become increasingly important, we can draw the conclusion that this field is not marked so clearly by differentiation and discrimination as music, in particular. This confirms th ...
Where is anthropology? - DAN
... lost its social and cognitive specificity? This seems to be the crux of the current identity crisis of anthropology in the United States. Fortunately, anthropology was never limited to anthropologists and has appeared, in concept and practice, in diverse contexts, under the name of philosophy, soci ...
... lost its social and cognitive specificity? This seems to be the crux of the current identity crisis of anthropology in the United States. Fortunately, anthropology was never limited to anthropologists and has appeared, in concept and practice, in diverse contexts, under the name of philosophy, soci ...
Benjamin_Franks_paper - Anarchist Studies Network
... power (based on wealth), they would not be recognised as an anarchism at all by those constellations of anarchism which place the contestation of such hierarchies at the core of their philosophy. 2.2. The anarchist consequentialist tradition By contrast, the other popular conception of anarchism com ...
... power (based on wealth), they would not be recognised as an anarchism at all by those constellations of anarchism which place the contestation of such hierarchies at the core of their philosophy. 2.2. The anarchist consequentialist tradition By contrast, the other popular conception of anarchism com ...
Postmodernism and Sociology: From the - CJ
... they take questions about modernism raised in architecture, art, and literature and extend them to knowledge and truth. Specifically, poststructuralists critique modern philosophy’s foundationalist approach, break with conventional modes of representation to argue for reality as an effect of languag ...
... they take questions about modernism raised in architecture, art, and literature and extend them to knowledge and truth. Specifically, poststructuralists critique modern philosophy’s foundationalist approach, break with conventional modes of representation to argue for reality as an effect of languag ...
United Nations Research Laboratories: a dead end - Hal-SHS
... before the war. On the contrary, Needham refused to separate science and its applications7. Moreover, for Needham, the utility of an international organization for science was mostly grounded in countries remote from industrially developed zones. The more remote you are from the main scientific cent ...
... before the war. On the contrary, Needham refused to separate science and its applications7. Moreover, for Needham, the utility of an international organization for science was mostly grounded in countries remote from industrially developed zones. The more remote you are from the main scientific cent ...
Theories of Development
... Resilience: the complexities of heredity and environment. Masten believes that resilience is a normal developmental process of adaptation. Characteristics would be heredity (intelligence and personality and intelligence) and family and/or community rearing ...
... Resilience: the complexities of heredity and environment. Masten believes that resilience is a normal developmental process of adaptation. Characteristics would be heredity (intelligence and personality and intelligence) and family and/or community rearing ...
CHAPTER 4 REMOTE AND INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT
... As the world continues to shrink and the people in the far corners of the earth are increasingly influencing each other in various ways, there is a need for increased planned communication amongst members of various nations and cultures. The world has developed into a global village with global citi ...
... As the world continues to shrink and the people in the far corners of the earth are increasingly influencing each other in various ways, there is a need for increased planned communication amongst members of various nations and cultures. The world has developed into a global village with global citi ...
Explaining National Identity: From Group Attachments to
... Thus, ingroup-favoring bias is a robust phenomenon. The desire to form groups and to differentiate them from others is so strong that it is easily activated under a variety of conditions (Horowitz, 1999). However, its prevalence does not in itself offer an explanation for its occurrence. It may be ...
... Thus, ingroup-favoring bias is a robust phenomenon. The desire to form groups and to differentiate them from others is so strong that it is easily activated under a variety of conditions (Horowitz, 1999). However, its prevalence does not in itself offer an explanation for its occurrence. It may be ...
Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
... unwillingness to accept centralized power structures uncritically, a concern with apparently insoluble problems of famine and impoverishment, with the political transformation of former colonies, and with the changing nature of American and Western European world dominance. However that may be, the ...
... unwillingness to accept centralized power structures uncritically, a concern with apparently insoluble problems of famine and impoverishment, with the political transformation of former colonies, and with the changing nature of American and Western European world dominance. However that may be, the ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and WTO create an over-lapping and inter-locking web that effectively covers all developing countries. The United Nations has been restructured and systematically disempowered since the early 1980s. At that time, the South was asserting its right to reor ...
... International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and WTO create an over-lapping and inter-locking web that effectively covers all developing countries. The United Nations has been restructured and systematically disempowered since the early 1980s. At that time, the South was asserting its right to reor ...
Destabilizing Social Communication Theory
... is unproblematic: people interact all the time. However, this is not the end of the story, since the term is more often than not accompanied by strong claims. It is taken as a synonym for generalized modes of interaction, and often modelled as dialogue, dialogism or exchange of meaning. These models ...
... is unproblematic: people interact all the time. However, this is not the end of the story, since the term is more often than not accompanied by strong claims. It is taken as a synonym for generalized modes of interaction, and often modelled as dialogue, dialogism or exchange of meaning. These models ...
Digital Methods for Web Research
... subject of a social science approach, in the computational turn, called virtual methods. While digital methods seek to make use of the methods of the medium, virtual methods migrate the social science instrumentarium online, such as online surveys. The transition of the methods online varies in smoo ...
... subject of a social science approach, in the computational turn, called virtual methods. While digital methods seek to make use of the methods of the medium, virtual methods migrate the social science instrumentarium online, such as online surveys. The transition of the methods online varies in smoo ...
Inventing Imaginary Societies
... economics had. Building on Adam Smith’s assumptions about human nature, neoclassical economists assumed that individuals were utility maximizers and that firms always maximize profit. Thus the concept of the ‘free market’ was central in neoclassical economics. Prices were seen as the mechanism of al ...
... economics had. Building on Adam Smith’s assumptions about human nature, neoclassical economists assumed that individuals were utility maximizers and that firms always maximize profit. Thus the concept of the ‘free market’ was central in neoclassical economics. Prices were seen as the mechanism of al ...
Federalism and Its Discontents - Foundation for Law, Justice and
... number of variables. The proposed causal relationship, the literature review on existing analyses, the theoretical reasoning, the research design, and subsequent findings are then subjected to peer review. Applied social science, on the other hand, is about ‘solving’ practical political problems thr ...
... number of variables. The proposed causal relationship, the literature review on existing analyses, the theoretical reasoning, the research design, and subsequent findings are then subjected to peer review. Applied social science, on the other hand, is about ‘solving’ practical political problems thr ...
