Czech Structuralism in a nutshell
... The difference between the positions of current structuralism and the quoted formalist thesis may be put this way: the “technique of weaving“ is in the focus of interest today. However, it is obvious that one must not exclude consideration of the “situation on the world cotton market“, because the d ...
... The difference between the positions of current structuralism and the quoted formalist thesis may be put this way: the “technique of weaving“ is in the focus of interest today. However, it is obvious that one must not exclude consideration of the “situation on the world cotton market“, because the d ...
Section: Setting the Stage: Past and Future
... Economists have carefully delineated the economic needs and resources of older persons. On the one hand, they observe that the elderly, while living on a lower income, generally have no children living at home, are retired, own their homes, and have expenses that are likely to be lower than the midd ...
... Economists have carefully delineated the economic needs and resources of older persons. On the one hand, they observe that the elderly, while living on a lower income, generally have no children living at home, are retired, own their homes, and have expenses that are likely to be lower than the midd ...
Socio-cultural Aspects of Neo-nationalism in Crisis Contexts
... uncertain, highly diversified, fragmented and fluid (Bauman: 2000), boundary drawing becomes difficult and therefore “must reify difference, essentialise and fix it as rooted in space and for all time” (Edensor 2002: 25). Edensor highlights this globalized context of modern national identities while ...
... uncertain, highly diversified, fragmented and fluid (Bauman: 2000), boundary drawing becomes difficult and therefore “must reify difference, essentialise and fix it as rooted in space and for all time” (Edensor 2002: 25). Edensor highlights this globalized context of modern national identities while ...
`Society Can`t Move So Much As a Chair!`—Systems, Structures and
... of Niklas Luhmann (1984, 1986), which is arguably the most elaborate and powerful social theory building on the concept of autopoiesis. For Luhmann, social systems consist of recursive communication and are thus essentially immaterial. Even human beings (and their mental systems) are not part of soc ...
... of Niklas Luhmann (1984, 1986), which is arguably the most elaborate and powerful social theory building on the concept of autopoiesis. For Luhmann, social systems consist of recursive communication and are thus essentially immaterial. Even human beings (and their mental systems) are not part of soc ...
Measuring Social Capital in the United Kingdom
... The other frameworks were for surveys designed to measure aspects of social capital - the 2001 General Household Survey (GHS), 2000 Health Survey for England and 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey. These frameworks are specified in Annex A and contain dimensions similar to those outlined above. UK ...
... The other frameworks were for surveys designed to measure aspects of social capital - the 2001 General Household Survey (GHS), 2000 Health Survey for England and 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey. These frameworks are specified in Annex A and contain dimensions similar to those outlined above. UK ...
disorder
... Collective Efficacy: the correlation between crime and disorder is a spurious correlation. (Robert Sampson and colleagues: 2002, 2001, 1999) – Some communities are more affected by crime and disorder because they are unable to exercise social control in its limits (collective efficacy). – Studied th ...
... Collective Efficacy: the correlation between crime and disorder is a spurious correlation. (Robert Sampson and colleagues: 2002, 2001, 1999) – Some communities are more affected by crime and disorder because they are unable to exercise social control in its limits (collective efficacy). – Studied th ...
Neighborhood Effects: Accomplishments and Looking Beyond Them
... neighborhood effects, or more generally, of social interactions, poses complex econometric questions. Their resolution may be critical for a multitude of phenomena in economic and social life and for matters of public policy. Broadly speaking, social interactions arise when individuals (or household ...
... neighborhood effects, or more generally, of social interactions, poses complex econometric questions. Their resolution may be critical for a multitude of phenomena in economic and social life and for matters of public policy. Broadly speaking, social interactions arise when individuals (or household ...
Économie solidaire, économie sociale : le cas français
... There is a great temptation, in the name of radicalism and following the example of neoclassical theory, to disclaim or remove the political dimensions from economy. As we know from bad experiences of the last two centuries, to consider social transformation solely in terms of economic practice make ...
... There is a great temptation, in the name of radicalism and following the example of neoclassical theory, to disclaim or remove the political dimensions from economy. As we know from bad experiences of the last two centuries, to consider social transformation solely in terms of economic practice make ...
Post-Classical Political Economy
... ence of interdependencies, for example, voluntary choice alone cannot be trusted to produce efficient outcomes.7 When economists do take social influences seriously, Granovetter argues, they end up at the other extreme, as do many sociologists: with an oversocialized conception of individuals. They ...
... ence of interdependencies, for example, voluntary choice alone cannot be trusted to produce efficient outcomes.7 When economists do take social influences seriously, Granovetter argues, they end up at the other extreme, as do many sociologists: with an oversocialized conception of individuals. They ...
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: An Agentic Perspective
... By regulating their motivation and activities, people produce the experiences that form the functional neurobiological substrate of symbolic, social, psychomotor, and other skills. The nature of these experiences is, of course, heavily dependent on the types of social and physical environments peopl ...
... By regulating their motivation and activities, people produce the experiences that form the functional neurobiological substrate of symbolic, social, psychomotor, and other skills. The nature of these experiences is, of course, heavily dependent on the types of social and physical environments peopl ...
Research Paper Series Thomas Aquinas on Justice as a Global Virtue
... accepted by Thomas, ethical diversity also meets clear „natural‟ limits. Not all variants introduced by circumstance and context are morally acceptable. Thomas points to the acceptance of thievery by some Germanic tribes, for instance, which, in his eyes, is not a legitimate cultural specification o ...
... accepted by Thomas, ethical diversity also meets clear „natural‟ limits. Not all variants introduced by circumstance and context are morally acceptable. Thomas points to the acceptance of thievery by some Germanic tribes, for instance, which, in his eyes, is not a legitimate cultural specification o ...
Mariangela Veikou University of Peloponnese, Greece Images of
... verbal material of the field notes. Images and words ...
... verbal material of the field notes. Images and words ...
cordaid, social entrepreneurship and catholic social thought
... driver of the economy, reducing people and nature to instruments of production used to maximize profits. The consequence is the exploitation of people and nature. By promoting its moral principles, CST is clearly advocating an economy that puts humans and nature in the center and respects human dign ...
... driver of the economy, reducing people and nature to instruments of production used to maximize profits. The consequence is the exploitation of people and nature. By promoting its moral principles, CST is clearly advocating an economy that puts humans and nature in the center and respects human dign ...
Between Culture an Politics - Revista Estudos PolÃticos
... it took place in the large urban centers rather than the countryside where there was no modernization. At this time, the country underwent the process of what would become the framework of classes in the social arena, in a sharper form, as well as the formation of the nation-state in the political a ...
... it took place in the large urban centers rather than the countryside where there was no modernization. At this time, the country underwent the process of what would become the framework of classes in the social arena, in a sharper form, as well as the formation of the nation-state in the political a ...
Exploring reality through new lenses
... he apparently touched something inportant in his contemporary surroundings – Les Essais soon became a model for many writers. Montaigne claimed that personal experience should be the base and point of departure for all true acknowledgement. Leaning to others’ thoughts and experience, as this is expr ...
... he apparently touched something inportant in his contemporary surroundings – Les Essais soon became a model for many writers. Montaigne claimed that personal experience should be the base and point of departure for all true acknowledgement. Leaning to others’ thoughts and experience, as this is expr ...
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... Postmodernity has made possible the undergoing its own transitions as if transfer of money across the earth at in isolation from the globalizing lightning speed. It has also made forces that are at work in the world possible the movement of migrant today. The modern sensibility still workers across ...
... Postmodernity has made possible the undergoing its own transitions as if transfer of money across the earth at in isolation from the globalizing lightning speed. It has also made forces that are at work in the world possible the movement of migrant today. The modern sensibility still workers across ...
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... ized as nonproductive wealth; they produce wealth in the form of money but do not implicate productive labor. They therefore are not part of the mechanism for producing surplus value, but rather enable its distribution. Stocks and derivatives, in Marx’s account, have no “value” per se. At the same t ...
... ized as nonproductive wealth; they produce wealth in the form of money but do not implicate productive labor. They therefore are not part of the mechanism for producing surplus value, but rather enable its distribution. Stocks and derivatives, in Marx’s account, have no “value” per se. At the same t ...