Aalborg Universitet Field Theory in Cultural Capital Studies of Educational Attainment
... actually engage with cultural capital theory, quantitative studies of educational achievement will need to focus less on isolated effects of individual resources and more on the social structure of resources and how these resources are invested, reconverted, and reproduced as capital. We are not the ...
... actually engage with cultural capital theory, quantitative studies of educational achievement will need to focus less on isolated effects of individual resources and more on the social structure of resources and how these resources are invested, reconverted, and reproduced as capital. We are not the ...
Toward a social responsibility theory for educational research (in
... And ever since now and then my academic belief system seems to suffer from stress. Why is it I ask myself, that I feel uncomfortable when these colleagues talk most of the times in a rhetorical manner about their own or others‟ scientific beliefs and assumptions? To cope with and to learn from my co ...
... And ever since now and then my academic belief system seems to suffer from stress. Why is it I ask myself, that I feel uncomfortable when these colleagues talk most of the times in a rhetorical manner about their own or others‟ scientific beliefs and assumptions? To cope with and to learn from my co ...
Social exclusion and rural development
... Conventional economic theory assumes that all markets are “Walrasian,” in the sense that individuals can buy or sell a good or a service as much as they want at the prevailing market price. In such markets, rationing operates through prices, and the amount to be exchanges is just a matter of money. ...
... Conventional economic theory assumes that all markets are “Walrasian,” in the sense that individuals can buy or sell a good or a service as much as they want at the prevailing market price. In such markets, rationing operates through prices, and the amount to be exchanges is just a matter of money. ...
Justice Criminology and Criminal
... and other disciplines intervene in public life, they need to do so in ways that remain embedded in academic formative intentions and processes, and retain an overriding interest in the production of knowledge. Yet this is not, as we hope to make clearer below, in any sense an argument that scholarsh ...
... and other disciplines intervene in public life, they need to do so in ways that remain embedded in academic formative intentions and processes, and retain an overriding interest in the production of knowledge. Yet this is not, as we hope to make clearer below, in any sense an argument that scholarsh ...
Lecture 4: Power of Values and the Process of Value Realization
... 2. The Charter embraces the high purpose of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war. When this precept is seen in the light of organized crime syndicates’ involvement in the illicit shipment of arms, the possibility that they might have access to nuclear weapons technologies, and chemi ...
... 2. The Charter embraces the high purpose of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war. When this precept is seen in the light of organized crime syndicates’ involvement in the illicit shipment of arms, the possibility that they might have access to nuclear weapons technologies, and chemi ...
Causal Mechanisms in Comparative Historical Sociology
... causal mechanisms through which the first kind brings about the second kind. What, though, is the nature of the relations that constitute causal mechanisms among social phenomena? I argue for a microfoundational approach to social causation: the causal properties of social entities derive from the s ...
... causal mechanisms through which the first kind brings about the second kind. What, though, is the nature of the relations that constitute causal mechanisms among social phenomena? I argue for a microfoundational approach to social causation: the causal properties of social entities derive from the s ...
Rawls Lecture Notes
... utilitarianism and its variants (welfarism, rational choice theory, economics) Minor form included certain moralistic doctrines which tried to bring justice relations into focus as moral relations (utilitarianism, deontology). ...
... utilitarianism and its variants (welfarism, rational choice theory, economics) Minor form included certain moralistic doctrines which tried to bring justice relations into focus as moral relations (utilitarianism, deontology). ...
What is the Hegelian Dialectic?
... Already gaining substantial ground against the Americans, British Marxism was bolstered when Charles Darwin published his theory of human evolution in 1859. Engels, according to modern day scholars, seized upon Darwin's theory to substantiate communism: "When Marx read The Origin of Species he wrote ...
... Already gaining substantial ground against the Americans, British Marxism was bolstered when Charles Darwin published his theory of human evolution in 1859. Engels, according to modern day scholars, seized upon Darwin's theory to substantiate communism: "When Marx read The Origin of Species he wrote ...
Nikolas Rose Critical History and Psychology
... How might one do a history of such a complex of thought and action? I would like to propose some criteria for a "critical" history of psychology. Such a critical history of psychology can, crudely, be distinguished from two other kinds of history of psychology: "recurrent" histories and "critiques". ...
... How might one do a history of such a complex of thought and action? I would like to propose some criteria for a "critical" history of psychology. Such a critical history of psychology can, crudely, be distinguished from two other kinds of history of psychology: "recurrent" histories and "critiques". ...
THE NEW SOCIAL POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
... areas as education and vocational training, health and community development. The result is the multiplication of interface situations at which government agencies, NGOs, community organizations and people in the community come into contact and, at times, confrontation over social policy and at whic ...
... areas as education and vocational training, health and community development. The result is the multiplication of interface situations at which government agencies, NGOs, community organizations and people in the community come into contact and, at times, confrontation over social policy and at whic ...
Social Responsibilities of Corporations
... on the concept of social justice and the intention of regarding law as a tool for social reform, and is conducted with public interest lawyers and public interest law organizations as the subject. Since public interest prosecution emerges along with public interest lawyers and public interest law or ...
... on the concept of social justice and the intention of regarding law as a tool for social reform, and is conducted with public interest lawyers and public interest law organizations as the subject. Since public interest prosecution emerges along with public interest lawyers and public interest law or ...
16. A Reflexive Methodology of Intervention
... forward a third definition. Here, the use of the word reflexivity only makes sense if it makes a difference to recursiveness and reflectiveness individually – and integrates them as necessary complements of one another. As a term that integrates a system- and a subject-perspective, reflexivity means ...
... forward a third definition. Here, the use of the word reflexivity only makes sense if it makes a difference to recursiveness and reflectiveness individually – and integrates them as necessary complements of one another. As a term that integrates a system- and a subject-perspective, reflexivity means ...
THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF IDEOLOGY (1940-60
... the point where Engels approached what can be termed either a vulgar Marxist or a revisionist position (depending upon one’s viewpoint). Marx was influenced by the interest theory of the philosophical materialists of the French enlightenment, but the theory of interests remains one of the unspecifi ...
... the point where Engels approached what can be termed either a vulgar Marxist or a revisionist position (depending upon one’s viewpoint). Marx was influenced by the interest theory of the philosophical materialists of the French enlightenment, but the theory of interests remains one of the unspecifi ...
SOCial NEurOSCiENCE: ThE fOOTPriNTS Of PhiNEaS gagE
... The social sciences got their official start in the 19th century, as August Comte invented sociology and foresaw the emergence of a “true final science”—which he refused to call psychology, on the grounds that the psychology of his time was too metaphysical (Allport, 1954). His preferred term was la ...
... The social sciences got their official start in the 19th century, as August Comte invented sociology and foresaw the emergence of a “true final science”—which he refused to call psychology, on the grounds that the psychology of his time was too metaphysical (Allport, 1954). His preferred term was la ...
Values in science: Cognitive-affective maps
... basic research about fundamental psychological and neural processes, on the one hand, and applied research aimed at improving practices in education, mental health, and other areas relevant to human wellbeing. Should scientists take into account their own professional success in deciding what resear ...
... basic research about fundamental psychological and neural processes, on the one hand, and applied research aimed at improving practices in education, mental health, and other areas relevant to human wellbeing. Should scientists take into account their own professional success in deciding what resear ...
The historicity of human geography
... written, ’Evolution may be considered as a fairly straightforward metaphysical theory with a long history which was not so much confirmed by the theory of natural selection as embarrassed by it’ (Peckham, in Campbell and Livingstone, 1983: 288). Nevertheless, many evolutionary models in modern geogr ...
... written, ’Evolution may be considered as a fairly straightforward metaphysical theory with a long history which was not so much confirmed by the theory of natural selection as embarrassed by it’ (Peckham, in Campbell and Livingstone, 1983: 288). Nevertheless, many evolutionary models in modern geogr ...