Constructed Worlds, Contested Truths Maria BaghraMian
... or interests, we might well have built a different kind of thing, or built this one differently. The inevitable contrast is with a naturally existing object, something that exists independently of us and which we did not have a hand in shaping2. ...
... or interests, we might well have built a different kind of thing, or built this one differently. The inevitable contrast is with a naturally existing object, something that exists independently of us and which we did not have a hand in shaping2. ...
Department of Anthropology ANTH 4400E-001: ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT
... (epistemology) and the status of superficially incommensurable belief systems as reality (ontology). Do not panic. These terms will make sense as we discuss the readings if they do not already. The reading of these ethnographies will set up the second term work of integrating interdisciplinary theor ...
... (epistemology) and the status of superficially incommensurable belief systems as reality (ontology). Do not panic. These terms will make sense as we discuss the readings if they do not already. The reading of these ethnographies will set up the second term work of integrating interdisciplinary theor ...
The Social - Duke Sociology
... • What is the social foundation for rights, according to JR? This ties directly to questions of “legitimate rights” • Why doesn’t “Might make right”? Do you believe this argument? Why/Why not? • What, in general, is the meaing of a “social contract”? • Why does the social contract make revolution po ...
... • What is the social foundation for rights, according to JR? This ties directly to questions of “legitimate rights” • Why doesn’t “Might make right”? Do you believe this argument? Why/Why not? • What, in general, is the meaing of a “social contract”? • Why does the social contract make revolution po ...
Ensuring Human Rights of All Migrants, Social Inclusion and Non
... and thus their ability to provide for their livelihood and thus a sustainable life. And that very idea of involuntary return and “reintegration” into a third country where a migrant has never been “integrated” but has only transited through is nonsensical and incompatible with fundamental rights. St ...
... and thus their ability to provide for their livelihood and thus a sustainable life. And that very idea of involuntary return and “reintegration” into a third country where a migrant has never been “integrated” but has only transited through is nonsensical and incompatible with fundamental rights. St ...
Dialogues in social psychology - European Doctorate on Social
... that dispenses the study of mental representations and assumes the social construction of meaning. This conceptual space organized in four quadrants has, of course, to taken as a large scale map. That is, it has to be taken as a simplified version of a complex territory. Detail, alternative roads, ...
... that dispenses the study of mental representations and assumes the social construction of meaning. This conceptual space organized in four quadrants has, of course, to taken as a large scale map. That is, it has to be taken as a simplified version of a complex territory. Detail, alternative roads, ...
Euhemerus` Theory
... moved by the stirring of their fantasies. These people were not very different from those whom later generations called poets or philosophers. ...
... moved by the stirring of their fantasies. These people were not very different from those whom later generations called poets or philosophers. ...
Learning for Social Cohesion
... Conflict or social conflict is pervasive in sociological literature and spans back into the mid 19th century. One of the seminal contributors to the basic functionalist roots of conflict theory in sociology continues to be Karl Marx. His overall schema in the analysis of revolutionary social change, ...
... Conflict or social conflict is pervasive in sociological literature and spans back into the mid 19th century. One of the seminal contributors to the basic functionalist roots of conflict theory in sociology continues to be Karl Marx. His overall schema in the analysis of revolutionary social change, ...
- University of Essex Research Repository
... preparing for winter? In fact, similar criticism to that of Nietzsche’s can be made of mechanical explanations. ‘Why are there sex differences?’, one might ask. ‘Because of hormones’, a mechanist would reply. Although true, it cannot be said that the answer has addressed the question. When one asks ...
... preparing for winter? In fact, similar criticism to that of Nietzsche’s can be made of mechanical explanations. ‘Why are there sex differences?’, one might ask. ‘Because of hormones’, a mechanist would reply. Although true, it cannot be said that the answer has addressed the question. When one asks ...
Competing Explanations of Global Evils: Theodicy, Social Sciences
... cosmology for explaining the nature of evil in the social world, I consider that the mythical nature of this cosmology remains the same: stories on origins become rationalized, but they remain as basic myths on origins; explanations of evil change focus, but they remain theodicies (in their seculari ...
... cosmology for explaining the nature of evil in the social world, I consider that the mythical nature of this cosmology remains the same: stories on origins become rationalized, but they remain as basic myths on origins; explanations of evil change focus, but they remain theodicies (in their seculari ...
Bourdieu’s Method - National Chung Cheng University
... ‘for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate to which each of these ar ...
... ‘for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate to which each of these ar ...
Vedic Mathematics - World of Teaching
... Western scientific world had spent huge lots of time, energy and money on and which even now it solves with the utmost difficulty and after vast labour involving large numbers of difficult, tedious and cumbersome “steps” of working (…) can easily and readily [be] solved with the help of these ultra- ...
... Western scientific world had spent huge lots of time, energy and money on and which even now it solves with the utmost difficulty and after vast labour involving large numbers of difficult, tedious and cumbersome “steps” of working (…) can easily and readily [be] solved with the help of these ultra- ...
Ideology, Scientific Theory, and Social Work
... with different political positions and are often used to support or oppose specific interventions and policies that affect our clients. In addition, it is important to recognize that theories can become self-fulfilling or self-refuting based on our own attitudes and beliefs. For example, the beliefs ...
... with different political positions and are often used to support or oppose specific interventions and policies that affect our clients. In addition, it is important to recognize that theories can become self-fulfilling or self-refuting based on our own attitudes and beliefs. For example, the beliefs ...
Futures Traded - Cardiff University
... from extra-economic restrictions. The use of predictions about the future as a means of generating wealth through the borrowing of capital fed the increasing autonomy of the economy within industrialising societies. Within the emerging discipline of economics, these practices of prediction were give ...
... from extra-economic restrictions. The use of predictions about the future as a means of generating wealth through the borrowing of capital fed the increasing autonomy of the economy within industrialising societies. Within the emerging discipline of economics, these practices of prediction were give ...
