ARTIFACTS AS DOMESTICATED KINDS OF PRACTICES Sergio F
... nowadays, however, several discussions stem from the idea that we have to first characterize natural kinds epistemologically, through the study of actual scientific classifications, and then use the succesful characterization as constraints in our metaphysics. (refs) But if, as can be argued, it is ...
... nowadays, however, several discussions stem from the idea that we have to first characterize natural kinds epistemologically, through the study of actual scientific classifications, and then use the succesful characterization as constraints in our metaphysics. (refs) But if, as can be argued, it is ...
Making Knowledge Work - International Social Science Council
... This report reviews the issues involved in making knowledge work on the basis of two main sources. On the one hand, a workshop was convened in Paris on 22-23 September 2011 to clarify the main issues in knowledge utilization, with specific reference to climate change and broader global environmental ...
... This report reviews the issues involved in making knowledge work on the basis of two main sources. On the one hand, a workshop was convened in Paris on 22-23 September 2011 to clarify the main issues in knowledge utilization, with specific reference to climate change and broader global environmental ...
Making Race Out Of nOthing: PsychOlOgically cOnstRained sOcial
... Because communities use classifications of persons as a basis for identifications, predictions, explanations, and coordination, a conventionally secured social role creates a social context in which individuals in the category develop, live, and act. To the extent the representations and conventions ...
... Because communities use classifications of persons as a basis for identifications, predictions, explanations, and coordination, a conventionally secured social role creates a social context in which individuals in the category develop, live, and act. To the extent the representations and conventions ...
PDF - ASSA ABLOY Catalogue
... Through the cover I aimed to literally ‘draw’ attention towards the conditions of anthropological knowledge production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which e ...
... Through the cover I aimed to literally ‘draw’ attention towards the conditions of anthropological knowledge production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which e ...
kinship relation info - bakersfield college
... groups such as lineages and clans. Lineages are kin groupings in which members are cognizant of the paths through which they trace common descent. Clans are kin groups in which the exact routes by which people trace common descent are not known or considered: Individuals simply know their clan affil ...
... groups such as lineages and clans. Lineages are kin groupings in which members are cognizant of the paths through which they trace common descent. Clans are kin groups in which the exact routes by which people trace common descent are not known or considered: Individuals simply know their clan affil ...
Full article
... of social scientific analysis of the globalized world predominantly seems to denote disruption, disembedding and disassociation of people, objects and capital from their social and territorial contexts. In her influential article on ‘the global situation’, Anna Tsing directs our attention to the cha ...
... of social scientific analysis of the globalized world predominantly seems to denote disruption, disembedding and disassociation of people, objects and capital from their social and territorial contexts. In her influential article on ‘the global situation’, Anna Tsing directs our attention to the cha ...
Anthropological Poetics
... be considered in calculating the intellectual history of ethnopoetics. Their collective scholarship has influenced all the others who have contributed to the development and preservation of this genre since the early 1970s. One such person was anthropologist Victor Turner. Writing more than a decade ...
... be considered in calculating the intellectual history of ethnopoetics. Their collective scholarship has influenced all the others who have contributed to the development and preservation of this genre since the early 1970s. One such person was anthropologist Victor Turner. Writing more than a decade ...
Ethnic and National Identity: The Conceptual Critique
... They will surely still have interests which they pursue and which affect the structure of their organizations. (Rex, 1996: 1.5) And Furthermore ‘Whether we are talking about interests or identity, however, we should be clear that the “banal” interpretation of the immigrants’ role may be challenged’ ...
... They will surely still have interests which they pursue and which affect the structure of their organizations. (Rex, 1996: 1.5) And Furthermore ‘Whether we are talking about interests or identity, however, we should be clear that the “banal” interpretation of the immigrants’ role may be challenged’ ...
Zsombor Tóth - Transindex Adatbank
... The English Serini: the Peripheral/External Reading The book entitled, The Conduct and Character of Count Nicholas Serini, Protestant Generalissimo of the Auxiliaries in Hungary, The most Prudent and Resolved Champion of Christendom, was sold in the bookstore at the Flower Street in London, at the e ...
... The English Serini: the Peripheral/External Reading The book entitled, The Conduct and Character of Count Nicholas Serini, Protestant Generalissimo of the Auxiliaries in Hungary, The most Prudent and Resolved Champion of Christendom, was sold in the bookstore at the Flower Street in London, at the e ...
Please click here for the Cognitive Futures conference programme
... mid-eighteenth century, ‘aesthetics’ had a different meaning from our modern day understanding, i.e., aesthetics as a concept has its own (particular) history, spanning from its origin in rationalist metaphysics to the theory of art and beauty from Immanuel Kant on. One recent step in this history h ...
... mid-eighteenth century, ‘aesthetics’ had a different meaning from our modern day understanding, i.e., aesthetics as a concept has its own (particular) history, spanning from its origin in rationalist metaphysics to the theory of art and beauty from Immanuel Kant on. One recent step in this history h ...
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... This module provides a critique of the idea of social and/or cultural construction that currently dominates the human sciences and suggests that it makes better sense to think of everything about ...
... This module provides a critique of the idea of social and/or cultural construction that currently dominates the human sciences and suggests that it makes better sense to think of everything about ...
Miller - Chapter 2
... interviews __________. A) rely on very short responses. B) are better suited to urban, complex societies where most people are literate. C) are usually administered to a random sample of a larger population. D) allow informants to talk about what they see as important, rather than have to modify the ...
... interviews __________. A) rely on very short responses. B) are better suited to urban, complex societies where most people are literate. C) are usually administered to a random sample of a larger population. D) allow informants to talk about what they see as important, rather than have to modify the ...
ANTHRONOTES - Anthropology
... pseudonym) were so outraged by Small Town in Mass Society, the 1958 ethnography about their city, that they went so far as to parade an effigy of one of the authors positioned atop a manure spreader! As the discipline developed, the “native point of view” began to take on a whole new meaning. The th ...
... pseudonym) were so outraged by Small Town in Mass Society, the 1958 ethnography about their city, that they went so far as to parade an effigy of one of the authors positioned atop a manure spreader! As the discipline developed, the “native point of view” began to take on a whole new meaning. The th ...
pdf - Northern Illinois University
... the 21st century and the variety of cultural changes occurring around the world. Emphasis is given to learning about the range of commonalities within the human species. Course requirements include two midterm exams, a final exam, and two 2-3 page reaction/research papers. INSTRUCTOR: Professor Susa ...
... the 21st century and the variety of cultural changes occurring around the world. Emphasis is given to learning about the range of commonalities within the human species. Course requirements include two midterm exams, a final exam, and two 2-3 page reaction/research papers. INSTRUCTOR: Professor Susa ...
Writing the souk as a social fact - Institute of Social and Cultural
... Geertz’s demarcation of fieldwork semiosis in Meaning and order in Moroccan society: three essays in cultural analysis (Geertz et al. 1979) is a holistic, generative narration which exports knowledge from the field thanks to linguistic strategies designed and deployed to carry scientific postulates. ...
... Geertz’s demarcation of fieldwork semiosis in Meaning and order in Moroccan society: three essays in cultural analysis (Geertz et al. 1979) is a holistic, generative narration which exports knowledge from the field thanks to linguistic strategies designed and deployed to carry scientific postulates. ...
The Nature of Social Science Research
... can, and does, act as an impediment to even asking some social questions. What sets social science apart from social commentary or opinion is our use of scientific method. Scientific method is traditionally defined as being about observation, classification, and interpretation. As mathematician Karl ...
... can, and does, act as an impediment to even asking some social questions. What sets social science apart from social commentary or opinion is our use of scientific method. Scientific method is traditionally defined as being about observation, classification, and interpretation. As mathematician Karl ...
SOMETHING ELSE Forthcoming in Common Knowledge, Vol. 13
... race/class/gender became the imperative explanatory tools to explain and understand anything”). The Journal concluded its memorial by portraying this complex scholar ...
... race/class/gender became the imperative explanatory tools to explain and understand anything”). The Journal concluded its memorial by portraying this complex scholar ...
International Benchmarking Review of UK Social Anthropology
... programs…is challenging because we do not know how to measure knowledge while it is being generated, and its practical use might not occur until many years after the research occurs and cannot be predicted' (COSEPUP 2002: 1). Or, as a leading scholar in research evaluation has suggested, '…it is not ...
... programs…is challenging because we do not know how to measure knowledge while it is being generated, and its practical use might not occur until many years after the research occurs and cannot be predicted' (COSEPUP 2002: 1). Or, as a leading scholar in research evaluation has suggested, '…it is not ...
Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes
... historical overviews see Anscheutz et al. 2001; Ashmore and Knapp 1999; Hirsch 1995; A. Smith 2003; Tilley 1994). Prior to the 1980s, however, anthropologists tended to conceptualize landscapes in ecological terms as a suite of resources distributed through space to which human populations adapted ( ...
... historical overviews see Anscheutz et al. 2001; Ashmore and Knapp 1999; Hirsch 1995; A. Smith 2003; Tilley 1994). Prior to the 1980s, however, anthropologists tended to conceptualize landscapes in ecological terms as a suite of resources distributed through space to which human populations adapted ( ...
"ethnographic film"?
... online to read on Google Books. Check out Chapter on Flaherty and Nanook of the North especially. Yet, also read the Introduction chapter for an excellent introduction to the idea of colonial histories and representation and the construct of ‘other’. Reference is made to ethnocentricism and the role ...
... online to read on Google Books. Check out Chapter on Flaherty and Nanook of the North especially. Yet, also read the Introduction chapter for an excellent introduction to the idea of colonial histories and representation and the construct of ‘other’. Reference is made to ethnocentricism and the role ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Ethnocentrism is the understanding that all humans view world through their own cultural lens (like tunnel vision) and then tend to judge other cultures from their narrow cultural perspective. Humans in all cultures tend to see their culture as the best, the most normal and “natural.” Other culture ...
... Ethnocentrism is the understanding that all humans view world through their own cultural lens (like tunnel vision) and then tend to judge other cultures from their narrow cultural perspective. Humans in all cultures tend to see their culture as the best, the most normal and “natural.” Other culture ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... American anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas. For Boas and his students, the context in which they studied “disappearing” native American cultures (what became known as “salvage anthropology”) different considerably from that in which Malinowski and his intellectual followers would study the peop ...
... American anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas. For Boas and his students, the context in which they studied “disappearing” native American cultures (what became known as “salvage anthropology”) different considerably from that in which Malinowski and his intellectual followers would study the peop ...
Social and Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship Development
... contributes to the incomes of residents increasing, but; to various extents, provides residents with a better access to specific public or commercial services, which deficit is particularly noticeable in rural areas, not only in Poland, but also in other European Union’s countries. I particularly me ...
... contributes to the incomes of residents increasing, but; to various extents, provides residents with a better access to specific public or commercial services, which deficit is particularly noticeable in rural areas, not only in Poland, but also in other European Union’s countries. I particularly me ...
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Dr. Timothy J. Carter, Department Head Sociology Program
... 1 Prerequisite for SOCI 200: GSOCI 110, GSOCI 140 or SOCI 101. 2 Students can substitute SOCI 231 with MATH 220, PSYC 210 or COB 191, if SPSS is used in the course, but must take an additional sociology course to complete the required 39 hours of sociology. 3 Prerequisite for SOCI 300: Fully Admitte ...
... 1 Prerequisite for SOCI 200: GSOCI 110, GSOCI 140 or SOCI 101. 2 Students can substitute SOCI 231 with MATH 220, PSYC 210 or COB 191, if SPSS is used in the course, but must take an additional sociology course to complete the required 39 hours of sociology. 3 Prerequisite for SOCI 300: Fully Admitte ...
Timucin YALCINKAYA - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
... The understanding of the state may be evaluated, after the main tend in the political dimension of globalization is exposed. This main tend is weakening of nation-state. Zygmunt Bauman describes nation-state as an institution that combines three features; “economic controlling”, “political authority ...
... The understanding of the state may be evaluated, after the main tend in the political dimension of globalization is exposed. This main tend is weakening of nation-state. Zygmunt Bauman describes nation-state as an institution that combines three features; “economic controlling”, “political authority ...
Intercultural competence
Intercultural competence is the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people of other cultures: Appropriately. Valued rules, norms, and expectations of the relationship are not violated significantly. Effectively. Valued goals or rewards (relative to costs and alternatives) are accomplished.In interactions with people from foreign cultures, a person who is interculturally competent understands the culture-specific concepts of perception, thinking, feeling, and acting.Intercultural competence is also called ""cross-cultural competence"" (3C).