Responsibilism and the Analytic-Sociological Debate in Social
... responsibility, the concept, have been embraced by the feminist philosophical community as a proto-feminist (if not outright-feminist) contribution to critiques of “justified true belief” orthodoxy. And, even if the text isn’t appropriately classified as feminist, it remains, clearly, an early and s ...
... responsibility, the concept, have been embraced by the feminist philosophical community as a proto-feminist (if not outright-feminist) contribution to critiques of “justified true belief” orthodoxy. And, even if the text isn’t appropriately classified as feminist, it remains, clearly, an early and s ...
For a Relational Musicology - American Musicological Society
... ethnomusicology, popular music studies, the sociology and psychology of music and so on to a new, integrated music studies. But what an anodyne term that is! Do we perhaps give up too much of the rich and idiosyncratic patchwork of subdisciplinary histories by suggesting such an integration? Do we s ...
... ethnomusicology, popular music studies, the sociology and psychology of music and so on to a new, integrated music studies. But what an anodyne term that is! Do we perhaps give up too much of the rich and idiosyncratic patchwork of subdisciplinary histories by suggesting such an integration? Do we s ...
Doing psychodynamic social work - Centre for Social Work Practice
... Psychodynamic interventions Introduction In the history of social work there are probably more myths about psychodynamic practice, and more strong opinions both for and against this method, than there are in relation to any other approach to practice, perhaps in part at least because it was seen by ...
... Psychodynamic interventions Introduction In the history of social work there are probably more myths about psychodynamic practice, and more strong opinions both for and against this method, than there are in relation to any other approach to practice, perhaps in part at least because it was seen by ...
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND IMMIGRANT RELIGION1
... Several recent analyses of civil society or associational life and its political impact have focused on what has been termed «social capital.» The concept of civil society is much wider than that of social capital, and social capital can be seen as something that originates in, but does not constitu ...
... Several recent analyses of civil society or associational life and its political impact have focused on what has been termed «social capital.» The concept of civil society is much wider than that of social capital, and social capital can be seen as something that originates in, but does not constitu ...
Is and Ought, and the `naturalistic fallacy`
... involve, hence avoiding alienated accounts. I use the term ‘writing’ here deliberately to include literature which might not be counted as typically social scientific, and which is less inhibited by social scientific aversions to value-laden description.1 Indeed, one might argue that while social sc ...
... involve, hence avoiding alienated accounts. I use the term ‘writing’ here deliberately to include literature which might not be counted as typically social scientific, and which is less inhibited by social scientific aversions to value-laden description.1 Indeed, one might argue that while social sc ...
Read the introduction - Duke University Press
... suggests also that sociological, anthropological, and cultural-historical research should inform future investigation into and theorization of the aesthetic (Born 2010c; Bourdieu 1984). Aesthetics as a field of inquiry, in this view, needs to move beyond the individual or atomic and toward the soc ...
... suggests also that sociological, anthropological, and cultural-historical research should inform future investigation into and theorization of the aesthetic (Born 2010c; Bourdieu 1984). Aesthetics as a field of inquiry, in this view, needs to move beyond the individual or atomic and toward the soc ...
Relativism: Cognitive and Moral
... upholding the cognitive supremacyof the scientific method and the non-cognitive status of moral judgment based on choice between principles or ideals that are irreducibly at war. I am inclined to this latter position, though it strikesme as certainly over-simple and perhaps ultimately untenable, for ...
... upholding the cognitive supremacyof the scientific method and the non-cognitive status of moral judgment based on choice between principles or ideals that are irreducibly at war. I am inclined to this latter position, though it strikesme as certainly over-simple and perhaps ultimately untenable, for ...
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... The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. Indeed, philosophers realised over two thousand years ago that ‘being’ is at once ...
... The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. Indeed, philosophers realised over two thousand years ago that ‘being’ is at once ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... 2. Social Watch should strengthen its cooperation with other NGO networks looking at globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change ...
... 2. Social Watch should strengthen its cooperation with other NGO networks looking at globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At the national level, Social Watch members should orient their action not only towards government, where the capacity for change ...
Foucault`s Deconstruction of the Subject: A Feminist Epistemological
... Things and the 1969 lecture What is An Author? Foucault initially presents the idea of autonomous language in The Order of Things as a natural progression of epistemology in the modern era. He expounds upon this claim in the lecture What is an Author?, stating that the author exists as nothing but a ...
... Things and the 1969 lecture What is An Author? Foucault initially presents the idea of autonomous language in The Order of Things as a natural progression of epistemology in the modern era. He expounds upon this claim in the lecture What is an Author?, stating that the author exists as nothing but a ...
1 Structuration Theory and Self-Organization Christian Fuchs1
... should not be resolved in a determinist manner. As shown by Giddens, pure structuralistic conceptions which argue that social systems can be explained as the influence of social structures on actions and thinking as well as pure action-based conceptions that explain social systems as the differentia ...
... should not be resolved in a determinist manner. As shown by Giddens, pure structuralistic conceptions which argue that social systems can be explained as the influence of social structures on actions and thinking as well as pure action-based conceptions that explain social systems as the differentia ...
Social Capital And Capitalist Economies BEN FINE and COSTAS
... of the imperatives of capitalism and the rush to embrace them, but by shifting attention away from the economic to the social. The lack of (appropriate) social capital can be cited as explanation of the failure of reform, in line with those who argue that the problem has been the failure or absence ...
... of the imperatives of capitalism and the rush to embrace them, but by shifting attention away from the economic to the social. The lack of (appropriate) social capital can be cited as explanation of the failure of reform, in line with those who argue that the problem has been the failure or absence ...
Document
... all, a transnational perspective not only helps to look at emergent cross-border social formations, their properties and their entanglements with nation-states and institutions of the nation-state system but also help us to better understand the formation of nation-states and the nation-state system ...
... all, a transnational perspective not only helps to look at emergent cross-border social formations, their properties and their entanglements with nation-states and institutions of the nation-state system but also help us to better understand the formation of nation-states and the nation-state system ...
Total War and Social Changes: With a Focus on Arthur Marwick`s
... German Concept of Total War,” in Earle, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy, Vol. 2, p.32). The first element is a recognition that war has become comprehensive or thorough, because all territories of warring countries have started to be included in the theater of war. The second element is a recognition ...
... German Concept of Total War,” in Earle, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy, Vol. 2, p.32). The first element is a recognition that war has become comprehensive or thorough, because all territories of warring countries have started to be included in the theater of war. The second element is a recognition ...
Social Consciousness
... chains and unless increasing numbers of us discover that the freedom of knowledge does not mean freedom from knowledge. Yet the chains grow tighter and tighter and flight from them more and more frequent. As dangerous to humanity as the freezing of knowledge in the physical sciences during the dark ...
... chains and unless increasing numbers of us discover that the freedom of knowledge does not mean freedom from knowledge. Yet the chains grow tighter and tighter and flight from them more and more frequent. As dangerous to humanity as the freezing of knowledge in the physical sciences during the dark ...
Beyond the Third Way - European Consortium for Political Research
... middle path between the antagonism towards state activities by liberals and an uncritical faith in it by socialists. The current welfare state “isn’t geared up to cover new-style risks such as those concerning technological change, social exclusion or the accelerating proportion of one-parent househ ...
... middle path between the antagonism towards state activities by liberals and an uncritical faith in it by socialists. The current welfare state “isn’t geared up to cover new-style risks such as those concerning technological change, social exclusion or the accelerating proportion of one-parent househ ...
Telenovelas, Culture and Social Change
... was identified as an intermediary zone, being of both a material and symbolic nature and being constitutive for the processes of meaning making amongst the women I studied. This sphere of signification should thus be seen as a form of socio-cultural and socio-spatial organisation of everyday life, e ...
... was identified as an intermediary zone, being of both a material and symbolic nature and being constitutive for the processes of meaning making amongst the women I studied. This sphere of signification should thus be seen as a form of socio-cultural and socio-spatial organisation of everyday life, e ...
1 Social status and cultural consumption
... extent of their cultural consumption was often not regarded, either by themselves or by others, as playing any great part in the maintenance of their social superiority. Further, though, there were doubts as to whether in general the pursuit of cultural exclusiveness could be regarded as a character ...
... extent of their cultural consumption was often not regarded, either by themselves or by others, as playing any great part in the maintenance of their social superiority. Further, though, there were doubts as to whether in general the pursuit of cultural exclusiveness could be regarded as a character ...
A Conception of Social Ontology - The Cambridge Social Ontology
... powers, and if so what is the nature of the relation of these emergent powers to those of its components. Two doctrines, those of causal reduction and of downward causation10, are prominent in the relevant philosophical literature. The doctrine of causal reduction prioritises the causal powers of th ...
... powers, and if so what is the nature of the relation of these emergent powers to those of its components. Two doctrines, those of causal reduction and of downward causation10, are prominent in the relevant philosophical literature. The doctrine of causal reduction prioritises the causal powers of th ...
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: An Agentic Perspective
... purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting, constructing, regulating, and evaluating courses of action. This is achieved through intentional mobilization and productive use of semantic and pragmatic representations of activities, goals, and other future events. In h ...
... purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting, constructing, regulating, and evaluating courses of action. This is achieved through intentional mobilization and productive use of semantic and pragmatic representations of activities, goals, and other future events. In h ...
Trust and reciprocity: A theoretical distinction of the sources of social
... defined, however. Beyond two basic agreed upon parameters – what is social about social capital is its embeddedness in a structure of social relations; what is capital is its functional dimension, the fact that it provides actors with access to valuable and scarce resources that contribute to their ...
... defined, however. Beyond two basic agreed upon parameters – what is social about social capital is its embeddedness in a structure of social relations; what is capital is its functional dimension, the fact that it provides actors with access to valuable and scarce resources that contribute to their ...
The history and philosophy of social science
... deliberate individual actions, they are irredeemably moral in character. These moral judgements are directly ascertainable and they should form the basic material of social analysis. In effect, Louch tries to overturn two Humean doctrines - the nonobservability of causation, and the distinction betw ...
... deliberate individual actions, they are irredeemably moral in character. These moral judgements are directly ascertainable and they should form the basic material of social analysis. In effect, Louch tries to overturn two Humean doctrines - the nonobservability of causation, and the distinction betw ...
Rational Choice, Social Identity, and Beliefs about Oneself - E
... subjective probability to the outcome of her action. This probability is the belief she has about the results of her action. Formal decision theory holds that if a person chooses X instead of Y, she prefers X to Y, but it does not consider the nature of individual preferences, nor why people prefer ...
... subjective probability to the outcome of her action. This probability is the belief she has about the results of her action. Formal decision theory holds that if a person chooses X instead of Y, she prefers X to Y, but it does not consider the nature of individual preferences, nor why people prefer ...
The Exposure Society Experience as a new aspect of social status
... interest in experiences. The fundamental sociological explanation of the relation between experience and social status derives from a specific theoretical interpretation of the development of contemporary society which it terms the exposure society. Exposure may be categorised as a sociological phen ...
... interest in experiences. The fundamental sociological explanation of the relation between experience and social status derives from a specific theoretical interpretation of the development of contemporary society which it terms the exposure society. Exposure may be categorised as a sociological phen ...