The social in social science
... communicate your research to a wide audience or a specific scientific community? Your answers to such questions will have an impact upon which perspective within the philosophy of the social sciences most closely relates to your own research strategy. This course begins to explore these diverse choi ...
... communicate your research to a wide audience or a specific scientific community? Your answers to such questions will have an impact upon which perspective within the philosophy of the social sciences most closely relates to your own research strategy. This course begins to explore these diverse choi ...
Methodological & Epistemological Foundations of EAP
... Sufficient conditions: It refers to the kinds of conditionality between the C and E, in which the C can exhaustively but not universally explain the truth of the E. Necessary conditions: It refers to the kinds of conditionality between the E and C, in which the C can universally but not exhausti ...
... Sufficient conditions: It refers to the kinds of conditionality between the C and E, in which the C can exhaustively but not universally explain the truth of the E. Necessary conditions: It refers to the kinds of conditionality between the E and C, in which the C can universally but not exhausti ...
Social choice problem in Capability Approach
... Injustice is not in the natural or social characteristics of individuals but in social and economic institutions which treat individuals who have some natural or social characteristics in specific ways 2 . Institutions which fail to protect those who are vulnerable to discriminations, or institution ...
... Injustice is not in the natural or social characteristics of individuals but in social and economic institutions which treat individuals who have some natural or social characteristics in specific ways 2 . Institutions which fail to protect those who are vulnerable to discriminations, or institution ...
Ethnography of Nigeria - National Open University of Nigeria
... Ethnography in contrast is used to describe the study of the culture for a single tribe, ethnic group or society. But because almost all ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinc ...
... Ethnography in contrast is used to describe the study of the culture for a single tribe, ethnic group or society. But because almost all ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinc ...
Ancient Wisdom and Civilization
... knowledge, experience, and judgment is required to live a good and successful human life as such. ‘Civilization,’ although often associated solely with certain levels of social and technological advancement, can also refer to the moral status and level of complexity of an action or individual as whe ...
... knowledge, experience, and judgment is required to live a good and successful human life as such. ‘Civilization,’ although often associated solely with certain levels of social and technological advancement, can also refer to the moral status and level of complexity of an action or individual as whe ...
The IDEA of a Social Science
... would have required some investigation of the different reasons for the inadequacy of the Humean account as applied to the natural scientific use of the word ‘cause’ and for its inadequacy as applied to talk about ‘reasons’ and ‘motives’ for human actions. But it would probably have been better not ...
... would have required some investigation of the different reasons for the inadequacy of the Humean account as applied to the natural scientific use of the word ‘cause’ and for its inadequacy as applied to talk about ‘reasons’ and ‘motives’ for human actions. But it would probably have been better not ...
The Poverty of Historicism
... the natural and the social sciences. To address this problem I have to face a second one: just what, in that work and his other comments on the topic, did Popper consider the main differences between the natural and social sciences to be? Both problems are enmeshed in a sociological problem, that of ...
... the natural and the social sciences. To address this problem I have to face a second one: just what, in that work and his other comments on the topic, did Popper consider the main differences between the natural and social sciences to be? Both problems are enmeshed in a sociological problem, that of ...
file. - Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
... place and are setting new benchmarks for doing business. In the process, these development players are reconfiguring the market as an arena of engagement, integrating social and environmental objectives with the financial bottom line. Social entrepreneurship is emerging as a useful framework informi ...
... place and are setting new benchmarks for doing business. In the process, these development players are reconfiguring the market as an arena of engagement, integrating social and environmental objectives with the financial bottom line. Social entrepreneurship is emerging as a useful framework informi ...
What is an Anthropology of the Contemporary?
... off, discriminate, draw a line round, and identify a numerically distinct subject of discourse is called conception…. Each act of conception results from our attention’s having singled out some one part of the mass of matter-for-thought which the world presents …the conceptual function requires, to ...
... off, discriminate, draw a line round, and identify a numerically distinct subject of discourse is called conception…. Each act of conception results from our attention’s having singled out some one part of the mass of matter-for-thought which the world presents …the conceptual function requires, to ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
Toward a New Critical Theory with a Cosmopolitan Intent
... methodological nationalism? The decisive point is that national organization as a structuring principle of societal and political action can no longer serve as a premise for the social-scientific observer perspective. In order even to understand the trend toward renationalization or re-ethnification ...
... methodological nationalism? The decisive point is that national organization as a structuring principle of societal and political action can no longer serve as a premise for the social-scientific observer perspective. In order even to understand the trend toward renationalization or re-ethnification ...
Cognitive Science, Moral Responsibility And
... by the agent’s body, i.e. by everything that is contained in the skin. According to the psychological conception, only an agent’s mental states and psychological processes—her memories, convictions, aspirations, etc.—constitute her self. According to the executive conception, the self is a kind of c ...
... by the agent’s body, i.e. by everything that is contained in the skin. According to the psychological conception, only an agent’s mental states and psychological processes—her memories, convictions, aspirations, etc.—constitute her self. According to the executive conception, the self is a kind of c ...
here - Centre for Research on Socio
... discourse’. Argues that a number of specific and hierarchical values are integral to this discourse which have a negative effect of alternative ‘heritages’ and the identity formations associated with them (e.g. Indigenous Australians). Integral to the AHD for instance is 1. that heritage value is se ...
... discourse’. Argues that a number of specific and hierarchical values are integral to this discourse which have a negative effect of alternative ‘heritages’ and the identity formations associated with them (e.g. Indigenous Australians). Integral to the AHD for instance is 1. that heritage value is se ...
what is tolerance - The Richmond Philosophy Pages
... This goes beyond peaceful coexistence in the sense that, while groups of individuals may hold radically different views about the morality of certain lifestyles and differ tremendously in terms of their cultural practices, all recognise a set of values or principles that apply universally (e.g. that ...
... This goes beyond peaceful coexistence in the sense that, while groups of individuals may hold radically different views about the morality of certain lifestyles and differ tremendously in terms of their cultural practices, all recognise a set of values or principles that apply universally (e.g. that ...
Measuring Social Capital in the United Kingdom
... measuring the concept, it was important that there was a shared understanding of what is meant by social capital. This was not straightforward as it continues to be a contested concept within the academic community. This lack of conceptual clarity has contributed to accusations of overversatility, i ...
... measuring the concept, it was important that there was a shared understanding of what is meant by social capital. This was not straightforward as it continues to be a contested concept within the academic community. This lack of conceptual clarity has contributed to accusations of overversatility, i ...
Forthcoming in Bhaskar, R., Esbjörn
... evolution of the Spirit, one can still sense the pulse of emancipatory politics beating through their texts. Their style is dialectical and, however constructive or reconstructive their approach, they are involved in critique. Zachary Stein, Kevin Bowman, Gary Hamson, Matthew Rich-Tolmsa, Otto Laske ...
... evolution of the Spirit, one can still sense the pulse of emancipatory politics beating through their texts. Their style is dialectical and, however constructive or reconstructive their approach, they are involved in critique. Zachary Stein, Kevin Bowman, Gary Hamson, Matthew Rich-Tolmsa, Otto Laske ...
JUST PRACTICE: STEPS TOWARD A NEW SOCIAL WORK
... shape those constructions. Systems and ecosystems perspectives focus on extant, "observed" relations and practices rather than on a critical analysis of how these relations and practices have come to be constructed in a particular manner and at a particular historic moment. The Structural Approach ...
... shape those constructions. Systems and ecosystems perspectives focus on extant, "observed" relations and practices rather than on a critical analysis of how these relations and practices have come to be constructed in a particular manner and at a particular historic moment. The Structural Approach ...
Society as experiment: sociological foundations for a self
... of 'cooperative experiments' when referring to team work with other city groups and institutions. It thus seemed that experiment for her also meant something that was not necessarily to take place in a 'scientific' and detached laboratory. However, it also did not mean that ever)- social action or a ...
... of 'cooperative experiments' when referring to team work with other city groups and institutions. It thus seemed that experiment for her also meant something that was not necessarily to take place in a 'scientific' and detached laboratory. However, it also did not mean that ever)- social action or a ...
Explaining National Identity: From Group Attachments to
... of aspects of group structure and culture, the situation, and the group characteristics on which it is assessed. It may also be stronger at certain periods within a group’s history. Further, we know that there are instances of negative ethnocentrism – where members derogate their own group in relati ...
... of aspects of group structure and culture, the situation, and the group characteristics on which it is assessed. It may also be stronger at certain periods within a group’s history. Further, we know that there are instances of negative ethnocentrism – where members derogate their own group in relati ...
On Peter Winch and Qualitative Social Research
... philosopher’s conception of “reality” cannot be determined by experimentation. The criteria for these two concepts are dependent upon the purpose and the context in which they are said to occur. There can be agreement about what they mean, but not in abstraction from the specific contexts and the pu ...
... philosopher’s conception of “reality” cannot be determined by experimentation. The criteria for these two concepts are dependent upon the purpose and the context in which they are said to occur. There can be agreement about what they mean, but not in abstraction from the specific contexts and the pu ...
Citizenship and Governance in Mercosur
... welfare also emerged in the period following the Second World War. This model has made European integration if not possible, then certainly smoother than it might otherwise have been. Europeanisation has created ‘soft’ law, norms and standards that regulate social citizenship and establish minimum w ...
... welfare also emerged in the period following the Second World War. This model has made European integration if not possible, then certainly smoother than it might otherwise have been. Europeanisation has created ‘soft’ law, norms and standards that regulate social citizenship and establish minimum w ...
Social science research and designs in Caribbean
... nation creation correspond with different ideological positions. The process of nation-building is based on a mono-cultural ideology emphasizing the centrality and power of the state from a top-down perspective. [1] The process of nation-creation departs from an ideology of harmonic ethnic diversity ...
... nation creation correspond with different ideological positions. The process of nation-building is based on a mono-cultural ideology emphasizing the centrality and power of the state from a top-down perspective. [1] The process of nation-creation departs from an ideology of harmonic ethnic diversity ...
introduction to sociology
... distance and reduced the gap between different peoples and communities. Sociology is a discipline in which we often set aside our personal view of the world to look more carefully at the influences that shape our lives and those of others. Sociology helps us to know not only our society but also oth ...
... distance and reduced the gap between different peoples and communities. Sociology is a discipline in which we often set aside our personal view of the world to look more carefully at the influences that shape our lives and those of others. Sociology helps us to know not only our society but also oth ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT METHODOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
... notions, prejudices and biases. As a consequence, objectivity emphasized the study of phenomena that is independent of mind or consciousness. Auguste Comte, who introduced the term ‘Positivism’, was the foremost to import the goal of objectivity in Social Sciences. For him, objective science and obs ...
... notions, prejudices and biases. As a consequence, objectivity emphasized the study of phenomena that is independent of mind or consciousness. Auguste Comte, who introduced the term ‘Positivism’, was the foremost to import the goal of objectivity in Social Sciences. For him, objective science and obs ...
FullText - Brunel University Research Archive
... closest analogue that we can find is the literature on self-construals (i.e., individuals’ view of themselves as distinct from, versus connected to, other persons; A. P. Fiske et al., 1998). However, it is not at all clear that American society expects persons of European descent to behave in a mann ...
... closest analogue that we can find is the literature on self-construals (i.e., individuals’ view of themselves as distinct from, versus connected to, other persons; A. P. Fiske et al., 1998). However, it is not at all clear that American society expects persons of European descent to behave in a mann ...