Critical Discourse Analysis
... work, published as Selections from a Prison Notebook, was produced during his incarceration in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It is in this work that he outlines his notion of hegemony, widely considered to be his most significant contribution to political philosophy. Gramsci conceived the term heg ...
... work, published as Selections from a Prison Notebook, was produced during his incarceration in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It is in this work that he outlines his notion of hegemony, widely considered to be his most significant contribution to political philosophy. Gramsci conceived the term heg ...
Conceptual Constituents of Critical Naturalism
... Back into the Research of EAP Objectivism vs. Constructivism: …. Constructivism: …. By constructivism, it refers to the research orientation which underlines the essential roles of human ideas, believes, and efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social instit ...
... Back into the Research of EAP Objectivism vs. Constructivism: …. Constructivism: …. By constructivism, it refers to the research orientation which underlines the essential roles of human ideas, believes, and efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social instit ...
Does this person have ASD? - quickcard
... • make unusual movements near their eyes or face • over-react to loud noises or be very senstive to particular smells, tastes or textures • have poor problem-solving or organisation skills • have a strong interest which s/he likes to talk about and takes up a lot of time • have poor coordinatio ...
... • make unusual movements near their eyes or face • over-react to loud noises or be very senstive to particular smells, tastes or textures • have poor problem-solving or organisation skills • have a strong interest which s/he likes to talk about and takes up a lot of time • have poor coordinatio ...
3. On the costs of conceptualizing social ties as
... for the benefits of conceptualizing useful social ties through at least two analytical prisms rather than just one. I ask readers to accept just one fundamental methodological and the oretical assumption: that the mere formulation and elaboration of a concept does not by itself establish whether it ...
... for the benefits of conceptualizing useful social ties through at least two analytical prisms rather than just one. I ask readers to accept just one fundamental methodological and the oretical assumption: that the mere formulation and elaboration of a concept does not by itself establish whether it ...
Is there any such thing as social science evidence?
... one another but need not be. One is the traditional opposition between matters of contingent fact, on the one hand, and matters of convention or procedure, on the other. In these terms the notion of the empirical points to how the world is, or at least how things are in our experience, whereas the t ...
... one another but need not be. One is the traditional opposition between matters of contingent fact, on the one hand, and matters of convention or procedure, on the other. In these terms the notion of the empirical points to how the world is, or at least how things are in our experience, whereas the t ...
Manifesto of computational social science | SpringerLink
... In the last couple of years, social scientists have started to organize and classify the number, variety, and severity of criticalities, if not pathologies and failures, recurring in complex social systems [1,2]. These are amongst the most severe social problems, difficult to predict and treat, and ra ...
... In the last couple of years, social scientists have started to organize and classify the number, variety, and severity of criticalities, if not pathologies and failures, recurring in complex social systems [1,2]. These are amongst the most severe social problems, difficult to predict and treat, and ra ...
Social Disorganization Theory
... “organized” when there high levels of involvement across age-levels in activities coordinated by representatives of communal institutions (e.g. family-heads, pastors, school organizations and local officials). Such organized interaction is presumed to be closely and reciprocally associated with the ...
... “organized” when there high levels of involvement across age-levels in activities coordinated by representatives of communal institutions (e.g. family-heads, pastors, school organizations and local officials). Such organized interaction is presumed to be closely and reciprocally associated with the ...
Manifesto of computational social science
... In the last couple of years, social scientists have started to organize and classify the number, variety, and severity of criticalities, if not pathologies and failures, recurring in complex social systems [1, 2]. These are amongst the most severe social problems, difficult to predict and treat, and r ...
... In the last couple of years, social scientists have started to organize and classify the number, variety, and severity of criticalities, if not pathologies and failures, recurring in complex social systems [1, 2]. These are amongst the most severe social problems, difficult to predict and treat, and r ...
A Conceptual Framework for Postmodernism
... Modernism corresponds to the cultural phenomenon and meaning of modernity (modern); postmodernism corresponds to postmodernity (postmodern). According to one of the approaches, the formulation and legitimation noted in philosophical measurement is called postmodernism, and a distribution in non-West ...
... Modernism corresponds to the cultural phenomenon and meaning of modernity (modern); postmodernism corresponds to postmodernity (postmodern). According to one of the approaches, the formulation and legitimation noted in philosophical measurement is called postmodernism, and a distribution in non-West ...
Social Kinds
... particular description. This is part of his deeply historicist conception of human kinds, which means that kinds exist in their historical contexts but are not to be found also in other historical times and places that lack that historical specificity and the accompanying conceptual resources. Both ...
... particular description. This is part of his deeply historicist conception of human kinds, which means that kinds exist in their historical contexts but are not to be found also in other historical times and places that lack that historical specificity and the accompanying conceptual resources. Both ...
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
... of a theory of action that defined different types of action on the basis of their specific difference from rational action. It required a theory of society as a complex of interrelated actions that was more than the unintended interconnecting of self-interested actions. . . . As a safeguard against ...
... of a theory of action that defined different types of action on the basis of their specific difference from rational action. It required a theory of society as a complex of interrelated actions that was more than the unintended interconnecting of self-interested actions. . . . As a safeguard against ...
What Is Sociology?
... ociology is the study of social behaviour and h uman g roups, s u c h as a society. A society is a large group of people who live in the same area and who share a disti n ctive cu lture and i n stitutions. T h i s gro u p provides protection, stab i l ity, security, and ide ntity to its members. Soc ...
... ociology is the study of social behaviour and h uman g roups, s u c h as a society. A society is a large group of people who live in the same area and who share a disti n ctive cu lture and i n stitutions. T h i s gro u p provides protection, stab i l ity, security, and ide ntity to its members. Soc ...
Ideology, Scientific Theory, and Social Work
... least, lend themselves to empirical verification. With this in mind, it seems important to ask " W h a t is the actual basis of our current professional knowledge?" This is not an insignificant question because, unlike other helping professions, social workers are expected to be experts on not only ...
... least, lend themselves to empirical verification. With this in mind, it seems important to ask " W h a t is the actual basis of our current professional knowledge?" This is not an insignificant question because, unlike other helping professions, social workers are expected to be experts on not only ...
- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive
... making the attempt to analyse them as parts of a single historical process or as aspects of a more complex social formation. It may be possible to overcome the (theoretical, methodological, disciplinary) isolation of these subjects from one another in terms of a concept of counter culture which atte ...
... making the attempt to analyse them as parts of a single historical process or as aspects of a more complex social formation. It may be possible to overcome the (theoretical, methodological, disciplinary) isolation of these subjects from one another in terms of a concept of counter culture which atte ...
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
... shifts were witnessed in such things as social housing, expanded public health services, playground and park development, public education, and the institution of social welfare programs. Of course, the picture is more complicated than this; there were clear class interests riddling the progressive ...
... shifts were witnessed in such things as social housing, expanded public health services, playground and park development, public education, and the institution of social welfare programs. Of course, the picture is more complicated than this; there were clear class interests riddling the progressive ...
Related Anthology
... (Conklin and Morgan 671). The Wari ascribe to a relational personhood in which it is defined as an interactive process rather than a fixed event that takes place at birth. For the Wari, personhood is created through social ties. The body plays a key role in this process, as it is the exchange of bod ...
... (Conklin and Morgan 671). The Wari ascribe to a relational personhood in which it is defined as an interactive process rather than a fixed event that takes place at birth. For the Wari, personhood is created through social ties. The body plays a key role in this process, as it is the exchange of bod ...
Interpretivist Approaches to Organizational Discourse
... continuous interaction, where ‘understanding is accomplished and communicated mainly by means of symbols (most notably in the form of metaphorical language) that are then retained in a structured or schematic form via scripts. The scripts subsequently serve as a basis for action that further facilit ...
... continuous interaction, where ‘understanding is accomplished and communicated mainly by means of symbols (most notably in the form of metaphorical language) that are then retained in a structured or schematic form via scripts. The scripts subsequently serve as a basis for action that further facilit ...
Understanding Social Capital
... Abundant reflections emerge from above definitions. Although different experts have defined social capital in different ways, most commonly it can be called as the outcome of social relations. Thus, the first and most general reflection of social capital is that “relations matter”. Social ties form ...
... Abundant reflections emerge from above definitions. Although different experts have defined social capital in different ways, most commonly it can be called as the outcome of social relations. Thus, the first and most general reflection of social capital is that “relations matter”. Social ties form ...
Contemporary Sociology
... and even Du Bois-Raymond was so far influenced by the myth that he wrote of the "Seven WorldRiddles," when he might have made them either more or less. The number five, so universal in all systems of counting and calculation, due, of course, to the number of digits in men, has entered less into phil ...
... and even Du Bois-Raymond was so far influenced by the myth that he wrote of the "Seven WorldRiddles," when he might have made them either more or less. The number five, so universal in all systems of counting and calculation, due, of course, to the number of digits in men, has entered less into phil ...
Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
... historical dimension, and be applied not just to the analysis of contemporary patterns but also to the historical processes through which they had arisen. The widespread discussion of the idea therefore provided an alternative framework for understanding the processes through which the stark contras ...
... historical dimension, and be applied not just to the analysis of contemporary patterns but also to the historical processes through which they had arisen. The widespread discussion of the idea therefore provided an alternative framework for understanding the processes through which the stark contras ...
Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles
... enormous variety, the principles that underlie the constitution of social reality are rather few in number. What you discover when you go behind the surface phenomena of social reality is a relatively simple underlying logical structure even though the manifestations in actual social reality in poli ...
... enormous variety, the principles that underlie the constitution of social reality are rather few in number. What you discover when you go behind the surface phenomena of social reality is a relatively simple underlying logical structure even though the manifestations in actual social reality in poli ...
Rana Jawad From wellbeing to ways of being
... was also a key fixture of Christian practice in the Medieval Ages although this has dwindled in modern times (Midwinter, 1997). Today, Western Christian groups carry their missions into developing countries where they are known to set up hospitals, income-generating projects and schools (Clarke and ...
... was also a key fixture of Christian practice in the Medieval Ages although this has dwindled in modern times (Midwinter, 1997). Today, Western Christian groups carry their missions into developing countries where they are known to set up hospitals, income-generating projects and schools (Clarke and ...
Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed`s Interpretivism*
... is brought to bear on ‘facts’. In realism, the boundary between fact and theory in Reed’s sense is blurred and theoretical representation is understood as referencing ‘reality’, i.e. something that is. Realism is thus primarily concerned with questions of the actual society. In Reed’s eyes, this mea ...
... is brought to bear on ‘facts’. In realism, the boundary between fact and theory in Reed’s sense is blurred and theoretical representation is understood as referencing ‘reality’, i.e. something that is. Realism is thus primarily concerned with questions of the actual society. In Reed’s eyes, this mea ...
cordaid, social entrepreneurship and catholic social thought
... 2. Common good: human actions in society should be oriented towards the common good. We are one human family and the flourishing of that human family, more than the flourishing of its individual parts, should be the aim of our actions in society. 3. Subsidiarity: as a person created by God, every ...
... 2. Common good: human actions in society should be oriented towards the common good. We are one human family and the flourishing of that human family, more than the flourishing of its individual parts, should be the aim of our actions in society. 3. Subsidiarity: as a person created by God, every ...
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... 1951:24). Thus for Parsons, social systems are systems of action that can be analyzed in terms of four structural constraints: i) situational constraints, ii) material or immaterial resources, iii) norms as situational and individual limitations to action, and i ...
... 1951:24). Thus for Parsons, social systems are systems of action that can be analyzed in terms of four structural constraints: i) situational constraints, ii) material or immaterial resources, iii) norms as situational and individual limitations to action, and i ...