Social Science and Social Policy. From National
... Social science has had an ambiguous relationship with social policy throughout its history. When the term and concept of social science first began to be used in the middle of the nineteenth century, the initial organizations that emerged to promote social science were not located in the universities ...
... Social science has had an ambiguous relationship with social policy throughout its history. When the term and concept of social science first began to be used in the middle of the nineteenth century, the initial organizations that emerged to promote social science were not located in the universities ...
Lecture 4: Functionalism - Faculty of Education | CUHK
... looking for are contributing and beneficial conditions instead of necessary conditions (or even sufficient condition) for the maintaining of the essential core of the social system. Furthermore, the strong version of specification of functional prerequisites into AGIL can also be relaxed. c. Dogan a ...
... looking for are contributing and beneficial conditions instead of necessary conditions (or even sufficient condition) for the maintaining of the essential core of the social system. Furthermore, the strong version of specification of functional prerequisites into AGIL can also be relaxed. c. Dogan a ...
Business Ethics and Early Modern French Philosophy at the
... immediate experience. In this sense, Bergson seems to announce a program of spirituality as a possible new understanding of life. In Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation entre corps et esprit (1896) Bergson continued his work on his theory of consciousness. Henri Bergson wanted to solve the c ...
... immediate experience. In this sense, Bergson seems to announce a program of spirituality as a possible new understanding of life. In Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation entre corps et esprit (1896) Bergson continued his work on his theory of consciousness. Henri Bergson wanted to solve the c ...
1 Barry Smith Rivista di Estetica, 50 (2012), 179
... Our focus here is on the ontology of social reality, and for this we need to begin with simple social entities such as claims, obligations and promises. If I promise to pay you 10 Euros tomorrow, then I acquire thereby an obligation and you acquire a corresponding claim. This is an example of how pe ...
... Our focus here is on the ontology of social reality, and for this we need to begin with simple social entities such as claims, obligations and promises. If I promise to pay you 10 Euros tomorrow, then I acquire thereby an obligation and you acquire a corresponding claim. This is an example of how pe ...
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences
... widespread adoption and acceptance of paradigms, terminologies, and research models alien to the socio-economic-religio realities of the Muslim world. Researchers everywhere face the question of bias in methodology and terminology, but this problem is especially acute among Third World intellectuals ...
... widespread adoption and acceptance of paradigms, terminologies, and research models alien to the socio-economic-religio realities of the Muslim world. Researchers everywhere face the question of bias in methodology and terminology, but this problem is especially acute among Third World intellectuals ...
montesquieu, hegel and weber: from „l‟esprit‟ to „der geist
... Thus, the first political system Montesquieu introduces is the republic, a system based in the Greek and Italian city-states of the ancient world and in the Middle Ages (concerning Italy). “Republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign powe ...
... Thus, the first political system Montesquieu introduces is the republic, a system based in the Greek and Italian city-states of the ancient world and in the Middle Ages (concerning Italy). “Republican government is that in which the people as a body, or only a part of the people, have sovereign powe ...
THE NEW SOCIAL POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
... One is a targeting of individuals and/or households on the basis of their income levels. Thus, programs in Chile, for example, provide income supplements to those people who can establish in an officially administered questionnaire that their income falls below a poverty line. Free meal programs in ...
... One is a targeting of individuals and/or households on the basis of their income levels. Thus, programs in Chile, for example, provide income supplements to those people who can establish in an officially administered questionnaire that their income falls below a poverty line. Free meal programs in ...
the scottish enlightenment, unintended consequences and the
... is that we should seek, with Weber and the positivists, to produce a value free science that provides information upon which to proceed in pursuit of otherwise generated norms. But is this what Hume had in mind? Another possibility might be to follow the approach of what, today, we call the Critical ...
... is that we should seek, with Weber and the positivists, to produce a value free science that provides information upon which to proceed in pursuit of otherwise generated norms. But is this what Hume had in mind? Another possibility might be to follow the approach of what, today, we call the Critical ...
Modernization Theory and the Sociological Study of Development.
... particular mode of conceptualization based on the notions of modermty and modernization which has provided the charactenstic theoretical framework of the sociology of development. The principal assumptions of modernization theory as understood here-often enough made explicit by those who use this ap ...
... particular mode of conceptualization based on the notions of modermty and modernization which has provided the charactenstic theoretical framework of the sociology of development. The principal assumptions of modernization theory as understood here-often enough made explicit by those who use this ap ...
Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life
... transcend the mundanities of the everyday through distantiation, that move towards generalized, abstracted understandings rather than concrete specificities and that try to construct academic or political theories that are as distanced, detached, and self-contained as any idealized art object. This ...
... transcend the mundanities of the everyday through distantiation, that move towards generalized, abstracted understandings rather than concrete specificities and that try to construct academic or political theories that are as distanced, detached, and self-contained as any idealized art object. This ...
Using mixed methods for analysing culture: The cultural capital and
... MCA creates a cultural map, showing the spread of relations between forms of cultural preference and participation. The analytic method is ‘inductive’ and ‘descriptive’ and does not presuppose that any particular ordering of practices will be found. Through inspecting the separation (or proximity) o ...
... MCA creates a cultural map, showing the spread of relations between forms of cultural preference and participation. The analytic method is ‘inductive’ and ‘descriptive’ and does not presuppose that any particular ordering of practices will be found. Through inspecting the separation (or proximity) o ...
The Humanomic Structure of Islamic Economic Theory: A Critical
... Social Consensus in Ethico-Economic System Social consensus formation plays a critical role in defining the above kinds of optimality in the ethico-economic system. However, unlike the purely market orientation of consensus formation between buyers and sellers, such consensus formation initially ema ...
... Social Consensus in Ethico-Economic System Social consensus formation plays a critical role in defining the above kinds of optimality in the ethico-economic system. However, unlike the purely market orientation of consensus formation between buyers and sellers, such consensus formation initially ema ...
BLOCK 3 PRIVATE TROUBLES AND PUBLIC ISSUES
... behind 'personal' troubles, and respond in ways (such as group work, community work and through self help movements) which stress collective or soclal, rather than individual solutions to problems In spite of this, social work remains predominantly an mdividualistic form of social intervention, char ...
... behind 'personal' troubles, and respond in ways (such as group work, community work and through self help movements) which stress collective or soclal, rather than individual solutions to problems In spite of this, social work remains predominantly an mdividualistic form of social intervention, char ...
Contents - Uni Kassel
... not see this political redirection as a proposal worth striving for, but rather, as a very problematic and naïve analytical move. Hence, there are important differences between these approaches. Compared with post-modern statements that “the subject is dead“, that “real bodies do not exist“ and that ...
... not see this political redirection as a proposal worth striving for, but rather, as a very problematic and naïve analytical move. Hence, there are important differences between these approaches. Compared with post-modern statements that “the subject is dead“, that “real bodies do not exist“ and that ...
Social Symbolism
... The theses articulated by Strauss can be grouped into four categories: statements on group communication; statements on group origin and variability of meanings; statements on interrelation of individual and group actions in communication; and statements on social worlds created in communicative act ...
... The theses articulated by Strauss can be grouped into four categories: statements on group communication; statements on group origin and variability of meanings; statements on interrelation of individual and group actions in communication; and statements on social worlds created in communicative act ...
IDENTITY: ETHICS OF DIGNITY
... aiding the sick and needy are fundamental to the Christian community. Christianity has a staggeringly wide range of worship forms. Catholicism and Orthodoxism have a wide variety of diversified worship because each national or cultural group within the church brings its social and political customs ...
... aiding the sick and needy are fundamental to the Christian community. Christianity has a staggeringly wide range of worship forms. Catholicism and Orthodoxism have a wide variety of diversified worship because each national or cultural group within the church brings its social and political customs ...
Social Work in Europe - University of Ostrava
... the communities. This sometimes leads to totally different standards of social work, depending on the politics that are dominant, the economic situation and the cultural characteristics of the respective region. On the whole, only the rates of the welfare benefits are consistent in these countries, ...
... the communities. This sometimes leads to totally different standards of social work, depending on the politics that are dominant, the economic situation and the cultural characteristics of the respective region. On the whole, only the rates of the welfare benefits are consistent in these countries, ...
the anti-social model of disability
... suggesting that institutions could not persist without the discourses that underpin them. This has an apparent relationship with Searle’s (1995) notion of ‘institutional facts’ as by definition normative, and contrasted with ‘brute facts’ which are not, but actually carries a rather different connot ...
... suggesting that institutions could not persist without the discourses that underpin them. This has an apparent relationship with Searle’s (1995) notion of ‘institutional facts’ as by definition normative, and contrasted with ‘brute facts’ which are not, but actually carries a rather different connot ...
From Big Society to Social Productivity
... is about the role of the state. In practice, we know that the state will continue to be responsible for funding, and regulating many public services, as well as ensuring their provision (if not directly providing them). And we also know that such is the inequality of social capital and capacity acro ...
... is about the role of the state. In practice, we know that the state will continue to be responsible for funding, and regulating many public services, as well as ensuring their provision (if not directly providing them). And we also know that such is the inequality of social capital and capacity acro ...
Social Science That Matters
... can be rationally and universally grounded, versus the view that one set social science which picked out elements of human action that would be of values is as good as another. Phronetic social scientists reject both completely different from those abstracted from our everyday activities. of these p ...
... can be rationally and universally grounded, versus the view that one set social science which picked out elements of human action that would be of values is as good as another. Phronetic social scientists reject both completely different from those abstracted from our everyday activities. of these p ...
1 Introduction to Social Casework: Historical Development
... service to thousand of clients. Social casework journal of family service association grew out of efforts of this great pioneer movement. The first book in case work “Social Diagnosis” was published in 1917 by Miss Richmond. Impact of First World War Prior to First World War, major emphasis was give ...
... service to thousand of clients. Social casework journal of family service association grew out of efforts of this great pioneer movement. The first book in case work “Social Diagnosis” was published in 1917 by Miss Richmond. Impact of First World War Prior to First World War, major emphasis was give ...
Normalcy Abstracts
... consider why these novels, both featuring central protagonists depicted as having AS (and for whom their Asperger’s Syndrome is the essential characteristic of their fictional lives) and both written by professional authors who themselves do not identify with Asperger’s Syndrome, would experience su ...
... consider why these novels, both featuring central protagonists depicted as having AS (and for whom their Asperger’s Syndrome is the essential characteristic of their fictional lives) and both written by professional authors who themselves do not identify with Asperger’s Syndrome, would experience su ...
The Psychology of Cultural Experience - Assets
... mind to define learned schemas as dense networks of strong associations built up from experience. Whatever co-occurs in experience, including thoughts, emotions, motivations, and the nonverbalized or preverbal, will become incorporated in a schema. Once a strong network of associations has been crea ...
... mind to define learned schemas as dense networks of strong associations built up from experience. Whatever co-occurs in experience, including thoughts, emotions, motivations, and the nonverbalized or preverbal, will become incorporated in a schema. Once a strong network of associations has been crea ...
On Social Formation
... American studies programs were conceived of as pan-Africanist and diasporic, but these too, like nationalism, followed a European exemplar. During the late nineteenth century, in the noonday of European imperialism, whiteness and white supremacy dissected and sutured narratives of nation by creating ...
... American studies programs were conceived of as pan-Africanist and diasporic, but these too, like nationalism, followed a European exemplar. During the late nineteenth century, in the noonday of European imperialism, whiteness and white supremacy dissected and sutured narratives of nation by creating ...