Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The
... depends on its conformity with disciplines and methods that practitioners see as meeting their standards of evidence and argument. This essentially technical matter has relatively little moral content. In any event, scientific argument is a specialized discourse within a narrow community of investig ...
... depends on its conformity with disciplines and methods that practitioners see as meeting their standards of evidence and argument. This essentially technical matter has relatively little moral content. In any event, scientific argument is a specialized discourse within a narrow community of investig ...
PART I CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
... independent and causally efficacious structure is reproducedor transformed by individual action. Anticipating realism, Peter Blau similarly argued for a dialectical social theory in which structure was reproduced and transformed by the individual in the course of social exchange: ‘structural change, ...
... independent and causally efficacious structure is reproducedor transformed by individual action. Anticipating realism, Peter Blau similarly argued for a dialectical social theory in which structure was reproduced and transformed by the individual in the course of social exchange: ‘structural change, ...
Dialogicality and Social Representations
... Language has an immense number of words to express change, movement and passage from one state of affairs to another. Change-words distinguish between fast and slow transformations, intentional or purposeless activities, revolutions and evolutions, and qualities and quantities of adjustments. There ...
... Language has an immense number of words to express change, movement and passage from one state of affairs to another. Change-words distinguish between fast and slow transformations, intentional or purposeless activities, revolutions and evolutions, and qualities and quantities of adjustments. There ...
1. Basics of Pedagogics. Subject and tasks of Pedagogics
... theories of education, particularly within the tradition of the humanities. Pedagogues who lean towards conceptual analysis can therefore claim that they have already dealt with this aspect, given that conceptual analysis is concerned with distinguishing between meaning and nonsense, fiction and rea ...
... theories of education, particularly within the tradition of the humanities. Pedagogues who lean towards conceptual analysis can therefore claim that they have already dealt with this aspect, given that conceptual analysis is concerned with distinguishing between meaning and nonsense, fiction and rea ...
PHILOSOPHY: SOCIETY-SPACE
... The first approach views society-space in terms of exploitative relations organized in a structured coherence – a social formation, whose territorial boundaries loosely approximate politico-juridical boundaries. It is rooted in a Marxist vision of social inequity. Societal relations are defined by e ...
... The first approach views society-space in terms of exploitative relations organized in a structured coherence – a social formation, whose territorial boundaries loosely approximate politico-juridical boundaries. It is rooted in a Marxist vision of social inequity. Societal relations are defined by e ...
Dharma with Moksha during classical Indian philosophy: Its
... It is the co-operative effort for shared benefits, as duties are always performed in appreciation of others. In this sense all individual are, at the same time givers as well as takers. MOKSHA------ it has been said that the pursuit of moksha liberates human being and also guide him to the world Bra ...
... It is the co-operative effort for shared benefits, as duties are always performed in appreciation of others. In this sense all individual are, at the same time givers as well as takers. MOKSHA------ it has been said that the pursuit of moksha liberates human being and also guide him to the world Bra ...
Rawls Lecture Notes
... utilitarianism and its variants (welfarism, rational choice theory, economics) Minor form included certain moralistic doctrines which tried to bring justice relations into focus as moral relations (utilitarianism, deontology). ...
... utilitarianism and its variants (welfarism, rational choice theory, economics) Minor form included certain moralistic doctrines which tried to bring justice relations into focus as moral relations (utilitarianism, deontology). ...
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... Positivism believes in the unity of the scientific methods, and natural sciences are generally taken to be the model for all the sciences. Alongside, positivists naturalism entails reductionism, a correspondence theory between truths of science and the nature of reality, and phenomenalism (Delanty, ...
... Positivism believes in the unity of the scientific methods, and natural sciences are generally taken to be the model for all the sciences. Alongside, positivists naturalism entails reductionism, a correspondence theory between truths of science and the nature of reality, and phenomenalism (Delanty, ...
PDF - ProtoSociology
... and the emergence of a global world system which itself emerged from evolutionary universals. The theory of modernization was systematized by American sociologists after World War II, who stand more or less in the tradition of Weber. The Modern describes the distinction of the contemporary and the o ...
... and the emergence of a global world system which itself emerged from evolutionary universals. The theory of modernization was systematized by American sociologists after World War II, who stand more or less in the tradition of Weber. The Modern describes the distinction of the contemporary and the o ...
Assessing the glue that holds society together: social
... etc. The scientific discourse may be defined as scholarly debates and works on SC in journals, academic books, and policy recommendations from research committees. It is thus comprised of scholars. The distinction is analytical, but I will later use it to show that both discourses are premised on on ...
... etc. The scientific discourse may be defined as scholarly debates and works on SC in journals, academic books, and policy recommendations from research committees. It is thus comprised of scholars. The distinction is analytical, but I will later use it to show that both discourses are premised on on ...
2014 Annual Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal
... they assuredly do have an ethical dimension – but to their complexity, as unpredictable, open-ended and often intractable issues. Since the problems of the 21st century are wicked in this sense, they have technical features incapable of analysis by a single discipline, and are not even the responsib ...
... they assuredly do have an ethical dimension – but to their complexity, as unpredictable, open-ended and often intractable issues. Since the problems of the 21st century are wicked in this sense, they have technical features incapable of analysis by a single discipline, and are not even the responsib ...
Understanding Cultural Relativism in a Multicultural World
... limits of accepted variation will be adjudged in terms of preexisting standards, and either rejected or reconciled with them. Those who make a society have no more difficulty in defining reality than they have in defining good conduct and bad. But this is within a society. Cultural relativism develo ...
... limits of accepted variation will be adjudged in terms of preexisting standards, and either rejected or reconciled with them. Those who make a society have no more difficulty in defining reality than they have in defining good conduct and bad. But this is within a society. Cultural relativism develo ...
Psychopharmacological enhancement: a conceptual framework Open Access
... and nocebo responses is now possible; this includes awareness not only of the importance of the doctorpatient relationship, but also the way in which this is mediated by specific neurocircuitry. Evolutionary theory both contributes to the richness of our scientific accounts, including our account of ...
... and nocebo responses is now possible; this includes awareness not only of the importance of the doctorpatient relationship, but also the way in which this is mediated by specific neurocircuitry. Evolutionary theory both contributes to the richness of our scientific accounts, including our account of ...
A MORAL IMAGINATION: PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY—and
... participants, or their networks are empowered to influence, impact, or appropriate allocations of power (or the dynamic equivalence). While the discussion of the concept of empowerment theory and practice—individually and corporately—is an important debate, in this paper, without entering the discu ...
... participants, or their networks are empowered to influence, impact, or appropriate allocations of power (or the dynamic equivalence). While the discussion of the concept of empowerment theory and practice—individually and corporately—is an important debate, in this paper, without entering the discu ...
Editorial Social Constructionism in Community and Applied Social
... means is that unlike most natural systems, social systems do not have an existence independent of human beings, but are (in part at least) what they are because of the particular ways human communities define them. As Taylor (1985, p. 34) observed: ‘The language is constitutive of the reality, is es ...
... means is that unlike most natural systems, social systems do not have an existence independent of human beings, but are (in part at least) what they are because of the particular ways human communities define them. As Taylor (1985, p. 34) observed: ‘The language is constitutive of the reality, is es ...
Learning for Social Cohesion
... mid 19th century. One of the seminal contributors to the basic functionalist roots of conflict theory in sociology continues to be Karl Marx. His overall schema in the analysis of revolutionary social change, which he envisioned as the outcome of social conflict, has some of the following characteri ...
... mid 19th century. One of the seminal contributors to the basic functionalist roots of conflict theory in sociology continues to be Karl Marx. His overall schema in the analysis of revolutionary social change, which he envisioned as the outcome of social conflict, has some of the following characteri ...
The irrational calculator: Sales at the crossroads of compliance. May
... sleep-deprived, or maybe jet-lagged, “ego depletion” can prompt us to “just get it over with” via the simple, quick solution rather than the right one. The situational pressures and temptations Bistrong describes are bad enough, but when we factor in the effects of our psychological quirks and menta ...
... sleep-deprived, or maybe jet-lagged, “ego depletion” can prompt us to “just get it over with” via the simple, quick solution rather than the right one. The situational pressures and temptations Bistrong describes are bad enough, but when we factor in the effects of our psychological quirks and menta ...
'Emotional geographies'
... emotions under control and others’ under wraps. A consequence of this is that emotional relations tend to be regarded as something apart from the economic and/or as something that is essentially private, and does not substantially infuse the public/policy sphere. In some senses, moreover, this is re ...
... emotions under control and others’ under wraps. A consequence of this is that emotional relations tend to be regarded as something apart from the economic and/or as something that is essentially private, and does not substantially infuse the public/policy sphere. In some senses, moreover, this is re ...
ii - Forskning
... Subjectivity is relational. Individuals (or groups, but that is another and complicated story) constitute themselves as subjects in their agency and interaction with (each) others and the world, and their experience building in this interaction. There is an inner dialectic relation between the subje ...
... Subjectivity is relational. Individuals (or groups, but that is another and complicated story) constitute themselves as subjects in their agency and interaction with (each) others and the world, and their experience building in this interaction. There is an inner dialectic relation between the subje ...
Three shortcomings of the social investment
... non-employed persons taking care of dependent persons, such as disabled children, face an above-average poverty risk, with a particular high risk in the Southern European countries but also in Belgium and Ireland (European Union, 2012). In sum, households with a person with disability have a great r ...
... non-employed persons taking care of dependent persons, such as disabled children, face an above-average poverty risk, with a particular high risk in the Southern European countries but also in Belgium and Ireland (European Union, 2012). In sum, households with a person with disability have a great r ...
POLITICAL POWER BEYOND THE STATE: PROBLEMATICS OF
... Three differences between our approach and the new sociology of state formation are relevant here. The first concerns 'realism'. Historical sociologies of the state are realist in the sense that they seek to characterise the actual configurations of persons, organizations and events at particular hi ...
... Three differences between our approach and the new sociology of state formation are relevant here. The first concerns 'realism'. Historical sociologies of the state are realist in the sense that they seek to characterise the actual configurations of persons, organizations and events at particular hi ...
On the sociogenesis of sociology*
... with new problems on their mental horizon. The difficulty is that once a concept has become firm ly established in a language and has found a home in a specific word, one is apt to take it for granted; the capacity to perceive different shades of meaning in the uses of the same word at an earlier s ...
... with new problems on their mental horizon. The difficulty is that once a concept has become firm ly established in a language and has found a home in a specific word, one is apt to take it for granted; the capacity to perceive different shades of meaning in the uses of the same word at an earlier s ...
History Education and Identity
... As long as the people who make an ‘us and other’ difference have agreed on fundamental principles, no serious crisis occurs. The acceptance of the existence of ‘the other’ helps to choose and continue an identity. However if one of the identities does more things than refusing the existence of the o ...
... As long as the people who make an ‘us and other’ difference have agreed on fundamental principles, no serious crisis occurs. The acceptance of the existence of ‘the other’ helps to choose and continue an identity. However if one of the identities does more things than refusing the existence of the o ...
History Education and Identity
... As long as the people who make an ‘us and other’ difference have agreed on fundamental principles, no serious crisis occurs. The acceptance of the existence of ‘the other’ helps to choose and continue an identity. However if one of the identities does more things than refusing the existence of the o ...
... As long as the people who make an ‘us and other’ difference have agreed on fundamental principles, no serious crisis occurs. The acceptance of the existence of ‘the other’ helps to choose and continue an identity. However if one of the identities does more things than refusing the existence of the o ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...