CONTEXT AND THEORY
... connected to the principles of ancient wisdom, African worldsense, cosmogonies, institutions, concepts, symbols, and voices can only be fully perceived and appreciated through a holistic paradigm like Afrocentricity. Embracing all these aspects in a systemic network of meanings, Afrocentricity conve ...
... connected to the principles of ancient wisdom, African worldsense, cosmogonies, institutions, concepts, symbols, and voices can only be fully perceived and appreciated through a holistic paradigm like Afrocentricity. Embracing all these aspects in a systemic network of meanings, Afrocentricity conve ...
genders, races, and religious cultures in modern american poetry
... “New Woman,” coined in by Ouida from a phrase by British novelist Sarah Grand, a descriptor for a variety of emancipatory reforms in the female condition: higher education, living wages, changes in marriage law, access to the professions, woman suffrage, and sometimes birth control (Fitzsimmons ...
... “New Woman,” coined in by Ouida from a phrase by British novelist Sarah Grand, a descriptor for a variety of emancipatory reforms in the female condition: higher education, living wages, changes in marriage law, access to the professions, woman suffrage, and sometimes birth control (Fitzsimmons ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Topics in the Philosophy of Social Science
... – How do they exercise causal influence? – How do they affect individual behavior? – How do they influence other high-level structures and entities? ...
... – How do they exercise causal influence? – How do they affect individual behavior? – How do they influence other high-level structures and entities? ...
Large-scale structural organization of social networks
... the likelihood of coincidences. The often successful identification of acquaintances is even more striking in view of the very small number of friends usually mentioned in an introductory conversation. As we show, the existence of short paths connecting people, although to some extent necessary, is ...
... the likelihood of coincidences. The often successful identification of acquaintances is even more striking in view of the very small number of friends usually mentioned in an introductory conversation. As we show, the existence of short paths connecting people, although to some extent necessary, is ...
Psychology and National Development
... of quality of life? Thus, on the surface, the distinction between development as economic growth and human development seems to be becoming clearer. In response to calls for new development policies, there is now greater awareness of a need for programmes to improve primary health care, education, i ...
... of quality of life? Thus, on the surface, the distinction between development as economic growth and human development seems to be becoming clearer. In response to calls for new development policies, there is now greater awareness of a need for programmes to improve primary health care, education, i ...
Ellie Vasta - MUEP
... but also influenced government policies. Unfortunately, academic research has become more and more dependent on ARC and industry funding, both of which have control over such matters as methodology that is highly influenced by the amount of funding available. For example, longitudinal research is no ...
... but also influenced government policies. Unfortunately, academic research has become more and more dependent on ARC and industry funding, both of which have control over such matters as methodology that is highly influenced by the amount of funding available. For example, longitudinal research is no ...
The Construction of Music as a Social Phenomenon
... indeed related to heterogeneous semantic fields; it designates distinct observable phenomena and stands for diverse if not irreconcilable objects of research. More precisely, I would argue that it connotes three basic concepts, hereafter referred to as "conceptualized art," "cultural product" (or pr ...
... indeed related to heterogeneous semantic fields; it designates distinct observable phenomena and stands for diverse if not irreconcilable objects of research. More precisely, I would argue that it connotes three basic concepts, hereafter referred to as "conceptualized art," "cultural product" (or pr ...
Beaches and Bodies - Brunel University London
... and of the body’s own tides, passions and anxieties. This heightened physical awareness means that it is at the beach – which is itself often a kind of storm centre – that ‘everything’ can be experienced as circling around and being felt ‘from its [the body’s] point of view’, rather than being (‘mer ...
... and of the body’s own tides, passions and anxieties. This heightened physical awareness means that it is at the beach – which is itself often a kind of storm centre – that ‘everything’ can be experienced as circling around and being felt ‘from its [the body’s] point of view’, rather than being (‘mer ...
FS01MenantC
... We propose an application of the scenario to artificial consciousness with a robot going thru the four steps. Step A) needs the build up of a robot that carries a non self-conscious auto-representation and has representations of his con-specifics. This looks possible in principle, as a continuation ...
... We propose an application of the scenario to artificial consciousness with a robot going thru the four steps. Step A) needs the build up of a robot that carries a non self-conscious auto-representation and has representations of his con-specifics. This looks possible in principle, as a continuation ...
Too Ideal to Be Real: A Marxist-Inspired Critique on M.T. Anderson`s
... This indifference is seen later in the book, again in reference to Violet. He said “Violet chatted me to say she couldn’t talk, she was, I don’t know, learning ancient Swahili or building a replica of Carthage out of iron filings or finding the cure for entropy of some shit, and I was sitting aroun ...
... This indifference is seen later in the book, again in reference to Violet. He said “Violet chatted me to say she couldn’t talk, she was, I don’t know, learning ancient Swahili or building a replica of Carthage out of iron filings or finding the cure for entropy of some shit, and I was sitting aroun ...
Lecture 6: The Sociology of Anomie
... means and repeated failure to attain success through legitimate means. Subsequently, Merton‘s conception of retreatism as a private way of dropping out was given a more sociological interpretation by theorists in the subcultural tradition (Coward. 1959; Cloward and Ohlin, 1960). The final adaptation ...
... means and repeated failure to attain success through legitimate means. Subsequently, Merton‘s conception of retreatism as a private way of dropping out was given a more sociological interpretation by theorists in the subcultural tradition (Coward. 1959; Cloward and Ohlin, 1960). The final adaptation ...
Globalization and its effects on community, work and household
... operandi is to use developments in IT and robotics alongside facilities afforded by the ready movement of financial resources across national boundaries. In many respects globalization and industrialiization overlap, the one projecting on to the increasingly fast development of the other. What is ne ...
... operandi is to use developments in IT and robotics alongside facilities afforded by the ready movement of financial resources across national boundaries. In many respects globalization and industrialiization overlap, the one projecting on to the increasingly fast development of the other. What is ne ...
Culture - faculty.fairfield.edu
... power, and to a lesser extent (in Hacking s case) society. Hacking s current very interesting work on nineteenth-century statistics does, however , include these categories. Although compelling in its deconstructive force , Rorty s story is less convincing in its refusal to comment on how the episte ...
... power, and to a lesser extent (in Hacking s case) society. Hacking s current very interesting work on nineteenth-century statistics does, however , include these categories. Although compelling in its deconstructive force , Rorty s story is less convincing in its refusal to comment on how the episte ...
New Media as Weapons of Mass Instruction
... manufactured the first approximation of an American polis unified via a system of mass mediations—a self-conscious body politic organised around a militarising movement. Despite the lack of instantaneous electronic mass media, the CPI successfully reached and influenced a massive cumulative audienc ...
... manufactured the first approximation of an American polis unified via a system of mass mediations—a self-conscious body politic organised around a militarising movement. Despite the lack of instantaneous electronic mass media, the CPI successfully reached and influenced a massive cumulative audienc ...
Chapter 9
... Any action, deliberate or unconscious, that influences conduct toward conformity, whether or not the persons being influenced are aware of the process Primary function of law is to establish and maintain social control Why is social control necessary? 1. Peaceful coexistence 2. Predictable coexisten ...
... Any action, deliberate or unconscious, that influences conduct toward conformity, whether or not the persons being influenced are aware of the process Primary function of law is to establish and maintain social control Why is social control necessary? 1. Peaceful coexistence 2. Predictable coexisten ...
Social Archaeology
... past. When the dust cleared from these early archaeological bombshells, the intellectual terrain began to accommodate new thinking brought about by civil rights, indigenous movements, and feminist theory that had entered the mainstream a decade earlier. Margaret Conkey, Joan Gero, and Janet Spector, ...
... past. When the dust cleared from these early archaeological bombshells, the intellectual terrain began to accommodate new thinking brought about by civil rights, indigenous movements, and feminist theory that had entered the mainstream a decade earlier. Margaret Conkey, Joan Gero, and Janet Spector, ...
Advanced Philosophy of Social Science
... A.F. Chalmers, What is this thing called Science?, chs. 1-6 P. Winch, The Idea of a Social Science, ch.1 E. Nagel, “Assumptions in Economic Theory”, in A. Ryan (ed.), The Philosophy of Social Explanation Seminar Discussion Topics: Week 2 (a) What is the 'Covering Law' Model of Explanation? What reas ...
... A.F. Chalmers, What is this thing called Science?, chs. 1-6 P. Winch, The Idea of a Social Science, ch.1 E. Nagel, “Assumptions in Economic Theory”, in A. Ryan (ed.), The Philosophy of Social Explanation Seminar Discussion Topics: Week 2 (a) What is the 'Covering Law' Model of Explanation? What reas ...
Slide 1
... what a professional should or should not do in the work -place. It also encompasses a much greater part of the professional’s life. If a professional is to have ethics then that person needs to adopt that conduct in all of his dealings. Another aspect of this is the enhancement of the profession and ...
... what a professional should or should not do in the work -place. It also encompasses a much greater part of the professional’s life. If a professional is to have ethics then that person needs to adopt that conduct in all of his dealings. Another aspect of this is the enhancement of the profession and ...
Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences
... Hempel contributed highly stimulating comments on the problem involved, formulated in the careful and lucid way so characteristic of these scholars. Their topic is a controversy which for more than half a century has split not only logicians and methodologists but also social scientists into two sch ...
... Hempel contributed highly stimulating comments on the problem involved, formulated in the careful and lucid way so characteristic of these scholars. Their topic is a controversy which for more than half a century has split not only logicians and methodologists but also social scientists into two sch ...
PROLEGOMENON The consequences of the
... philosophy to explicate these higher order or abstract features, which are normally not topicalised in, but rather only tacitly presupposed by, our practices. What philosophy typically does, then, is to explicate presuppositions of our activities, which are ‘given’, but as ‘tacit’ and often, ‘confus ...
... philosophy to explicate these higher order or abstract features, which are normally not topicalised in, but rather only tacitly presupposed by, our practices. What philosophy typically does, then, is to explicate presuppositions of our activities, which are ‘given’, but as ‘tacit’ and often, ‘confus ...
Postcolonial Psychosis and Recovery Process in Osita
... past, but declaring war against the present realities which, implicitly or explicitly, are the consequences of that past. Therefore the attention of the struggle is concentrated on neo-colonialism and its agents (international and local) that are still enforced through political, economic and social ...
... past, but declaring war against the present realities which, implicitly or explicitly, are the consequences of that past. Therefore the attention of the struggle is concentrated on neo-colonialism and its agents (international and local) that are still enforced through political, economic and social ...
OAD313 Computer Applications in Business II: Introduction
... Problems of Violating Social Norms: Crime and Violence: Symbolic Interactionist Perspective (Pluralist Paradigm) ...
... Problems of Violating Social Norms: Crime and Violence: Symbolic Interactionist Perspective (Pluralist Paradigm) ...
Interpretivism in Aiding Our Understanding of the Contemporary
... 6. The “Ideal Type” The advocates of positivism could not justify their definition of real world based on observation. They ignored the fact that, if there are (and there must be) hidden patters, underlying rule formations, which govern the observed parts of reality, and whose exploration can contri ...
... 6. The “Ideal Type” The advocates of positivism could not justify their definition of real world based on observation. They ignored the fact that, if there are (and there must be) hidden patters, underlying rule formations, which govern the observed parts of reality, and whose exploration can contri ...
Introduction: The role of discourse analysis in society. 1983.
... by the prevalence of white middle-class discourse styles in multi-ethnic schools, and so on. But even the choice of such specific research domains and problems, and even the formulation of relevant questions, does not yet provide solutions to problems or strategies to fight inequality. These will am ...
... by the prevalence of white middle-class discourse styles in multi-ethnic schools, and so on. But even the choice of such specific research domains and problems, and even the formulation of relevant questions, does not yet provide solutions to problems or strategies to fight inequality. These will am ...
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness: Continuum or
... ‘stance-theoretic’ view doesn’t seem to suffice – a heterophenomenological view may go quite a long way towards capturing the complexity of such states; – but on (my interpretation of) the enactive view, our conception of such states (in another) essentially involves an empathetic co-identification ...
... ‘stance-theoretic’ view doesn’t seem to suffice – a heterophenomenological view may go quite a long way towards capturing the complexity of such states; – but on (my interpretation of) the enactive view, our conception of such states (in another) essentially involves an empathetic co-identification ...