Social norms and identity dependent preferences
... the identification problem arises because the observed choice data is a consequence of both an individual’s utility over outcomes as well as her utility derived from norm compliance. A second challenge is that social identities themselves are fluid, multiple, and socially constructed, making it diff ...
... the identification problem arises because the observed choice data is a consequence of both an individual’s utility over outcomes as well as her utility derived from norm compliance. A second challenge is that social identities themselves are fluid, multiple, and socially constructed, making it diff ...
Cultural Identity and Attenuated Psychotic Experiences
... 83 studies (Nguyen & Benet-Martinez, 2013) found a strong and positive relationship between integration and psychological (e.g. self-esteem and positive affect) and sociocultural (e.g. academic and career success) adjustment. This relationship was stronger than that of monocultural orientation’s (as ...
... 83 studies (Nguyen & Benet-Martinez, 2013) found a strong and positive relationship between integration and psychological (e.g. self-esteem and positive affect) and sociocultural (e.g. academic and career success) adjustment. This relationship was stronger than that of monocultural orientation’s (as ...
Three Political Philosophers Debate Social Science
... locate the origin of positivism is in seventeenth and eighteenth century attempts to transfer the mechanistic forms of explanation of Newton’s physics into the social sciences. 9 Taylor similarly argues that this movement began with the belief that human behavior ought to be “understood according to ...
... locate the origin of positivism is in seventeenth and eighteenth century attempts to transfer the mechanistic forms of explanation of Newton’s physics into the social sciences. 9 Taylor similarly argues that this movement began with the belief that human behavior ought to be “understood according to ...
Preparing for Integrity
... Their surprise is often manifested in an initial refusal to consider a strict, technical understanding of the word that has no apparent moral flavoring. Strictly defined, integrity means that one is integrated. Being integrated as a person comprises the consistency of assumptions, beliefs, values, e ...
... Their surprise is often manifested in an initial refusal to consider a strict, technical understanding of the word that has no apparent moral flavoring. Strictly defined, integrity means that one is integrated. Being integrated as a person comprises the consistency of assumptions, beliefs, values, e ...
Social Movements and Environmentalism, a Luhmannian
... relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as an example of, on one hand, how these instances of collective action perfor ...
... relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as an example of, on one hand, how these instances of collective action perfor ...
book - University of Westminster Press
... law of value as the foundation of commodity-producing societies that is derived from the analysis of the value-form. This theory is at the same time a critique of the political economy, i.e. demonstration of the capability and limit of this science for the explanation of the value-form with its soci ...
... law of value as the foundation of commodity-producing societies that is derived from the analysis of the value-form. This theory is at the same time a critique of the political economy, i.e. demonstration of the capability and limit of this science for the explanation of the value-form with its soci ...
Shanks Tilley 1987
... ethnocentric notions of social evolution have long been dominant. If we achieve little more in this book we hope at least to initiate further conceptualization and debate in these vital areas. Chapter 7 situates archaeology as a cultural practice firmly in the present and argues that it needs to bec ...
... ethnocentric notions of social evolution have long been dominant. If we achieve little more in this book we hope at least to initiate further conceptualization and debate in these vital areas. Chapter 7 situates archaeology as a cultural practice firmly in the present and argues that it needs to bec ...
Social Change and Modernity - Le Magazine de la communication
... and, in particular, the relationship among these. The notion of differentiation (or specialization) was central in the work of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Durkheim. The same notion informs the work of a number of contemporary theorists, notably Parsons. Yet both the causes and ...
... and, in particular, the relationship among these. The notion of differentiation (or specialization) was central in the work of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Durkheim. The same notion informs the work of a number of contemporary theorists, notably Parsons. Yet both the causes and ...
Realist Social Theory
... Social reality is unlike any other because of its human constitution. It is different from natural reality whose defining feature is self-subsistence: for its existence does not depend upon us, a fact which is not compromised by our human ability to intervene in the world of nature and change it. So ...
... Social reality is unlike any other because of its human constitution. It is different from natural reality whose defining feature is self-subsistence: for its existence does not depend upon us, a fact which is not compromised by our human ability to intervene in the world of nature and change it. So ...
Back and Forth - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... phenomena and noumena: the world of appearance and the unknowable realm of things-in-themselves beyond the dictates of spatio-temporality. Fichte would react with his brand of solipsism or total self-consciousness that appealed to the Jena Romantics. The noumenal is done away with. The I creates its ...
... phenomena and noumena: the world of appearance and the unknowable realm of things-in-themselves beyond the dictates of spatio-temporality. Fichte would react with his brand of solipsism or total self-consciousness that appealed to the Jena Romantics. The noumenal is done away with. The I creates its ...
A Sociology of Modernity
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...
Text - CentAUR - University of Reading
... decades now.3 It is widely accepted that by contrast to the welfarist and ‘social’ liberalism that prevailed in Western states after the Second World War, the neoliberalism that has been rising to prominence since the late 1970s involves a wholesale reorganisation of state and society, in the West a ...
... decades now.3 It is widely accepted that by contrast to the welfarist and ‘social’ liberalism that prevailed in Western states after the Second World War, the neoliberalism that has been rising to prominence since the late 1970s involves a wholesale reorganisation of state and society, in the West a ...
Bob`s Lecture Notes for Week 1
... Wittgenstein (PI §95: “When we say, and mean, that such-and-such is the case, we—and our meaning—do not stop anywhere short of the fact; but we mean: this-is-so.”) When all goes well, the content of my thought that I have two hands is the fact that I have two hands. Hegelian contents are Fregean tho ...
... Wittgenstein (PI §95: “When we say, and mean, that such-and-such is the case, we—and our meaning—do not stop anywhere short of the fact; but we mean: this-is-so.”) When all goes well, the content of my thought that I have two hands is the fact that I have two hands. Hegelian contents are Fregean tho ...
Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of
... several innovative analyses of artists, often using Census data for arts jobs. But the US Census does not ask people if they are Bohemians or other lifestyle or value questions that might capture values more directly. Thus Boho in this type of research is imputed from the occupational title. By not ...
... several innovative analyses of artists, often using Census data for arts jobs. But the US Census does not ask people if they are Bohemians or other lifestyle or value questions that might capture values more directly. Thus Boho in this type of research is imputed from the occupational title. By not ...
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY Peter L. Berger is
... these co�texts. he need for a'sociology of knowledge' is thus already g�ven Wlth the observable differences between societies in terms o what is taken for granted as 'knowledge' in them. B�yond this, however, a discipline calling itself by this name will have to concern itself with the general ways ...
... these co�texts. he need for a'sociology of knowledge' is thus already g�ven Wlth the observable differences between societies in terms o what is taken for granted as 'knowledge' in them. B�yond this, however, a discipline calling itself by this name will have to concern itself with the general ways ...
Depletion and Social Reproduction
... social relations – while discrete, it is relational, while being depleted on an individual basis, it does so within social frameworks that position it in relations to other bodies. These relations are historically specific and contested and as such these influence the ways in which bodies are viewed ...
... social relations – while discrete, it is relational, while being depleted on an individual basis, it does so within social frameworks that position it in relations to other bodies. These relations are historically specific and contested and as such these influence the ways in which bodies are viewed ...
After International Relations: Critical Realism and the
... the twenty years of crises between them, political realists began to recognise that international economic co-operation is possible, but usually only if it accords with the interests of the great powers. A new factor may nonetheless have surfaced. International regimes can be seen as ‘intervening va ...
... the twenty years of crises between them, political realists began to recognise that international economic co-operation is possible, but usually only if it accords with the interests of the great powers. A new factor may nonetheless have surfaced. International regimes can be seen as ‘intervening va ...
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... Hull-House. Modeled after the settlement house Toynbee Hall, located in East London, Hull-House was a location for humanist social experimentation. Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr devoted all of their time and financial resources to providing a crucible for the development of neighborhood re ...
... Hull-House. Modeled after the settlement house Toynbee Hall, located in East London, Hull-House was a location for humanist social experimentation. Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr devoted all of their time and financial resources to providing a crucible for the development of neighborhood re ...
5 derrida`s critique of husserl and the philosophy of presence
... Derrida follows Heidegger’s distinction between (a) the sense of Being, (b) the word Being, and (c) the concept of Being. For Heidegger’s discussion of this, see Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, 12th ed. (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1972), English translation, John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being ...
... Derrida follows Heidegger’s distinction between (a) the sense of Being, (b) the word Being, and (c) the concept of Being. For Heidegger’s discussion of this, see Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, 12th ed. (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1972), English translation, John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being ...
Bringing Identity Theory into Environmental Sociology*
... interacts with the environment, and while there is a tendency for women to be more concerned about the environment than men, the results are modest (Davidson and Freudenburg 1996; Mohai 1997). Gender can be understood both at the macro level, as a position in the social structure in which a category ...
... interacts with the environment, and while there is a tendency for women to be more concerned about the environment than men, the results are modest (Davidson and Freudenburg 1996; Mohai 1997). Gender can be understood both at the macro level, as a position in the social structure in which a category ...
In the shadow of genetics - Centre for Disability Studies
... As a result of my experiences, socialisation and upbringing, I care not for such things as gender, ethnicity, skin colour, sexual orientation, 'ability' or its alleged lack, religious observance or, indeed, educational attainment. I distrust expertise. I detest bigotry and elitism. It is in this con ...
... As a result of my experiences, socialisation and upbringing, I care not for such things as gender, ethnicity, skin colour, sexual orientation, 'ability' or its alleged lack, religious observance or, indeed, educational attainment. I distrust expertise. I detest bigotry and elitism. It is in this con ...
Social solidarities: the search for solidarity in
... human beings and charity as a key mechanism for integration. Assisting the needy was a duty of charity for wealthy Christians who could gain their reward in heaven as a consequence of the ...
... human beings and charity as a key mechanism for integration. Assisting the needy was a duty of charity for wealthy Christians who could gain their reward in heaven as a consequence of the ...
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND THE PROBLEM OF COLLECTIVE
... in a more detailed manner to a specific empirical question. Finally a reiteration of concepts will close the thesis. The concepts of collective subjectivity, collective causality and levels of centring have a great role to play in sociology, both in terms of general theory and empirical research. In ...
... in a more detailed manner to a specific empirical question. Finally a reiteration of concepts will close the thesis. The concepts of collective subjectivity, collective causality and levels of centring have a great role to play in sociology, both in terms of general theory and empirical research. In ...
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
... ‘realism’ as indicating our belief that there exists an objective world independent of our ideas of it and that the world as experienced is not co-terminous with that objective world, hence the need for science. We also maintain the (non-reductive) materialist premise that ideas are essentially spec ...
... ‘realism’ as indicating our belief that there exists an objective world independent of our ideas of it and that the world as experienced is not co-terminous with that objective world, hence the need for science. We also maintain the (non-reductive) materialist premise that ideas are essentially spec ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... It now seems generally accepted among critics of liberalism that we live and work in a world that reimagines the human person as without teloi at all. Perhaps the better way to say it would be that contemporary sociopolitical discourse presupposes a human person who can imagine infinite teloi based ...
... It now seems generally accepted among critics of liberalism that we live and work in a world that reimagines the human person as without teloi at all. Perhaps the better way to say it would be that contemporary sociopolitical discourse presupposes a human person who can imagine infinite teloi based ...