Anthropological and Sociological Critiques of Bioethics
... social sciences—a stance that seems to be as much moral imperative as interpretive method—Bosk (2001, 213) writes: The most characteristic ways a social scientist learns to think are organized to disabuse any group of its own notions of its ‘specialness’. Social science is a generalizing activity. O ...
... social sciences—a stance that seems to be as much moral imperative as interpretive method—Bosk (2001, 213) writes: The most characteristic ways a social scientist learns to think are organized to disabuse any group of its own notions of its ‘specialness’. Social science is a generalizing activity. O ...
Module 22: Hypnosis and Meditation
... Hypnosis • A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) makes suggestions about perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors, and another person (the subject) follows those suggestions • Hypnotist serves as a coach or tutor showing you the way. ...
... Hypnosis • A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) makes suggestions about perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors, and another person (the subject) follows those suggestions • Hypnotist serves as a coach or tutor showing you the way. ...
The Positive Philosophy Auguste Comte Batoche Books
... excluding all inert bodies. Here we have, in my view, the first elementary basis of true biological philosophy. It is true, this definition neglects the eminent distinction between the organic and the animal life, and relates solely to the vegetative life; and it appears to violate the general princ ...
... excluding all inert bodies. Here we have, in my view, the first elementary basis of true biological philosophy. It is true, this definition neglects the eminent distinction between the organic and the animal life, and relates solely to the vegetative life; and it appears to violate the general princ ...
Social economy and social entrepreneurship
... economy and social entrepreneurship, one could debate to no end on what the term ‘social’ means in each of these cases, what exactly is included or left out. This uncertainty not only poses conceptual problems in describing these phenomena, but also risks undermining the very important role that the ...
... economy and social entrepreneurship, one could debate to no end on what the term ‘social’ means in each of these cases, what exactly is included or left out. This uncertainty not only poses conceptual problems in describing these phenomena, but also risks undermining the very important role that the ...
FIRst-PeRson MoRALIty AnD tHe RoLe oF ConsCIenCe
... alternatively, they can be reconstructed as the outcome of a double level of processing by different areas of our brain, that is, the automatic reactions by system 1, as corrected and integrated by the reflective, computational processes of system 2 (Greene 2008 and 2009). While it would be wrong to ...
... alternatively, they can be reconstructed as the outcome of a double level of processing by different areas of our brain, that is, the automatic reactions by system 1, as corrected and integrated by the reflective, computational processes of system 2 (Greene 2008 and 2009). While it would be wrong to ...
Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of
... environmental philosophy, have sought to introduce non-Western philosophical traditions into the debates, there are few systematic attempts to construct and articulate general accounts of ethics and technology based on other philosophical traditions.2 This situation is understandable, for the questi ...
... environmental philosophy, have sought to introduce non-Western philosophical traditions into the debates, there are few systematic attempts to construct and articulate general accounts of ethics and technology based on other philosophical traditions.2 This situation is understandable, for the questi ...
Ludwig Lachmann from a Critical Realist Perspective
... Lachmann understands choice as the opposite of action that is determined by antecedently sufficient causal conditions (determinism), and his explicit remarks suggest that he rejects each of the three varieties of determinism distinguished by Hodgson (2004, pp. 58-62). Lachmann clearly rejects what H ...
... Lachmann understands choice as the opposite of action that is determined by antecedently sufficient causal conditions (determinism), and his explicit remarks suggest that he rejects each of the three varieties of determinism distinguished by Hodgson (2004, pp. 58-62). Lachmann clearly rejects what H ...
The uncritical realism of realist evaluation - Pure
... questions about what exists. The first question asks ‘Is reality confined to the things and events that we experience?’ Empiricists would answer ‘yes, esse est percipi’. However, actualists and realists would argue that things can exist and events can occur independently of our knowledge of them. B ...
... questions about what exists. The first question asks ‘Is reality confined to the things and events that we experience?’ Empiricists would answer ‘yes, esse est percipi’. However, actualists and realists would argue that things can exist and events can occur independently of our knowledge of them. B ...
ivo komšić the social power of mind
... future of the country, lasted several months during which important decisions – with inaccurate estimates of existing circumstances – were made. Those inaccurate estimates were already hinted by the then leader of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) in the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mate ...
... future of the country, lasted several months during which important decisions – with inaccurate estimates of existing circumstances – were made. Those inaccurate estimates were already hinted by the then leader of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) in the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mate ...
The Rules of Sociological Method
... (As an example, he cites his own explanation of occupational specialisation in The Division of Labour). 26 And he continued to accord them importance, as can be seen in his note on social .morphology (which, like The Rules, stresses the social rather than purely material character of these facts) an ...
... (As an example, he cites his own explanation of occupational specialisation in The Division of Labour). 26 And he continued to accord them importance, as can be seen in his note on social .morphology (which, like The Rules, stresses the social rather than purely material character of these facts) an ...
Törnberg, Petter - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
... the real entities of the social world (Byrne, 2002, p.136)? Are higher-level organizations (like firms, tribes, and states) fully explainable in terms of the preferences of their members, or are higher-level organizations also social individuals with their own properties and powers? Can individual a ...
... the real entities of the social world (Byrne, 2002, p.136)? Are higher-level organizations (like firms, tribes, and states) fully explainable in terms of the preferences of their members, or are higher-level organizations also social individuals with their own properties and powers? Can individual a ...
Rethinking Reification
... and practice under capitalism. Reified social reality is treated as a “second nature,” with laws that appear as rigid as those of the first nature described by natural science. The reified subject explains social reality on the model of natural science and acts on it technically. The technical mani ...
... and practice under capitalism. Reified social reality is treated as a “second nature,” with laws that appear as rigid as those of the first nature described by natural science. The reified subject explains social reality on the model of natural science and acts on it technically. The technical mani ...
Social exclusion and social solidarity: Three paradigms
... appear to challenge the assumptions underlying post-war Western welfare states. Universal social policies insure against predictable risks that affect people who share the same life-cycle, career pattern, and family structure. However, the standardization of the life course can no longer be assumed. ...
... appear to challenge the assumptions underlying post-war Western welfare states. Universal social policies insure against predictable risks that affect people who share the same life-cycle, career pattern, and family structure. However, the standardization of the life course can no longer be assumed. ...
Jasanoff – Imaginaries – P. 1 Future Imperfect: Science, Technology
... kind of imagined reality whose rules are amenable to anthropological investigation. Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes, for example, edited a collection of essays on political systems in sub-Saharan Africa for the International African Institute (Fortes and EvansPritchard 1940). Notably, however, this ...
... kind of imagined reality whose rules are amenable to anthropological investigation. Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes, for example, edited a collection of essays on political systems in sub-Saharan Africa for the International African Institute (Fortes and EvansPritchard 1940). Notably, however, this ...
Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio
... necessary economic, cultural and/or social capital that would enable them to alter their situation: to move away, to protect or insure themselves, to avert, minimise, or repair potential damages. It is for these reasons that such groups of persons are deemed to be more vulnerable than others. All th ...
... necessary economic, cultural and/or social capital that would enable them to alter their situation: to move away, to protect or insure themselves, to avert, minimise, or repair potential damages. It is for these reasons that such groups of persons are deemed to be more vulnerable than others. All th ...
Social Chaosmos: Michel Serres and the emergence of social order
... recent poll, as many as half of British people said that they were worried that if we do not promote Britishness we run a real risk of having a divided society. 8 He correctly points out that a large number of the voting public are genuinely concerned that their sense of social identity and unity is ...
... recent poll, as many as half of British people said that they were worried that if we do not promote Britishness we run a real risk of having a divided society. 8 He correctly points out that a large number of the voting public are genuinely concerned that their sense of social identity and unity is ...
1.Kant`s Account of the Unity
... Hume - after all, Hume also considers the human mind responsible for "supplying" nature with such concepts as physical laws. The main difference is that Hume sees these concepts as motivated by mere repetition of similar associations of perceptions, while Kant sees them as prescribed a priori. The k ...
... Hume - after all, Hume also considers the human mind responsible for "supplying" nature with such concepts as physical laws. The main difference is that Hume sees these concepts as motivated by mere repetition of similar associations of perceptions, while Kant sees them as prescribed a priori. The k ...
Discourse Theory: Achievements, Arguments, and Challenges
... books in the social sciences that systematically deploy a connected body of theory and methods in empirical studies of mainstream topics. Many books are either theoretical or empirical, and those that aim to connect theoretical and empirical studies often fail to reflect on methodological issues. Th ...
... books in the social sciences that systematically deploy a connected body of theory and methods in empirical studies of mainstream topics. Many books are either theoretical or empirical, and those that aim to connect theoretical and empirical studies often fail to reflect on methodological issues. Th ...
Opening the Black Box: Theory of Human Needs Reconsidered
... Yet complications remain in understanding and analyzing the various issues that are involved in human needs; not because scholars make them up, but because of the very nature of the subject matter. I hope to clarify why this is the case and offer possible answers using two approaches that have not h ...
... Yet complications remain in understanding and analyzing the various issues that are involved in human needs; not because scholars make them up, but because of the very nature of the subject matter. I hope to clarify why this is the case and offer possible answers using two approaches that have not h ...
Empathy and Transformative Experiences without the First Person
... 3. Coming to feel as another person feels (“emotional contagion”) 4. Intuiting or projecting oneself into another’s situation 5. Imagining how another is thinking or feeling 6. Imagining how one would think and feel in the other’s place 7. Feeling distress at witnessing anoth ...
... 3. Coming to feel as another person feels (“emotional contagion”) 4. Intuiting or projecting oneself into another’s situation 5. Imagining how another is thinking or feeling 6. Imagining how one would think and feel in the other’s place 7. Feeling distress at witnessing anoth ...
A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Self and Society
... tive method of reporting social observations. Though the substructure was set by many figures, Comte is called the father of sociology because he coined the term. He conceived o f it as an inclusive social sci ence that, like philosophy, would bring together all knowledge about humanity. It was lef ...
... tive method of reporting social observations. Though the substructure was set by many figures, Comte is called the father of sociology because he coined the term. He conceived o f it as an inclusive social sci ence that, like philosophy, would bring together all knowledge about humanity. It was lef ...
The difficult task of the historian of ideas consists in explaining how
... and practice under capitalism. Reified social reality is treated as a “second nature,” with laws that appear as rigid as those of the first nature described by natural science. The reified subject explains social reality on the model of natural science and acts on it technically. The technical manip ...
... and practice under capitalism. Reified social reality is treated as a “second nature,” with laws that appear as rigid as those of the first nature described by natural science. The reified subject explains social reality on the model of natural science and acts on it technically. The technical manip ...
Transnationalism From Below
... “assimilated,” indeed appropriated and consumed by anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers and other scholars. The concept’s sudden prominence has been accompanied by its increasing ambiguity. Transnationalism thus runs the risk of ...
... “assimilated,” indeed appropriated and consumed by anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers and other scholars. The concept’s sudden prominence has been accompanied by its increasing ambiguity. Transnationalism thus runs the risk of ...
Defining Social Innovation
... use. We believe that it is important to develop a working definition of social innovation in order to ensure consistency and coherence over the course of the TEPSIE project and across the various work packages. Some definitions are very specific and exclude many examples of social innovation (especi ...
... use. We believe that it is important to develop a working definition of social innovation in order to ensure consistency and coherence over the course of the TEPSIE project and across the various work packages. Some definitions are very specific and exclude many examples of social innovation (especi ...
Defining Social Innovation - European Social Innovation Research
... use. We believe that it is important to develop a working definition of social innovation in order to ensure consistency and coherence over the course of the TEPSIE project and across the various work packages. Some definitions are very specific and exclude many examples of social innovation (especi ...
... use. We believe that it is important to develop a working definition of social innovation in order to ensure consistency and coherence over the course of the TEPSIE project and across the various work packages. Some definitions are very specific and exclude many examples of social innovation (especi ...