1 MODERNITY, POSTMODERNISM AND POLITICS
... The development of nation-states, coupled with new administrative systems that make "coordinated control possible over specific geographical areas," is also a component of modernity (Giddens 1990:57). No premodern state had anything similar to this administrative coordination, which depends on the d ...
... The development of nation-states, coupled with new administrative systems that make "coordinated control possible over specific geographical areas," is also a component of modernity (Giddens 1990:57). No premodern state had anything similar to this administrative coordination, which depends on the d ...
Practice Theory - WesScholar
... The idea of ‘practice’ and its cognates has this odd kind of promissory utility. They promise that they can be turned into something more precise. But the value of the concepts is destroyed when they are pushed in the direction of meeting their promise. [Turner, 1994, 116] Assessing these worries ab ...
... The idea of ‘practice’ and its cognates has this odd kind of promissory utility. They promise that they can be turned into something more precise. But the value of the concepts is destroyed when they are pushed in the direction of meeting their promise. [Turner, 1994, 116] Assessing these worries ab ...
practice theory
... The idea of ‘practice’ and its cognates has this odd kind of promissory utility. They promise that they can be turned into something more precise. But the value of the concepts is destroyed when they are pushed in the direction of meeting their promise. [Turner, 1994, 116] Assessing these worries ab ...
... The idea of ‘practice’ and its cognates has this odd kind of promissory utility. They promise that they can be turned into something more precise. But the value of the concepts is destroyed when they are pushed in the direction of meeting their promise. [Turner, 1994, 116] Assessing these worries ab ...
Beyond Equality of What
... advantage that all citizens can be expected to accept in light of their selfunderstanding as each other’s moral equals. He defends the doctrine of primary goods as meeting this legitimacy-related desideratum on the basis that the doctrine meets the requirements of neutrality. (I will argue in the f ...
... advantage that all citizens can be expected to accept in light of their selfunderstanding as each other’s moral equals. He defends the doctrine of primary goods as meeting this legitimacy-related desideratum on the basis that the doctrine meets the requirements of neutrality. (I will argue in the f ...
NEXUS ANALYSIS 1. Nexus analysis – an action oriented approach
... anthropology. One of the aims of nexus analysis is to clarify the many complex relations between discourse and social action (Scollon and Scollon 2002:1). As outlined in the introduction all actions are understood to be mediated by cultural tools (or mediational means), and in this aspect we find th ...
... anthropology. One of the aims of nexus analysis is to clarify the many complex relations between discourse and social action (Scollon and Scollon 2002:1). As outlined in the introduction all actions are understood to be mediated by cultural tools (or mediational means), and in this aspect we find th ...
Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology
... different discourse-theoretical elaborations; they direct discourse research to the ideological functions of language in use. (5) Discourse theories—like those of Michel FOUCAULT or Ernesto LACLAU and Chantal MOUFFE—are designed to analyse the social macro-levels of power/knowledge relationships or ...
... different discourse-theoretical elaborations; they direct discourse research to the ideological functions of language in use. (5) Discourse theories—like those of Michel FOUCAULT or Ernesto LACLAU and Chantal MOUFFE—are designed to analyse the social macro-levels of power/knowledge relationships or ...
International Relations in a Constructed World
... with free will, people(agents)are thus seenas knowledgableparticipantsin the reproductionof social rules, and thus free from the assumeddeterminism of immaterial,inanimate,factors(structure). Onuf begins with people, understandingfirst of all the simple social relationsthey have with eachother. Only ...
... with free will, people(agents)are thus seenas knowledgableparticipantsin the reproductionof social rules, and thus free from the assumeddeterminism of immaterial,inanimate,factors(structure). Onuf begins with people, understandingfirst of all the simple social relationsthey have with eachother. Only ...
Sound Not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought
... However, and as the phrase also suggests, there is a sense in which the relation with the face is at the same time an abstraction. For Levinas is not here depicting an encounter in which one becomes fixated upon a particular person who, in virtue of their particular characteristics, is the object of ...
... However, and as the phrase also suggests, there is a sense in which the relation with the face is at the same time an abstraction. For Levinas is not here depicting an encounter in which one becomes fixated upon a particular person who, in virtue of their particular characteristics, is the object of ...
CDA Wodak File
... of dialectical relationship. This means that discourse constitutes situations, objects of knowledge and the identities of people. Discourse constitutes the social status quo and at the same time it is shaped by the situation. CDA for Fairclough is concerned with the investigation of the relation bet ...
... of dialectical relationship. This means that discourse constitutes situations, objects of knowledge and the identities of people. Discourse constitutes the social status quo and at the same time it is shaped by the situation. CDA for Fairclough is concerned with the investigation of the relation bet ...
Writing the souk as a social fact - Institute of Social and Cultural
... critique from postmodernism (Sylvain 1996)—but in essence wishing to open up the parade for pedagogy and discussion in the agora by the introduction of new hues into the social and cultural geography of the alterity-underscored external terrain. The text emanates from the 1960s and represents a crys ...
... critique from postmodernism (Sylvain 1996)—but in essence wishing to open up the parade for pedagogy and discussion in the agora by the introduction of new hues into the social and cultural geography of the alterity-underscored external terrain. The text emanates from the 1960s and represents a crys ...
The Clash of Cartoons? The Clash of Civilizations?
... smoothly than written or spoken words, and they are often thought to evoke an immediate, physical response that can in turn be mobilized by political actors. (Deibert 1997) To include visual representations in the analysis of foreign and security politics is not however simply to claim a reversal o ...
... smoothly than written or spoken words, and they are often thought to evoke an immediate, physical response that can in turn be mobilized by political actors. (Deibert 1997) To include visual representations in the analysis of foreign and security politics is not however simply to claim a reversal o ...
- NIILM University
... However, there is not a consensus on the best definition of the term "class", and the term has different contextual meanings. In common parlance, the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class," defined as "people having the same social, economic, or educational status," e. ...
... However, there is not a consensus on the best definition of the term "class", and the term has different contextual meanings. In common parlance, the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class," defined as "people having the same social, economic, or educational status," e. ...
Social Network Structure and The Trade
... people’s objective behavior (maintaining social contacts with others) from social norms (trust, cooperation) which we treat as social capital outcomes rather than its dimensions. It is also important that this definition links the social networks people maintain to the resources that may be accessed ...
... people’s objective behavior (maintaining social contacts with others) from social norms (trust, cooperation) which we treat as social capital outcomes rather than its dimensions. It is also important that this definition links the social networks people maintain to the resources that may be accessed ...
An exploration of the social construction of race and racial identity : a
... We do not usually think that there is anything wrong with the ways in which people are sorted into races—that is, with the criteria for membership in different races—because we think that what race a person belongs to is obvious from looking at him or her. We do not question the naturalness of racia ...
... We do not usually think that there is anything wrong with the ways in which people are sorted into races—that is, with the criteria for membership in different races—because we think that what race a person belongs to is obvious from looking at him or her. We do not question the naturalness of racia ...
Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization
... between the global and the local and various theories of that interrelationship. I have been stimulated by several recent works broaching the issue of the global and the local in music including Veit Erlmann's(1996) "The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination," Mark Slobin's "Micromusicsof the West" ( ...
... between the global and the local and various theories of that interrelationship. I have been stimulated by several recent works broaching the issue of the global and the local in music including Veit Erlmann's(1996) "The Aesthetics of the Global Imagination," Mark Slobin's "Micromusicsof the West" ( ...
Jean-jacques rousseau (1712-1778 )
... Rousseau’s view here obviously contrasts with Hobbes for placing ourselves under a sovereign as in Hobbes’ conception would be inconsistent with freedom since the sovereign will be giving us the law his view also contrasts with Locke’s majority rule system since the minority would not be truly free ...
... Rousseau’s view here obviously contrasts with Hobbes for placing ourselves under a sovereign as in Hobbes’ conception would be inconsistent with freedom since the sovereign will be giving us the law his view also contrasts with Locke’s majority rule system since the minority would not be truly free ...
Rethinking the culture-economy dialectic Brons, Lajos Ludovic
... revolution that Koselleck (1979; 1987) refers to as the Sattelzeit, and Foucault (1966) as an epistemic transformation (see also § 2.4.1 and Heilbron, Magnusson & Wittrock (eds.) 1998; therein especially Wokler 1998). The French revolution and similar political turmoil in other countries brought abo ...
... revolution that Koselleck (1979; 1987) refers to as the Sattelzeit, and Foucault (1966) as an epistemic transformation (see also § 2.4.1 and Heilbron, Magnusson & Wittrock (eds.) 1998; therein especially Wokler 1998). The French revolution and similar political turmoil in other countries brought abo ...
Animism Volume I Edited by Anselm Franke
... In his several books that engage with the modern divide between nature and culture, Bruno Latour describes the historical scenarios that can serve as a backdrop scenography to our understanding of the role of animism in the constitution of modernity. The bifurcation of nature and culture, and the su ...
... In his several books that engage with the modern divide between nature and culture, Bruno Latour describes the historical scenarios that can serve as a backdrop scenography to our understanding of the role of animism in the constitution of modernity. The bifurcation of nature and culture, and the su ...
Social Provision and Regulation
... elites. The results of cross-sectional and time-lagged analyses suggest that U.S. foreign policy is most heavily and consistently influenced by internationally oriented business leaders, followed by experts (who, however, might themselves be influenced by business). Labor appears to have significant ...
... elites. The results of cross-sectional and time-lagged analyses suggest that U.S. foreign policy is most heavily and consistently influenced by internationally oriented business leaders, followed by experts (who, however, might themselves be influenced by business). Labor appears to have significant ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... perhaps some time on or about 1976 with the invasion of the English speaking world of ‘theory’ with certain French texts. But it might also transform just how we think about the relation between time, bodies and ideas: what if the body of work that we have come to know as ‘theory’ has been structure ...
... perhaps some time on or about 1976 with the invasion of the English speaking world of ‘theory’ with certain French texts. But it might also transform just how we think about the relation between time, bodies and ideas: what if the body of work that we have come to know as ‘theory’ has been structure ...
semiotic mediation, language and society: three exotripic theories
... theories that explicitly and unambiguously identify the object of study, build the conceptual syntax for revealing its nature, and provide the language of description so that all instances may be described in a way that permits us to understand them adequately. The three human concerns whose interco ...
... theories that explicitly and unambiguously identify the object of study, build the conceptual syntax for revealing its nature, and provide the language of description so that all instances may be described in a way that permits us to understand them adequately. The three human concerns whose interco ...
Between Several Worlds: Images of Youth and Age in
... Youth and Age in Tuareg Imagery Young people make up a significant segment of the population in Africa. Yet "youth" itself, as well as the apparently opposed category of "elderly," are indexical categories that include people of diverse ages. In this essay I proceed from the premise that youth canno ...
... Youth and Age in Tuareg Imagery Young people make up a significant segment of the population in Africa. Yet "youth" itself, as well as the apparently opposed category of "elderly," are indexical categories that include people of diverse ages. In this essay I proceed from the premise that youth canno ...
The Nature of Social Science Research
... As social scientists, we compare ourselves directly with other scientists, often using many of the same methods and techniques. Yet researching the social world is often more complicated than researching the physical world. Social science research is research on, and with, real people in the real wo ...
... As social scientists, we compare ourselves directly with other scientists, often using many of the same methods and techniques. Yet researching the social world is often more complicated than researching the physical world. Social science research is research on, and with, real people in the real wo ...