an ontology for the ethnographic analysis of social processes
... wrote in the heyday of both structure-functionalism and structuralism, each enchanted with systems metaphors borrowed from biology, engineering cybernetics, and linguistics. Of course, it is not the case that structuralists or structure-functionalists were completely disinterested in processes. Howe ...
... wrote in the heyday of both structure-functionalism and structuralism, each enchanted with systems metaphors borrowed from biology, engineering cybernetics, and linguistics. Of course, it is not the case that structuralists or structure-functionalists were completely disinterested in processes. Howe ...
FORMATION OF IDENTITY BY MEANS OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES
... determination and self-determination. World full of modern information technologies gives people more possibilities, but at the same time makes them live according to new rules, acquire new values and standards. All these technological changes of last decades influenced the change of human conscious ...
... determination and self-determination. World full of modern information technologies gives people more possibilities, but at the same time makes them live according to new rules, acquire new values and standards. All these technological changes of last decades influenced the change of human conscious ...
- Saskatchewan Teachers` Federation
... two-page spread compares the villagers using quantitative data on their religion, language, nationality, population growth, and access to resources. The statistics challenge the reader to analyze the numerical comparisons, and relate the findings to a more global perspective. Notes: Social Studies g ...
... two-page spread compares the villagers using quantitative data on their religion, language, nationality, population growth, and access to resources. The statistics challenge the reader to analyze the numerical comparisons, and relate the findings to a more global perspective. Notes: Social Studies g ...
Reading Assignments - HISTORY APPRECIATION
... History courses are designed to focus on creating meaning about the past. Therefore, a principal goal is for students is to become independent thinkers and active learners, while developing the advanced skills of historical analysis and critical writing necessary for success in a challenging academi ...
... History courses are designed to focus on creating meaning about the past. Therefore, a principal goal is for students is to become independent thinkers and active learners, while developing the advanced skills of historical analysis and critical writing necessary for success in a challenging academi ...
The United States in the World
... United States in the world is its return to a place of prominence within the broad landscape of the American historical profession. From the interwar era through the 1950s, the study of American diplomacy was central to the historical profession in the United States, and its most eminent practitione ...
... United States in the world is its return to a place of prominence within the broad landscape of the American historical profession. From the interwar era through the 1950s, the study of American diplomacy was central to the historical profession in the United States, and its most eminent practitione ...
Happiness: Between What We Want and What We Need
... agents are represented by lattices, of which globally is the torus: the lowest two-dimensional grids are pasted together with the highest, and the right grids with the left one [cf. 1]. After the initialization by giving uniformly distributed random index of things wanted and needed by agents, the u ...
... agents are represented by lattices, of which globally is the torus: the lowest two-dimensional grids are pasted together with the highest, and the right grids with the left one [cf. 1]. After the initialization by giving uniformly distributed random index of things wanted and needed by agents, the u ...
The generative role of narrative in ethnographies of disconcertment
... revealed about the public problem the social scientists found themselves participating in. Kathy McMahon and Helen Verran’s stories both tell of life in a previous policy era, working within what Sullivan (2011, p. 3) describes as a ‘vision of a semi-autonomous, decolonised and modernised discrete r ...
... revealed about the public problem the social scientists found themselves participating in. Kathy McMahon and Helen Verran’s stories both tell of life in a previous policy era, working within what Sullivan (2011, p. 3) describes as a ‘vision of a semi-autonomous, decolonised and modernised discrete r ...
Stories and Social Networks Warren Sack
... of social network theory13 and actor-network theory14 provide technologies akin to co-citation analysis, but have their own particular strengths and weaknesses. These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, sy ...
... of social network theory13 and actor-network theory14 provide technologies akin to co-citation analysis, but have their own particular strengths and weaknesses. These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, sy ...
Evidence and Objectivity in the Social Sciences
... Thesis (1) represents a general metaphysical view of the social world, in that it asserts the mind-independence of various kinds of social processes, structures, etc. First, a scientific theory may attempt to identify underlying processes, structures, mechanisms, and the like, whose laws explain the ...
... Thesis (1) represents a general metaphysical view of the social world, in that it asserts the mind-independence of various kinds of social processes, structures, etc. First, a scientific theory may attempt to identify underlying processes, structures, mechanisms, and the like, whose laws explain the ...
This paper reports on a research project, the aim of which was to
... When searching for a theoretical framework within which to locate the study, I discovered no existing model within the field of music education, I therefore expanded my search to include the sociology of education. From my reading in this field it appeared that the work of Pierre Bourdieu (1984ff.) ...
... When searching for a theoretical framework within which to locate the study, I discovered no existing model within the field of music education, I therefore expanded my search to include the sociology of education. From my reading in this field it appeared that the work of Pierre Bourdieu (1984ff.) ...
Rana Jawad From wellbeing to ways of being
... Like Judaism, Christianity was erected upon the main principles of the ten commandments, though Jesus went further in his Sermon on the Mount later recorded in the gospel of Mathew by adding further injunctions which have given Christianity its particular character (Gwynne, 2009: 103). For example, ...
... Like Judaism, Christianity was erected upon the main principles of the ten commandments, though Jesus went further in his Sermon on the Mount later recorded in the gospel of Mathew by adding further injunctions which have given Christianity its particular character (Gwynne, 2009: 103). For example, ...
Curriculum for an Undergraduate "Gateway Course"
... Said, Edward. 1978. Orientalism. New York, NY: Vintage. Classic statement by a noted figure in the literary world on the historical construction of a region of the world as the “Other.” Although the work deals with the greater “Orient,” the implications are wide-ranging and highly suggestive for oth ...
... Said, Edward. 1978. Orientalism. New York, NY: Vintage. Classic statement by a noted figure in the literary world on the historical construction of a region of the world as the “Other.” Although the work deals with the greater “Orient,” the implications are wide-ranging and highly suggestive for oth ...
Culture - faculty.fairfield.edu
... cannot be gainsaid" (315). Radicalizing Thomas Kuhn , Rorty portrays our obsession with epistemology as an accidental , but eventually sterile turning in Western culture. Pragmatic and American , Rorty s book has a moral: modern professional philosophy represents the " triumph of ~he quest for certa ...
... cannot be gainsaid" (315). Radicalizing Thomas Kuhn , Rorty portrays our obsession with epistemology as an accidental , but eventually sterile turning in Western culture. Pragmatic and American , Rorty s book has a moral: modern professional philosophy represents the " triumph of ~he quest for certa ...
Cities in European History
... urbanization as a quantifiable and material process and 2° the claims to the urban made by different social groups. The aim is to develop a long term perspective and illustrate the importance of historical contingency, path dependency and the longue durée with respect to both dimensions. Current the ...
... urbanization as a quantifiable and material process and 2° the claims to the urban made by different social groups. The aim is to develop a long term perspective and illustrate the importance of historical contingency, path dependency and the longue durée with respect to both dimensions. Current the ...
Formalism and Relationalism in Social Network Theory
... A neo-Kantian, formalist interpretation of Simmel puts him very much at odds with relationalism as described by Emirbayer. In order to explain this I need to briefly point out key elements of Kant’s philosophy. Immanuel Kant was part of a RomanticConservative movement that both reacted to and carrie ...
... A neo-Kantian, formalist interpretation of Simmel puts him very much at odds with relationalism as described by Emirbayer. In order to explain this I need to briefly point out key elements of Kant’s philosophy. Immanuel Kant was part of a RomanticConservative movement that both reacted to and carrie ...
Scientific Social Objects
... sharing [1] and also new objects to share. Research tools produce and consume data, together with metadata to aid interpretation and reuse. We also have the scripts and experiment plans that support automation, and the records that make the results interpretable and reusable. Our new objects include ...
... sharing [1] and also new objects to share. Research tools produce and consume data, together with metadata to aid interpretation and reuse. We also have the scripts and experiment plans that support automation, and the records that make the results interpretable and reusable. Our new objects include ...
1 Introduction to Social Casework: Historical Development
... consciously affect individual by individual between man and his social environment”. Miss Richmond gives this definition of casework. “Social casework is art of doing different things for and with different people by cooperating with them to achieve at one and at the same time their own and their so ...
... consciously affect individual by individual between man and his social environment”. Miss Richmond gives this definition of casework. “Social casework is art of doing different things for and with different people by cooperating with them to achieve at one and at the same time their own and their so ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist aitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT a ...
... It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist aitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT a ...
2013-2014 school year - Atlanta Public Schools
... e. Explain the aggression and conflict leading to World War II in Europe and Asia; include the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the rape of Nanjing in China, and the German annexation of the Sudetenland. SSWH18 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the global political ...
... e. Explain the aggression and conflict leading to World War II in Europe and Asia; include the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the rape of Nanjing in China, and the German annexation of the Sudetenland. SSWH18 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the global political ...
APC Document 29 (HIST): Delete HIST 101 and 102, replacing with
... A general study of American history from early exploration through the Civil War, emphasizing the political, economic and social forces that have shaped the nation. Fall. ...
... A general study of American history from early exploration through the Civil War, emphasizing the political, economic and social forces that have shaped the nation. Fall. ...
HISTORY 461: History and Historians Dr
... 1) English grammar, usage, and spelling 2) Research and documentation (Chicago style) 3) Reasoning and presentation of argument To earn an “A” a paper must have few, if any, errors in category one. In addition, each paper must have a minimum of five reputable sources (most are included in the syllab ...
... 1) English grammar, usage, and spelling 2) Research and documentation (Chicago style) 3) Reasoning and presentation of argument To earn an “A” a paper must have few, if any, errors in category one. In addition, each paper must have a minimum of five reputable sources (most are included in the syllab ...
Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...
Social studies of social science
... others (e.g. Stigler 2002, Espeland & Stevens 2008). Taken collectively, this body of work has given rise to studies that seek to tell us something about the way in which statisticians and their collaborators make things knowable – features of statistical practice statisticians themselves have addre ...
... others (e.g. Stigler 2002, Espeland & Stevens 2008). Taken collectively, this body of work has given rise to studies that seek to tell us something about the way in which statisticians and their collaborators make things knowable – features of statistical practice statisticians themselves have addre ...
One More Turn after the Social Turn: Easing Science Studies into
... the main goals of macro-sociology —that is, an account of what holds the society together. They have all been accused (and rightly) of cranking out nice case-studies without even the beginnings of social theory or political relevance. It seems that either the social science is subtle enough to expla ...
... the main goals of macro-sociology —that is, an account of what holds the society together. They have all been accused (and rightly) of cranking out nice case-studies without even the beginnings of social theory or political relevance. It seems that either the social science is subtle enough to expla ...
Freedom and Security
... or groups and that this ignorance is not distributed at random across society. Similarly, for many the problem is not that they ‘feel’ powerless but that they are genuinely powerless in relation to the outside world. When knowledge and power are absent, then there is practically no opportunity for e ...
... or groups and that this ignorance is not distributed at random across society. Similarly, for many the problem is not that they ‘feel’ powerless but that they are genuinely powerless in relation to the outside world. When knowledge and power are absent, then there is practically no opportunity for e ...