Majority populations` attitudes towards migrants and minorities
... theories developed in recent decades can be traced back to this classic phenomenon. This aspect of ethnic exclusionism, i.e. ethnic prejudices and/or ethnocentrism, had first been ‘discovered’ in the United States, just like so many other aspects of exclusionism. Later on, ethnic prejudices and ethn ...
... theories developed in recent decades can be traced back to this classic phenomenon. This aspect of ethnic exclusionism, i.e. ethnic prejudices and/or ethnocentrism, had first been ‘discovered’ in the United States, just like so many other aspects of exclusionism. Later on, ethnic prejudices and ethn ...
Discourse Theory And Political Analysis
... or objects of intrinsic value and beauty. Each of these discourses is a social and political construction that establishes a system of relations between different objects and practices, while providing (subject) positions with which social agents can identify. In our example these subject positions ...
... or objects of intrinsic value and beauty. Each of these discourses is a social and political construction that establishes a system of relations between different objects and practices, while providing (subject) positions with which social agents can identify. In our example these subject positions ...
Risk and Asset Management in the Presence of Poverty Traps
... Descriptive statistics calculated from this data (reported in Carter et al., 2005) indicate that the shock of the hurricane disproportionately affected poor households. Across all preMitch wealth quartiles, 44% of households lost productive assets in the hurricane. Not surprisingly, compared to hous ...
... Descriptive statistics calculated from this data (reported in Carter et al., 2005) indicate that the shock of the hurricane disproportionately affected poor households. Across all preMitch wealth quartiles, 44% of households lost productive assets in the hurricane. Not surprisingly, compared to hous ...
Social Laws, the Unity of Scientific Method, and Situational
... knowledge, it might encourage the taking of measures to alter the social regularity. For instance, steps could be taken to counter Popper’s “law” regarding agricultural tariffs and the cost of living, price controls being the most obvious. This might have some unwanted consequences, but it nonethele ...
... knowledge, it might encourage the taking of measures to alter the social regularity. For instance, steps could be taken to counter Popper’s “law” regarding agricultural tariffs and the cost of living, price controls being the most obvious. This might have some unwanted consequences, but it nonethele ...
Lecture I Introduction to Sociology
... laws of universal validity are established more easily and accurately in physical science. The relationship between cause and effect is relatively clearer in physical science. In the other side of the coin social science is often loosely applied to any kind of study which is concerned with human and ...
... laws of universal validity are established more easily and accurately in physical science. The relationship between cause and effect is relatively clearer in physical science. In the other side of the coin social science is often loosely applied to any kind of study which is concerned with human and ...
Critical Discourse Analysis
... which those in power hold on to it. It is significantly influenced by Antonio Gramsci’s notion of hegemony. Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist political theorist and activist whose seminal work, published as Selections from a Prison Notebook, was produced during his incarceration in the late 192 ...
... which those in power hold on to it. It is significantly influenced by Antonio Gramsci’s notion of hegemony. Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist political theorist and activist whose seminal work, published as Selections from a Prison Notebook, was produced during his incarceration in the late 192 ...
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... daily hassles (such as traffic congestion). Based on the factors described above, a domain model for the occurrence of relapse or recurrence of a depression has been developed [1]. The simulation results have shown the model exhibits important patterns between the events and the course of relapse an ...
... daily hassles (such as traffic congestion). Based on the factors described above, a domain model for the occurrence of relapse or recurrence of a depression has been developed [1]. The simulation results have shown the model exhibits important patterns between the events and the course of relapse an ...
Reorienting Critical Realism: the Actual Essence of the Capitalist
... distinct from the human agents that they constrain and enable. Social structures consist essentially in relationships between social positions, rather than between human individuals. Thus the positions of husband, wife, landlord, tenant, wage labourer and capitalist all pre-exist the current occupan ...
... distinct from the human agents that they constrain and enable. Social structures consist essentially in relationships between social positions, rather than between human individuals. Thus the positions of husband, wife, landlord, tenant, wage labourer and capitalist all pre-exist the current occupan ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... from each other by adopting a certain lifestyle in which certain things or goods function as markers of their (aspired) status (such as paintings, books, objects d’art). Acts of consumption, in his view, reproduce social difference because the consumption of some goods is considered a sign of distin ...
... from each other by adopting a certain lifestyle in which certain things or goods function as markers of their (aspired) status (such as paintings, books, objects d’art). Acts of consumption, in his view, reproduce social difference because the consumption of some goods is considered a sign of distin ...
Humour and Social Protest: An Introduction
... In the case above, the risk that the sympathizers of the Solidarity movement would not appreciate the humorous content was reduced as the context of the joke was clear, the interests of the protesters were obvious and well-defined, and the humour was directly related to the complicated negotiations ...
... In the case above, the risk that the sympathizers of the Solidarity movement would not appreciate the humorous content was reduced as the context of the joke was clear, the interests of the protesters were obvious and well-defined, and the humour was directly related to the complicated negotiations ...
Optimal social choice functions: a utilitarian view
... of the ruler). The utilitarian approach is prevalent, for example, in mechanism design, and perhaps even more so in algorithmic mechanism design [Nisan 2007]. In this paper we view the social choice problem through this utilitarian lens. Our premise is that agents have (possibly implicit) utility fu ...
... of the ruler). The utilitarian approach is prevalent, for example, in mechanism design, and perhaps even more so in algorithmic mechanism design [Nisan 2007]. In this paper we view the social choice problem through this utilitarian lens. Our premise is that agents have (possibly implicit) utility fu ...
Forthcoming in Bhaskar, R., Esbjörn
... subversive. Notwithstanding his spiritual turn, he would remain an unconventional socialist at heart till the very end. His philosophy of metaReality can even be considered a prefiguration of a joyful communism in which the personal development of each and every one would go hand in hand with the so ...
... subversive. Notwithstanding his spiritual turn, he would remain an unconventional socialist at heart till the very end. His philosophy of metaReality can even be considered a prefiguration of a joyful communism in which the personal development of each and every one would go hand in hand with the so ...
Book of Abstracts
... Drawing on this, universalism may still have some currency in the form of unificationism: insofar as comparable causal processes occur homogeneously across different kinds of phenomena, the argument goes, they can be analysed by means of univocal scientific methods and subsumed under a unifying expl ...
... Drawing on this, universalism may still have some currency in the form of unificationism: insofar as comparable causal processes occur homogeneously across different kinds of phenomena, the argument goes, they can be analysed by means of univocal scientific methods and subsumed under a unifying expl ...
1 The Future in Max Weber`s Methodological Writings Barbara Adam
... ‘The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forded to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to technical and ...
... ‘The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forded to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to technical and ...
Social change and progress in the sociology of Robert Nisbet
... But at the same time as his outlook can be seen as highly original inside sociology, it is worthy of note that similar arguments were readily available in other disciplinary and intellectual traditions. There were, of course, the criticisms of modern ideas of progress that, between the 1940s and the ...
... But at the same time as his outlook can be seen as highly original inside sociology, it is worthy of note that similar arguments were readily available in other disciplinary and intellectual traditions. There were, of course, the criticisms of modern ideas of progress that, between the 1940s and the ...
Sample chapter - Centre for Research in Social Simulation
... although the first examples date from the 1960s, simulation only began to be used widely in the 1990s – but one that has enormous potential. This is because simulation is an excellent way of modelling and understanding social processes. This book has been written for social scientists interested in ...
... although the first examples date from the 1960s, simulation only began to be used widely in the 1990s – but one that has enormous potential. This is because simulation is an excellent way of modelling and understanding social processes. This book has been written for social scientists interested in ...
Aalborg Universitet Representations from the past Sammut, Gordon; Tsirogianni, Stavroula; Wagoner, Brady
... meaningful social forms. Like social representations, social frameworks are interobjective, and through them the past can be transmitted beyond the lifetime of anyone. Social memories evolve to meet the particular demands of their present situation. Assman (2010) identifies two forms of memory, that ...
... meaningful social forms. Like social representations, social frameworks are interobjective, and through them the past can be transmitted beyond the lifetime of anyone. Social memories evolve to meet the particular demands of their present situation. Assman (2010) identifies two forms of memory, that ...
The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and
... studies clearly should be on the 'agenda for sociological studies of action and agency. After all, if research results are correct, then everything we know, from making families, to coping with illness, to carrying out strikes and revolutions is at least in part a result of numerous crosscutting rel ...
... studies clearly should be on the 'agenda for sociological studies of action and agency. After all, if research results are correct, then everything we know, from making families, to coping with illness, to carrying out strikes and revolutions is at least in part a result of numerous crosscutting rel ...
Lecture Note 3: Historical-Hermeneutic Studies
... More specifically, actions are not only made up of anticipated goals or “empty protention” to the future. They also consist of the parts of intentions to attaining those goals in the future. In conclusion, according to Schutz formulation, an action is experiences endowed with meanings in the form of ...
... More specifically, actions are not only made up of anticipated goals or “empty protention” to the future. They also consist of the parts of intentions to attaining those goals in the future. In conclusion, according to Schutz formulation, an action is experiences endowed with meanings in the form of ...
Topic 6. The Arrow Possibility Theorem
... ranked in the same way as well relative to u0. It can be further established by exactly the same argument that if all points in quadrant II are ranked above u0 (or vice versa), then u0 must be ranked above all points in quadrant IV (or vice versa). This is because the relationship of u0 to quadrant ...
... ranked in the same way as well relative to u0. It can be further established by exactly the same argument that if all points in quadrant II are ranked above u0 (or vice versa), then u0 must be ranked above all points in quadrant IV (or vice versa). This is because the relationship of u0 to quadrant ...
View/Open - Cadair - Aberystwyth University
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
Student-Driven Test Questions Master List
... 33. “The ultimate and oldest means of social control is physical violence. In the savage society of children, it is still a major one.” This quote suggests physical violence as a basic and natural tendency. What has prevented social control from being based on physical violence in most sophisticate ...
... 33. “The ultimate and oldest means of social control is physical violence. In the savage society of children, it is still a major one.” This quote suggests physical violence as a basic and natural tendency. What has prevented social control from being based on physical violence in most sophisticate ...
Why Did Austrian Business Oppose Welfare Cuts? How the
... world, and if Martin and Swank’s thesis holds, we should expect it to be the most likely to support social programs. This is, indeed, what the article finds. Going beyond Martin and Swank’s argument, however, this article investigates a causal mechanism behind the social policy support of encompassi ...
... world, and if Martin and Swank’s thesis holds, we should expect it to be the most likely to support social programs. This is, indeed, what the article finds. Going beyond Martin and Swank’s argument, however, this article investigates a causal mechanism behind the social policy support of encompassi ...
Social Provision and Regulation
... The subdisciplinary and national focus of my essay were determined by this larger project of surveying where U.S. historical sociology stands today. I focus on ...
... The subdisciplinary and national focus of my essay were determined by this larger project of surveying where U.S. historical sociology stands today. I focus on ...
Simulation second edition
... although the first examples date from the 1960s, simulation only began to be used widely in the 1990s – but one that has enormous potential. This is because simulation is an excellent way of modelling and understanding social processes. This book has been written for social scientists interested in ...
... although the first examples date from the 1960s, simulation only began to be used widely in the 1990s – but one that has enormous potential. This is because simulation is an excellent way of modelling and understanding social processes. This book has been written for social scientists interested in ...