Paper - The Cambridge Social Ontology Group
... considerable scrutiny in the discipline of IR in recent decades, from critical postpositivist perspectives. To date most of the attention has focused on knowledge as a social product, and the inherent relationships between ideas, power and interests. This has been a crucially important response to t ...
... considerable scrutiny in the discipline of IR in recent decades, from critical postpositivist perspectives. To date most of the attention has focused on knowledge as a social product, and the inherent relationships between ideas, power and interests. This has been a crucially important response to t ...
The Breath of the Possible
... This became an even more torturous theoretical knot when the College went on to assert that the return of these experiences to modern life was allied to, or even completed, the revolutionary project of the Communists. The theoretical impossibility of the sacred experience found in festivals, which B ...
... This became an even more torturous theoretical knot when the College went on to assert that the return of these experiences to modern life was allied to, or even completed, the revolutionary project of the Communists. The theoretical impossibility of the sacred experience found in festivals, which B ...
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... Individuals interact with their network neighbors as specified by a network topology (e.g., Fig. 1). All of the results presented in the text were tested on a wide variety of topologies including (1) square, triangular, and hexagonal regular lattices with nearest neighbors, (2) regular lattices with ...
... Individuals interact with their network neighbors as specified by a network topology (e.g., Fig. 1). All of the results presented in the text were tested on a wide variety of topologies including (1) square, triangular, and hexagonal regular lattices with nearest neighbors, (2) regular lattices with ...
Conceptual Constituents of Critical Naturalism
... underlines the essential roles of human ideas, believes, and efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social institutions. Accordingly, it is assumed that realities of the social world are subject to construction by different interpretive communities according to the ...
... underlines the essential roles of human ideas, believes, and efforts in the constitution of the social world and more specifically its social institutions. Accordingly, it is assumed that realities of the social world are subject to construction by different interpretive communities according to the ...
Naturalism and the Enlightenment Ideal
... particular natural sciences are often inappropriate for social science, but by the same token the specific rules of one natural science will often be inappropriate for other natural sciences, too. On the other hand, basic standards of good evidence are often accepted by interpretivists as well as n ...
... particular natural sciences are often inappropriate for social science, but by the same token the specific rules of one natural science will often be inappropriate for other natural sciences, too. On the other hand, basic standards of good evidence are often accepted by interpretivists as well as n ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... weak means we should fight for it, not abandon it. But Social Watch should be less diplomatic and more aggressive at the UN. 2. Social Watch should strengthen its cooperation with other NGO networks looking at globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At th ...
... weak means we should fight for it, not abandon it. But Social Watch should be less diplomatic and more aggressive at the UN. 2. Social Watch should strengthen its cooperation with other NGO networks looking at globalization issues, preserving its identity as monitor and implementer of WSSD. 3. At th ...
1 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM Introduction Academic programs are
... (Kettner, 2002). The theory postulated that various systems, such as agencies, organizations, and society at large, functioned in a manner very similar to that of living organisms. That is, the individual parts of any system or organism are inherently interdependent on one another in order to compri ...
... (Kettner, 2002). The theory postulated that various systems, such as agencies, organizations, and society at large, functioned in a manner very similar to that of living organisms. That is, the individual parts of any system or organism are inherently interdependent on one another in order to compri ...
social-stratification
... Life style denotes a style of life which is distinctive of a particular social status. Lifestyles include such matters like the residential areas in every community which have gradations of prestige-ranking, mode of housing, means of recreation, the kinds of dress, the kinds of books, TV shows to wh ...
... Life style denotes a style of life which is distinctive of a particular social status. Lifestyles include such matters like the residential areas in every community which have gradations of prestige-ranking, mode of housing, means of recreation, the kinds of dress, the kinds of books, TV shows to wh ...
Request for Proposal Template (RFP)
... enterprise development is generally dominated by the activities of Grameen and BRAC. A recent research report by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute shows social enterprises and conventional businesses are able to start and grow at a rate much faster in Bangladesh than comparable developing countries. T ...
... enterprise development is generally dominated by the activities of Grameen and BRAC. A recent research report by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute shows social enterprises and conventional businesses are able to start and grow at a rate much faster in Bangladesh than comparable developing countries. T ...
Globalization and War: Four Paradigmatic Views
... his colleagues of making up fantastic stories about non-existing things. Each of the six blind scholars held firmly to their understanding of an elephant and they argued and fought about which story contained the correct understanding of the elephant. As a result, their entire community was torn apa ...
... his colleagues of making up fantastic stories about non-existing things. Each of the six blind scholars held firmly to their understanding of an elephant and they argued and fought about which story contained the correct understanding of the elephant. As a result, their entire community was torn apa ...
The Social experience
... customers is fundamentally changing. And we see a huge opportunity for brands to create social experiences that are useful, unique, fun, touching, or otherwise meaningful, because we believe the sum of these individual social interactions is greater than its parts. It’s about better relationships—mo ...
... customers is fundamentally changing. And we see a huge opportunity for brands to create social experiences that are useful, unique, fun, touching, or otherwise meaningful, because we believe the sum of these individual social interactions is greater than its parts. It’s about better relationships—mo ...
Causal Mechanisms in Comparative Historical Sociology
... connection among a set of events is more fundamental than the concept of a law of nature (Cartwright 1989), (Cartwright 1995). And most fundamentally, she argues that identifying causal relations requires substantive theories of the causal powers (capacities, in her language) that govern the entitie ...
... connection among a set of events is more fundamental than the concept of a law of nature (Cartwright 1989), (Cartwright 1995). And most fundamentally, she argues that identifying causal relations requires substantive theories of the causal powers (capacities, in her language) that govern the entitie ...
Beyond Positivism Toward a Methodological Pluralism for the Social
... explanation that we have considered: explanations depend on law-like regularities. The qualification we are forced to make is a narrow one: that social regularities do not derive from the fixed properties of physical objects, but from the circumstances of agency of human actors. Do social sciences p ...
... explanation that we have considered: explanations depend on law-like regularities. The qualification we are forced to make is a narrow one: that social regularities do not derive from the fixed properties of physical objects, but from the circumstances of agency of human actors. Do social sciences p ...
POLITICAL POWER BEYOND THE STATE: PROBLEMATICS OF
... embodied in all those attempts to know and govern the wealth, health and happiness of populations. Foucault argued that, since the eighteenth century, this way of reflecting upon power and seeking to render it operable had achieved pre-eminence over other forms of political power. It was linked to t ...
... embodied in all those attempts to know and govern the wealth, health and happiness of populations. Foucault argued that, since the eighteenth century, this way of reflecting upon power and seeking to render it operable had achieved pre-eminence over other forms of political power. It was linked to t ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... have already read much of this book—with cleaner prose and without the tendency toward tangentialism—in the author’s other works. And, like any of Latour’s roller coaster tutorials, the reader leaves with a list of remarkable aphorisms and clever inversions begging to be cited. But the close reader ...
... have already read much of this book—with cleaner prose and without the tendency toward tangentialism—in the author’s other works. And, like any of Latour’s roller coaster tutorials, the reader leaves with a list of remarkable aphorisms and clever inversions begging to be cited. But the close reader ...
Social Disorganization Theory
... Uniform Crime Reports compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the measures used to infer social disorganization were some form of census information on cities or areas of cities. Reliance on such data has been viewed as a major limitation for testing all theories that introduce some abs ...
... Uniform Crime Reports compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the measures used to infer social disorganization were some form of census information on cities or areas of cities. Reliance on such data has been viewed as a major limitation for testing all theories that introduce some abs ...
Social Policy and the Crisis of Neo-Liberalism Ben Fine
... other economic and social processes that generate the complex causes and incidence of poverty and inequality. The impact of the crisis is liable to be severe, uneven and unpredictable, Naudé (2009) for an overview with reference to much of the recent (orthodox) literature. These developments, then, ...
... other economic and social processes that generate the complex causes and incidence of poverty and inequality. The impact of the crisis is liable to be severe, uneven and unpredictable, Naudé (2009) for an overview with reference to much of the recent (orthodox) literature. These developments, then, ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... of money as aspects of the same, as if they are two sides of the same coin (chapeau to Keith Hart). It is not surprising that, after describing some aspects of the 2007–present crisis in the opening pages of the book, Dodd turns to Walter Benjamin’s famous aphoristic discussion of Paul Klee’s painti ...
... of money as aspects of the same, as if they are two sides of the same coin (chapeau to Keith Hart). It is not surprising that, after describing some aspects of the 2007–present crisis in the opening pages of the book, Dodd turns to Walter Benjamin’s famous aphoristic discussion of Paul Klee’s painti ...
JUST PRACTICE: STEPS TOWARD A NEW SOCIAL WORK
... adaptation to existing social arrangements. They contend that systems perspectives view conflict and resistance as deviant, rather than as legitimate consequences of systemic inequalities. Further, structuralists argue that interventions informed by these systems perspectives seldom call for more th ...
... adaptation to existing social arrangements. They contend that systems perspectives view conflict and resistance as deviant, rather than as legitimate consequences of systemic inequalities. Further, structuralists argue that interventions informed by these systems perspectives seldom call for more th ...
Welfare: basics
... economics problem Focuses on a method of aggregating individual orderings (not utility levels) ...
... economics problem Focuses on a method of aggregating individual orderings (not utility levels) ...
precarious migrants: gender, race and the social
... area while labour, particularly racialized Mexican labour, has moved more unfreely. Each year, the H-2 programme provides over 100,000 migrant labourers for US business, more than half of them in agriculture – and under conditions of enormous civil and social restriction which are tantamount to bond ...
... area while labour, particularly racialized Mexican labour, has moved more unfreely. Each year, the H-2 programme provides over 100,000 migrant labourers for US business, more than half of them in agriculture – and under conditions of enormous civil and social restriction which are tantamount to bond ...
Assessing the glue that holds society together: social
... unification of separately rational but collectively violent individuals who socialize themselves for protection under a sovereign. A modern example is the EU’s system of regional funds, which is based on the idea that resource redistribution strengthens the EU’s social linking value (read: glue). Th ...
... unification of separately rational but collectively violent individuals who socialize themselves for protection under a sovereign. A modern example is the EU’s system of regional funds, which is based on the idea that resource redistribution strengthens the EU’s social linking value (read: glue). Th ...
myth of us
... But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me go back to the beginning of my story. What exactly do I mean by ‘media’? ‘Media’ are, first of all, technological means for producing, circulating and receiving communications. We would have no media unless human life were constituted, in a crucial respect, b ...
... But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me go back to the beginning of my story. What exactly do I mean by ‘media’? ‘Media’ are, first of all, technological means for producing, circulating and receiving communications. We would have no media unless human life were constituted, in a crucial respect, b ...
Section: Setting the Stage: Past and Future
... changing roles and status and the inevitable losses of old age have provided, and will continue to provide, fruitful research endeavors for sociologists. ...
... changing roles and status and the inevitable losses of old age have provided, and will continue to provide, fruitful research endeavors for sociologists. ...
Citizenship and Governance in Mercosur
... narrative of Western history at least, is established alongside states and cannot be separated from the history of state creation (Tilly 1984). For Marshall (1973), extrapolating from developments in twentieth century Europe, social, cultural and economic rights follow on from political rights in a ...
... narrative of Western history at least, is established alongside states and cannot be separated from the history of state creation (Tilly 1984). For Marshall (1973), extrapolating from developments in twentieth century Europe, social, cultural and economic rights follow on from political rights in a ...