On Social Formation
... American studies programs were conceived of as pan-Africanist and diasporic, but these too, like nationalism, followed a European exemplar. During the late nineteenth century, in the noonday of European imperialism, whiteness and white supremacy dissected and sutured narratives of nation by creating ...
... American studies programs were conceived of as pan-Africanist and diasporic, but these too, like nationalism, followed a European exemplar. During the late nineteenth century, in the noonday of European imperialism, whiteness and white supremacy dissected and sutured narratives of nation by creating ...
The social in social science
... from the researcher. For the time being, we will not challenge this assumption but instead concentrate upon its implications for studying people. The treatment of objects of analysis as separate from the researcher is more problematic in the social sciences. For example, when we study the family, ed ...
... from the researcher. For the time being, we will not challenge this assumption but instead concentrate upon its implications for studying people. The treatment of objects of analysis as separate from the researcher is more problematic in the social sciences. For example, when we study the family, ed ...
Constructed Worlds, Contested Truths Maria BaghraMian
... rise to them? Are they in some way reducible to the collective intentions of the participating actors? Reductionism of the latter type is favoured by many realists, but it is difficult to see how it could be achieved when the target of reduction is the dispersed and transient phenomenon of collectiv ...
... rise to them? Are they in some way reducible to the collective intentions of the participating actors? Reductionism of the latter type is favoured by many realists, but it is difficult to see how it could be achieved when the target of reduction is the dispersed and transient phenomenon of collectiv ...
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
... health services, playground and park development, public education, and the institution of social welfare programs. Of course, the picture is more complicated than this; there were clear class interests riddling the progressive movement to reconfigure a polyglot immigrant and working class society i ...
... health services, playground and park development, public education, and the institution of social welfare programs. Of course, the picture is more complicated than this; there were clear class interests riddling the progressive movement to reconfigure a polyglot immigrant and working class society i ...
The Sociological Imagination Revisited
... offer us the illusion of history and biography without the change oriented perspective which Mills embodied. Mills reminds us that issues are, in fact, often crises in institutional arrangements; these are what Marxists refer to as internal contradictions or antagonisms. Perhaps Mills may be faulte ...
... offer us the illusion of history and biography without the change oriented perspective which Mills embodied. Mills reminds us that issues are, in fact, often crises in institutional arrangements; these are what Marxists refer to as internal contradictions or antagonisms. Perhaps Mills may be faulte ...
"Ideology" in: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and
... strategies. Rather than being mere ideas, ideology is distinguished by its active use and its import for shaping and creating certain types of action. This process is theorized to occur most crucially when pre-existing cognitive strategies and normative routines are stressed by new realities. From t ...
... strategies. Rather than being mere ideas, ideology is distinguished by its active use and its import for shaping and creating certain types of action. This process is theorized to occur most crucially when pre-existing cognitive strategies and normative routines are stressed by new realities. From t ...
Rethinking Development Assistance
... Just as there can be wealth without capabilities, so there can temporarily be capability without material wealth. For instance, the Marshall Plan is often touted as the forerunner for the later post-war development schemes in the developing world. But it is a bogus comparison because the people of w ...
... Just as there can be wealth without capabilities, so there can temporarily be capability without material wealth. For instance, the Marshall Plan is often touted as the forerunner for the later post-war development schemes in the developing world. But it is a bogus comparison because the people of w ...
Abstract - space lab
... incentive to provide a CSR report describing their activities (Bagnoli and Watts 2014). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), now closely aligned with the United Nations Global Compact, is touted as a comprehensive framework for CSR reporting although it is voluntary and discretionary (Coombs and H ...
... incentive to provide a CSR report describing their activities (Bagnoli and Watts 2014). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), now closely aligned with the United Nations Global Compact, is touted as a comprehensive framework for CSR reporting although it is voluntary and discretionary (Coombs and H ...
Mariangela Veikou University of Peloponnese, Greece Images of
... The photographic aspect of the project became a key point of communication between me and my informants. Quite often, in order to take photographs of the activities and/or the participants I was interested in, first I had to establish myself as someone who is trusted to take the photograph, and only ...
... The photographic aspect of the project became a key point of communication between me and my informants. Quite often, in order to take photographs of the activities and/or the participants I was interested in, first I had to establish myself as someone who is trusted to take the photograph, and only ...
1 The Enlightenment and the development of social theory
... emerged in the development of social theory in order to situate current ideas in terms of their past influences. At the same time it is noted that an injustice will be committed if the reader simply concludes that the writings of ‘past’ social theorists are not still of importance in understanding c ...
... emerged in the development of social theory in order to situate current ideas in terms of their past influences. At the same time it is noted that an injustice will be committed if the reader simply concludes that the writings of ‘past’ social theorists are not still of importance in understanding c ...
Gender, poverty and social justice
... ‘deserving and ‘undeserving’, marking a physical and moral segregation among the poor. As Dean (1991) and Goose (2005) show the classification was also imbricated with gender, age and sexuality, deeply affecting the assessment of those deemed eligible for relief and their lives in poverty. The categ ...
... ‘deserving and ‘undeserving’, marking a physical and moral segregation among the poor. As Dean (1991) and Goose (2005) show the classification was also imbricated with gender, age and sexuality, deeply affecting the assessment of those deemed eligible for relief and their lives in poverty. The categ ...
Co-creating a SOCIAL INNOVATION RESEARCH AGENDA for Europe
... to be better linked through a mutual recognition of their different purposes in contemporary society. Thus, our goal is to give researchers the opportunity to co-create a future research agenda in collaboration with other stakeholders. The fragmentation of a growing SI community across Europe is pre ...
... to be better linked through a mutual recognition of their different purposes in contemporary society. Thus, our goal is to give researchers the opportunity to co-create a future research agenda in collaboration with other stakeholders. The fragmentation of a growing SI community across Europe is pre ...
Explorations in Applied Social Science
... theoretical models of pure social science are equally useful to applied social scientists, (c) Applied social scientists will more likely borrow from their basic disciplines those concepts and theoretical models which aid them in understanding or producing changes, (d) When the basic discipline does ...
... theoretical models of pure social science are equally useful to applied social scientists, (c) Applied social scientists will more likely borrow from their basic disciplines those concepts and theoretical models which aid them in understanding or producing changes, (d) When the basic discipline does ...
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained?: Benefits, Risks and Best
... companies outside of the pharmaceutical industry have leveraged social media to advertise their products and communicate with customers. Using social media, companies can more effectively connect with customers, join and build communities, collect research data, advertise products, and engage online ...
... companies outside of the pharmaceutical industry have leveraged social media to advertise their products and communicate with customers. Using social media, companies can more effectively connect with customers, join and build communities, collect research data, advertise products, and engage online ...
Social choice problem in Capability Approach
... society (Sen, 1999). Moreover, he insists that for social evaluation it is enough to define common criteria of well-being by taking an intersection of plural evaluation orderings (complete or incomplete) (Sen, 1985). These arguments can be understood in the line with Sen’s study on poverty and inequ ...
... society (Sen, 1999). Moreover, he insists that for social evaluation it is enough to define common criteria of well-being by taking an intersection of plural evaluation orderings (complete or incomplete) (Sen, 1985). These arguments can be understood in the line with Sen’s study on poverty and inequ ...
Readings on Social Movements
... with producing more limited but specific changes within a social system, often with respect to rules of access to, and operation within, the various institutional arenas of society. Thus, movements that have sought to introduce or changt,; labor laws, decriminalize or legalize drugs such as iharijua ...
... with producing more limited but specific changes within a social system, often with respect to rules of access to, and operation within, the various institutional arenas of society. Thus, movements that have sought to introduce or changt,; labor laws, decriminalize or legalize drugs such as iharijua ...
“The Bourgeoisie, Historically, Has Played a Most Revolutionary Part”:
... different moments in the circuit of capital’ (Jessop, 1990: 199) under the hegemony of a particular fraction of capital. In other words, accumulation strategies are the outcome of social movement projects from above, exercising their directive role in economic organization on the basis of the achiev ...
... different moments in the circuit of capital’ (Jessop, 1990: 199) under the hegemony of a particular fraction of capital. In other words, accumulation strategies are the outcome of social movement projects from above, exercising their directive role in economic organization on the basis of the achiev ...
bourdieu – habitus, symbolic violence, the gift
... on trying to transcend a series of oppositions that characterized the social sciences (subjectivism / objectivism, micro / macro, freedom / determinism). In particular, he made that through conceptual innovations. The concepts of habitus, capital, and field have been created, indeed, to eliminate su ...
... on trying to transcend a series of oppositions that characterized the social sciences (subjectivism / objectivism, micro / macro, freedom / determinism). In particular, he made that through conceptual innovations. The concepts of habitus, capital, and field have been created, indeed, to eliminate su ...
The Pedagogy of the Pastor: The Formation of the Social Studies
... Hunter (1994), a neo-Foucauldian scholar, first defined pastoral pedagogy. In a study of the history of Australian schooling, Hunter elaborated on the inner workings of a teaching methodology dependent on “the subjectforming techniques of pastoral pedagogy with its arts of self-examination and its c ...
... Hunter (1994), a neo-Foucauldian scholar, first defined pastoral pedagogy. In a study of the history of Australian schooling, Hunter elaborated on the inner workings of a teaching methodology dependent on “the subjectforming techniques of pastoral pedagogy with its arts of self-examination and its c ...
Time and space in cyber social reality
... introduction, the basic definitions from Boudreau and Newman are extended to encompass the field of online communication. The use of technology alters the construction of social reality in several ways, blurs the borders between technology and sociality, and thus brings to mind the actants3 of Latou ...
... introduction, the basic definitions from Boudreau and Newman are extended to encompass the field of online communication. The use of technology alters the construction of social reality in several ways, blurs the borders between technology and sociality, and thus brings to mind the actants3 of Latou ...
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... When we talk of postmodernity, we promotesthe heterogeneity oflanguage refer to certain conditions that have games. It does not believe that the been previously theorized under other purpose of inquiry is the quest for concepts, like post-industrial society, truth; rather it believesthat all inquiry ...
... When we talk of postmodernity, we promotesthe heterogeneity oflanguage refer to certain conditions that have games. It does not believe that the been previously theorized under other purpose of inquiry is the quest for concepts, like post-industrial society, truth; rather it believesthat all inquiry ...
Empowering the Shamed Self: Recognition and Critical
... Here, we came across the idea of a fundamental unity between people, one that even preceded their understanding of themselves as separate beings. Moreover, human engagement reached an ethical apex when subjects recognised, not only their interconnectedness, but their joint value. This view of the pr ...
... Here, we came across the idea of a fundamental unity between people, one that even preceded their understanding of themselves as separate beings. Moreover, human engagement reached an ethical apex when subjects recognised, not only their interconnectedness, but their joint value. This view of the pr ...
Science and the Scientific Nature of Research in the
... places; (iv) has laws that operate irrespective of human will and predispositions; and, (v) operates through certain processes and instrumentalities that are empirical and verifiable. Science has always been associated with a type of knowledge that continues to build up new ideas and knowledge. In c ...
... places; (iv) has laws that operate irrespective of human will and predispositions; and, (v) operates through certain processes and instrumentalities that are empirical and verifiable. Science has always been associated with a type of knowledge that continues to build up new ideas and knowledge. In c ...
The Poverty of Historicism
... second one: just what, in that work and his other comments on the topic, did Popper consider the main differences between the natural and social sciences to be? Both problems are enmeshed in a sociological problem, that of the strange reception of Popper's ideas in general,' and the extraordinary si ...
... second one: just what, in that work and his other comments on the topic, did Popper consider the main differences between the natural and social sciences to be? Both problems are enmeshed in a sociological problem, that of the strange reception of Popper's ideas in general,' and the extraordinary si ...