Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research
... it is that a great deal of contemporary social research is concerned with the nature and consequences of these changes. And, quite simply, because no contemporary social research can ignore these changes, they are having a pervasive effect on our lives. A more specific reason for focusing on new cap ...
... it is that a great deal of contemporary social research is concerned with the nature and consequences of these changes. And, quite simply, because no contemporary social research can ignore these changes, they are having a pervasive effect on our lives. A more specific reason for focusing on new cap ...
An Exercise
... • (4) Engaging in cultural oppression by treating the group as inferior, • (5) When oppressed groups are easily visible, they argue that the oppression can be rationalized or excused or • (6) keeping oppressed groups divided within themselves or from other oppressed groups. ...
... • (4) Engaging in cultural oppression by treating the group as inferior, • (5) When oppressed groups are easily visible, they argue that the oppression can be rationalized or excused or • (6) keeping oppressed groups divided within themselves or from other oppressed groups. ...
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
... independent of our ideas of it and that the world as experienced is not co-terminous with that objective world, hence the need for science. We also maintain the (non-reductive) materialist premise that ideas are essentially specific forms of the material world, or, they are qualitatively specific ma ...
... independent of our ideas of it and that the world as experienced is not co-terminous with that objective world, hence the need for science. We also maintain the (non-reductive) materialist premise that ideas are essentially specific forms of the material world, or, they are qualitatively specific ma ...
In the shadow of genetics - Centre for Disability Studies
... This thesis takes the form of an investigation into the joint role of eugenics and genetics in informing social policy directed at disabled people during the twentieth century. The major geographical locus is the 'transatlantic belt' stretching from northwest Europe to the United States. Drawing on ...
... This thesis takes the form of an investigation into the joint role of eugenics and genetics in informing social policy directed at disabled people during the twentieth century. The major geographical locus is the 'transatlantic belt' stretching from northwest Europe to the United States. Drawing on ...
White Paper Opens in a new window
... know them all”. The implications of this can be revisited at Pierre Bourdieu who beautifully describes how powerful this recognition becomes for the discrimination and inner structure of society (Bourdieu, 1979). It is the habitus that makes the difference. We may want to come back to this idea late ...
... know them all”. The implications of this can be revisited at Pierre Bourdieu who beautifully describes how powerful this recognition becomes for the discrimination and inner structure of society (Bourdieu, 1979). It is the habitus that makes the difference. We may want to come back to this idea late ...
Social Movements and Environmentalism, a Luhmannian
... This interest naturally leads to the field of social movement theory. The literature within this domain is extensive and very different paths were taken within it in order to understand collective action. By studying it we learn that collective action can go beyond the emotions of the moment to beco ...
... This interest naturally leads to the field of social movement theory. The literature within this domain is extensive and very different paths were taken within it in order to understand collective action. By studying it we learn that collective action can go beyond the emotions of the moment to beco ...
Disability Studies: Theory, Policy and Practice
... identified with the idea that disability is entirely caused by social barriers. So, for example, we read claims that the social model of disability should be abandoned because it mistakenly denies that impairment plays any role in causing disability. We are told to ‘get real’ – to acknowledge tha ...
... identified with the idea that disability is entirely caused by social barriers. So, for example, we read claims that the social model of disability should be abandoned because it mistakenly denies that impairment plays any role in causing disability. We are told to ‘get real’ – to acknowledge tha ...
After International Relations: Critical Realism and the
... research programme; and illustrates how this research programme can be put to work to enable better research and ethico-political practices. Developing a critical realist methodology for international relations, peace research and global political economy, this book resolves many of the theoretical ...
... research programme; and illustrates how this research programme can be put to work to enable better research and ethico-political practices. Developing a critical realist methodology for international relations, peace research and global political economy, this book resolves many of the theoretical ...
The critique of methodological nationalism: Theory and history
... nation-state system has become a world-wide one . . . the emergence of the nation-state was integrally bound up with the expansion of capitalism’ (Giddens 1981: 12). The key for Giddens is the nation-state’s capacity for drawing together all the resources that effectively turned it into a kind of ‘‘ ...
... nation-state system has become a world-wide one . . . the emergence of the nation-state was integrally bound up with the expansion of capitalism’ (Giddens 1981: 12). The key for Giddens is the nation-state’s capacity for drawing together all the resources that effectively turned it into a kind of ‘‘ ...
"Social innovation". - Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund
... Hamburg-Harburg and worked on subjects including “Predicting the industrial society’s development”. ...
... Hamburg-Harburg and worked on subjects including “Predicting the industrial society’s development”. ...
The Social System
... The famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Stauss (1962) argued that cultural myths and symbols are bon à penser (or “good to think”). What he meant was neither that one culture’s myths or symbols are inherently or naturally “beer” than another culture’s nor that myths become “beer” as time passes. Rat ...
... The famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Stauss (1962) argued that cultural myths and symbols are bon à penser (or “good to think”). What he meant was neither that one culture’s myths or symbols are inherently or naturally “beer” than another culture’s nor that myths become “beer” as time passes. Rat ...
Törnberg, Petter - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
... This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of “naturalism” (the notion of a continuity betwe ...
... This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of “naturalism” (the notion of a continuity betwe ...
The Discourses of OERs: how flat is this world?
... also extended to include other types of semiotic activity such as visual images (photography, video, diagrams etc) and sound (podcasts, lectures). Discourse is a particular way of constructing a domain of social practice (Fairclough, 1995). It is more than simply putting together spoken or written w ...
... also extended to include other types of semiotic activity such as visual images (photography, video, diagrams etc) and sound (podcasts, lectures). Discourse is a particular way of constructing a domain of social practice (Fairclough, 1995). It is more than simply putting together spoken or written w ...
Answer Key and Rationale
... Answer C: Here, the social worker has essentially dismissed the client's reluctance to go home. This arrangement might be appropriate if, for some reason, moving back home were the client's only alternative, but there is nothing to suggest that this is the case. Answer D: This action would violate t ...
... Answer C: Here, the social worker has essentially dismissed the client's reluctance to go home. This arrangement might be appropriate if, for some reason, moving back home were the client's only alternative, but there is nothing to suggest that this is the case. Answer D: This action would violate t ...
aust dortmund.de
... denial of the fruitful effects of technology as we are to an unthinking belief in them" (Ibid., p. 140). ...
... denial of the fruitful effects of technology as we are to an unthinking belief in them" (Ibid., p. 140). ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
... transparent and rational as our sociological forefathers believed. My sensitivity to this reality, and my ability to understand it, has been mediated by a series of critical intellectual events: the linguistic turn in philosophy, the rediscovery of hermeneutics, the structuralist revolution in the h ...
... transparent and rational as our sociological forefathers believed. My sensitivity to this reality, and my ability to understand it, has been mediated by a series of critical intellectual events: the linguistic turn in philosophy, the rediscovery of hermeneutics, the structuralist revolution in the h ...
What Is Globalization? The Definitional Issue – Again” Jan Aart Scholte
... proportional terms, levels of cross-border trade, direct investment and permanent migration were as great or greater in the late nineteenth century as they were a hundred years later.18 The suggestion is that globalization (read international interdependence) is a feature of the modern states-system ...
... proportional terms, levels of cross-border trade, direct investment and permanent migration were as great or greater in the late nineteenth century as they were a hundred years later.18 The suggestion is that globalization (read international interdependence) is a feature of the modern states-system ...
Anglo American Social Practitioner Reference Library
... Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining http://www.csrm.uq.edu.au/publications/260-mining-industry-perspectives-on-handlingcommunity-grievances-a-summary ...
... Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining http://www.csrm.uq.edu.au/publications/260-mining-industry-perspectives-on-handlingcommunity-grievances-a-summary ...
SOCIAL WORK MEDIATION/CONFLICT RESOLUTION: THE
... relatively new concept. Although resolving personal and interpersonal conflict is a natural part of social work practice, no evidence can be found by the researcher to substantiate that mediation/conflict resolution has been a core subject for institutions of social work in higher education, except ...
... relatively new concept. Although resolving personal and interpersonal conflict is a natural part of social work practice, no evidence can be found by the researcher to substantiate that mediation/conflict resolution has been a core subject for institutions of social work in higher education, except ...
The Meanings of "Individualism"
... dispersed to all the winds of heaven," as well as his certainty that "Society requires" that "the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection."7 These sentiments were found at their most extreme among the theocratic Catholic re ...
... dispersed to all the winds of heaven," as well as his certainty that "Society requires" that "the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection."7 These sentiments were found at their most extreme among the theocratic Catholic re ...
Migration and Social Transformation
... (particularly asylum seekers and lower-skilled workers), or to stigmatise them so that they are forced to accept the most exploitative forms of irregular employment. Anyway, today’s walls are not designed to keep everybody out. For instance, although the USA systematically uses undocumented workers ...
... (particularly asylum seekers and lower-skilled workers), or to stigmatise them so that they are forced to accept the most exploitative forms of irregular employment. Anyway, today’s walls are not designed to keep everybody out. For instance, although the USA systematically uses undocumented workers ...
Spring 2015 - Tufts University | School of Arts and Sciences
... This course consists of a semester’s work in an institutional setting which may be, for example, a government social welfare agency, hospital, or a community organization or action program of some type. Students may make their own arrangements for placement or may receive help from the department, b ...
... This course consists of a semester’s work in an institutional setting which may be, for example, a government social welfare agency, hospital, or a community organization or action program of some type. Students may make their own arrangements for placement or may receive help from the department, b ...
Social Silicon Valleys (March 2006)
... 2. Over the last two centuries, innumerable social innovations, from neighbourhood policing to Wikipedia, have moved from the margins to the mainstream (and on page 15 we provide our list of ten world-changing social innovations). As this has happened, many have passed through the three stages that ...
... 2. Over the last two centuries, innumerable social innovations, from neighbourhood policing to Wikipedia, have moved from the margins to the mainstream (and on page 15 we provide our list of ten world-changing social innovations). As this has happened, many have passed through the three stages that ...
Social learning spaces - Wenger
... developing a series of communities of practice was meant to create learning spaces across the projects and the countries involved. Communities of practice, when they work well, are quintessential examples of social learning spaces. The learning space of a community is built through a history of lear ...
... developing a series of communities of practice was meant to create learning spaces across the projects and the countries involved. Communities of practice, when they work well, are quintessential examples of social learning spaces. The learning space of a community is built through a history of lear ...
Constructing Transnational Studies
... bounded and bordered social units are understood as transnationally constituted, embedded and influenced social arenas that interact with one another.15 From this perspective, the world consists of multiple sets of dynamically overlapping and interacting transnational social fields that create and s ...
... bounded and bordered social units are understood as transnationally constituted, embedded and influenced social arenas that interact with one another.15 From this perspective, the world consists of multiple sets of dynamically overlapping and interacting transnational social fields that create and s ...