92. Whither the Welfare State: Public versus Private Consumption?
... labour theory of value - the availability of consumption for those who do not work in the physical form of goods suffices to demonstrate the presence of exploitation. Consequently, the modern version of Ricardian socialism, derived from the work of Sraffa, rejects the labour theory of value on analy ...
... labour theory of value - the availability of consumption for those who do not work in the physical form of goods suffices to demonstrate the presence of exploitation. Consequently, the modern version of Ricardian socialism, derived from the work of Sraffa, rejects the labour theory of value on analy ...
Goffman`s concept of the normal as the collective
... each other. Primary frameworks, seen as prior or ‘original’ interpretations and which refer to people’s natural and social worlds, are located at the beginning of the process of reframing. Since people continuously project their frames of reference onto world and since they continuously layer frames ...
... each other. Primary frameworks, seen as prior or ‘original’ interpretations and which refer to people’s natural and social worlds, are located at the beginning of the process of reframing. Since people continuously project their frames of reference onto world and since they continuously layer frames ...
Social dominance theory and the dynamics of intergroup relations
... critical differences among these systems (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Sidanius & Veniegas, 2000): flexibility, level of violence, and focus. The age and gender systems have some flexibility as to who is defined as a ‘‘child’’ versus an ‘‘adult’’ and who is ‘‘male’’ versus ‘‘female’’. But the arbitrary-set ...
... critical differences among these systems (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Sidanius & Veniegas, 2000): flexibility, level of violence, and focus. The age and gender systems have some flexibility as to who is defined as a ‘‘child’’ versus an ‘‘adult’’ and who is ‘‘male’’ versus ‘‘female’’. But the arbitrary-set ...
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... [S]ocial science enjoyed a golden age, it was the middle third of the twentieth century, three decades beginning in the 1930s when sociologists, economists, psychologists, and others spoke with more authority and their voices reached farther in any other period before or since… Confidence in the sci ...
... [S]ocial science enjoyed a golden age, it was the middle third of the twentieth century, three decades beginning in the 1930s when sociologists, economists, psychologists, and others spoke with more authority and their voices reached farther in any other period before or since… Confidence in the sci ...
Anthropological and Sociological Critiques of Bioethics
... or the good of patients and vulnerable research subjects, yet are in truth largely driven by selfinterest, then disclosure of unpleasant truths is surely more honest than self-serving accounts to the contrary. The problem, though, is not that social scientists provide a mirror upon whose surface we ...
... or the good of patients and vulnerable research subjects, yet are in truth largely driven by selfinterest, then disclosure of unpleasant truths is surely more honest than self-serving accounts to the contrary. The problem, though, is not that social scientists provide a mirror upon whose surface we ...
Ludwig Lachmann from a Critical Realist Perspective
... results. It consists in first creating, by conjecture and reasoned imagination on the basis of mere suggestion offered by visible or recorded circumstance, the things on which hope can be fixed. These things, at the time when they are available for choice, are thoughts and even figments (Shackle, 19 ...
... results. It consists in first creating, by conjecture and reasoned imagination on the basis of mere suggestion offered by visible or recorded circumstance, the things on which hope can be fixed. These things, at the time when they are available for choice, are thoughts and even figments (Shackle, 19 ...
Human-computer interaction and sociological insight
... the experimental group although there is a dip during task 3 when ConvoCons are no longer present. However, there is a sharp rise in affinity on the final (freeform) task and the experimental group ends with over 40% higher affinity. ..................................105 Table 7 Exit Survey results ...
... the experimental group although there is a dip during task 3 when ConvoCons are no longer present. However, there is a sharp rise in affinity on the final (freeform) task and the experimental group ends with over 40% higher affinity. ..................................105 Table 7 Exit Survey results ...
Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a
... since the eighteenth century have observed the dynamization of Western culture, society, or history – and sometimes of time itself14 – they were not so much concerned with the spectacular technological advancements as with the (often simultaneous) accelerated processes of social change that rendered ...
... since the eighteenth century have observed the dynamization of Western culture, society, or history – and sometimes of time itself14 – they were not so much concerned with the spectacular technological advancements as with the (often simultaneous) accelerated processes of social change that rendered ...
Rational Choice, Social Identity, and Beliefs about Oneself - E
... lacks unless it is made explicit (MacInnes 2004, 533; de Francisco and Aguiar 2005, 13). For this reason, externalists often view explanations for social action in terms of supposed gender, ethnic, or class identities as being little more than just another way of saying that individuals share intere ...
... lacks unless it is made explicit (MacInnes 2004, 533; de Francisco and Aguiar 2005, 13). For this reason, externalists often view explanations for social action in terms of supposed gender, ethnic, or class identities as being little more than just another way of saying that individuals share intere ...
Interacting Phenotypes and the Evolutionary Process. II. Selection
... Social selection can be viewed as one component in the partitioning of selection (Arnold and Wade 1984a, 1984b; Frank 1997). When the characteristics of one individual affect the fitness of conspecifics, these interacting phenotypes (cf. Moore et al. 1997, 1998) become the agent of social selection. ...
... Social selection can be viewed as one component in the partitioning of selection (Arnold and Wade 1984a, 1984b; Frank 1997). When the characteristics of one individual affect the fitness of conspecifics, these interacting phenotypes (cf. Moore et al. 1997, 1998) become the agent of social selection. ...
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT
... finally, relations concerned with the exercise of political sovereignty. Foucault was crucially interested in the interconnections between these different forms and meanings of government; but in his lectures specifi cally on governmental rationality he concerned himself principally with government ...
... finally, relations concerned with the exercise of political sovereignty. Foucault was crucially interested in the interconnections between these different forms and meanings of government; but in his lectures specifi cally on governmental rationality he concerned himself principally with government ...
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems
... valuable remarks and comments. I would particularly like to thank Mattias Wahlström, Abby Peterson, Håkan Thörn, and Bengt Larsson. Two other people that have been essential for this thesis are my two intellectually flexible complexity gurus; Claes Andersson at Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers T ...
... valuable remarks and comments. I would particularly like to thank Mattias Wahlström, Abby Peterson, Håkan Thörn, and Bengt Larsson. Two other people that have been essential for this thesis are my two intellectually flexible complexity gurus; Claes Andersson at Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers T ...
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... As a final example of what one might call Addams’s pragmatist practice, we can look to her support of women in the labor market. Deegan [12] labels Addams a “critical pragmatist,” emphasizing Addams’s interest in “empowering the community, the laborer, the poor, the elderly and youth, women and immi ...
... As a final example of what one might call Addams’s pragmatist practice, we can look to her support of women in the labor market. Deegan [12] labels Addams a “critical pragmatist,” emphasizing Addams’s interest in “empowering the community, the laborer, the poor, the elderly and youth, women and immi ...
On thematic concepts and methodological (epistemological
... the physical sciences, for Holton, only those dyadic oppositions, which function as conceptual elements underlying the structure and development of physical theories, rise to themata. When this happens, they are long-lived and endure through the revolutionary changes of Kuhnian (Kuhn, 1962) scientif ...
... the physical sciences, for Holton, only those dyadic oppositions, which function as conceptual elements underlying the structure and development of physical theories, rise to themata. When this happens, they are long-lived and endure through the revolutionary changes of Kuhnian (Kuhn, 1962) scientif ...
The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the
... Now, with the partial exception of the ‘dialectical materialists’ (whose specificity will be considered later), the great error that unites these disputants is their acceptance of an essentially positivist account of natural science, or at least (and more generally) of an empiricist ontology. Consid ...
... Now, with the partial exception of the ‘dialectical materialists’ (whose specificity will be considered later), the great error that unites these disputants is their acceptance of an essentially positivist account of natural science, or at least (and more generally) of an empiricist ontology. Consid ...
Causality and Complexity in the Works of Pierre Bourdieu
... process without a subject and historical agents to the role of supports of the structure and unconscious bearers of objective structures (Althusser) (see Bourdieu 1990b: 30-41). On the other hand, Bourdieu also criticised subjectivist theories such as the one of Jean-Paul Sartre (see Bourdieu 1990b: ...
... process without a subject and historical agents to the role of supports of the structure and unconscious bearers of objective structures (Althusser) (see Bourdieu 1990b: 30-41). On the other hand, Bourdieu also criticised subjectivist theories such as the one of Jean-Paul Sartre (see Bourdieu 1990b: ...
Discourse
... asserting or warning, or on a different plane, referring to people or things and implicating meanings which are not overtly expressed. ...
... asserting or warning, or on a different plane, referring to people or things and implicating meanings which are not overtly expressed. ...
Herbert Spencer Energetics
... would seem to be no reason for being interested in Spencer’s ideas after Durkheim has finished with them’ (Durkheim, 1933: x). Durkheim’s critiques address what is, in fact, a fairly limited dimension of Spencer’s work, and in fact Durkheim’s own arguments are much closer to Spencer than one can ea ...
... would seem to be no reason for being interested in Spencer’s ideas after Durkheim has finished with them’ (Durkheim, 1933: x). Durkheim’s critiques address what is, in fact, a fairly limited dimension of Spencer’s work, and in fact Durkheim’s own arguments are much closer to Spencer than one can ea ...
Ideological systems and its validation: a neutrosophic approach University of New Mexico
... some permanence, and to which individuals and/or human groups exhibit some commitment. 2) Ideology is a system of concepts and views, which serves to make sense of the world while obscuring the social interest that are expressed therein, and by completeness and relative internal consistency tends to ...
... some permanence, and to which individuals and/or human groups exhibit some commitment. 2) Ideology is a system of concepts and views, which serves to make sense of the world while obscuring the social interest that are expressed therein, and by completeness and relative internal consistency tends to ...
Theories of Practice as an Approach to
... There is now a huge corpus of work on consumption, but it still lacks theoretical consolidation. This is most obvious when contemplating the situations of different disciplines, where there is very little common ground (see, for example, the review in Miller, 1995). Our current project,1 and other w ...
... There is now a huge corpus of work on consumption, but it still lacks theoretical consolidation. This is most obvious when contemplating the situations of different disciplines, where there is very little common ground (see, for example, the review in Miller, 1995). Our current project,1 and other w ...
Postmodernism and Sociology: From the - CJ
... number of questions for the postmodern theory that developed in the 1970s and 1980s in France and beyond. If knowledge is always representational and science is always paradigmatic, if universal, rationally founded knowledge is thereby distorting, then how do we ensure knowledge that stresses, as do ...
... number of questions for the postmodern theory that developed in the 1970s and 1980s in France and beyond. If knowledge is always representational and science is always paradigmatic, if universal, rationally founded knowledge is thereby distorting, then how do we ensure knowledge that stresses, as do ...
Social Chaosmos: Michel Serres and the emergence of social order
... interactions that were thought to have been exemplified by rules, values and norms. From such a perspective, some type of macro entity or social structure influences its constituent membership in such a way that this membership behaves as agents of that structure, and reinforces its existence. But, ...
... interactions that were thought to have been exemplified by rules, values and norms. From such a perspective, some type of macro entity or social structure influences its constituent membership in such a way that this membership behaves as agents of that structure, and reinforces its existence. But, ...
Social economy and social entrepreneurship
... word ‘social’ with typically economic concepts: social enterprise, social innovation, social business, etc. As in the case of social economy and social entrepreneurship, one could debate to no end on what the term ‘social’ means in each of these cases, what exactly is included or left out. This unce ...
... word ‘social’ with typically economic concepts: social enterprise, social innovation, social business, etc. As in the case of social economy and social entrepreneurship, one could debate to no end on what the term ‘social’ means in each of these cases, what exactly is included or left out. This unce ...
- University of Essex Research Repository
... the progressive elimination of final causes from its modes of explanation. As von Wright describes, ‘the Aristotelian tradition today represents merely the fading survival of obsolete elements from which science is gradually becoming “liberated”’(1971:2). Ernst Mayr, in his many writings on the prob ...
... the progressive elimination of final causes from its modes of explanation. As von Wright describes, ‘the Aristotelian tradition today represents merely the fading survival of obsolete elements from which science is gradually becoming “liberated”’(1971:2). Ernst Mayr, in his many writings on the prob ...
Rationing Vaccine During An Avian Influenza Pandemic: Why It Won
... generic vaccine is effective but only at extremely high doses — a result that does not bode well for widespread distribution during a pandemic [3]. One authoritative source estimates that, during the following six months, worldwide vaccine production would most likely be limited to roughly 1 billion ...
... generic vaccine is effective but only at extremely high doses — a result that does not bode well for widespread distribution during a pandemic [3]. One authoritative source estimates that, during the following six months, worldwide vaccine production would most likely be limited to roughly 1 billion ...