The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
... densely interwoven. The binaries of symbolic codes and true/false statements are implanted one on the other. Fantasy and reality are so hopelessly intertwined that we can separate them only in a posthoc way. It was the same in modern society. In this respect, little has changed since traditional lif ...
... densely interwoven. The binaries of symbolic codes and true/false statements are implanted one on the other. Fantasy and reality are so hopelessly intertwined that we can separate them only in a posthoc way. It was the same in modern society. In this respect, little has changed since traditional lif ...
Transcript of Diane Peters interview with Michael E. Gardiner for this
... MG: The domain of ‘everyday life’ is something I’ve been researching since the 1990s, which includes inquiries into mundane experiences of embodiment, emotionality, affect, and so forth. So it might seem that my interest in boredom was a natural outgrowth of this scholarly focus, and to some extent ...
... MG: The domain of ‘everyday life’ is something I’ve been researching since the 1990s, which includes inquiries into mundane experiences of embodiment, emotionality, affect, and so forth. So it might seem that my interest in boredom was a natural outgrowth of this scholarly focus, and to some extent ...
Individual Rights and the Social Good: A Choice
... I will employ the social choice theory articulated by Kenneth Arrow in Social Choice and Individual Values.4 This theory analyzes the effect of individual inputs on social outcomes by examining the logic and structure of various social choice mechanisms. Arrow's theory asks "if it is formally possib ...
... I will employ the social choice theory articulated by Kenneth Arrow in Social Choice and Individual Values.4 This theory analyzes the effect of individual inputs on social outcomes by examining the logic and structure of various social choice mechanisms. Arrow's theory asks "if it is formally possib ...
Optimal social choice functions: a utilitarian view
... premise is that agents have (possibly implicit) utility functions, and the goal of a social choice function is to maximize the social welfare—i.e., (possibly weighted) sum of agent utilities—of the selected alternative. The utilitarian perspective is not appropriate for all social choice problems (a ...
... premise is that agents have (possibly implicit) utility functions, and the goal of a social choice function is to maximize the social welfare—i.e., (possibly weighted) sum of agent utilities—of the selected alternative. The utilitarian perspective is not appropriate for all social choice problems (a ...
Professions as Science-Based Occupations
... They are self-reproducing, strive for occupational monopoly, are collegiate, use strong discretion, control their internal labour market and division of labour, control socialization of the next generation, issue credentials (‘made guys’, ‘wise guys’), often see their occupation as a calling and uph ...
... They are self-reproducing, strive for occupational monopoly, are collegiate, use strong discretion, control their internal labour market and division of labour, control socialization of the next generation, issue credentials (‘made guys’, ‘wise guys’), often see their occupation as a calling and uph ...
Rational Choice, Social Identity, and Beliefs about Oneself - E
... theory rests on an instrumental conception of the basic terms of the theory since it considers that the external, observable conduct of individuals is the only thing that can be taken into account. What goes on inside of each of our heads is of no interest to the social scientist; it is a black box ...
... theory rests on an instrumental conception of the basic terms of the theory since it considers that the external, observable conduct of individuals is the only thing that can be taken into account. What goes on inside of each of our heads is of no interest to the social scientist; it is a black box ...
East of Eden or South of Babel
... for allowing individual agents to differ in what they know and how they act, and with aggregate, societal-level formations emerging out of local interaction among such agents, in contrast to their being stipulated in advance through some postulation of societal equilibrium. Hayek’s scholarship was d ...
... for allowing individual agents to differ in what they know and how they act, and with aggregate, societal-level formations emerging out of local interaction among such agents, in contrast to their being stipulated in advance through some postulation of societal equilibrium. Hayek’s scholarship was d ...
Discourse and Wolves: Science, Society, and Ethics
... the evolution of the dog family and its subsequent speciation. For example, there is some evidence of a newly discovered species in eastern Canada, Canis lycaon, the eastern wolf (Kyle et al., 2006). Many members of the scientific community, advocacy groups, and the wider public believe natural scien ...
... the evolution of the dog family and its subsequent speciation. For example, there is some evidence of a newly discovered species in eastern Canada, Canis lycaon, the eastern wolf (Kyle et al., 2006). Many members of the scientific community, advocacy groups, and the wider public believe natural scien ...
Response to my critics
... ideals,…[they] have lost all confidence in the traditional left-wing cultural ideals of scientific reason, modernity and the Enlightenment….They display a passion for radical social transformation, alongside an equally passionate rage against the Enlightenment’s promise of progressive social change ...
... ideals,…[they] have lost all confidence in the traditional left-wing cultural ideals of scientific reason, modernity and the Enlightenment….They display a passion for radical social transformation, alongside an equally passionate rage against the Enlightenment’s promise of progressive social change ...
Jean Baudrillard
... interior of this time, which is indefinite, and no longer knows any eternity, one thing distinguishes modernity : it always wants to be 'contemporary,' i.e ., it seeks global simultaneity. After first privileging the dimension of progress and the future, it seems to confound itself more and more tod ...
... interior of this time, which is indefinite, and no longer knows any eternity, one thing distinguishes modernity : it always wants to be 'contemporary,' i.e ., it seeks global simultaneity. After first privileging the dimension of progress and the future, it seems to confound itself more and more tod ...
