Spring 2015 - Tufts University | School of Arts and Sciences
... and the like explain how groups create hierarchies. Much of the social and economic inequality between groups takes place through the cultural realm. How groups are read culturally (e.g. as a “model” group or as having a "culture of poverty”) is key to the social construction of group differences th ...
... and the like explain how groups create hierarchies. Much of the social and economic inequality between groups takes place through the cultural realm. How groups are read culturally (e.g. as a “model” group or as having a "culture of poverty”) is key to the social construction of group differences th ...
A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
... Whatever aspect of social life we designate as structure is posited as "structuring"some other aspect of social existence-whether it is class that structures politics, gender that structures employment opportunities, rhetorical conventions that structure texts or utterances, or modes of production t ...
... Whatever aspect of social life we designate as structure is posited as "structuring"some other aspect of social existence-whether it is class that structures politics, gender that structures employment opportunities, rhetorical conventions that structure texts or utterances, or modes of production t ...
A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
... that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. Whatever aspect of social life w ...
... that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. Whatever aspect of social life w ...
Liberal International Relations Theory
... Union — a liberal analysis would naturally shift its focus to these levels. 6. Representation, in the liberal view, is not simply a formal attribute of state institutions, but may include other stable characteristics of the political process, formal or informal, that privilege particular societal in ...
... Union — a liberal analysis would naturally shift its focus to these levels. 6. Representation, in the liberal view, is not simply a formal attribute of state institutions, but may include other stable characteristics of the political process, formal or informal, that privilege particular societal in ...
pdf format - Cardiff University
... One of the main intellectual currents in the development of modern science was the neo-Platonic philosophical tradition, which began in ancient Greece before being picked up on by early Christianity. The various strands of neo-Platonic thought viewed the perfectibility of humanity as an individual g ...
... One of the main intellectual currents in the development of modern science was the neo-Platonic philosophical tradition, which began in ancient Greece before being picked up on by early Christianity. The various strands of neo-Platonic thought viewed the perfectibility of humanity as an individual g ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... power is doubtful; it is undeniable, however, that advertising, marketing and fashion are important instruments in assigning meaning to things. Corrigan (1997) describes how patterns and ways of consumption have changed over the centuries, how people’s taste has been moulded through the spread of ad ...
... power is doubtful; it is undeniable, however, that advertising, marketing and fashion are important instruments in assigning meaning to things. Corrigan (1997) describes how patterns and ways of consumption have changed over the centuries, how people’s taste has been moulded through the spread of ad ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
... Although the theories of history proposed by Foucault or Dominick LaCapra are detailed and thoroughly worked out, they still remain within the intellectual horizon opened up by Nietzsche. Even the interpretation of the construction of historical knowledge construction according to class interests, t ...
Sociology: From Science to Pseudoscience
... normal science and proto-science is not enough. In this demarcation criterion Lakatos26 rejects both Kuhn and Popper arguing that neither simple refutation nor building up of anomalies kills a theory. Scientists are very tenacious people and hold on to their theories and try to improve these and tha ...
... normal science and proto-science is not enough. In this demarcation criterion Lakatos26 rejects both Kuhn and Popper arguing that neither simple refutation nor building up of anomalies kills a theory. Scientists are very tenacious people and hold on to their theories and try to improve these and tha ...
If Simmel Were A Fieldworker: On Formal
... it views them. Accordingly, the various sciences are distinguished from one another on the basis of the different perspectives from which they view reality. This philosophy of science underlies the formal approach to the sociological enterprise. What distinguishes sociology from the other sciences o ...
... it views them. Accordingly, the various sciences are distinguished from one another on the basis of the different perspectives from which they view reality. This philosophy of science underlies the formal approach to the sociological enterprise. What distinguishes sociology from the other sciences o ...
