Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT
... course], bracketing its familiarity, in order to analyze the theoretical and practical context with which it has been associated” (Foucault 1986, 3). It gives us the possibility of singling out “development” as an encompassing cultural space and at the same time of separating ourselves from it by pe ...
... course], bracketing its familiarity, in order to analyze the theoretical and practical context with which it has been associated” (Foucault 1986, 3). It gives us the possibility of singling out “development” as an encompassing cultural space and at the same time of separating ourselves from it by pe ...
Manifesto of computational social science
... induced new behavioural patterns, substantially influenced organization principles, and its products are becoming history-forming factors. We human beings have preserved our basic, genetically determined biological properties over tens of thousands of years but our social behaviour seems to be alter ...
... induced new behavioural patterns, substantially influenced organization principles, and its products are becoming history-forming factors. We human beings have preserved our basic, genetically determined biological properties over tens of thousands of years but our social behaviour seems to be alter ...
Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The
... Yet these outcomes are by no means guaranteed. Whether science is good or bad depends on its conformity with disciplines and methods that practitioners see as meeting their standards of evidence and argument. This essentially technical matter has relatively little moral content. In any event, scient ...
... Yet these outcomes are by no means guaranteed. Whether science is good or bad depends on its conformity with disciplines and methods that practitioners see as meeting their standards of evidence and argument. This essentially technical matter has relatively little moral content. In any event, scient ...
Competing Explanations of Global Evils: Theodicy, Social Sciences
... decisions, the result is an event of a “natural” order that can be objectified and explained as a reality sui generis (Durkheim 1982). Conspiracy theories, on the contrary, will stress the “unnaturalness” of the crisis and will point to very concrete human agents that stand to benefit from it.1 Wher ...
... decisions, the result is an event of a “natural” order that can be objectified and explained as a reality sui generis (Durkheim 1982). Conspiracy theories, on the contrary, will stress the “unnaturalness” of the crisis and will point to very concrete human agents that stand to benefit from it.1 Wher ...
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... structure in science. The only way to verify or falsify science for a scientist is to publish his or her findings and let others test it. Science has become a universal way of knowing the world and can only be developed through networks of people and tools. There is not one individual conducting sci ...
... structure in science. The only way to verify or falsify science for a scientist is to publish his or her findings and let others test it. Science has become a universal way of knowing the world and can only be developed through networks of people and tools. There is not one individual conducting sci ...
theoretical framework and genesis of cultural materialism
... epistemologists, not of the scientific materialists: “thoughts about things and events are separable from things and events” [3, p. 30]. Materialists therefore must get scientific knowledge not by setting “real” against “unreal,” but by dividing social life into mental and behavioral events, in othe ...
... epistemologists, not of the scientific materialists: “thoughts about things and events are separable from things and events” [3, p. 30]. Materialists therefore must get scientific knowledge not by setting “real” against “unreal,” but by dividing social life into mental and behavioral events, in othe ...
Social participation and cultural policy: a position
... In Lisbon, in 2000, the European Union adopted a number of strategic goals for economic and social development. One of these is the promotion of social cohesion and inclusion in all member states. According to the Council of Europe document Achieving social cohesion in a multicultural Europe (2006), ...
... In Lisbon, in 2000, the European Union adopted a number of strategic goals for economic and social development. One of these is the promotion of social cohesion and inclusion in all member states. According to the Council of Europe document Achieving social cohesion in a multicultural Europe (2006), ...
New Media as Weapons of Mass Instruction
... Maturana & Varela, 1980, 1987; Wilden, 1982). As such, they are neither fully explicable by the net total of ‘countable’ structures or elements, nor wholly predictable in their historical remediations (Wilden, 1982). We further assume that human social systems—identifiable, more or less regular, and ...
... Maturana & Varela, 1980, 1987; Wilden, 1982). As such, they are neither fully explicable by the net total of ‘countable’ structures or elements, nor wholly predictable in their historical remediations (Wilden, 1982). We further assume that human social systems—identifiable, more or less regular, and ...