1 The Enlightenment and the development of social theory
... or turn away from it, for it is the only world that we have. This is the world which became an object of inquiry for the social sciences. Emerging modes of political practice, however, contained within them both positive and negative elements. In negative terms, the Western Intellectual Tradition (B ...
... or turn away from it, for it is the only world that we have. This is the world which became an object of inquiry for the social sciences. Emerging modes of political practice, however, contained within them both positive and negative elements. In negative terms, the Western Intellectual Tradition (B ...
Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse
... though, is the final point they make, pulling together the argument of the book. ‘The big difference, the thing that makes the experience of our particular – white - families and the Izhava families we know ultimately almost incommensurable is that membership of a negatively evaluated community rema ...
... though, is the final point they make, pulling together the argument of the book. ‘The big difference, the thing that makes the experience of our particular – white - families and the Izhava families we know ultimately almost incommensurable is that membership of a negatively evaluated community rema ...
Why Are There So Many Communication Theories?
... logic of explanation. But the futility (at least in relatively open, liberal societies) as well as the ethical absurdity of such a stance is obvious. A second approach would be to embrace the constitutive potential of theory and to take due responsibility for its consequences. Among those consequenc ...
... logic of explanation. But the futility (at least in relatively open, liberal societies) as well as the ethical absurdity of such a stance is obvious. A second approach would be to embrace the constitutive potential of theory and to take due responsibility for its consequences. Among those consequenc ...
Michèle Lamont: A Portrait of a Capacious Sociologist
... from the hard sciences, and their ideal was to produce a sociology that was parallel to this. That tradition has produced some really fantastic sociologists, like Cecilia Ridgeway, but there was an awful lot of work that came out of that tradition that turned out not to be very significant and it wa ...
... from the hard sciences, and their ideal was to produce a sociology that was parallel to this. That tradition has produced some really fantastic sociologists, like Cecilia Ridgeway, but there was an awful lot of work that came out of that tradition that turned out not to be very significant and it wa ...
Rural - urban co-development - challenges to post
... From the comments above follow that technology (and then human interplay and exchange with natural life support systems) both affect and depend upon social environs. To introduce fundamentally new technologies it is necessary to alter the institutional and structural design of society. When the soci ...
... From the comments above follow that technology (and then human interplay and exchange with natural life support systems) both affect and depend upon social environs. To introduce fundamentally new technologies it is necessary to alter the institutional and structural design of society. When the soci ...
China: Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism
... a common cultural background known as the era of the “Hundred Schools of Thought” in the sixth through third centuries B.C.E. This was a period of great intellectual ferment, as old social and political structures were crumbling. As people began to question the received tradition, new concepts were ...
... a common cultural background known as the era of the “Hundred Schools of Thought” in the sixth through third centuries B.C.E. This was a period of great intellectual ferment, as old social and political structures were crumbling. As people began to question the received tradition, new concepts were ...
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Chapter 6
... No cause has its effect apart from some larger context involving other variables. When, for whom, and in what conditions does this effect occur? A cause is really one among a set of interrelated factors required for the effect. ...
... No cause has its effect apart from some larger context involving other variables. When, for whom, and in what conditions does this effect occur? A cause is really one among a set of interrelated factors required for the effect. ...