Social Science That Matters
... statistical modelling, but recently parts of political science and sociology have followed suit under the influence of rational choice and game theory. Commentators talk, for instance, about “economics envy” among political scientists (Stewart 2003). Such envy is misguided, for not even economics ha ...
... statistical modelling, but recently parts of political science and sociology have followed suit under the influence of rational choice and game theory. Commentators talk, for instance, about “economics envy” among political scientists (Stewart 2003). Such envy is misguided, for not even economics ha ...
On the ethics and practice of contemporary social theory: from crisis
... Historicizing and culturalizing the European tradition nevertheless should be valuable for projects of challenging its ideological self-imagination as ‘‘universal’’ knowledge. European social theory accompanied the modernization and translocalization of European societies. Although social and cultur ...
... Historicizing and culturalizing the European tradition nevertheless should be valuable for projects of challenging its ideological self-imagination as ‘‘universal’’ knowledge. European social theory accompanied the modernization and translocalization of European societies. Although social and cultur ...
Social Norms of Cooperation in Multiagent Systems
... by assigning a good reputation to any donor that cooperates; Shunning (SH), similar to SJ but less ”benevolent”, by assigning a bad reputation to any donor that defects; and Image Score (IS, actually a 1st order norm) where all that matters is the action of the donor, who acquires a good reputation ...
... by assigning a good reputation to any donor that cooperates; Shunning (SH), similar to SJ but less ”benevolent”, by assigning a bad reputation to any donor that defects; and Image Score (IS, actually a 1st order norm) where all that matters is the action of the donor, who acquires a good reputation ...
Lecture 6: The Sociology of Anomie
... for various patterns of high suicide rates: egoism, altruism, anomie, and fatalism. At this point, we shall focus only on the best known of these four causes of suicide, anomie. Anomie refers to an environmental state where society fails to exercise adequate regulation or constraint over the goals a ...
... for various patterns of high suicide rates: egoism, altruism, anomie, and fatalism. At this point, we shall focus only on the best known of these four causes of suicide, anomie. Anomie refers to an environmental state where society fails to exercise adequate regulation or constraint over the goals a ...
Music, journalism, and the study of cultural change
... music. As other kinds of criticism, it deals with 'culture' in the sense of 'the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity' (Williams 1993, pp. 87-93). However, a number of researches have shown that judgements about the arts (and other cultural goods) are frequently entwi ...
... music. As other kinds of criticism, it deals with 'culture' in the sense of 'the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity' (Williams 1993, pp. 87-93). However, a number of researches have shown that judgements about the arts (and other cultural goods) are frequently entwi ...
Social Archaeology
... more anthropological and move beyond mere questions of form and chronology. Clyde Kluckhohn, Julian Steward, Walter Taylor, and Gordon Willey, ethnologists who transcended social anthropology and archaeology, contributed to social archaeology in its early guise by advocating or applying new theoreti ...
... more anthropological and move beyond mere questions of form and chronology. Clyde Kluckhohn, Julian Steward, Walter Taylor, and Gordon Willey, ethnologists who transcended social anthropology and archaeology, contributed to social archaeology in its early guise by advocating or applying new theoreti ...
Postcolonial Psychosis and Recovery Process in Osita
... engage through their literary works as a means of reflecting on how the process of colonization has seriously affected the people and to propose a healing process by which the colonial nations under the siege or burden of the ex while colonial influence could be healed. Through the study of Osita Ez ...
... engage through their literary works as a means of reflecting on how the process of colonization has seriously affected the people and to propose a healing process by which the colonial nations under the siege or burden of the ex while colonial influence could be healed. Through the study of Osita Ez ...
the role of natural resources and the social capital in eu`s growth
... of social capital. Becker, James Coleman and Robert Putnam gave the contemporary use of term social capital (Lehtonen, 2004). For Coleman (1988) “social capital is a variety of different entities, with two elements in common: they all consist of some aspect of social structures, and they facilitate ...
... of social capital. Becker, James Coleman and Robert Putnam gave the contemporary use of term social capital (Lehtonen, 2004). For Coleman (1988) “social capital is a variety of different entities, with two elements in common: they all consist of some aspect of social structures, and they facilitate ...
