... addressed positively, as motors of change and not of crises, a process of innovation that is normalized as well as questioned given representational activity (Arruda, 1998, 2010). What is a Social Representation? At this point, it becomes important to clearly note that a social representation is con ...
Social Science and Social Policy. From National
... any case). The questions of social policy are questions in which State decisionmaking plays a significant role, but in which there are many other settings in which groups seek to promote their interests. Indeed the ability to play off the States against other institutional structures is one of the ma ...
... any case). The questions of social policy are questions in which State decisionmaking plays a significant role, but in which there are many other settings in which groups seek to promote their interests. Indeed the ability to play off the States against other institutional structures is one of the ma ...
Learning for Social Cohesion
... technological society and the unfolding of conflict and contradictions between those latent social relations and the one already operating in society. Third, it suggests building a complex relationship between small (basic) and large (superstructural) institutions. A final contribution stems from th ...
... technological society and the unfolding of conflict and contradictions between those latent social relations and the one already operating in society. Third, it suggests building a complex relationship between small (basic) and large (superstructural) institutions. A final contribution stems from th ...
What is Real and what is Realism in Sociology?
... wood, microscopic crystals, microbes’, are, of course, not the same as those that ground the reality of social groups. The existence of such material entities can be demonstrated by acts of ostension, such as pointing, and this is so even in the case of entities too small, or too far away, to detect ...
... wood, microscopic crystals, microbes’, are, of course, not the same as those that ground the reality of social groups. The existence of such material entities can be demonstrated by acts of ostension, such as pointing, and this is so even in the case of entities too small, or too far away, to detect ...
Dialogues in social psychology - European Doctorate on Social
... that dispenses the study of mental representations and assumes the social construction of meaning. This conceptual space organized in four quadrants has, of course, to taken as a large scale map. That is, it has to be taken as a simplified version of a complex territory. Detail, alternative roads, ...
... that dispenses the study of mental representations and assumes the social construction of meaning. This conceptual space organized in four quadrants has, of course, to taken as a large scale map. That is, it has to be taken as a simplified version of a complex territory. Detail, alternative roads, ...
New Media as Weapons of Mass Instruction
... Thus, the resources and information which constrain what might be conceptualised as possible in human social systems are political economic resources—they partake in and mediate the relationships between the distribution and exercise of power within and between social systems (the political), and wa ...
... Thus, the resources and information which constrain what might be conceptualised as possible in human social systems are political economic resources—they partake in and mediate the relationships between the distribution and exercise of power within and between social systems (the political), and wa ...
M.S. in Biostatistics suggested course sequence
... M.S. in Biostatistics suggested course sequence 1st YEAR ...
... M.S. in Biostatistics suggested course sequence 1st YEAR ...
Building Social Work Knowledge: Some Issues
... base in any discipline. However, most social work practitioners are sceptical about research and its outcome — the theory. At times 'students and practitioners protested that theory implied distance and objectivity which contrasted with feelings and living reality of social work encounters. As such ...
... base in any discipline. However, most social work practitioners are sceptical about research and its outcome — the theory. At times 'students and practitioners protested that theory implied distance and objectivity which contrasted with feelings and living reality of social work encounters. As such ...
Bring in the social context: Towards an integrated
... The demand for evidence-based practice brings increased attention to the macro-social level because it plays a key role in bridging the science practice gap [3,5,6]. Our success in generalizing research findings reported in scientific journals to particular social settings, groups or populations dep ...
... The demand for evidence-based practice brings increased attention to the macro-social level because it plays a key role in bridging the science practice gap [3,5,6]. Our success in generalizing research findings reported in scientific journals to particular social settings, groups or populations dep ...
Collaborative reasoning - School of Computing
... Tracing or Formal Inspection School of Computing Clemson University ...
... Tracing or Formal Inspection School of Computing Clemson University ...
Three shortcomings of the social investment
... necessarily coherent paradigm, but a set of ideas which can be and have been interpreted and implemented in different ways. Irrespective of this ambiguity, however, it is safe to say that the social investment way of framing problems and solutions concerning social protection is now widely shared a ...
... necessarily coherent paradigm, but a set of ideas which can be and have been interpreted and implemented in different ways. Irrespective of this ambiguity, however, it is safe to say that the social investment way of framing problems and solutions concerning social protection is now widely shared a ...
Academic Dependency and the Global Division of Labor in the
... The fourth dimension refers to aid dependence. Foreign funds and technical aid originating from governments, educational institutions and foundations in the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan routinely find their way to scholars and educational institutions in the Third Wo ...
... The fourth dimension refers to aid dependence. Foreign funds and technical aid originating from governments, educational institutions and foundations in the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan routinely find their way to scholars and educational institutions in the Third Wo ...
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
... Social reproduction is the fleshy, messy, and indeterminate stuff of everyday life. It is also a set of structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation with production, with which it is mutually constitutive and in tension. Social reproduction encompasses daily and long term reproduction, b ...
... Social reproduction is the fleshy, messy, and indeterminate stuff of everyday life. It is also a set of structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation with production, with which it is mutually constitutive and in tension. Social reproduction encompasses daily and long term reproduction, b ...
Social Science That Matters
... perspective, and see no neutral ground, no “view from nowhere,” for science. Social scientists who see the natural science model as an ideal their work. The “we” may be a group of social scientists or, more to follow sometimes claim that we have simply not yet discovered the typically, a group inclu ...
... perspective, and see no neutral ground, no “view from nowhere,” for science. Social scientists who see the natural science model as an ideal their work. The “we” may be a group of social scientists or, more to follow sometimes claim that we have simply not yet discovered the typically, a group inclu ...
Introduction: The role of discourse analysis in society. 1983.
... ranging responsibilities is taken seriously. Academic freedom also means the freedom to criticize. Discourse analysis provides us with rather powerful, while subtle and precise, insights to pinpoint the everyday manifestations and displays of social problems in communication and interaction. It is h ...
... ranging responsibilities is taken seriously. Academic freedom also means the freedom to criticize. Discourse analysis provides us with rather powerful, while subtle and precise, insights to pinpoint the everyday manifestations and displays of social problems in communication and interaction. It is h ...
From Poverty to Power: How Knowledge in The Secret Garden and
... robin same as I do” (121). Therefore, by channelling their knowledge towards benefiting the elite, the Sowerby family reinforces the existing social structure. The post-modern nation of Panem shares a similar power dynamic with Yorkshire: social class relationships are upheld because the elite manip ...
... robin same as I do” (121). Therefore, by channelling their knowledge towards benefiting the elite, the Sowerby family reinforces the existing social structure. The post-modern nation of Panem shares a similar power dynamic with Yorkshire: social class relationships are upheld because the elite manip ...
Applied Sociology and Social Work: Manpower and Theoretical Issues
... knowledge with theory and research. Although there is a natural parallel between the two disciplines, both currently function independently and mainly in ignorance of each other (Munson, 1978:91). This has not always been the case. Historically, the two disciplines have made attempts to interrelate ...
... knowledge with theory and research. Although there is a natural parallel between the two disciplines, both currently function independently and mainly in ignorance of each other (Munson, 1978:91). This has not always been the case. Historically, the two disciplines have made attempts to interrelate ...
SCIENCE AND ART IN SOCIAL WORK: AN OLD QUESTION IN THE
... The exact nature of social work has been the subject of debate in recent decades. As social work has gained recognition as a profession, social workers, and vested interests have begun to question whether the field is one best defined as a science or an art. This question is undoubtedly a powerful o ...
... The exact nature of social work has been the subject of debate in recent decades. As social work has gained recognition as a profession, social workers, and vested interests have begun to question whether the field is one best defined as a science or an art. This question is undoubtedly a powerful o ...
This commentary concerns the argument in Dixon et al
... Dixon, Levine, Reicher & Durrheim (DLR&D) contend that unequal power relations between social groups are often characterized by attitudinal complexity rather than simple hostility, and that collective action rather than reduction in negative evaluations is the solution to the problem of these unequ ...
... Dixon, Levine, Reicher & Durrheim (DLR&D) contend that unequal power relations between social groups are often characterized by attitudinal complexity rather than simple hostility, and that collective action rather than reduction in negative evaluations is the solution to the problem of these unequ ...
Chicano Social Work: A Critical Analysis
... and to work toward empowerment and liberation. This effort could best be accomplished by adopting a historical paradigm premised on the belief that Chicanos are not traditional unchanging social beings, but creator and participants of their own history. The Chicano protest moveent had a similar impa ...
... and to work toward empowerment and liberation. This effort could best be accomplished by adopting a historical paradigm premised on the belief that Chicanos are not traditional unchanging social beings, but creator and participants of their own history. The Chicano protest moveent had a similar impa ...
On the different connotations of social psychiatry
... chairs carry the name ‘social and community psychiatry’, again suggesting a distinction between the two ...
... chairs carry the name ‘social and community psychiatry’, again suggesting a distinction between the two ...
Social Facilitation www.AssignmentPoint.com Social facilitation is
... facilitation. Zajonc's generalized drive hypothesis was the first theory that addressed why the presence of others increased performance sometimes yet decreased it at other times. Zajonc argued that the presence of others serves as a source of arousal, and heightened arousal increases the likelihood ...
... facilitation. Zajonc's generalized drive hypothesis was the first theory that addressed why the presence of others increased performance sometimes yet decreased it at other times. Zajonc argued that the presence of others serves as a source of arousal, and heightened arousal increases the likelihood ...
Mission-Oriented Legal Structure
... returns and engaging with the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BoP). Social enterprise, by contrast, may be considered an approach of inclusive business, but is not necessarily profit maximizing and its social mission can encompass a wide range of social services which may or may not be relevant to th ...
... returns and engaging with the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BoP). Social enterprise, by contrast, may be considered an approach of inclusive business, but is not necessarily profit maximizing and its social mission can encompass a wide range of social services which may or may not be relevant to th ...
Scientific Social Objects
... the myExperiment site these collaborations are asynchronous, with researchers collaborating around a workflow over a period of time, perhaps on an ad hoc basis. First it is useful to understand the anatomy of a workflow: it is a precise, executable description of a scientific procedure – a multi-ste ...
... the myExperiment site these collaborations are asynchronous, with researchers collaborating around a workflow over a period of time, perhaps on an ad hoc basis. First it is useful to understand the anatomy of a workflow: it is a precise, executable description of a scientific procedure – a multi-ste ...