Unit 1. Social science
... Text A. Philosophy: the basics ....................................................................... 19 Text B. Philosophy and its history ................................................................. 26 Unit 3. Political science ................................................................ ...
... Text A. Philosophy: the basics ....................................................................... 19 Text B. Philosophy and its history ................................................................. 26 Unit 3. Political science ................................................................ ...
Book review: citizenship, nationality and ethnicity. by T. K. Oommen
... of the nation-state. Two forces are paramount for him in this demise, the new media technology and migration. Cultural globalization for him is where both the imagination and movement can cross boundaries. They are the unsettling and exciting aspects of a modernity beyond the nationstate. As a genre ...
... of the nation-state. Two forces are paramount for him in this demise, the new media technology and migration. Cultural globalization for him is where both the imagination and movement can cross boundaries. They are the unsettling and exciting aspects of a modernity beyond the nationstate. As a genre ...
The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and
... and western. Most important, they claim that it is only in the context of this theoretical sleight of hand, one that claims universality for the particnlaristic and androcentric, that the experiences of others are suppressed, denied, and devalued in the first place. Thus the theoretical response has ...
... and western. Most important, they claim that it is only in the context of this theoretical sleight of hand, one that claims universality for the particnlaristic and androcentric, that the experiences of others are suppressed, denied, and devalued in the first place. Thus the theoretical response has ...
Thinking Across Perspectives and Disciplines
... methods. It employs different “languages” or symbol systems (e.g., musical notation, mathematical equations) and different genres for acceptably demonstrating understanding (a musical score, a lab report, a proof, a legal brief). In its social sense, a discipline also entails a body of “disciples” w ...
... methods. It employs different “languages” or symbol systems (e.g., musical notation, mathematical equations) and different genres for acceptably demonstrating understanding (a musical score, a lab report, a proof, a legal brief). In its social sense, a discipline also entails a body of “disciples” w ...
- Philsci
... problems of living become more fundamental than problems of knowledge, the basic aim of education being to learn how to acquire wisdom in life. Academic inquiry as a whole needs to become somewhat like a people's civil service, having just sufficient power to retain its independence and integrity, d ...
... problems of living become more fundamental than problems of knowledge, the basic aim of education being to learn how to acquire wisdom in life. Academic inquiry as a whole needs to become somewhat like a people's civil service, having just sufficient power to retain its independence and integrity, d ...
case-oriented versus variable
... while small-N (comparative) studies only a few. From this perspective, larger-N projects are considered stronger in providing valid and significant inferences. In the 1970s, in sociology and political science, this position was supported by the influential works of Neil Smelser and Arendt Lijphart, ...
... while small-N (comparative) studies only a few. From this perspective, larger-N projects are considered stronger in providing valid and significant inferences. In the 1970s, in sociology and political science, this position was supported by the influential works of Neil Smelser and Arendt Lijphart, ...
For a Relational Musicology - American Musicological Society
... It is easy to agree with Bohlman and Shapin about the political nature of disciplinary boundaries. And while I concur with Bohlman’s account of the hegemony of certain forms of music scholarship, I take these issues in a different direction in this article. I want to reweight the argument and highli ...
... It is easy to agree with Bohlman and Shapin about the political nature of disciplinary boundaries. And while I concur with Bohlman’s account of the hegemony of certain forms of music scholarship, I take these issues in a different direction in this article. I want to reweight the argument and highli ...
IR theory, historical materialism, and the false promise of
... between IR Theory and Historical Sociology, starting in the context of the postpositivist debate in the 1980s, has generated a proliferating repertory of contending paradigms within the field of IR, including Neo-Weberian, PostStructuralist, and Constructivist approaches. Within the Marxist literatu ...
... between IR Theory and Historical Sociology, starting in the context of the postpositivist debate in the 1980s, has generated a proliferating repertory of contending paradigms within the field of IR, including Neo-Weberian, PostStructuralist, and Constructivist approaches. Within the Marxist literatu ...
Global History: A selected and commented bibliography
... of urgent interest not only for many individual researchers but also for academic institutions lacking the necessary resources to simply buy everything. And we should not forget students who are looking for guidance on where to start reading and what. There exist a lot of selected bibliographies and ...
... of urgent interest not only for many individual researchers but also for academic institutions lacking the necessary resources to simply buy everything. And we should not forget students who are looking for guidance on where to start reading and what. There exist a lot of selected bibliographies and ...
Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and
... chapter, Porter noted “the domain in which writing about the history of the body has skyrocketed most stupendously: the theoretical dimension. Drawing on critical theory, postmodernism, post-Foucauldianism, and other ‘-isms’ embodying the linguistic turn, and also on feminist, gender, gay and lesbia ...
... chapter, Porter noted “the domain in which writing about the history of the body has skyrocketed most stupendously: the theoretical dimension. Drawing on critical theory, postmodernism, post-Foucauldianism, and other ‘-isms’ embodying the linguistic turn, and also on feminist, gender, gay and lesbia ...
Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
... Staying a bit more than a year in the field allows the ethnographer to repeat the season of his or her arrival, when certain events and processes may have been missed because of initial unfamiliarity and culture shock. Many ethnographers record their impressions in a personal diary, which is kept se ...
... Staying a bit more than a year in the field allows the ethnographer to repeat the season of his or her arrival, when certain events and processes may have been missed because of initial unfamiliarity and culture shock. Many ethnographers record their impressions in a personal diary, which is kept se ...
wp 51.indd - Technology Governance
... futile, and impossible. By doing so, one need not openly oppose reform and development – it is enough if one creates a system within which dealing with the real problems is delegitimized. The late 19th century political attitude towards the Social Question, “Kathedersozialismus”, by and large led th ...
... futile, and impossible. By doing so, one need not openly oppose reform and development – it is enough if one creates a system within which dealing with the real problems is delegitimized. The late 19th century political attitude towards the Social Question, “Kathedersozialismus”, by and large led th ...
the methodological case for narrative inquiry
... manner in which the supporting cast are discussed in the field diaries may range from factual accounting of events, to theorizing what that supporting cast member is thinking or doing. Most importantly, who is mentioned in the field diary reveals the people or organizations that are most significant ...
... manner in which the supporting cast are discussed in the field diaries may range from factual accounting of events, to theorizing what that supporting cast member is thinking or doing. Most importantly, who is mentioned in the field diary reveals the people or organizations that are most significant ...
Synopsis PART V: 243
... University of Pretoria etd – Du Plessis, I (2004) series was therefore produced with little intervention from the publishers, except for the directive that the series could not be translated into English. However, J.L. van Schaik’s commitment to the establishment of Afrikaans as a print language pa ...
... University of Pretoria etd – Du Plessis, I (2004) series was therefore produced with little intervention from the publishers, except for the directive that the series could not be translated into English. However, J.L. van Schaik’s commitment to the establishment of Afrikaans as a print language pa ...
THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF IDEOLOGY (1940-60
... incapable of acting upon beliefs which appear to contradict these interests. Ideological elements, following this definition, are also found in aesthetic and moral about the human situation. It will be seen that this apeyu leaves open number of questions to which no answers of a conclusive sort have ...
... incapable of acting upon beliefs which appear to contradict these interests. Ideological elements, following this definition, are also found in aesthetic and moral about the human situation. It will be seen that this apeyu leaves open number of questions to which no answers of a conclusive sort have ...
TAG program final
... Neolithic Materiality: The Technology and Daily Practice of Vinča Culture Anthropomorphic Figurine Production John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) Recent developments in the study of figurines have challenged traditional approaches which view figurines as passive and static visual ...
... Neolithic Materiality: The Technology and Daily Practice of Vinča Culture Anthropomorphic Figurine Production John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) Recent developments in the study of figurines have challenged traditional approaches which view figurines as passive and static visual ...
Whose Lives? How History, Societies, and Institutions Define and
... outmoded perspectives. One line of argument goes back to Immanuel Kant, who insisted in his philosophy of the mind that determinism and autonomy, constraint and choice, are regulative principles of potential knowledge and moral behavior that do not rule each other out but rather constitute different ...
... outmoded perspectives. One line of argument goes back to Immanuel Kant, who insisted in his philosophy of the mind that determinism and autonomy, constraint and choice, are regulative principles of potential knowledge and moral behavior that do not rule each other out but rather constitute different ...
The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline: American and
... what we are doing because we believe it is the right thing to do, and this appears to us as superior to previous efforts. To a historian or sociologist of science, however, this will appear a naive approach. As typical ‘‘Whig’’ history writing it assumes a progress where the winning line is necessar ...
... what we are doing because we believe it is the right thing to do, and this appears to us as superior to previous efforts. To a historian or sociologist of science, however, this will appear a naive approach. As typical ‘‘Whig’’ history writing it assumes a progress where the winning line is necessar ...
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences
... incapable of renewal and development. This resulting dogma justifies imperialism and Western hegemony in its worst forms. Independent practitioners of social sciences in our Eastern societies have grown increasingly cautious about importing the intellectual dependency in Western social theories. Thi ...
... incapable of renewal and development. This resulting dogma justifies imperialism and Western hegemony in its worst forms. Independent practitioners of social sciences in our Eastern societies have grown increasingly cautious about importing the intellectual dependency in Western social theories. Thi ...
3. Geography and GIS
... therefore, since humans cannot be equated with machines which always respond in the same way to given stimuli: they may react differently because of their learning processes (which may involve reinterpretation of the stimulus itself), or because the stimuli and the contexts in which they are encount ...
... therefore, since humans cannot be equated with machines which always respond in the same way to given stimuli: they may react differently because of their learning processes (which may involve reinterpretation of the stimulus itself), or because the stimuli and the contexts in which they are encount ...
In Defence of Seeking Wisdom - Philsci
... research has on the social world, the irrationality of academia, being built into its institutional structure, has massive, long-term, damaging social repercussions (see pp. 49-64). It means that scientific knowledge and technological know-how are developed in a way which is dissociated from a more ...
... research has on the social world, the irrationality of academia, being built into its institutional structure, has massive, long-term, damaging social repercussions (see pp. 49-64). It means that scientific knowledge and technological know-how are developed in a way which is dissociated from a more ...
Sarantakos~Vol 1~01.indd
... signs. Clearly, however, the most influential approach – seminal for diverse contemporary thinkers – has been Wittgenstein’s quasistructuralist theory of group communication. In Wittgenstein’s “language games,” meaning is established not by its relation to other signs, as in semiotics, but contextua ...
... signs. Clearly, however, the most influential approach – seminal for diverse contemporary thinkers – has been Wittgenstein’s quasistructuralist theory of group communication. In Wittgenstein’s “language games,” meaning is established not by its relation to other signs, as in semiotics, but contextua ...
Formal network methods in history
... "embeddedness" or "the strength of weak ties" generally are not accompanied by the use of any formal network method. In too many of these papers, the word "network(s)" could be replaced by any other (e.g. "group" or "social ties") without any change in substantive meaning. The network vocabulary is ...
... "embeddedness" or "the strength of weak ties" generally are not accompanied by the use of any formal network method. In too many of these papers, the word "network(s)" could be replaced by any other (e.g. "group" or "social ties") without any change in substantive meaning. The network vocabulary is ...
The promise of historical sociology in international relations
... the facilitation of smoother information flows and monitoring mechanisms deters cheating (an example could be the abandonment by Libya of its nuclear program following the invasion of Iraq in 2004); for liberals, preferences are less fixed, subject as they are to the machinations of Innenpolitik (st ...
... the facilitation of smoother information flows and monitoring mechanisms deters cheating (an example could be the abandonment by Libya of its nuclear program following the invasion of Iraq in 2004); for liberals, preferences are less fixed, subject as they are to the machinations of Innenpolitik (st ...
IF YOU`RE THINKING OF LIVING IN STS / A Guide
... Europe. Corridor talk of the interdiscipline suggests that many of them have scientific or technical backgrounds, and several passed through the British polytechnics rather than the elite Oxbridge system[h3]. I have heard that their apparent proclivity toward theory, programs, and acronyms was infl ...
... Europe. Corridor talk of the interdiscipline suggests that many of them have scientific or technical backgrounds, and several passed through the British polytechnics rather than the elite Oxbridge system[h3]. I have heard that their apparent proclivity toward theory, programs, and acronyms was infl ...
History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning ""inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation"") is the study of the past, particularly how it relates to humans. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians. Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory.History can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them. Historians sometimes debate the nature of history and its usefulness by discussing the study of the discipline as an end in itself and as a way of providing ""perspective"" on the problems of the present.Stories common to a particular culture, but not supported by external sources (such as the tales surrounding King Arthur), are usually classified as cultural heritage or legends, because they do not show the ""disinterested investigation"" required of the discipline of history. Herodotus, a 5th-century BCE Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the ""father of history"", and, along with his contemporary Thucydides, helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their works continue to be read today, and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused Thucydides remains a point of contention or approach in modern historical writing. In Asia, a state chronicle, the Spring and Autumn Annals was known to be compiled from as early as 722 BCE although only 2nd century BCE texts survived.Ancient influences have helped spawn variant interpretations of the nature of history which have evolved over the centuries and continue to change today. The modern study of history is wide-ranging, and includes the study of specific regions and the study of certain topical or thematical elements of historical investigation. Often history is taught as part of primary and secondary education, and the academic study of history is a major discipline in university studies.