ELEMENTS of MODERN CULTURE R
... The realization of a human need, or an opportunity for gain, has always inspired ingenious men and women to marshall all the empirical knowledge available, valid or invalid, to devise a means of fulfilling this need by a technique, a commodity, or a service. The incentives for such activities might ...
... The realization of a human need, or an opportunity for gain, has always inspired ingenious men and women to marshall all the empirical knowledge available, valid or invalid, to devise a means of fulfilling this need by a technique, a commodity, or a service. The incentives for such activities might ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... cyber-infrastructures. A myriad of other databases now cover topics such as transport networks, industrial development, the layout and social patterning of cities, agricultural land use, risks and perceptions of risks. Some of these have been developed for specific research objectives, others are mo ...
... cyber-infrastructures. A myriad of other databases now cover topics such as transport networks, industrial development, the layout and social patterning of cities, agricultural land use, risks and perceptions of risks. Some of these have been developed for specific research objectives, others are mo ...
interaction of theory and method in social science
... identifying the causal mechanisms which explain empirically available patterns. We know that, generally at least, salt dissolves when put in water. But there is something about salt and water, such that when salt is put in water, it tends to dissolve-- and not (say) to explode or turn the water to g ...
... identifying the causal mechanisms which explain empirically available patterns. We know that, generally at least, salt dissolves when put in water. But there is something about salt and water, such that when salt is put in water, it tends to dissolve-- and not (say) to explode or turn the water to g ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... There are a few serious obstacles that disallow to continue today the traditional, historical antipathy for theory – some of them coming from history itself, many recognized during the last few decades in the general field of the humanities. It was decades ago, when Marc Bloch,3 analyzing the method ...
... There are a few serious obstacles that disallow to continue today the traditional, historical antipathy for theory – some of them coming from history itself, many recognized during the last few decades in the general field of the humanities. It was decades ago, when Marc Bloch,3 analyzing the method ...
Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of
... invariant givens - products of the sediment of time, so to speak - the newer approach assumed political institutions to be so malleable and efficient as to be virtually irrelevant. Change is part and parcel of the political process, but it is not in any way problematic. As a variety of external circ ...
... invariant givens - products of the sediment of time, so to speak - the newer approach assumed political institutions to be so malleable and efficient as to be virtually irrelevant. Change is part and parcel of the political process, but it is not in any way problematic. As a variety of external circ ...
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... Sciences. The researchers of the Social Sciences during the 19th century tried to apply the scientific method of the natural sciences to their field of study. This is because the natural sciences are considered as the ideal of research due to their attempt to gain knowledge about the world we live i ...
... Sciences. The researchers of the Social Sciences during the 19th century tried to apply the scientific method of the natural sciences to their field of study. This is because the natural sciences are considered as the ideal of research due to their attempt to gain knowledge about the world we live i ...
5 - PhilPapers
... are put at the heart of the academic enterprise, and a basic aim becomes to help humanity make progress towards as good a world as feasible. From the past we have inherited a kind of academic inquiry that seeks to help promote human welfare by, in the first instance, acquiring knowledge and technolo ...
... are put at the heart of the academic enterprise, and a basic aim becomes to help humanity make progress towards as good a world as feasible. From the past we have inherited a kind of academic inquiry that seeks to help promote human welfare by, in the first instance, acquiring knowledge and technolo ...
CHAPTER 2 Cultural Diversity
... Cultural relativism helps sociologists in understanding why people in different societies have different cultural norms. – e.g. the Sepoy Rebellion of India in 1857 (gunpowder cartridges were sealed with pig or beef fat, both are religiously offensive to Hindu and Muslims) ...
... Cultural relativism helps sociologists in understanding why people in different societies have different cultural norms. – e.g. the Sepoy Rebellion of India in 1857 (gunpowder cartridges were sealed with pig or beef fat, both are religiously offensive to Hindu and Muslims) ...
AHR Forum Crisis: A Useful Category of Post
... largely economic terms for a general crisis of the seventeenth century, and when figures such as Hugh Trevor-Roper and later Theodore Rabb built on Hobsbawm’s precise socio-economic analysis to build arguments for a general political and cultural crisis of the seventeenth century as well, they were ...
... largely economic terms for a general crisis of the seventeenth century, and when figures such as Hugh Trevor-Roper and later Theodore Rabb built on Hobsbawm’s precise socio-economic analysis to build arguments for a general political and cultural crisis of the seventeenth century as well, they were ...
Geography Policy - Norfolk Community Primary School
... selecting the appropriate programmes of study. The programmes of study have been carefully chosen to ensure that, as a school, we are meeting the National Curriculum criteria across all year groups. The school’s curriculum map shows which programmes of study are taught, when and by which year groups ...
... selecting the appropriate programmes of study. The programmes of study have been carefully chosen to ensure that, as a school, we are meeting the National Curriculum criteria across all year groups. The school’s curriculum map shows which programmes of study are taught, when and by which year groups ...
Materialized Landscapes of Practice:Exploring Native American
... current archaeologists in using the geographic and chronological distribution of utilitarian household ceramics to trace where people lived and when. The past residential communities where people lived are of course quite readily derived from the present distribution of the abundant ceramic debris o ...
... current archaeologists in using the geographic and chronological distribution of utilitarian household ceramics to trace where people lived and when. The past residential communities where people lived are of course quite readily derived from the present distribution of the abundant ceramic debris o ...
Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific
... less foreseeable regularity, than change in the physical world. Here the deliberative actions and reactions of sentient individuals taking place amid the uncertainties created by change are of paramount importance. And this becomes all the more significant when it is recognized that, given existing ...
... less foreseeable regularity, than change in the physical world. Here the deliberative actions and reactions of sentient individuals taking place amid the uncertainties created by change are of paramount importance. And this becomes all the more significant when it is recognized that, given existing ...
Fundamental in socio-cultural Anthropology
... rapidly transformed and must be studied soon or never. These vanishing social systems are unique structural variations, a study of which aids us very considerably in understanding the nature of human society. The study of primitive societies also has intrinsic value. They have their own interest and ...
... rapidly transformed and must be studied soon or never. These vanishing social systems are unique structural variations, a study of which aids us very considerably in understanding the nature of human society. The study of primitive societies also has intrinsic value. They have their own interest and ...
the possibility or desirability of a value
... in the social sciences, centred his argument partly, from a radical or uncompromising distinction between the sphere of facts and the realm of values. This may be apparently captured in relation to Weber’s view, as cited by Morrice, ‘the realm of facts and the realm of values, the realm of science a ...
... in the social sciences, centred his argument partly, from a radical or uncompromising distinction between the sphere of facts and the realm of values. This may be apparently captured in relation to Weber’s view, as cited by Morrice, ‘the realm of facts and the realm of values, the realm of science a ...
Social Archaeology
... understanding past human societies, they simultaneously became self-critical and began to question scientific objectivity. Richard Ford, Mark Leone, and others began to see archaeology as an ideological tool that served to reproduce social relations and the status quo. Leone took his cue from the Ge ...
... understanding past human societies, they simultaneously became self-critical and began to question scientific objectivity. Richard Ford, Mark Leone, and others began to see archaeology as an ideological tool that served to reproduce social relations and the status quo. Leone took his cue from the Ge ...
History and Africa/Africa and History
... profession, speaking personally with what seems to be an executive privilege that the American Historical Association accords to presidents on this occasion.' I do so without intent, thereby, to excommunicate colleagues who may balance in other ways the complex combinations of personal insight, tech ...
... profession, speaking personally with what seems to be an executive privilege that the American Historical Association accords to presidents on this occasion.' I do so without intent, thereby, to excommunicate colleagues who may balance in other ways the complex combinations of personal insight, tech ...
14 The Role of Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental
... environmental contexts, as well as the careful use of this discipline through a deep contextual analysis, has thrown light upon the cultural complexity involved in the technological choices of the individuals along the life cycle of ceramics. In this sense, many studies in ceramic technology conside ...
... environmental contexts, as well as the careful use of this discipline through a deep contextual analysis, has thrown light upon the cultural complexity involved in the technological choices of the individuals along the life cycle of ceramics. In this sense, many studies in ceramic technology conside ...
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT
... Within a few years, the dream was universally embraced by those in power. The dream was not seen as an easy process, however; predictably perhaps, the obstacles perceived ahead contributed to consolidating the mission. One of the most influential documents of the period, prepared by a group of expert ...
... Within a few years, the dream was universally embraced by those in power. The dream was not seen as an easy process, however; predictably perhaps, the obstacles perceived ahead contributed to consolidating the mission. One of the most influential documents of the period, prepared by a group of expert ...
The ghosts of the past: 20years after the fall of communism in
... ‘hybridisation of norms’ proposed by Miazhevich does not split from this aspiration, since it points at a future goal to be captured in the universal standards of capitalistic democracy where the ‘‘clash’’ of values is understood in the Habermasian sense as a challenge to be overcome. On the other h ...
... ‘hybridisation of norms’ proposed by Miazhevich does not split from this aspiration, since it points at a future goal to be captured in the universal standards of capitalistic democracy where the ‘‘clash’’ of values is understood in the Habermasian sense as a challenge to be overcome. On the other h ...
Hidden Meaning Revealed
... 4) What is he doing and why. Examine the symbols evident on the rabbits and consider what the rabbits are meant to represent. Look at the environment they are in and what has happened to it. Why has the cartoonist chosen to use the rabbits as a symbol here and what is it saying about their ...
... 4) What is he doing and why. Examine the symbols evident on the rabbits and consider what the rabbits are meant to represent. Look at the environment they are in and what has happened to it. Why has the cartoonist chosen to use the rabbits as a symbol here and what is it saying about their ...
History 1601: Global History
... way you got to the university, stop and think for a few moments about how you were able to get there easily and safely. If you walked, you most likely did so comfortably, wearing a pair of shoes that probably were not made locally, but mass-produced another part of the world, before being bought and ...
... way you got to the university, stop and think for a few moments about how you were able to get there easily and safely. If you walked, you most likely did so comfortably, wearing a pair of shoes that probably were not made locally, but mass-produced another part of the world, before being bought and ...
theoretical framework and genesis of cultural materialism
... not be provided by the so-called “first positivism,” Friedrich Engels interpreted social development as the highest form of motion of the matter (mechanical, physical, chemical, and organic), which emerge on the basis of the lower elements; it includes but is not reducible to them. As a result, the ...
... not be provided by the so-called “first positivism,” Friedrich Engels interpreted social development as the highest form of motion of the matter (mechanical, physical, chemical, and organic), which emerge on the basis of the lower elements; it includes but is not reducible to them. As a result, the ...
AS Archaeology
... of spatial analysis in archaeology. ► Distribution patterns used to study ancient human relationship with the environment. ► Settlement patterns are studied by plotting all the known sites onto maps (or GIS). Only contemporary sites Categorise settlements ► Size ...
... of spatial analysis in archaeology. ► Distribution patterns used to study ancient human relationship with the environment. ► Settlement patterns are studied by plotting all the known sites onto maps (or GIS). Only contemporary sites Categorise settlements ► Size ...
CHAPTER 2 Cultural Diversity
... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior to all others. People in all societies are at times ethnocentric. When ethnocentrism is too extreme, cultural growth may stagnate. – Limiting the number of immigrants into a society can cause this. ...
... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior to all others. People in all societies are at times ethnocentric. When ethnocentrism is too extreme, cultural growth may stagnate. – Limiting the number of immigrants into a society can cause this. ...
Music, journalism, and the study of cultural change
... However, a number of researches have shown that judgements about the arts (and other cultural goods) are frequently entwined with judgements about the social (i.e. specific social groups and communities). For example, evaluations of so-called 'popular' music have historically supported stereotypical ...
... However, a number of researches have shown that judgements about the arts (and other cultural goods) are frequently entwined with judgements about the social (i.e. specific social groups and communities). For example, evaluations of so-called 'popular' music have historically supported stereotypical ...
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.