SOCIOLOGY 120 SOCILOGICAL TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
... Common sense knowledge, while sometimes accurate, is not always reliable, because it rests on commonly held beliefs rather than on systematic analysis of facts. Sociology relies on scientific studies in order to describe and understand a social environment. __________________________________________ ...
... Common sense knowledge, while sometimes accurate, is not always reliable, because it rests on commonly held beliefs rather than on systematic analysis of facts. Sociology relies on scientific studies in order to describe and understand a social environment. __________________________________________ ...
Overall Lecture - So..
... material world. General rejection of the Common View of Science. (PUS) – E.g., material world is not mechanically translated into knowledge (e.g., “discovery.”); – The Material world is USED by scientists to develop models. ...
... material world. General rejection of the Common View of Science. (PUS) – E.g., material world is not mechanically translated into knowledge (e.g., “discovery.”); – The Material world is USED by scientists to develop models. ...
NORBERT ELIAS
... comes from tools of though and methods of investigation, 2)Need to free ourselves from the idea that natural events have significance to them, 3)Need to step away from pre-scientific ways of thinking to be able to take precautions, ...
... comes from tools of though and methods of investigation, 2)Need to free ourselves from the idea that natural events have significance to them, 3)Need to step away from pre-scientific ways of thinking to be able to take precautions, ...
26 Writing it up, writing it down: being reflexive in accounts of
... argued that exploitation and even betrayal are endemic to field work. It has even been described as a form of violence. albeit symbolic violence (Crapanzano, 1977). Agar ( 1982) argues that research is not conducted in the unmediated world of the people studied. but on the borders between the resear ...
... argued that exploitation and even betrayal are endemic to field work. It has even been described as a form of violence. albeit symbolic violence (Crapanzano, 1977). Agar ( 1982) argues that research is not conducted in the unmediated world of the people studied. but on the borders between the resear ...
when the knower is the known, social constructionism and realism
... • Loss of distinction between what is found and what is created – Reality is not out there to be discovered – No objective, no neutral standpoint – Social process are in flux (including social processes of science) ...
... • Loss of distinction between what is found and what is created – Reality is not out there to be discovered – No objective, no neutral standpoint – Social process are in flux (including social processes of science) ...
16. A Reflexive Methodology of Intervention
... responsibility. And because we can watch how such needs are exploited in „modern“ management strategies, we have another reason to understand why it is sometimes problematic to apply these normative ideas. Also proceduralists don‘t come from Sirius: In their ‚terrestrial‘ perceptions and evaluations ...
... responsibility. And because we can watch how such needs are exploited in „modern“ management strategies, we have another reason to understand why it is sometimes problematic to apply these normative ideas. Also proceduralists don‘t come from Sirius: In their ‚terrestrial‘ perceptions and evaluations ...
The making of global sociology
... -growth of multicultural and transnational awareness (the long era of one-sided cultural and political flow is over...) - reflexive social actors and modernity: individual freedom and reflexivity, globalization and reflexivity N8: Kaj je poglavitna značilnost refleksivnih družbenih ...
... -growth of multicultural and transnational awareness (the long era of one-sided cultural and political flow is over...) - reflexive social actors and modernity: individual freedom and reflexivity, globalization and reflexivity N8: Kaj je poglavitna značilnost refleksivnih družbenih ...
The making of global sociology
... -growth of multicultural and transnational awareness (the long era of one-sided cultural and political flow is over...) - reflexive social actors and modernity: individual freedom and reflexivity, globalization and reflexivity N8: Kaj je poglavitna značilnost refleksivnih družbenih ...
... -growth of multicultural and transnational awareness (the long era of one-sided cultural and political flow is over...) - reflexive social actors and modernity: individual freedom and reflexivity, globalization and reflexivity N8: Kaj je poglavitna značilnost refleksivnih družbenih ...
Bourdieu and the problem of reflexivity: recent answers
... findings demonstrate that the universalising tendencies of theories of reflexive modernity are largely unjustified: in this, then, he tends to stress an attention to social context when dealing with reflexivity. In broad agreement with Bourdieu, Atkinson forwards some very useful insights about the ...
... findings demonstrate that the universalising tendencies of theories of reflexive modernity are largely unjustified: in this, then, he tends to stress an attention to social context when dealing with reflexivity. In broad agreement with Bourdieu, Atkinson forwards some very useful insights about the ...
Employment Trends
... what they think, what they produce, and how they interact with their environments. Anthropologists try to understand the full range of human diversity as well as what all people share in common. Anthropology is based on three key concepts: society, culture, and evolution. ...
... what they think, what they produce, and how they interact with their environments. Anthropologists try to understand the full range of human diversity as well as what all people share in common. Anthropology is based on three key concepts: society, culture, and evolution. ...
Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity
... Media involvement in the ever changing face of values, and version of the truth, Prevents people from believing in one truth due to the extensive amount of metanarratives, Ability for individuals to construct their identity based on the wide variety of images and lifestyle portrayed, ...
... Media involvement in the ever changing face of values, and version of the truth, Prevents people from believing in one truth due to the extensive amount of metanarratives, Ability for individuals to construct their identity based on the wide variety of images and lifestyle portrayed, ...
On Pedagogical Violence & the Martial Art of Reflexivity
... - Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, 1977: 5 My teaching has always been a way to express my commitment to social justice. I believe that teaching students about the dual process wherein society affects individual behaviour, which, in turn, in its totality affects society, can help them bette ...
... - Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, 1977: 5 My teaching has always been a way to express my commitment to social justice. I believe that teaching students about the dual process wherein society affects individual behaviour, which, in turn, in its totality affects society, can help them bette ...
Lecture 7
... territory, and in so doing recast class and status as spatial categories. On the one hand, this appears to give the consumer unprecedented freedoms, for as long as there are suitable material resources available, these classification systems can be used to aid self-positioning in both physical and s ...
... territory, and in so doing recast class and status as spatial categories. On the one hand, this appears to give the consumer unprecedented freedoms, for as long as there are suitable material resources available, these classification systems can be used to aid self-positioning in both physical and s ...
Introduction to the Social Sciences
... social sciences include branches such as history, civics, economics, and politics. In this course, we will focus on anthropology, psychology, and sociology. ...
... social sciences include branches such as history, civics, economics, and politics. In this course, we will focus on anthropology, psychology, and sociology. ...
AnIntroductiontotheSocialSciences
... David Hume and John Locke insisted that observation was the only way to make valid conclusions about the world. Until WWII (1939-1945), anthropologists mainly studied groups that had little or no contact with industrialized Western culture. Beginning in the 1970s, the focus of anthropology shift ...
... David Hume and John Locke insisted that observation was the only way to make valid conclusions about the world. Until WWII (1939-1945), anthropologists mainly studied groups that had little or no contact with industrialized Western culture. Beginning in the 1970s, the focus of anthropology shift ...
Weberian Theory
... This refers to the process by which people are limited by social institutions but at the same time can shape and change them. This change occurs through reflexivity, where people are constantly reflecting on the things they do and how they do them as they live their daily lives. Giddens argued struc ...
... This refers to the process by which people are limited by social institutions but at the same time can shape and change them. This change occurs through reflexivity, where people are constantly reflecting on the things they do and how they do them as they live their daily lives. Giddens argued struc ...
Social Science and Life on the Move: Reflexive Considera
... Nowadays, the profound salience of technoscientific knowledge, biology/genetics, and the human body is not just important for philosophy, sociology and the human sciences; it is the fundamental basis on which significant life choices and life planning must be reflexively made by common people in the ...
... Nowadays, the profound salience of technoscientific knowledge, biology/genetics, and the human body is not just important for philosophy, sociology and the human sciences; it is the fundamental basis on which significant life choices and life planning must be reflexively made by common people in the ...
Presentation - The Sense of Dissonance
... depends on the portfolio of situations that are in her field of view, then we further expect that: Hypothesis 2: The more similar their portfolios of background situations the more similar will be two actors’ assessments of the focal issue even when they have not seen each others’ estimates. ...
... depends on the portfolio of situations that are in her field of view, then we further expect that: Hypothesis 2: The more similar their portfolios of background situations the more similar will be two actors’ assessments of the focal issue even when they have not seen each others’ estimates. ...
Epistemological Chicken
... “This ability, which seems to the sociologist to be little more than applied common sense, is surprisingly narrowly distributed within society.” 301 ...
... “This ability, which seems to the sociologist to be little more than applied common sense, is surprisingly narrowly distributed within society.” 301 ...