THE PLACE OF SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
... years pose the following question: to what extent can sociology provide an answer, theoretically and methodologically. Ever since it emerged as a science, sociology has been faced with various difficulties, including those pertaining to the definition of its object, which is the result of the underd ...
... years pose the following question: to what extent can sociology provide an answer, theoretically and methodologically. Ever since it emerged as a science, sociology has been faced with various difficulties, including those pertaining to the definition of its object, which is the result of the underd ...
The Relationship between Structure and Agency
... also develops communicative action theory, within which he attempts to integrate action- theoretical and systemtheoretical sociological perspectives. He divides modern society into lifeworlds (micro) and systems (macro). The lifeworld is the realm of ordinary everyday experience and intersubjective ...
... also develops communicative action theory, within which he attempts to integrate action- theoretical and systemtheoretical sociological perspectives. He divides modern society into lifeworlds (micro) and systems (macro). The lifeworld is the realm of ordinary everyday experience and intersubjective ...
Institutionalizing Scientific Knowledge: The Social and Political
... The sociology of science is a broad and diverse field which includes a number of competing schools and approaches (Hess 1997). I shall therefore first provide a brief overview of a related subfield, namely the sociology of scientific knowledge (or SSK) and focus on some relevant implications for the ...
... The sociology of science is a broad and diverse field which includes a number of competing schools and approaches (Hess 1997). I shall therefore first provide a brief overview of a related subfield, namely the sociology of scientific knowledge (or SSK) and focus on some relevant implications for the ...
Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics
... method? Such was the view of epistemology. In the late 1960s sociologists read Kuhn and created a sociology of scientific knowledge. A paradigm can be understood, they said, as a culture. Scientists acquire this culture and use it to guide their puzzle-solving practices. Successful puzzle-solving ex ...
... method? Such was the view of epistemology. In the late 1960s sociologists read Kuhn and created a sociology of scientific knowledge. A paradigm can be understood, they said, as a culture. Scientists acquire this culture and use it to guide their puzzle-solving practices. Successful puzzle-solving ex ...
Where is anthropology? - DAN
... and quality, serving as an indicator and thermometer for anthropologists in other latitudes, this view of Fredrik Barth indicates that a dialogue with North American anthropologists, or more precisely, with the works and authors who gain visibility and social legitimacy in that context, is inevitabl ...
... and quality, serving as an indicator and thermometer for anthropologists in other latitudes, this view of Fredrik Barth indicates that a dialogue with North American anthropologists, or more precisely, with the works and authors who gain visibility and social legitimacy in that context, is inevitabl ...
Big WoMen in Anthropology - E
... & by Claude Lévi-Strauss’ structuralism “ […] search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity.” ...
... & by Claude Lévi-Strauss’ structuralism “ […] search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity.” ...
Public Sociology – a Concept for Labor Research
... fields ranging from critical theory and sociology to action research, and have been discussed many times under different economic conditions and with different emphases. But what is particular about public sociology? Michael Burawoy himself has provided an answer to just this question in his discuss ...
... fields ranging from critical theory and sociology to action research, and have been discussed many times under different economic conditions and with different emphases. But what is particular about public sociology? Michael Burawoy himself has provided an answer to just this question in his discuss ...
Reductionism in Social Science
... realism, pioneered by Roy Bhaskar (1975; 1989), and developed most in relation to reductionism by Margaret Archer (1995; 1996; 2000; 2003). This is a fallibilist, post-positivist philosophy, which regards both causal explanation and interpretive understanding as necessary for social science. It is a ...
... realism, pioneered by Roy Bhaskar (1975; 1989), and developed most in relation to reductionism by Margaret Archer (1995; 1996; 2000; 2003). This is a fallibilist, post-positivist philosophy, which regards both causal explanation and interpretive understanding as necessary for social science. It is a ...
Theory and Methods
... You will find that we discuss all these changes and many others in this book. Each may seem to be quite distinctive in character, but they have many processes in common and are interconnected in various ways. Globalization, for example, is centrally involved in almost all of them and connects one pr ...
... You will find that we discuss all these changes and many others in this book. Each may seem to be quite distinctive in character, but they have many processes in common and are interconnected in various ways. Globalization, for example, is centrally involved in almost all of them and connects one pr ...
Beyond the Third Way - European Consortium for Political Research
... private sectors, utilizing the dynamism of markets but with the public interest in mind" (Giddens 1998: 100). Regarding the welfare state, Giddens again argued that the third way charted a middle path between the antagonism towards state activities by liberals and an uncritical faith in it by social ...
... private sectors, utilizing the dynamism of markets but with the public interest in mind" (Giddens 1998: 100). Regarding the welfare state, Giddens again argued that the third way charted a middle path between the antagonism towards state activities by liberals and an uncritical faith in it by social ...
Odious Comparisons
... by the articulation of Parsons’ ‘‘grand’’ theory (which was in many ways anti- or nonpositivist) with the exigencies of positivist epistemology and a vision of methodology framed as scientistic naturalism.8 And as Turner and Turner (1990) have shown, the circulation of an array of actors in and out ...
... by the articulation of Parsons’ ‘‘grand’’ theory (which was in many ways anti- or nonpositivist) with the exigencies of positivist epistemology and a vision of methodology framed as scientistic naturalism.8 And as Turner and Turner (1990) have shown, the circulation of an array of actors in and out ...
THE `USES` OF SOCIOLOGY: PUBLIC ISSUES AND PRIVATE
... social research and can have some control over the means of information dissemination will the subjects of research really be accorded citizenship status. The technology is making this increasingly possible. The right to private ownership of an control over social information of this kind, however, ...
... social research and can have some control over the means of information dissemination will the subjects of research really be accorded citizenship status. The technology is making this increasingly possible. The right to private ownership of an control over social information of this kind, however, ...
Alfred Schutz
... of another’s subjectivity and one’s own consciousness. Schutz, however, tended to use intersubjectivity to refer to anything social. Knowledge, for example, is intersubjective insofar as it involves reciprocity of perspectives, a social origin, and a social distribution. Realms of the Social World S ...
... of another’s subjectivity and one’s own consciousness. Schutz, however, tended to use intersubjectivity to refer to anything social. Knowledge, for example, is intersubjective insofar as it involves reciprocity of perspectives, a social origin, and a social distribution. Realms of the Social World S ...
The Dynamics of the Sociological Imagination
... non-liner in character. So there is a very contradictory process. As Merton wrote: “I adopted the non-liner, advancing-by-doubling-back Shandean Method of composition at the same time I was reflecting that this open form resembles the course taken by history in general, by the history of ideas in pa ...
... non-liner in character. So there is a very contradictory process. As Merton wrote: “I adopted the non-liner, advancing-by-doubling-back Shandean Method of composition at the same time I was reflecting that this open form resembles the course taken by history in general, by the history of ideas in pa ...
INTRODUCTION OF SOCIOLOGY
... Sociology has different nature in society. It is different from other sciences in certain respects. The following are the main characteristics of sociology as enlisted by Robert Bierstadt in his book " The Social Order" and they are as follows:Sociology is an independent science :- It is not treated ...
... Sociology has different nature in society. It is different from other sciences in certain respects. The following are the main characteristics of sociology as enlisted by Robert Bierstadt in his book " The Social Order" and they are as follows:Sociology is an independent science :- It is not treated ...
Sujata Patel is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University
... have used the sociology of knowledge perspective to assess and examine how social theory has understood these conflicts. My research thus continuously conducts a dialogue between empirical work and the received history of theory within the discipline and has excavated how other disciplines, such as ...
... have used the sociology of knowledge perspective to assess and examine how social theory has understood these conflicts. My research thus continuously conducts a dialogue between empirical work and the received history of theory within the discipline and has excavated how other disciplines, such as ...
Introduction: Why We Need an Analytical Sociological Theory
... sciences nor in that of its object. It is, on the contrary, an intellectual, institutional and historical option, and few would deny today that this option has proved to be counter-productive for the progress of the scientific knowledge of social phenomena. It is worth, however, clarifying the matte ...
... sciences nor in that of its object. It is, on the contrary, an intellectual, institutional and historical option, and few would deny today that this option has proved to be counter-productive for the progress of the scientific knowledge of social phenomena. It is worth, however, clarifying the matte ...
On Sociology and STS - Heterogeneities: John Law`s Home Page
... For the critically-minded RSJ authors this was less than satisfactory. As they wrestled with their own version of the culturally complex and socially situated character of scientific knowledge, they much more actively sought to explore the structuring and restricting nature of large scale social int ...
... For the critically-minded RSJ authors this was less than satisfactory. As they wrestled with their own version of the culturally complex and socially situated character of scientific knowledge, they much more actively sought to explore the structuring and restricting nature of large scale social int ...
Raymond Boudon: "Sociology that Really Matters"
... In another analysis from his Old Regime, Tocqueville wonders why the cult of Reason became immensely popular in France at the end of the 18th century, but not in England. His answer is that traditional institutions and hence Tradition with capital T were totally disqualified in France, but not in En ...
... In another analysis from his Old Regime, Tocqueville wonders why the cult of Reason became immensely popular in France at the end of the 18th century, but not in England. His answer is that traditional institutions and hence Tradition with capital T were totally disqualified in France, but not in En ...
“Principles of Economic Sociology” Richard Swedberg
... the potential use of game theory in economic sociology. Many others could be added, such as risk, technology and the role of ethnicity in the economy. The first three, however, will have to do for now since I basically want to illustrate the general issues involved. It is, for example, clear that th ...
... the potential use of game theory in economic sociology. Many others could be added, such as risk, technology and the role of ethnicity in the economy. The first three, however, will have to do for now since I basically want to illustrate the general issues involved. It is, for example, clear that th ...
Experience and Sociology Mariam Fraser PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE
... virtual problem; there's only the development of the problem in particular ways. There doesn't seem much here that will offer a referent for relevance, and yet I find this conception of the problem more robust than the sociological problem as Mills describes it, precisely because what's relevant or ...
... virtual problem; there's only the development of the problem in particular ways. There doesn't seem much here that will offer a referent for relevance, and yet I find this conception of the problem more robust than the sociological problem as Mills describes it, precisely because what's relevant or ...
the disciplinary society and the birth of sociology: a foucauldian
... and the genealogical project Moving through the genealogical paths of “local” European geography and a number of common fields where knowledge has been produced, we are introduced into the field of research – the field of politics and fields of power and resistance. In defining what knowledge is ...
... and the genealogical project Moving through the genealogical paths of “local” European geography and a number of common fields where knowledge has been produced, we are introduced into the field of research – the field of politics and fields of power and resistance. In defining what knowledge is ...
Is Sociology A Science?
... As Keat and Urry ("Social Theory As Science", 1975) argue, the social background to the development of Comte's work also helps us to understand the reasons for such an assumption: "Comte...advocated the development of a new positive outlook...founded upon the certainties of science. The old traditio ...
... As Keat and Urry ("Social Theory As Science", 1975) argue, the social background to the development of Comte's work also helps us to understand the reasons for such an assumption: "Comte...advocated the development of a new positive outlook...founded upon the certainties of science. The old traditio ...
methodological institutionalism as a new principle of complex social
... unique to social phenomena. Methodologists of not only the social, but also the natural sciences, state that the theories of macro- and micro-levels are often incompatible with each other because they are based on different assumptions or methodological principles (Hawking, 1996). Also note that the ...
... unique to social phenomena. Methodologists of not only the social, but also the natural sciences, state that the theories of macro- and micro-levels are often incompatible with each other because they are based on different assumptions or methodological principles (Hawking, 1996). Also note that the ...
History is not bunk: why comparative historical sociology is
... problems attracts far larger funding has been, and continues strongly to be, a consideration. No matter what the cause, sociology has become largely ‘hodiecentric’ – today-centred – to use Joop Goudsblom’s term (1977). ...
... problems attracts far larger funding has been, and continues strongly to be, a consideration. No matter what the cause, sociology has become largely ‘hodiecentric’ – today-centred – to use Joop Goudsblom’s term (1977). ...