Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action James S
... Purposive action of individuals can be taken as a starting point by sociologists, who can assume well-organized individuals, though not by psychologists, for whom the individual's psychological organization is centrally problematic. But just as psychologists would lose their problem if they assumed ...
... Purposive action of individuals can be taken as a starting point by sociologists, who can assume well-organized individuals, though not by psychologists, for whom the individual's psychological organization is centrally problematic. But just as psychologists would lose their problem if they assumed ...
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
... packages, expanded workplace training programs, and the like). Earlier reformist activists associated with the Progressive era in the US forced the state to shoulder an increasing share of the costs of social reproduction and to provide an expanded array of practices associated with it (Marston fort ...
... packages, expanded workplace training programs, and the like). Earlier reformist activists associated with the Progressive era in the US forced the state to shoulder an increasing share of the costs of social reproduction and to provide an expanded array of practices associated with it (Marston fort ...
The morphogenesis of the world order of organized violence
... of shared ideas. When states share ideas, so the argument goes, they are prone to cooperation. In this sense, conflict emerges out of the lack of mutual understanding or shared knowledge. Bull, for instance, ‘associated highly conflictual anarchies (“systems”) with a state of nature, in which no sha ...
... of shared ideas. When states share ideas, so the argument goes, they are prone to cooperation. In this sense, conflict emerges out of the lack of mutual understanding or shared knowledge. Bull, for instance, ‘associated highly conflictual anarchies (“systems”) with a state of nature, in which no sha ...
What is Real and what is Realism in Sociology?
... be his intention – that the question, ‘what is real?’ is irrelevant, and offers little help in the practical businesses of providing demonstrations of real social entities. One of the most difficult problems, complicating matters yet further, is that the organisations created by people are not natur ...
... be his intention – that the question, ‘what is real?’ is irrelevant, and offers little help in the practical businesses of providing demonstrations of real social entities. One of the most difficult problems, complicating matters yet further, is that the organisations created by people are not natur ...
Chapter 1
... a. the study of ethnicity, race, and urban social relations in multicultural contexts b. questions that relate to the knowledge produced when sociologists link a current phenomenon to historical forces c. the study of something with a historical basis (e.g., the Russian Revolution) and involving the ...
... a. the study of ethnicity, race, and urban social relations in multicultural contexts b. questions that relate to the knowledge produced when sociologists link a current phenomenon to historical forces c. the study of something with a historical basis (e.g., the Russian Revolution) and involving the ...
Chapter 2 Student Study Notes
... Interpretivists believe human beings are not objective. Interpretivists believe that human beings are independent. They are free to follow their will as part of the world in relationships with other human beings and as a result they cannot be objective. Interpretivists argue that people inevitably ...
... Interpretivists believe human beings are not objective. Interpretivists believe that human beings are independent. They are free to follow their will as part of the world in relationships with other human beings and as a result they cannot be objective. Interpretivists argue that people inevitably ...
Sociology - California State University, East Bay
... workings of social institutions, patterns of group life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Students who choose the option in social services will learn basic principles and practices in applying this perspective to support individuals, families and groups, or f ...
... workings of social institutions, patterns of group life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Students who choose the option in social services will learn basic principles and practices in applying this perspective to support individuals, families and groups, or f ...
Strübing Bridging the Gap 1998
... MAS research as well as possible forms of cooperation and exchange between the fields. But before doing so, it would be useful to have a brief look at (1) the questions DAI puts to sociology or to an everyday understanding of social phenomena, (2) the goals DAI is pursuing, and (3) the problems whic ...
... MAS research as well as possible forms of cooperation and exchange between the fields. But before doing so, it would be useful to have a brief look at (1) the questions DAI puts to sociology or to an everyday understanding of social phenomena, (2) the goals DAI is pursuing, and (3) the problems whic ...
Hislop Taking Account of Structure
... Thus structure and agency evolve through a process of what Archer refers to as ‘double morphogenesis’, whereby agents, in the process of reshaping the socio-cultural structures they act within, simultaneously reshape themselves. Further, while structures condition action, they never determine it, as ...
... Thus structure and agency evolve through a process of what Archer refers to as ‘double morphogenesis’, whereby agents, in the process of reshaping the socio-cultural structures they act within, simultaneously reshape themselves. Further, while structures condition action, they never determine it, as ...
Social Context Theory - South Pacific Journal of Psychology
... little recourse. Grief and anger follow, and ongoing frustration, as well as a sense of personal loss, prevails. ...
... little recourse. Grief and anger follow, and ongoing frustration, as well as a sense of personal loss, prevails. ...
- LSE Research Online
... framework through which practitioners in different disciplines can work together. This process followed an unplanned bottom-up path which required for its full expression an inclusive and safe environment of collaborative enquiry. Interdisciplinarity was thus neither a normative goal nor naturalised ...
... framework through which practitioners in different disciplines can work together. This process followed an unplanned bottom-up path which required for its full expression an inclusive and safe environment of collaborative enquiry. Interdisciplinarity was thus neither a normative goal nor naturalised ...
In Defense of Positivism
... limitations on the use of axiomatic theorv in sociology. In terms of strict adherence to the rules of deduction (the details of which are not critical for my purposes here), most interesting concepts and propositions in sociology cannot be legitimately employed in axiomatic schemes, because the conc ...
... limitations on the use of axiomatic theorv in sociology. In terms of strict adherence to the rules of deduction (the details of which are not critical for my purposes here), most interesting concepts and propositions in sociology cannot be legitimately employed in axiomatic schemes, because the conc ...
On Interobjectivity.
... structure affrrm, because an interaction "takes place in" a society that is greater than it, but quite simply because for an interaction to take place one must frrst reduce the relationship so that it does not, step by step, mobilize all social life, with which it would otherwise end up being co-ext ...
... structure affrrm, because an interaction "takes place in" a society that is greater than it, but quite simply because for an interaction to take place one must frrst reduce the relationship so that it does not, step by step, mobilize all social life, with which it would otherwise end up being co-ext ...
Machine intelligence evaluation
... Social behaviour (even a primitive one) is not just the inclusion of other agents. These agents must play a role. With this approach, we do not completely discard that other optimal, but non-social, solutions may exist for some multiagent environments, but we can have more control. Experimen ...
... Social behaviour (even a primitive one) is not just the inclusion of other agents. These agents must play a role. With this approach, we do not completely discard that other optimal, but non-social, solutions may exist for some multiagent environments, but we can have more control. Experimen ...
researching prison – a sociological analysis of social system
... probably is visible only if one treats the social entity as a system. A single element may react to other element of a system starting the chain reaction in a social process. “Actions of each actor are somehow connected to those of others at an earlier point in time. This sequence of effects can con ...
... probably is visible only if one treats the social entity as a system. A single element may react to other element of a system starting the chain reaction in a social process. “Actions of each actor are somehow connected to those of others at an earlier point in time. This sequence of effects can con ...
Pierre Bourdieu (Team 7)
... actors for particular ends Connection between structure and action Uses conceptual tools to explain process of social life in concrete settings Trained as an anthropologist, and within structuralist tradition ...
... actors for particular ends Connection between structure and action Uses conceptual tools to explain process of social life in concrete settings Trained as an anthropologist, and within structuralist tradition ...
Rational-choice sociology - Nuffield College
... Udehn, Peyton Young, and Victor Nee for their useful comments. ...
... Udehn, Peyton Young, and Victor Nee for their useful comments. ...
223 I. Identity and Representation Peirre Bourdieu
... acts of perception and appreciation, of cognition and recognition, in which agents invest their interests and their presuppositions, and of objectified representations, in things (emblems, flags, badges, etc.) or acts, self-interested strategies of symbolic manipulation which aim at determining the ...
... acts of perception and appreciation, of cognition and recognition, in which agents invest their interests and their presuppositions, and of objectified representations, in things (emblems, flags, badges, etc.) or acts, self-interested strategies of symbolic manipulation which aim at determining the ...
Developments in "Two Social Psychologies": Toward an
... tionbecausewe haveto,andwe havetoin other entities; whether these responses ordertoprovideforourselvesa necessary are consistent over time, in different stabilityin our psychologicalenviron- places, and under varyingcircumstances; ment.We have to in orderto givecoher- and whether others respond in s ...
... tionbecausewe haveto,andwe havetoin other entities; whether these responses ordertoprovideforourselvesa necessary are consistent over time, in different stabilityin our psychologicalenviron- places, and under varyingcircumstances; ment.We have to in orderto givecoher- and whether others respond in s ...
`Society Can`t Move So Much As a Chair!`—Systems, Structures and
... of Niklas Luhmann (1984, 1986), which is arguably the most elaborate and powerful social theory building on the concept of autopoiesis. For Luhmann, social systems consist of recursive communication and are thus essentially immaterial. Even human beings (and their mental systems) are not part of soc ...
... of Niklas Luhmann (1984, 1986), which is arguably the most elaborate and powerful social theory building on the concept of autopoiesis. For Luhmann, social systems consist of recursive communication and are thus essentially immaterial. Even human beings (and their mental systems) are not part of soc ...
On Interobjectivity - University of Warwick
... Socialinsects have always served as a means of calibratingmodels of human sociology. But they offered, at least up until the emergence of sociobiology, the archetypal case of superorganisms, in which questions of the individual, interaction, calculation and negotiation could not be posed4The effect ...
... Socialinsects have always served as a means of calibratingmodels of human sociology. But they offered, at least up until the emergence of sociobiology, the archetypal case of superorganisms, in which questions of the individual, interaction, calculation and negotiation could not be posed4The effect ...
Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds: Towards Good Social Science
... Of course, dividing everything into theory or evidence is a considerable simplification of the situation in any science. Typically there is a whole range of entities involved from abstract conceptual frameworks and organising laws down to concrete data models and descriptions (Suppes 1962). In betwe ...
... Of course, dividing everything into theory or evidence is a considerable simplification of the situation in any science. Typically there is a whole range of entities involved from abstract conceptual frameworks and organising laws down to concrete data models and descriptions (Suppes 1962). In betwe ...
Social Theory - Universidad de Murcia
... the problem of separation of societies. How come the world is divided into separate states and societies? Why not one single contract between all people in the world? The second problem concerns the theoretical implications of this theory. If the state is a result of an internal fusion, the state is ...
... the problem of separation of societies. How come the world is divided into separate states and societies? Why not one single contract between all people in the world? The second problem concerns the theoretical implications of this theory. If the state is a result of an internal fusion, the state is ...
Rawls Lecture Notes
... “That question is: What is the most acceptable political conception of justice for specifying the fair terms of cooperation between citizens regarded as free and equal and as both reasonable and rational, and (we add) as normal and fully cooperating members of society over a complete life, from one ...
... “That question is: What is the most acceptable political conception of justice for specifying the fair terms of cooperation between citizens regarded as free and equal and as both reasonable and rational, and (we add) as normal and fully cooperating members of society over a complete life, from one ...
Chapter 4 of Student Study Notes
... responsible for problems and causes. For example, alcoholism needs a ‘cure’ rather than being seen as a response to social experiences. However, not everyone reacts the same way to social pressures, so individual psychological factors may also be important alongside social factors. In addition, psyc ...
... responsible for problems and causes. For example, alcoholism needs a ‘cure’ rather than being seen as a response to social experiences. However, not everyone reacts the same way to social pressures, so individual psychological factors may also be important alongside social factors. In addition, psyc ...