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... 1985, pp. 57–61). Relatedly, Merton’s contribution has been heralded as among the most significant of all major sociological theories (e.g., Garfield 1980; Orrù 1990; Passas 1995), but it has also been criticized as fundamentally flawed (e.g., Besnard 1990; Kornhauser 1978). The confusion over the m ...
... 1985, pp. 57–61). Relatedly, Merton’s contribution has been heralded as among the most significant of all major sociological theories (e.g., Garfield 1980; Orrù 1990; Passas 1995), but it has also been criticized as fundamentally flawed (e.g., Besnard 1990; Kornhauser 1978). The confusion over the m ...
Theorizing in Social Science: The Context of Discovery
... touch on. These are: what makes certain types of theorizing creative, and how to rein in and steer one’s imagination in a creative direction when theorizing. Several different factors can help to make theorizing creative. The general nature of human thought, especially as investigated by cognitive p ...
... touch on. These are: what makes certain types of theorizing creative, and how to rein in and steer one’s imagination in a creative direction when theorizing. Several different factors can help to make theorizing creative. The general nature of human thought, especially as investigated by cognitive p ...
Chapter 3 - roar@UEL
... Bourdieu towards a desire to understand the ontological foundations of epistemology and to formulate what he might have called a socio-logic of science (by analogy with his insistence on the need for socio-linguistic analysis rather than the abstracted discourse of sociolinguistics)6. ...
... Bourdieu towards a desire to understand the ontological foundations of epistemology and to formulate what he might have called a socio-logic of science (by analogy with his insistence on the need for socio-linguistic analysis rather than the abstracted discourse of sociolinguistics)6. ...
Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis
... Wertsch and his colleagues call their perspective ‘the sociocultural approach to mind’ (see also Bruner, 1990; Cole, 1990; Lantolf, 2000). It emphasizes that all actions are mediated through ‘cultural tools’ (Wertsch, 1998): objects, technologies, practices, identities, social institutions, communit ...
... Wertsch and his colleagues call their perspective ‘the sociocultural approach to mind’ (see also Bruner, 1990; Cole, 1990; Lantolf, 2000). It emphasizes that all actions are mediated through ‘cultural tools’ (Wertsch, 1998): objects, technologies, practices, identities, social institutions, communit ...
Shanks Tilley 1987
... tivity and theoretical elaboration. So theory is still most frequently conceived as abstract and secondary to data acquisition, different fashions explaining the same data, while traditional archaeology's explanations are based on common sense and natural language. There has been work within an expl ...
... tivity and theoretical elaboration. So theory is still most frequently conceived as abstract and secondary to data acquisition, different fashions explaining the same data, while traditional archaeology's explanations are based on common sense and natural language. There has been work within an expl ...
New Institutionalism - Faculty of Education | CUHK
... Another initiative of the new institutionalist perspective is the reaction to the methodological individualism found in economics, which manifest in theories of rational choice and preference. In reaction to these, new institutionalism put its emphasis on meanings and cultures, i.e. the logic of a ...
... Another initiative of the new institutionalist perspective is the reaction to the methodological individualism found in economics, which manifest in theories of rational choice and preference. In reaction to these, new institutionalism put its emphasis on meanings and cultures, i.e. the logic of a ...
Hegel`s Universal in Marx, Durkheim and Weber: The Role of
... universal apply without qualification, while those that are particular apply only within more restricted domains. Universalistic rules, concepts or laws are determined by an impersonal code or standard, regardless of one's social group, while those that are particularistic apply only to specific soc ...
... universal apply without qualification, while those that are particular apply only within more restricted domains. Universalistic rules, concepts or laws are determined by an impersonal code or standard, regardless of one's social group, while those that are particularistic apply only to specific soc ...
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5466
... and books on simulation have been published in many disciplines. For instance, in the social sciences, Axelrod (1997) and Nowak and Sigmund (1998; 2005), independent of each other, launched a very influential research program on the study of cooperation and reciprocity via computer simulation, with ...
... and books on simulation have been published in many disciplines. For instance, in the social sciences, Axelrod (1997) and Nowak and Sigmund (1998; 2005), independent of each other, launched a very influential research program on the study of cooperation and reciprocity via computer simulation, with ...
Social Movements and Environmentalism, a Luhmannian
... Therefore, I believe that if we are to understand society, we need to understand the long-term mechanisms through which it changes and the way it relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promo ...
... Therefore, I believe that if we are to understand society, we need to understand the long-term mechanisms through which it changes and the way it relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promo ...
Meso Context
... Another initiative of the new institutionalist perspective is the reaction to the methodological individualism found in economics, which manifest in theories of rational choice and preference. In reaction to these, new institutionalism put its emphasis on meanings and cultures, i.e. the logic of a ...
... Another initiative of the new institutionalist perspective is the reaction to the methodological individualism found in economics, which manifest in theories of rational choice and preference. In reaction to these, new institutionalism put its emphasis on meanings and cultures, i.e. the logic of a ...
Constructing Transnational Studies
... But this “worldist” scholarship tends to equate all trans-border and trans-boundary phenomena with planetary integration and worldwide isomorphism. Structures and processes that are really quite different are depicted as comparable in strength and character wherever they occur. Variations in scale a ...
... But this “worldist” scholarship tends to equate all trans-border and trans-boundary phenomena with planetary integration and worldwide isomorphism. Structures and processes that are really quite different are depicted as comparable in strength and character wherever they occur. Variations in scale a ...
Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
... Our concern in this book is twofold. The main concern is to discuss some methodological implications of a critical realist approach to social science. However, this cannot be done without an introduction to the basic ideas in this approach. We therefore devote the first part of the book to introduci ...
... Our concern in this book is twofold. The main concern is to discuss some methodological implications of a critical realist approach to social science. However, this cannot be done without an introduction to the basic ideas in this approach. We therefore devote the first part of the book to introduci ...
The critique of methodological nationalism: Theory and history
... because methodological nationalism is regarded as a form of reification, but it is nonetheless curious to realize that no one seems prepared to challenge the proposition that methodological nationalism is in fact a reductionist way of thinking. But the paradoxical constitution of the current debate ...
... because methodological nationalism is regarded as a form of reification, but it is nonetheless curious to realize that no one seems prepared to challenge the proposition that methodological nationalism is in fact a reductionist way of thinking. But the paradoxical constitution of the current debate ...
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
... Philosophy and the possibility of a social science Perhaps the most enduring influence that philosophy has had on the social sciences relates to the question of whether they can indeed be considered sciences. The literature on this question tends to be organised on the basis of the distinction betwe ...
... Philosophy and the possibility of a social science Perhaps the most enduring influence that philosophy has had on the social sciences relates to the question of whether they can indeed be considered sciences. The literature on this question tends to be organised on the basis of the distinction betwe ...
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... course be the case up to a point in respect of any moment other than the first and last in such a system, in which the later moments are implicit in and constellationally contain the earlier, Scientific Realism, along with From East to West, arguably occupies a peculiarly transitional status within ...
... course be the case up to a point in respect of any moment other than the first and last in such a system, in which the later moments are implicit in and constellationally contain the earlier, Scientific Realism, along with From East to West, arguably occupies a peculiarly transitional status within ...
Against Narrative: A Preface to Lyrical Sociology
... Both are in this sense utterly narrative in conception, treating reality as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, or as a model with independent, intervening, and dependent variables, as the case might be. As this lineage suggests, the theorists of high structuralism were not concerned wit ...
... Both are in this sense utterly narrative in conception, treating reality as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, or as a model with independent, intervening, and dependent variables, as the case might be. As this lineage suggests, the theorists of high structuralism were not concerned wit ...
the nature of scientific theory
... denoted by a concept. for example, the concept conflict has meaning only when it is defined. One possible definition might be this: Conflict is interaction among social units in which one unit seeks to prevent another from realizing its goals. Such a definition allows us to visualize the phenomenon ...
... denoted by a concept. for example, the concept conflict has meaning only when it is defined. One possible definition might be this: Conflict is interaction among social units in which one unit seeks to prevent another from realizing its goals. Such a definition allows us to visualize the phenomenon ...
Social Chaosmos: Michel Serres and the emergence of social order
... deconstruction of any notion of conceptual unity. If any one idea can be said to be absolutely central to this thesis, it is this: that when examined closely, no concept used to explain or describe any aspect of the social can be understood as a unity; that all such concepts are actually multiplicit ...
... deconstruction of any notion of conceptual unity. If any one idea can be said to be absolutely central to this thesis, it is this: that when examined closely, no concept used to explain or describe any aspect of the social can be understood as a unity; that all such concepts are actually multiplicit ...
robert k. merton - American Philosophical Society
... case, Merton demonstrated how the real social system of science structurally deviated from the ethos of science (by violating the norm of universalism). Merton also greatly advanced our understanding of science careers when he pointed out that science careers are shaped by the dynamics of the accumu ...
... case, Merton demonstrated how the real social system of science structurally deviated from the ethos of science (by violating the norm of universalism). Merton also greatly advanced our understanding of science careers when he pointed out that science careers are shaped by the dynamics of the accumu ...
Discourse Theory: Achievements, Arguments, and Challenges
... of the actors' interpretations of their context and interests have lapsed into an impressionistic descriptivism that lacks a solid theoretical underpinning. In both cases discourse theory has something to offer, and in many disciplines and subdisciplines discourse theory has resulted in an analytica ...
... of the actors' interpretations of their context and interests have lapsed into an impressionistic descriptivism that lacks a solid theoretical underpinning. In both cases discourse theory has something to offer, and in many disciplines and subdisciplines discourse theory has resulted in an analytica ...
Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen`s Theory
... envy of (their) fellow-men"([1925]1970:32). Certainlyhe refers continuallyto individuals as either strugglingto "outdoone another"([1925]1970:88), "desiringto excel everyonein the accumulationof goods" ([1925]1970:32), or engaging in "a restless strainingto place a wider and ever-widening pecuniary ...
... envy of (their) fellow-men"([1925]1970:32). Certainlyhe refers continuallyto individuals as either strugglingto "outdoone another"([1925]1970:88), "desiringto excel everyonein the accumulationof goods" ([1925]1970:32), or engaging in "a restless strainingto place a wider and ever-widening pecuniary ...
Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio
... Cutter/Finch 2008, Morrow 2008, Kusenbach et al. 2010). As Morrow (2008, 4) puts it: “Social vulnerability is a catchall phrase that has become part of the discussion related to how social and cultural conditions place some at higher risk to environmental impacts such as climate change or natural ha ...
... Cutter/Finch 2008, Morrow 2008, Kusenbach et al. 2010). As Morrow (2008, 4) puts it: “Social vulnerability is a catchall phrase that has become part of the discussion related to how social and cultural conditions place some at higher risk to environmental impacts such as climate change or natural ha ...
I-X - Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
... Internet and Web. Selected relevant approaches coping with only parts of the DCF problem domain in different disciplines such as decision theory, social reasoning, and machine learning are briefly discussed. Finally, we sketch one novel DCF scheme, and highlight some future research work towards a g ...
... Internet and Web. Selected relevant approaches coping with only parts of the DCF problem domain in different disciplines such as decision theory, social reasoning, and machine learning are briefly discussed. Finally, we sketch one novel DCF scheme, and highlight some future research work towards a g ...
State Socialization and Structural Realism August 2010 Forthcoming
... the distribution of capabilities to the level of unit interaction through a focus on the roles adopted by states. Material factors constrain ideational factors as the types of roles selected by states are conditioned by their capabilities. I use role theory to accomplish this task as its articulated ...
... the distribution of capabilities to the level of unit interaction through a focus on the roles adopted by states. Material factors constrain ideational factors as the types of roles selected by states are conditioned by their capabilities. I use role theory to accomplish this task as its articulated ...
Network Position Measures
... interlocking roles using algebraic and matrix methods began with S.F. Nadel’s (1957) theory of social structure as positions possessing distinctive rights and duties in relation to other positions. Structural equivalence is one fundamental method for identifying roles and positions in a social netwo ...
... interlocking roles using algebraic and matrix methods began with S.F. Nadel’s (1957) theory of social structure as positions possessing distinctive rights and duties in relation to other positions. Structural equivalence is one fundamental method for identifying roles and positions in a social netwo ...