The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the
... tract written within the self-styled ‘analytical’ school. Winch, it will be remembered, wants to demonstrate an essential identity between philosophy and social science, on the one hand, and a fundamental contrast between social and natural science, on the other. When one examines his arguments for ...
... tract written within the self-styled ‘analytical’ school. Winch, it will be remembered, wants to demonstrate an essential identity between philosophy and social science, on the one hand, and a fundamental contrast between social and natural science, on the other. When one examines his arguments for ...
IDENTITY THEORY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
... Hogg et al.’s (1995) assessment that social identity theory has provided a clearer distinction between role and group is also not well grounded in empirical fact. Identity theory has neglected the group qua group but there are exceptions to this. For example, identity theory has been used to examine ...
... Hogg et al.’s (1995) assessment that social identity theory has provided a clearer distinction between role and group is also not well grounded in empirical fact. Identity theory has neglected the group qua group but there are exceptions to this. For example, identity theory has been used to examine ...
Törnberg, Petter - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
... This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of “naturalism” (the notion of a continuity betwe ...
... This thesis engages with questions on the boundary between what has traditionally been understood as social and natural. The introductory essay contextualizes the specific contributions of the included papers, by noting and exploring a reinvigoration of “naturalism” (the notion of a continuity betwe ...
Chapter 1 Multimodal Studies: An Emerging Research Field
... in fact, each chapter presents research that is an exploration both of particular ‘semiotic modes’ of discourse as well as of the theoretical and methodological means by which we study these modes. However, while each chapter makes a contribution to both aspects, there emerges from the volume as a w ...
... in fact, each chapter presents research that is an exploration both of particular ‘semiotic modes’ of discourse as well as of the theoretical and methodological means by which we study these modes. However, while each chapter makes a contribution to both aspects, there emerges from the volume as a w ...
Anselm L. Strauss, 1917-1996 - University of California, San Francisco
... concept of action, accompanied by its structural environment (contexts and conditions), marks the specificity of the interactionist approach developed by Strauss. As an introduction, I would like to highlight some of the lines of force permeating Strauss's overall work within his larger action frame ...
... concept of action, accompanied by its structural environment (contexts and conditions), marks the specificity of the interactionist approach developed by Strauss. As an introduction, I would like to highlight some of the lines of force permeating Strauss's overall work within his larger action frame ...
Document
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
Social Structure
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
ideology: a transdisciplinary contribution from critical discourse
... namely, that social phenomena are socially constructed, ie people’s concepts of the world they live and act within contribute to its reproduction and transformation; and that social phenomena are socially constructed in discourse. As I have implied above, however, certain extreme forms of social con ...
... namely, that social phenomena are socially constructed, ie people’s concepts of the world they live and act within contribute to its reproduction and transformation; and that social phenomena are socially constructed in discourse. As I have implied above, however, certain extreme forms of social con ...
Social Complexity and Evolved Moral Principles.
... to bring our discussion down to more specific policy problems. Edward Tanner, in his popular book Why Things Bite Back, points out several complicating effects of complexity and tight-coupling for predicting the consequences of changes. Revenge effects are the unintended and unexpected consequences ...
... to bring our discussion down to more specific policy problems. Edward Tanner, in his popular book Why Things Bite Back, points out several complicating effects of complexity and tight-coupling for predicting the consequences of changes. Revenge effects are the unintended and unexpected consequences ...
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems
... conclusion is that most social systems can be conceptualized as wicked systems: they are open, nebulous systems, characterized by multi-level causation which makes them recalcitrant to formalization and reductionism. This calls for a method-pluralist approach that combines individualist strategies s ...
... conclusion is that most social systems can be conceptualized as wicked systems: they are open, nebulous systems, characterized by multi-level causation which makes them recalcitrant to formalization and reductionism. This calls for a method-pluralist approach that combines individualist strategies s ...
Bristolmainlatest2
... and the phenomena – both material and ideational – with which they come in contact. Everything we know about the world is both established and developed as a consequence of individual acts of perception. However, these structures have defining principles, which are both pre-constructed and evolving ...
... and the phenomena – both material and ideational – with which they come in contact. Everything we know about the world is both established and developed as a consequence of individual acts of perception. However, these structures have defining principles, which are both pre-constructed and evolving ...
Goffman`s concept of the normal as the collective
... each other. Primary frameworks, seen as prior or ‘original’ interpretations and which refer to people’s natural and social worlds, are located at the beginning of the process of reframing. Since people continuously project their frames of reference onto world and since they continuously layer frames ...
... each other. Primary frameworks, seen as prior or ‘original’ interpretations and which refer to people’s natural and social worlds, are located at the beginning of the process of reframing. Since people continuously project their frames of reference onto world and since they continuously layer frames ...
Can practice theory inspire studies on ICTs in everyday life?
... more or less the same issues under two different headings – mind and knowledge (p. 251-4). The explanation seems to be that he distinguishes between activities and component: a practice is thus an entity of routinized activities that include different components. The routinized activities are both b ...
... more or less the same issues under two different headings – mind and knowledge (p. 251-4). The explanation seems to be that he distinguishes between activities and component: a practice is thus an entity of routinized activities that include different components. The routinized activities are both b ...
Lecture 5
... z 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 ...
... z 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 ...
Subject and Subject position in Laclau`s discourse theory Allan
... subjectivities in broad set of fields (e.g. The Making of Political Identitites, (Ernesto Laclau 1994; Howarth 1998)). However there are severe problems with the idea of any subject being a political one. The purpose of the present article is threefold. First, to show the advantage – actually theore ...
... subjectivities in broad set of fields (e.g. The Making of Political Identitites, (Ernesto Laclau 1994; Howarth 1998)). However there are severe problems with the idea of any subject being a political one. The purpose of the present article is threefold. First, to show the advantage – actually theore ...
`Spatial Articulation of the State: Reworking Social Relations and
... Germany, the social formations in England, France and Spain, and developed a theoretical perspective on the Soviet state under Stalin (Trotsky 1962; Anderson 1979, p.97). Gramsci's theory was also prepared in the general context of the national question - national unification and the formation of th ...
... Germany, the social formations in England, France and Spain, and developed a theoretical perspective on the Soviet state under Stalin (Trotsky 1962; Anderson 1979, p.97). Gramsci's theory was also prepared in the general context of the national question - national unification and the formation of th ...
The Play of International Practices
... We argue in this article that doing practice theory is a distinctive way of studying the world. Practice approaches provide a different understanding of the international by taking practices as the core unit of analysis. They move away from models of interest calculating or norm evaluating actors. Y ...
... We argue in this article that doing practice theory is a distinctive way of studying the world. Practice approaches provide a different understanding of the international by taking practices as the core unit of analysis. They move away from models of interest calculating or norm evaluating actors. Y ...
understanding scientific practices: cultural studies
... contemporary anglophone philosophy is that cultural studies does not constitute a philosophical program. Practitioners of cultural studies typically explore the production or emergence of meaning within historically specific and localizable material settings. Cultural studies thus express a resolute ...
... contemporary anglophone philosophy is that cultural studies does not constitute a philosophical program. Practitioners of cultural studies typically explore the production or emergence of meaning within historically specific and localizable material settings. Cultural studies thus express a resolute ...
Outline and assess Bourdieu`s explanation of social inequality.
... structures. Therefore in a sense, our habitus shapes our social world and external social structures shape our habitus. ‘The socialized body (which one calls the individual or person) does not stand opposition to society; it is one of its forms of existence’ (Bourdieu, 1980:29). It is neither subjec ...
... structures. Therefore in a sense, our habitus shapes our social world and external social structures shape our habitus. ‘The socialized body (which one calls the individual or person) does not stand opposition to society; it is one of its forms of existence’ (Bourdieu, 1980:29). It is neither subjec ...
COMMUNICATION, CONTEXTS AND CULTURE A communicative
... learned by its members, now it seemed to be a system of signs. This „pansemiotic“ concept of culture has been criticised by another stream of thought also preoccupied with language. As a consequence of the „linguistic turn“ initiated by authors such as Wittgenstein and Austin, it has been argued tha ...
... learned by its members, now it seemed to be a system of signs. This „pansemiotic“ concept of culture has been criticised by another stream of thought also preoccupied with language. As a consequence of the „linguistic turn“ initiated by authors such as Wittgenstein and Austin, it has been argued tha ...
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction SSSI/ASA 2002
... PhD Candidate, Rural Studies, University of Guelph [email protected] www.djconnell.ca * Draft. Please do not quote. ...
... PhD Candidate, Rural Studies, University of Guelph [email protected] www.djconnell.ca * Draft. Please do not quote. ...
a critical literature review of social class in american sociology
... forms of knowledge in relation to the experience, institutions, traditions, practices, and positions of social groups and the individuals within those groups” (Goldman 1994: 266). In other words, it is a perspective that performs a sociological analysis of intellectuals— in this case, it is a sociol ...
... forms of knowledge in relation to the experience, institutions, traditions, practices, and positions of social groups and the individuals within those groups” (Goldman 1994: 266). In other words, it is a perspective that performs a sociological analysis of intellectuals— in this case, it is a sociol ...
Social Structure
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
... • Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status interferes with a second status. • Role strain occurs when a person has difficulty fulfilling the role of one status. • Role exit is the process people go through to detach from a role that was previously central to their soc ...
After International Relations: Critical Realism and the
... explanatory emancipation beyond the confines of nation states, and responds to the problem of violence. It goes further than any existing text in developing critical theoretical methodologies in international relations, and showing how they can be applied in research and acted upon in ethico-politic ...
... explanatory emancipation beyond the confines of nation states, and responds to the problem of violence. It goes further than any existing text in developing critical theoretical methodologies in international relations, and showing how they can be applied in research and acted upon in ethico-politic ...
Continuity, Change and the Circulation of Social Practices
... making and experiencing socially established activities across networks of relationships. By focusing on the empirical case of a musical tradition, I aim to advance an approach to ‘the social’ as enacted, temporal and situated, based on the analysis of various layers of mobility, which I call mobil ...
... making and experiencing socially established activities across networks of relationships. By focusing on the empirical case of a musical tradition, I aim to advance an approach to ‘the social’ as enacted, temporal and situated, based on the analysis of various layers of mobility, which I call mobil ...