The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
... from empirical analysis to philosophical theorization. Different interpretations of Marxism and its historical applications explain some of the hardest confrontations on economic themes within the Institute, such as the case of Pollock’s criticism of Grossman’s standard view on the pauperization of ...
... from empirical analysis to philosophical theorization. Different interpretations of Marxism and its historical applications explain some of the hardest confrontations on economic themes within the Institute, such as the case of Pollock’s criticism of Grossman’s standard view on the pauperization of ...
Social Theory across Disciplinary Boundaries: Cultural Studies and
... Sociology is a field of theoretical and empirical inquiry into the processes that are constitutive of the social. Much of sociological practice involves making visible social objects that, in their ordinary occurrence, are not visible or are taken-for-granted (norms, roles, authority, race, gender, ...
... Sociology is a field of theoretical and empirical inquiry into the processes that are constitutive of the social. Much of sociological practice involves making visible social objects that, in their ordinary occurrence, are not visible or are taken-for-granted (norms, roles, authority, race, gender, ...
The Dynamics of the Sociological Imagination
... development and moral perfection. At the same time, they developed the sociological imagination with a specific scientific ethos and innovative thinking (though the very term was not yet used) in the form of “organized skepticism”. According to Merton (1996), ...
... development and moral perfection. At the same time, they developed the sociological imagination with a specific scientific ethos and innovative thinking (though the very term was not yet used) in the form of “organized skepticism”. According to Merton (1996), ...
The Theoretical Base of Clinical Sociology
... Philosopher Stephen C. Pepper (1942) argues that humans make sense out of the world by analogy with some aspect of common experience: "all the world's a stage," for example. Around this "root metaphor" philosophers and scientists proceed to build up theories about the world—world hypotheses—from and ...
... Philosopher Stephen C. Pepper (1942) argues that humans make sense out of the world by analogy with some aspect of common experience: "all the world's a stage," for example. Around this "root metaphor" philosophers and scientists proceed to build up theories about the world—world hypotheses—from and ...
Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics
... supposed to popularise the new technology. Callon’s problem, which was to become the key problem for actor-network theory 1990, was: how can we describe socially and materially heterogeneous systems in all their fragility and obduracy? (Callon: 1980). This is the first context for actor-network theo ...
... supposed to popularise the new technology. Callon’s problem, which was to become the key problem for actor-network theory 1990, was: how can we describe socially and materially heterogeneous systems in all their fragility and obduracy? (Callon: 1980). This is the first context for actor-network theo ...
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: An Agentic Perspective
... personally manageable but worth living. A functional consciousness involves purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting, constructing, regulating, and evaluating courses of action. This is achieved through intentional mobilization and productive use of semantic and p ...
... personally manageable but worth living. A functional consciousness involves purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting, constructing, regulating, and evaluating courses of action. This is achieved through intentional mobilization and productive use of semantic and p ...
Deviance
... Deviance can help prompt social change by identifying problem areas. When large numbers of people violate a particular norm it is often an indication that something in society needs to be changed. ...
... Deviance can help prompt social change by identifying problem areas. When large numbers of people violate a particular norm it is often an indication that something in society needs to be changed. ...
From Critical Social Theory to a Social Theory of
... The tight link established by Bourdieu between macro-level social and economic structures and meso- or micro-level practices and belief-systems opens up the possibility of causal and functional explanations of the beliefs and dispositions of agents with reference to their place in the overall socio- ...
... The tight link established by Bourdieu between macro-level social and economic structures and meso- or micro-level practices and belief-systems opens up the possibility of causal and functional explanations of the beliefs and dispositions of agents with reference to their place in the overall socio- ...
Amédée or how to get rid of it: social representations... Ivana Markova, University of Stirling
... these misunderstandings also affect empirical research in social representations, both in terms of the concepts and method used, there is not much progression seen either in the theory or in empirical research. Second, and as Valsiner (1998, p.149) maintains, the theory appears to be undeveloped. He ...
... these misunderstandings also affect empirical research in social representations, both in terms of the concepts and method used, there is not much progression seen either in the theory or in empirical research. Second, and as Valsiner (1998, p.149) maintains, the theory appears to be undeveloped. He ...
Systems theory and Structural functionalism
... as "any set of variables regardless of the degtee, of interrelationship among them" þ. l4?). He prefened this definition because it fieed the researcher fiom the need to prove that a political system is really a system. The only question of importance became whether the system was interesting and th ...
... as "any set of variables regardless of the degtee, of interrelationship among them" þ. l4?). He prefened this definition because it fieed the researcher fiom the need to prove that a political system is really a system. The only question of importance became whether the system was interesting and th ...
Forthcoming in Bhaskar, R., Esbjörn
... subversive. Notwithstanding his spiritual turn, he would remain an unconventional socialist at heart till the very end. His philosophy of metaReality can even be considered a prefiguration of a joyful communism in which the personal development of each and every one would go hand in hand with the so ...
... subversive. Notwithstanding his spiritual turn, he would remain an unconventional socialist at heart till the very end. His philosophy of metaReality can even be considered a prefiguration of a joyful communism in which the personal development of each and every one would go hand in hand with the so ...
1 The Arbitrariness and Normativity of Social Conventions NB
... Q1-type questions usually ask how conventions are maintained synchronically and focus typically, though not necessarily, on individual behaviour. Q2-type questions focus instead on the diachronic emergence of conventional behaviour: the sequence of events that led to the establishment of a conventio ...
... Q1-type questions usually ask how conventions are maintained synchronically and focus typically, though not necessarily, on individual behaviour. Q2-type questions focus instead on the diachronic emergence of conventional behaviour: the sequence of events that led to the establishment of a conventio ...
Odious Comparisons
... But the same researchers, especially those working on non-Western societies or subaltern cultures, or on seemingly incomparable events like the Shoah, increasingly have confronted criticisms from nonpositivist directions as well. Theorists of ‘‘incommensurability’’ have questioned the basic ontologi ...
... But the same researchers, especially those working on non-Western societies or subaltern cultures, or on seemingly incomparable events like the Shoah, increasingly have confronted criticisms from nonpositivist directions as well. Theorists of ‘‘incommensurability’’ have questioned the basic ontologi ...
Causal Mechanisms in Comparative Historical Sociology
... argue for a microfoundational approach to social causation: the causal properties of social entities derive from the structured circumstances of agency of the individuals who make up social entities—institutions, organizations, states, economies, and the like. So this approach advances a general ont ...
... argue for a microfoundational approach to social causation: the causal properties of social entities derive from the structured circumstances of agency of the individuals who make up social entities—institutions, organizations, states, economies, and the like. So this approach advances a general ont ...
Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed`s Interpretivism*
... intention that directly evokes Weber’s definition of sociology as ‘a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences’ [1978: 4; emphasis added]. What does this compact book add to Weber’s foundational ...
... intention that directly evokes Weber’s definition of sociology as ‘a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences’ [1978: 4; emphasis added]. What does this compact book add to Weber’s foundational ...
The historicity of human geography
... significance for both humanistic geography and social history. The current interest in qualitative research in human geography (Jackson, 1985; Eyles and Smith, 1988) reflects a widespread conviction that positivist methods have shown themselves to be inadequate in the handling of the many varieties ...
... significance for both humanistic geography and social history. The current interest in qualitative research in human geography (Jackson, 1985; Eyles and Smith, 1988) reflects a widespread conviction that positivist methods have shown themselves to be inadequate in the handling of the many varieties ...
applied sociology 1
... sometimes called social theories, though the later term generally refers to interdisciplinary theory. In seeking to understand society, sociologists use both sociological theory and interdisciplinary social theories to organize social research. Sociology also invloves definitions of culture, society ...
... sometimes called social theories, though the later term generally refers to interdisciplinary theory. In seeking to understand society, sociologists use both sociological theory and interdisciplinary social theories to organize social research. Sociology also invloves definitions of culture, society ...
Chapter 8, Deviance
... similarly by all groups. Recognizes that established rules and norms are socially created, not just morally decreed or individually imposed. ...
... similarly by all groups. Recognizes that established rules and norms are socially created, not just morally decreed or individually imposed. ...
Toward a Theory of Social Conflict
... 9 There is much controversy over this implication of the structural-functional approach. Most functionalists deny that they make such an assumption. Indeed, assertions to the contrary are found in the works of Parsons, Merton, and others. Nevertheless, it can be shown that these assertions are, from ...
... 9 There is much controversy over this implication of the structural-functional approach. Most functionalists deny that they make such an assumption. Indeed, assertions to the contrary are found in the works of Parsons, Merton, and others. Nevertheless, it can be shown that these assertions are, from ...
Family and Industrialisation
... example which can be examined both theoretically and empirically. One of the most basic sociological theories that we can examine in this instance is that proposed by a significant number of functionalist writers. These include: G.P.Murdock ("Social Structure", 1949) T. Parsons ("The Social Structur ...
... example which can be examined both theoretically and empirically. One of the most basic sociological theories that we can examine in this instance is that proposed by a significant number of functionalist writers. These include: G.P.Murdock ("Social Structure", 1949) T. Parsons ("The Social Structur ...
unit 25 concepts of social structure
... helps us to describe the permanent and enduring aspects of social relationships. As such it is a very useful tool to understand social reality. In this unit you will learn about various interpretations and uses, of this basic concept in sociological thought. We begin with a broad definition of the c ...
... helps us to describe the permanent and enduring aspects of social relationships. As such it is a very useful tool to understand social reality. In this unit you will learn about various interpretations and uses, of this basic concept in sociological thought. We begin with a broad definition of the c ...
Lecture 3
... is, by its very nature, also an act of exclusion, displacement or sacrifice (i.e. “what you see necessarily limits what you don’t see”). In other words, when one relates a theoretical story about an experience, certain aspects of that experience are singled out while others are marginalized, silence ...
... is, by its very nature, also an act of exclusion, displacement or sacrifice (i.e. “what you see necessarily limits what you don’t see”). In other words, when one relates a theoretical story about an experience, certain aspects of that experience are singled out while others are marginalized, silence ...
Contents - Uni Kassel
... matter of fact, they are often used very differently. While for some these terms are pointing towards the same thing and are simply used identically (Kaplan 1988; Devetak 2001), others emphasis that it is important to distinguish between them. Butler (1992) and Mouffe (1992), for example, separate t ...
... matter of fact, they are often used very differently. While for some these terms are pointing towards the same thing and are simply used identically (Kaplan 1988; Devetak 2001), others emphasis that it is important to distinguish between them. Butler (1992) and Mouffe (1992), for example, separate t ...
New Institutionalism in the Analysis of Complex
... considerable homogeneity among organizations develops in their formal structures, beyond any internal technical needs. Drawing on work in social psychology, Zucker (1977) emphasized that institutionalization is an organizational-level process, and viewed diffusion as a consequence of institutionaliz ...
... considerable homogeneity among organizations develops in their formal structures, beyond any internal technical needs. Drawing on work in social psychology, Zucker (1977) emphasized that institutionalization is an organizational-level process, and viewed diffusion as a consequence of institutionaliz ...
Personality and Social Psychology Review
... concern to social psychology, an agent is a simplified, abstract version of a human being. However, other levels of agents are also possible; an agent could represent a neuron in a simulated neural network or a large-scale economic actor such as a corporation. We briefly discuss these possibilities ...
... concern to social psychology, an agent is a simplified, abstract version of a human being. However, other levels of agents are also possible; an agent could represent a neuron in a simulated neural network or a large-scale economic actor such as a corporation. We briefly discuss these possibilities ...