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 ...
First chapter of study guide
... The course has two central focuses, as is clear from the title Management and the Modern Corporation. Throughout the course we will be interested in exploring the nature of management in its contemporary organisational setting, so we will always have these two notions – management and organisation – ...
... The course has two central focuses, as is clear from the title Management and the Modern Corporation. Throughout the course we will be interested in exploring the nature of management in its contemporary organisational setting, so we will always have these two notions – management and organisation – ...
Interaction rituals and co-presence – linking humans to
... communities together, going on all over the place also in our contemporary societies. Now Durkheim can return to his central issue of concern: What holds society together, and identify rituals, or expressed more generally, situations of emotional energy due to gathered individuals, as an essential e ...
... communities together, going on all over the place also in our contemporary societies. Now Durkheim can return to his central issue of concern: What holds society together, and identify rituals, or expressed more generally, situations of emotional energy due to gathered individuals, as an essential e ...
THE VALUE OF THE CONCEPT OF HEGEMONY FOR
... In this theoretical horizon, the complexity of the many determinations of power relations can be treated as a whole by using the idea of hegemony. Several authors have sought to extend the use of this concept to the context of International Relations. The use of this term, already quite widespread, ...
... In this theoretical horizon, the complexity of the many determinations of power relations can be treated as a whole by using the idea of hegemony. Several authors have sought to extend the use of this concept to the context of International Relations. The use of this term, already quite widespread, ...
Aalborg Universitet Field Theory in Cultural Capital Studies of Educational Attainment
... Our endeavor is not a simple introduction to CCT and field theory. Instead, we consider the current concerns in the research field. We argue that most quantitative studies claiming to deal with cultural capital in fact do not since they ignore the qualities of the concept of ‘capital’. Rather, these ...
... Our endeavor is not a simple introduction to CCT and field theory. Instead, we consider the current concerns in the research field. We argue that most quantitative studies claiming to deal with cultural capital in fact do not since they ignore the qualities of the concept of ‘capital’. Rather, these ...
THE DRAMATISTIC GENRE IN ORGANISATIONAL RESEARCH
... fixed form that helps us discover what the implications of the terms “act” and “person” really are. The pentad is Burke’s basic analytical framework for analysing social action. It bears more than a passing resemblance to the journalist’s mantra: who, what where, when and why? He states that “any co ...
... fixed form that helps us discover what the implications of the terms “act” and “person” really are. The pentad is Burke’s basic analytical framework for analysing social action. It bears more than a passing resemblance to the journalist’s mantra: who, what where, when and why? He states that “any co ...
Paper presented to conference of the British Sociological Association,
... theory offers new developments in the conceptualisation and theorisation of systems. Sociology has had something of a hiatus in the development of its thinking about large scale processes and especially about systems during the postmodern turn, while complexity theory within the natural and mathemat ...
... theory offers new developments in the conceptualisation and theorisation of systems. Sociology has had something of a hiatus in the development of its thinking about large scale processes and especially about systems during the postmodern turn, while complexity theory within the natural and mathemat ...
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 ...
theoretical pluralism and sociological theory
... nonempirical thinkers – not how one should properly go about generating a real understanding of how societies work. 3. The construction of highly abstract models that explain everything but then nothing. Of course, the leader in this regard was Talcott Parsons, who had no peer when it came to buildi ...
... nonempirical thinkers – not how one should properly go about generating a real understanding of how societies work. 3. The construction of highly abstract models that explain everything but then nothing. Of course, the leader in this regard was Talcott Parsons, who had no peer when it came to buildi ...
Woodman, D.
... social together, in the sense of the Hobbesian ‘problem of social order’ or a tension between order and chaos – an individualistic struggle for power, or ‘war of all against all’ that would emerge if each person was not somehow integrated into the larger whole. This way of conceiving of the problem ...
... social together, in the sense of the Hobbesian ‘problem of social order’ or a tension between order and chaos – an individualistic struggle for power, or ‘war of all against all’ that would emerge if each person was not somehow integrated into the larger whole. This way of conceiving of the problem ...
Discourse Analysis and the Production of Meaning in
... two alleged features that would undermine the scientific basis of the discourse analysis framework – it is usually too descriptive and in the more comprehensive forms it cannot truly identify causal relations4. Inspired by social constructivist principles, this paper presents a brief non-Marxist arg ...
... two alleged features that would undermine the scientific basis of the discourse analysis framework – it is usually too descriptive and in the more comprehensive forms it cannot truly identify causal relations4. Inspired by social constructivist principles, this paper presents a brief non-Marxist arg ...
In Search of a Cultural Interpretation of Power: The
... to understand how social arrangements materialise over time in specific circumstances, hence illuminating power relations that constitute the very foundation of these arrangements. It is an invitation to read Bourdieu and experiment in concrete situations with his theory in relation to prospects for ...
... to understand how social arrangements materialise over time in specific circumstances, hence illuminating power relations that constitute the very foundation of these arrangements. It is an invitation to read Bourdieu and experiment in concrete situations with his theory in relation to prospects for ...
Contemporary Developments in International Relations Theory
... purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The prestige of this analysis not only served to direct social scientists to look for ...
... purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The prestige of this analysis not only served to direct social scientists to look for ...
Legitimation crisis
... therefore exhibits considerable independence from specific conventions and contexts of use. This gives natural language a number of unique properties: meaning is holistic, i.e. the meaning of each lexical item depends upon the meaning of other components; meaning is autonomous, i.e. there are no int ...
... therefore exhibits considerable independence from specific conventions and contexts of use. This gives natural language a number of unique properties: meaning is holistic, i.e. the meaning of each lexical item depends upon the meaning of other components; meaning is autonomous, i.e. there are no int ...
International Relations in a Constructed World
... with free will, people(agents)are thus seenas knowledgableparticipantsin the reproductionof social rules, and thus free from the assumeddeterminism of immaterial,inanimate,factors(structure). Onuf begins with people, understandingfirst of all the simple social relationsthey have with eachother. Only ...
... with free will, people(agents)are thus seenas knowledgableparticipantsin the reproductionof social rules, and thus free from the assumeddeterminism of immaterial,inanimate,factors(structure). Onuf begins with people, understandingfirst of all the simple social relationsthey have with eachother. Only ...
CHAPTER 1 SOCIOLOGY MULTIPLE CHOICE 1
... 15. Katie's research focuses on sexist patterns that limit women's opportunities for promotion in Fortune 500 companies. Katie's research is in line with: a. Gender Inequality Theory b. Gender Oppression Theory c. Structural Oppression Theory d. Exchange Theory (Application; answer: a; page 10) 16. ...
... 15. Katie's research focuses on sexist patterns that limit women's opportunities for promotion in Fortune 500 companies. Katie's research is in line with: a. Gender Inequality Theory b. Gender Oppression Theory c. Structural Oppression Theory d. Exchange Theory (Application; answer: a; page 10) 16. ...
Neumann - kittenboo.com
... at a given phase of its development, when it is present in the average society of that species at the corresponding phase of its evolution’.16 To Durkheim, then, some forms are elementary to social life, inasmuch as they make human sociability possible at all. In terms of the history of science, thi ...
... at a given phase of its development, when it is present in the average society of that species at the corresponding phase of its evolution’.16 To Durkheim, then, some forms are elementary to social life, inasmuch as they make human sociability possible at all. In terms of the history of science, thi ...
Experiments in Context and Contexting
... above quote from Bruno Latour articulates what was developed as a common spirit and approach within actor-network theory and its later versions: nothing can be ‘‘beyond.’’ No one can be reduced to something or someone else. There is a richness in the world that is already there for us to read and tr ...
... above quote from Bruno Latour articulates what was developed as a common spirit and approach within actor-network theory and its later versions: nothing can be ‘‘beyond.’’ No one can be reduced to something or someone else. There is a richness in the world that is already there for us to read and tr ...
Luhmann Reconsidered: Steps Towards an Empirical
... be repudiated despite the sophistication and importance of these authors.” However, Giddens focused on explaining action; social structure was black-boxed in his “structuration theory” as a “duality” which precedes action as “rules and resources,” and follows from the aggregation of human actions, f ...
... be repudiated despite the sophistication and importance of these authors.” However, Giddens focused on explaining action; social structure was black-boxed in his “structuration theory” as a “duality” which precedes action as “rules and resources,” and follows from the aggregation of human actions, f ...
Bo Rothstein (born 1954) holds the August Röhss Chair in Political
... Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. He was very interested in what I had to say because he had learned, in Sweden, taxpayers are actually paying their tax bills. That is, of the total amount of taxes that people are sup ...
... Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. He was very interested in what I had to say because he had learned, in Sweden, taxpayers are actually paying their tax bills. That is, of the total amount of taxes that people are sup ...
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... Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. He was very interested in what I had to say because he had learned, in Sweden, taxpayers are actually paying their tax bills. That is, of the total amount of taxes that people are sup ...
... Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. He was very interested in what I had to say because he had learned, in Sweden, taxpayers are actually paying their tax bills. That is, of the total amount of taxes that people are sup ...
Alfred Schutz
... misinterpretation. The Umwelt involves face-to-face relationships with “consociates.“ It is characterized by “we” relations, which are defined by a high degree of knowledge of those involved in the interaction. The Umwelt is one realm for which the sociologist can construct rational models and ideal ...
... misinterpretation. The Umwelt involves face-to-face relationships with “consociates.“ It is characterized by “we” relations, which are defined by a high degree of knowledge of those involved in the interaction. The Umwelt is one realm for which the sociologist can construct rational models and ideal ...
The Social Construction of Whiteness
... An archaeology of knowledge (Foucault 1972) about race and whiteness provides a useful strategy for uncovering ways in which symbolic meaning systems, (e.g., “race” and whiteness) define, legitimize, and reproduce themselves across generations. Over the past 400 years, scholarship on “race” and white ...
... An archaeology of knowledge (Foucault 1972) about race and whiteness provides a useful strategy for uncovering ways in which symbolic meaning systems, (e.g., “race” and whiteness) define, legitimize, and reproduce themselves across generations. Over the past 400 years, scholarship on “race” and white ...
Longitudinal Social Network Studies and Predictive Social Cohesion
... formations relate to the expected or emergent institutional forms of a population. Shifting boundaries and withinboundary densities are compared through time and hypotheses can be compared across cases about within-boundary sizes and densities that trigger structural transformations. Our studies inc ...
... formations relate to the expected or emergent institutional forms of a population. Shifting boundaries and withinboundary densities are compared through time and hypotheses can be compared across cases about within-boundary sizes and densities that trigger structural transformations. Our studies inc ...
Strengthening Our Resilience to Agents of Radicalization and Their
... give the impression they possess the truth, and pass for people who are humble, marginal or rejected by the bulk of society. ...
... give the impression they possess the truth, and pass for people who are humble, marginal or rejected by the bulk of society. ...