On the prospects for a unified social science: economics and sociology
... (top right-hand corner of Figure 1) one would search for types of mechanisms whereby (exogenous) societal norms6 impact (type 1) the conditions of individual interactions, then type 2 where the conditions impact the individual propensity to suicide and, finally, type 3 where the propensities aggrega ...
... (top right-hand corner of Figure 1) one would search for types of mechanisms whereby (exogenous) societal norms6 impact (type 1) the conditions of individual interactions, then type 2 where the conditions impact the individual propensity to suicide and, finally, type 3 where the propensities aggrega ...
complexity theory, globalisation and diversity
... The search for general theory in more traditional scientific thought in many disciplines has often involved a process of reducing complex phenomena to simpler ones. This may involve either a reduction downwards to ever smaller units of analysis as in the movement from organisms to cells to genes in ...
... The search for general theory in more traditional scientific thought in many disciplines has often involved a process of reducing complex phenomena to simpler ones. This may involve either a reduction downwards to ever smaller units of analysis as in the movement from organisms to cells to genes in ...
Frédéric Vandenberghe: The Relation as Magical Operator
... confederation of metatheories and metamethodologies that sail under a single flag of convenience. The cluster of theories that make up relational sociology will be the object of my analysis – my field as it were. I will distinguish different approaches, map out the main divisions, and systematize th ...
... confederation of metatheories and metamethodologies that sail under a single flag of convenience. The cluster of theories that make up relational sociology will be the object of my analysis – my field as it were. I will distinguish different approaches, map out the main divisions, and systematize th ...
Aligning the Two Main Approaches to the Study of Democratization
... The two major perspectives that have dominated the study of democratization have been the structural and the actor/strategy approaches. These approaches derive from the two major traditions in social sciences which, on the one hand, emphasized institution and, on the other hand, emphasized human cho ...
... The two major perspectives that have dominated the study of democratization have been the structural and the actor/strategy approaches. These approaches derive from the two major traditions in social sciences which, on the one hand, emphasized institution and, on the other hand, emphasized human cho ...
Collective Power, Generalized Belief, and Hegemonic Spaces
... Neil Smelser’s Theory of Collective Action has fallen out of favour with contemporary social movement analysts because it posits the social movement participant as an irrational actor— since rational actors would have chosen what Smelser sees as more effective means of pushing for change, i.e. insti ...
... Neil Smelser’s Theory of Collective Action has fallen out of favour with contemporary social movement analysts because it posits the social movement participant as an irrational actor— since rational actors would have chosen what Smelser sees as more effective means of pushing for change, i.e. insti ...
Placing power in practice theory Matt Watson
... competences and materials, even if rules and other means of normativity run through accounts of how practitioners integrate these elements in moments of performance (2012). This model has provided the basis for attempts to reconceptualise possible targets for intervention (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, ...
... competences and materials, even if rules and other means of normativity run through accounts of how practitioners integrate these elements in moments of performance (2012). This model has provided the basis for attempts to reconceptualise possible targets for intervention (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, ...
Lecture 4: Functionalism - Faculty of Education | CUHK
... prerequisite can be replaced by functional equivalence. As a result, what we are looking for are contributing and beneficial conditions instead of necessary conditions (or even sufficient condition) for the maintaining of the essential core of the social system. Furthermore, the strong version of sp ...
... prerequisite can be replaced by functional equivalence. As a result, what we are looking for are contributing and beneficial conditions instead of necessary conditions (or even sufficient condition) for the maintaining of the essential core of the social system. Furthermore, the strong version of sp ...
Responsible Agent Behavior
... ociety is fundamentally and unequivocally set up to hold individuals accountable for their actions. When agents act on a user’s behalf, however, the legal and social ramifications can be obscure. While researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) focus primarily on the intelligence of agents, we are ...
... ociety is fundamentally and unequivocally set up to hold individuals accountable for their actions. When agents act on a user’s behalf, however, the legal and social ramifications can be obscure. While researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) focus primarily on the intelligence of agents, we are ...
Quarterly Journal of Ideology
... Both cultural studies and sociology are concerned with human (individual or group) activity. Many scholars in cultural studies have jumped the sociological ship, because sociology is unable to offer agentic accounts of social activity. Conversely, sociologists might find writings cultural studies, s ...
... Both cultural studies and sociology are concerned with human (individual or group) activity. Many scholars in cultural studies have jumped the sociological ship, because sociology is unable to offer agentic accounts of social activity. Conversely, sociologists might find writings cultural studies, s ...
Ontological Foundations of EAP
... knowledge claims made by critical realists are “not about some supposedly infallible or corrigible data of appearance.” Instead, they “are always open to refutation by further information.” (P. 6) Therefore, social researchers must always be vigilant and critical to their research results and knowle ...
... knowledge claims made by critical realists are “not about some supposedly infallible or corrigible data of appearance.” Instead, they “are always open to refutation by further information.” (P. 6) Therefore, social researchers must always be vigilant and critical to their research results and knowle ...
Ideology, Scientific Theory, and Social Work
... In addition, it is important to recognize that theories can become self-fulfilling or self-refuting based on our own attitudes and beliefs. For example, the beliefs that we hold about ourselves, our clients, our relationships, our families, our society, and our economic and political systems can inf ...
... In addition, it is important to recognize that theories can become self-fulfilling or self-refuting based on our own attitudes and beliefs. For example, the beliefs that we hold about ourselves, our clients, our relationships, our families, our society, and our economic and political systems can inf ...
Social Symbolism
... the symbolic relations will not be considered as objects of knowledge, but as a part of system of action. Such, roughly characterized, was the approach of George H. Mead and Charles Morris. Among questions put forward some decades ago by Schutz in his pertinent study Symbol, Reality and Society one ...
... the symbolic relations will not be considered as objects of knowledge, but as a part of system of action. Such, roughly characterized, was the approach of George H. Mead and Charles Morris. Among questions put forward some decades ago by Schutz in his pertinent study Symbol, Reality and Society one ...
Talcott Parsons (1902 – 1979)
... For many years he was one of the best-known sociologists in the world. Parsons was an advocate of “grand theory,” an attempt to integrate all the social sciences within an overarching theoretical framework. His early work, The Structure of Social Action, reviewed the work of his predecessors, especi ...
... For many years he was one of the best-known sociologists in the world. Parsons was an advocate of “grand theory,” an attempt to integrate all the social sciences within an overarching theoretical framework. His early work, The Structure of Social Action, reviewed the work of his predecessors, especi ...
Clarifying functional analysis
... functionalism is in interpreting data by their consequences for larger structures in which they are implicated. Like Durkheim and Parsons he analyzes society with reference to whether cultural and social structures are well or badly integrated. Merton is also interested in the persistence of societi ...
... functionalism is in interpreting data by their consequences for larger structures in which they are implicated. Like Durkheim and Parsons he analyzes society with reference to whether cultural and social structures are well or badly integrated. Merton is also interested in the persistence of societi ...
Social Theory and Development Sociology at the Crossroads
... In the aftermath of the radical and generalized critiques of the methodological premises and implications of mainstream (esp. structuralist) sociological theory by the advocates of “post-modern” approaches many other voices have seen an urgent need to reorient sociological theory building. I can not ...
... In the aftermath of the radical and generalized critiques of the methodological premises and implications of mainstream (esp. structuralist) sociological theory by the advocates of “post-modern” approaches many other voices have seen an urgent need to reorient sociological theory building. I can not ...
Manuel De Landa and a Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
... dynamic temporal domains which could only be dealt with in terms of a total history (Burke, 1990: 42). The first of these domains was that of events, or what Braudel called, the évé nementielle. These were the often short-lived observed dramatic events, such as wars, battles and revolutions etc.; of ...
... dynamic temporal domains which could only be dealt with in terms of a total history (Burke, 1990: 42). The first of these domains was that of events, or what Braudel called, the évé nementielle. These were the often short-lived observed dramatic events, such as wars, battles and revolutions etc.; of ...
Министерство - Высшая школа экономики
... 34. What are the main differences between descriptive and explanatory research designs? 35. What are the main differences between qualitative and quantitative research designs? 36. What is ethnography? 37. What are the chief strengths of a comparative research design? 38. State whether the following ...
... 34. What are the main differences between descriptive and explanatory research designs? 35. What are the main differences between qualitative and quantitative research designs? 36. What is ethnography? 37. What are the chief strengths of a comparative research design? 38. State whether the following ...
Contemporary Grand Theories I
... structures and institutions. Conflict theory is little more than a series of contentions that al'e often the direct opposites of functionalist positions. This antithesis is best exemplified by the work of Ralf Dahrendorf, in which the tenets of confl.kt and ftmctiona 1. theory are juxtaposed: • To t ...
... structures and institutions. Conflict theory is little more than a series of contentions that al'e often the direct opposites of functionalist positions. This antithesis is best exemplified by the work of Ralf Dahrendorf, in which the tenets of confl.kt and ftmctiona 1. theory are juxtaposed: • To t ...
The Sense of the Past and the Origins of Sociology Philip Abrams
... ignored, that the first response should have been a set of attempts to reify both the past as a structural type and history as a developmental process. What was not so natural, but nevertheless happened in almost every case, was that this intitial elaborate construction of ideal types did not lead s ...
... ignored, that the first response should have been a set of attempts to reify both the past as a structural type and history as a developmental process. What was not so natural, but nevertheless happened in almost every case, was that this intitial elaborate construction of ideal types did not lead s ...
Morten Bøås
... latter interpretation, the question of whether the dominant power is a state, a group of states or some other combination of public and private power is left as an open question. What is of larger importance is that whatever power that holds the hegemonic position it is sustained not merely by forc ...
... latter interpretation, the question of whether the dominant power is a state, a group of states or some other combination of public and private power is left as an open question. What is of larger importance is that whatever power that holds the hegemonic position it is sustained not merely by forc ...
PDF - Routledge Handbooks Online
... the functioning stability of the whole (society). Each part struggles to maintain stability. When all parts reach stability, the system is stable and therefore functional. Durkheim, like Comte, pointed out, however, that societies, as social systems, are not static and are therefore subject to chang ...
... the functioning stability of the whole (society). Each part struggles to maintain stability. When all parts reach stability, the system is stable and therefore functional. Durkheim, like Comte, pointed out, however, that societies, as social systems, are not static and are therefore subject to chang ...
What Is Structural about the Basic Structure?
... rights arrangements is to look at the position that person occupies in a social structure, for each position is defined by the set of constraints and enabling conditions experienced by those who occupy it. Hence, it is to the extent to which a person occupies a certain position in the social structu ...
... rights arrangements is to look at the position that person occupies in a social structure, for each position is defined by the set of constraints and enabling conditions experienced by those who occupy it. Hence, it is to the extent to which a person occupies a certain position in the social structu ...
Introduction: The role of discourse analysis in society. 1983.
... have the same status as theoretical and descriptive work. And the same holds for possible external constraints upon the selection of our research objects, problems, or goals: What discourses, by what participants, and in what contexts do we study? Pressing social issues or problems thus, have little ...
... have the same status as theoretical and descriptive work. And the same holds for possible external constraints upon the selection of our research objects, problems, or goals: What discourses, by what participants, and in what contexts do we study? Pressing social issues or problems thus, have little ...
citizen empowerment using critical theory and conflict transformation
... theory of praxis….This general model applies rather well to the early form of Critical Theory advocated by Horkheimer and remains pertinent to Habermas’s overall schema, but the latter’s abandonment of the classical revolutionary model of transition puts greater emphasis on its educative functions a ...
... theory of praxis….This general model applies rather well to the early form of Critical Theory advocated by Horkheimer and remains pertinent to Habermas’s overall schema, but the latter’s abandonment of the classical revolutionary model of transition puts greater emphasis on its educative functions a ...
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
... have accepted as their own. Nonrational action thus becomes the special province of this mode of analysis, long a staple of sociological inquiry. To mark itself off from economics, which endorsed the rational-actor approach early on, sociology had from its beginnings “a fundamental need of a theory ...
... have accepted as their own. Nonrational action thus becomes the special province of this mode of analysis, long a staple of sociological inquiry. To mark itself off from economics, which endorsed the rational-actor approach early on, sociology had from its beginnings “a fundamental need of a theory ...