Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts
... a book could easily suffer as a result of its own expansiveness; however, because Elster approaches his subject with clarity and precision—eschewing both the obscurantism of cultural theory and the jargon-ridden language of contemporary quantitative social science—a clear model for explaining social ...
... a book could easily suffer as a result of its own expansiveness; however, because Elster approaches his subject with clarity and precision—eschewing both the obscurantism of cultural theory and the jargon-ridden language of contemporary quantitative social science—a clear model for explaining social ...
Sarantakos~Vol 1~01.indd
... historiographic viewpoint by E. P. Thompson 1978). The effort by Hindess & Hirst (1975) to translate Althusser’s approach into an empiricist-free sociological theory, by the authors’ own admission (Hindess & Hirst 1977), foundered on the historicity of the referents of Marxist theory, specifically, ...
... historiographic viewpoint by E. P. Thompson 1978). The effort by Hindess & Hirst (1975) to translate Althusser’s approach into an empiricist-free sociological theory, by the authors’ own admission (Hindess & Hirst 1977), foundered on the historicity of the referents of Marxist theory, specifically, ...
How Globalization Drives the Higher Education Policy of the State
... side effect – that capitalists gain more profit. If they cannot be loyal to their legitimate obligations, the state will fail to implement its role, and, thus, people’s trust in the state will collapse. This situation will jeopardize the operation of the state and, thus, result in the generation of ...
... side effect – that capitalists gain more profit. If they cannot be loyal to their legitimate obligations, the state will fail to implement its role, and, thus, people’s trust in the state will collapse. This situation will jeopardize the operation of the state and, thus, result in the generation of ...
economic psychology
... it has to rely on the same theories and methods as any other applied social psychology. Subdividing the broad field of applied social psychology may better be one according to tasks (e. g.; decision making, measuring attitudes and forecasting behavior, influencing people, training, ...
... it has to rely on the same theories and methods as any other applied social psychology. Subdividing the broad field of applied social psychology may better be one according to tasks (e. g.; decision making, measuring attitudes and forecasting behavior, influencing people, training, ...
Pdf of unpublished English language version.
... substantive economic shift over recent decades, noting the ‘extent to which culture has penetrated the economy itself, that is, the extent to which symbolic processes… have permeated both consumption and production’. The result, they suggest, is the ‘effective de-differentiation of culture and econ ...
... substantive economic shift over recent decades, noting the ‘extent to which culture has penetrated the economy itself, that is, the extent to which symbolic processes… have permeated both consumption and production’. The result, they suggest, is the ‘effective de-differentiation of culture and econ ...
What is sexual identity?
... – Power exercised through discourse - it may be difficult to speak about the thing being described in any other way – Discourses are ‘truth claims’ that support established power relations • Women are more suited to raising children because they give birth • Sex education for young people encourages ...
... – Power exercised through discourse - it may be difficult to speak about the thing being described in any other way – Discourses are ‘truth claims’ that support established power relations • Women are more suited to raising children because they give birth • Sex education for young people encourages ...
Chapter Summary
... which people receive wages in exchange for work. 110 normative organizations are organizations that exist to achieve a worthwhile goal. 110 coercive organizations are organizations that people are forced to join. 110 formal structure is the explicit rules, goals, and guidelines of the organization. ...
... which people receive wages in exchange for work. 110 normative organizations are organizations that exist to achieve a worthwhile goal. 110 coercive organizations are organizations that people are forced to join. 110 formal structure is the explicit rules, goals, and guidelines of the organization. ...
Cultural Contact and Identity
... traditional, static societies, including those of the past and a few isolated meaningful only in situacontemporary groups, there is little or no tions of contrast. awareness of alternative ways of being, and cultural identity has little meaning. An individual’s place in the community is clearly defi ...
... traditional, static societies, including those of the past and a few isolated meaningful only in situacontemporary groups, there is little or no tions of contrast. awareness of alternative ways of being, and cultural identity has little meaning. An individual’s place in the community is clearly defi ...
Namibia Question 1:
... economic and social development. To this end in the first five years after independence, the Government adopted a Transitional Development Plan. In 1995, the first formal National Development Plan (NDP) had been implemented, known as NDP1. The NDP1 focused on only four goals: boosting and sustaining ...
... economic and social development. To this end in the first five years after independence, the Government adopted a Transitional Development Plan. In 1995, the first formal National Development Plan (NDP) had been implemented, known as NDP1. The NDP1 focused on only four goals: boosting and sustaining ...
Introduction to Political Science
... making budgetary choices over municipal services and personnel, or it can be as significant as two world superpowers on the brink of all-out nuclear war. Regardless, the extent to which politics has served as the basis for the most important (and devastating) events in U.S. and world history cannot ...
... making budgetary choices over municipal services and personnel, or it can be as significant as two world superpowers on the brink of all-out nuclear war. Regardless, the extent to which politics has served as the basis for the most important (and devastating) events in U.S. and world history cannot ...
What is nationalism
... to view themselves as exclusive groups. Membership of the nation derives not from a political allegiance, voluntarily undertaken, but from an ethnic identity that has somehow been inherited. Cultural nations view themselves as extended kinship groups, distinguished by common descent. In this sense, ...
... to view themselves as exclusive groups. Membership of the nation derives not from a political allegiance, voluntarily undertaken, but from an ethnic identity that has somehow been inherited. Cultural nations view themselves as extended kinship groups, distinguished by common descent. In this sense, ...
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 ...
PDF Version - DieOff.org
... the economic order, and therefore (on the Physiocrats' basically materialist hypothesis) the shape and movement of the social order as a whole. Now the relationships between the different variables in a system of market exchange are very intricate -- so much so, indeed, that in a certain sense every ...
... the economic order, and therefore (on the Physiocrats' basically materialist hypothesis) the shape and movement of the social order as a whole. Now the relationships between the different variables in a system of market exchange are very intricate -- so much so, indeed, that in a certain sense every ...
Empirical Analytical Science
... operations of the empirical- and logical-positivism, the theory of truth that social and educational researchers should observe is the correspondence principle of truth. It implies that for a proposition or belief to be true, its content should find its corresponding fact in the respective reality. ...
... operations of the empirical- and logical-positivism, the theory of truth that social and educational researchers should observe is the correspondence principle of truth. It implies that for a proposition or belief to be true, its content should find its corresponding fact in the respective reality. ...
LECTURE II:
... Personal values developed early in life may be resistant to change. They may be derived from those of particular groups or systems, such as culture, religion and political party. However, personal values are not universal; one's genes, family, nation and historical environment determine one's person ...
... Personal values developed early in life may be resistant to change. They may be derived from those of particular groups or systems, such as culture, religion and political party. However, personal values are not universal; one's genes, family, nation and historical environment determine one's person ...
Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music
... impression of space and lateral extension’, a sensation that was significantly enhanced when the music was listened to under the influence of drugs (ibid: 167). Willis then proceeds to explain the professed musical preferences of the bikers and hippies in terms of a homological fit between class bac ...
... impression of space and lateral extension’, a sensation that was significantly enhanced when the music was listened to under the influence of drugs (ibid: 167). Willis then proceeds to explain the professed musical preferences of the bikers and hippies in terms of a homological fit between class bac ...
sociological perspectives on society and health
... confront a world where capitalist and formerly socialist economic systems are now seeking peaceful integration in a global economy. This is fortunate, because we could easily have had a third world war forced upon us instead – this time a nuclear one. Sporadic but powerful forms of war and terrorism ...
... confront a world where capitalist and formerly socialist economic systems are now seeking peaceful integration in a global economy. This is fortunate, because we could easily have had a third world war forced upon us instead – this time a nuclear one. Sporadic but powerful forms of war and terrorism ...
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... political leaders that social cohesion has been weakened. This paper is a report of research on social auditing, credit unions and social cohesion. The paper addresses the role credit unions play in strengthening social cohesion in the communities in which they are located. Rooted in the tradition o ...
... political leaders that social cohesion has been weakened. This paper is a report of research on social auditing, credit unions and social cohesion. The paper addresses the role credit unions play in strengthening social cohesion in the communities in which they are located. Rooted in the tradition o ...
The Breath of the Possible
... went on to assert that the return of these experiences to modern life was allied to, or even completed, the revolutionary project of the Communists. The theoretical impossibility of the sacred experience found in festivals, which Bataille had put his faith in, was also to be the basis of revolutiona ...
... went on to assert that the return of these experiences to modern life was allied to, or even completed, the revolutionary project of the Communists. The theoretical impossibility of the sacred experience found in festivals, which Bataille had put his faith in, was also to be the basis of revolutiona ...
