Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
... of the scientific theses that our students read, different methods are combined; the fruitfulness of such an approach is also more and more frequently emphasized in the literature. The arguments for it may vary, as we shall see later, but common to them all is an increasingly positive attitude towar ...
... of the scientific theses that our students read, different methods are combined; the fruitfulness of such an approach is also more and more frequently emphasized in the literature. The arguments for it may vary, as we shall see later, but common to them all is an increasingly positive attitude towar ...
Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and
... more like a fiction: “A model, like a novel may resonate with nature, but it is not a “real” thing” (ibidem, 644). Conversely, for Iseda, verification is possible in some sense. A simulation is a representation of aspects of the real world and thus yields knowledge about the real world: Oreskes’ way ...
... more like a fiction: “A model, like a novel may resonate with nature, but it is not a “real” thing” (ibidem, 644). Conversely, for Iseda, verification is possible in some sense. A simulation is a representation of aspects of the real world and thus yields knowledge about the real world: Oreskes’ way ...
John Rawls: Between Two Enlightenments The Harvard community
... Kohlberg nonetheless continues to maintain that no truly reflective ethical theorist could reject these essentially uncontroversial principles. Yet only those committed to a particularly Kantian form of Enlightenment rationalism would believe, as do Stage 6 subjects under Kohlberg’s scheme, that “un ...
... Kohlberg nonetheless continues to maintain that no truly reflective ethical theorist could reject these essentially uncontroversial principles. Yet only those committed to a particularly Kantian form of Enlightenment rationalism would believe, as do Stage 6 subjects under Kohlberg’s scheme, that “un ...
Between Two Enlightenments - Digital Access to Scholarship at
... Kohlberg nonetheless continues to maintain that no truly reflective ethical theorist could reject these essentially uncontroversial principles. Yet only those committed to a particularly Kantian form of Enlightenment rationalism would believe, as do Stage 6 subjects under Kohlberg’s scheme, that “un ...
... Kohlberg nonetheless continues to maintain that no truly reflective ethical theorist could reject these essentially uncontroversial principles. Yet only those committed to a particularly Kantian form of Enlightenment rationalism would believe, as do Stage 6 subjects under Kohlberg’s scheme, that “un ...
Research on People`s Livelihood Concept of Socialism
... namely by capitalist private ownership transformation to socialism and communism to finally solve major issues of people’s livelihood. 1.1 The Highest Goal of the People’s Livelihood Is the Liberation of Mankind Freedom is a concept of the highest level, and all human behavioral goals are summed up ...
... namely by capitalist private ownership transformation to socialism and communism to finally solve major issues of people’s livelihood. 1.1 The Highest Goal of the People’s Livelihood Is the Liberation of Mankind Freedom is a concept of the highest level, and all human behavioral goals are summed up ...
TAG program final
... perspectives towards figurines, a continued focus on visual representation has inhibited the exploration of additional ways in which figurines can be analyzed and understood. In this paper, I draw on recent advances in figurine studies, materials science, the anthropology of technology, and theories ...
... perspectives towards figurines, a continued focus on visual representation has inhibited the exploration of additional ways in which figurines can be analyzed and understood. In this paper, I draw on recent advances in figurine studies, materials science, the anthropology of technology, and theories ...
Sample Title of a Sample Paper - International Journal for Dialogical
... frequencies of gaze, gestures, seating arrangements and so on, using established statistical or qualitative methods, e.g. coding, content analysis, description of interactions and so on. Such analyses are being performed in the name of science: in order to understand complex processes, the researche ...
... frequencies of gaze, gestures, seating arrangements and so on, using established statistical or qualitative methods, e.g. coding, content analysis, description of interactions and so on. Such analyses are being performed in the name of science: in order to understand complex processes, the researche ...
The Construction of National Identity in Modern Times
... For Fromm it is “the feeling which is required to be an individual and obtained by having the identification with the other groups and persons” (Fromm 1955: 134). For Lichtenstein, there are two kinds of identities. These are “psycho – social identity” and “socio – cultural identity”. “Psycho – soci ...
... For Fromm it is “the feeling which is required to be an individual and obtained by having the identification with the other groups and persons” (Fromm 1955: 134). For Lichtenstein, there are two kinds of identities. These are “psycho – social identity” and “socio – cultural identity”. “Psycho – soci ...
Historical responsibility: Assessing the past in international climate
... discourse (Howarth & Stavrakakis, 2000: 3). This means that knowledge of the world is created in social interactions and that this knowledge is specific to particular historical situations. Therefore, history evolves perspectives on the past, though not all histories can be regarded as making sense. ...
... discourse (Howarth & Stavrakakis, 2000: 3). This means that knowledge of the world is created in social interactions and that this knowledge is specific to particular historical situations. Therefore, history evolves perspectives on the past, though not all histories can be regarded as making sense. ...
The Explanation of Social Action
... is possible for more than one theory to be true.1 I will argue that this theory of theories—that they are not true but only useful—is neither useful nor true, but even were it true, it would hardly explain the absolute passion for theoretical tolerance that now characterizes the social sciences. To ...
... is possible for more than one theory to be true.1 I will argue that this theory of theories—that they are not true but only useful—is neither useful nor true, but even were it true, it would hardly explain the absolute passion for theoretical tolerance that now characterizes the social sciences. To ...
History and Theory in Anthropology
... It is useful to think of theory as containing four basic elements: (1) questions, (2) assumptions, (3) methods, and (4) evidence. The most important questions, to my mind, are ‘What are we trying to Wnd out?’, and ‘Why is this knowledge useful?’ Anthropological knowledge could be useful, for example ...
... It is useful to think of theory as containing four basic elements: (1) questions, (2) assumptions, (3) methods, and (4) evidence. The most important questions, to my mind, are ‘What are we trying to Wnd out?’, and ‘Why is this knowledge useful?’ Anthropological knowledge could be useful, for example ...
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
... a genealogy and an ancestral authority for his own conception of sociology. While he did establish the presence of a voluntaristic conception of action in the work of his chosen authors, there was only a very limited sense in which Parsons’s often idiosyncratic interpretations were able to establish ...
... a genealogy and an ancestral authority for his own conception of sociology. While he did establish the presence of a voluntaristic conception of action in the work of his chosen authors, there was only a very limited sense in which Parsons’s often idiosyncratic interpretations were able to establish ...
Transnationalism From Below
... transmigrants as “counter-narratives of the nation” which continually evoke and erase their totalizing boundaries and “disturb those ideological manoeuvres through which ‘imagined communities’ are given essentialist identities” (see also Anderson 1983). An example of this use of transnationalism as ...
... transmigrants as “counter-narratives of the nation” which continually evoke and erase their totalizing boundaries and “disturb those ideological manoeuvres through which ‘imagined communities’ are given essentialist identities” (see also Anderson 1983). An example of this use of transnationalism as ...
Political Agency in the Digital Age Media, Participation
... tensions of combining activism with academic research. She will discuss the challenges of conducting qualitative research in social movements, particularly with regards to the ways in which we position ourselves in the study. Is there ever a strategic need to distinguish between the two identities? ...
... tensions of combining activism with academic research. She will discuss the challenges of conducting qualitative research in social movements, particularly with regards to the ways in which we position ourselves in the study. Is there ever a strategic need to distinguish between the two identities? ...
Research Methods for Cultural Studies
... critical enquiry and investigation, but are now characterised just as much by the degree to which they draw on their neighbours and are informed by a range of different perspectives. Academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have, in other words, become increasingly interdisciplinary ...
... critical enquiry and investigation, but are now characterised just as much by the degree to which they draw on their neighbours and are informed by a range of different perspectives. Academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have, in other words, become increasingly interdisciplinary ...
Nonverbal Communication and Culture
... chronemics. Nonverbal communication is a complex web of meaning that is highly culturespecific. In other words, different cultures have different meanings for the same nonverbal behaviors. The handicap of intercultural communication lies under this topic. Since most people are unaware of their own c ...
... chronemics. Nonverbal communication is a complex web of meaning that is highly culturespecific. In other words, different cultures have different meanings for the same nonverbal behaviors. The handicap of intercultural communication lies under this topic. Since most people are unaware of their own c ...
Between Several Worlds: Images of Youth and Age in
... married children or children of marriageable agedo not attend these evening festivals, but play prominent roles in the daytime Islamic ritual phases that precede them.2 The images they use comment upon sexuality, courtship, marriage, and descent. They show that these long-standing concerns among Tua ...
... married children or children of marriageable agedo not attend these evening festivals, but play prominent roles in the daytime Islamic ritual phases that precede them.2 The images they use comment upon sexuality, courtship, marriage, and descent. They show that these long-standing concerns among Tua ...
Human-computer interaction and sociological insight
... Although the former decorum of using “we” in scientific writing to reflect that all science is the result of a community effort has lost popularity in favor of a more individualistic view of scholarship—ironically at the same time we see an increasing call for interdisciplinary teams of researchers, ...
... Although the former decorum of using “we” in scientific writing to reflect that all science is the result of a community effort has lost popularity in favor of a more individualistic view of scholarship—ironically at the same time we see an increasing call for interdisciplinary teams of researchers, ...