john mingers - Kent Academic Repository
... Systems thinking or the systems approach1 developed in its modern form with a burst of new ideas in a range of disciplines during the 1920s and 1930s although some of the underlying principles can be traced back to the Greeks, especially Aristotle2. Traditional disciplines that were involved include ...
... Systems thinking or the systems approach1 developed in its modern form with a burst of new ideas in a range of disciplines during the 1920s and 1930s although some of the underlying principles can be traced back to the Greeks, especially Aristotle2. Traditional disciplines that were involved include ...
Social Policy and the Crisis of Neo-Liberalism Ben Fine
... These conundrums can be addressed, even resolved, by appeal to three aspects of neoliberalism that do render it a reality and one that must be strategically contested. 4 First, and brought sharply into relief by the current crisis and the responses to it, neoliberalism, and its counterpart in global ...
... These conundrums can be addressed, even resolved, by appeal to three aspects of neoliberalism that do render it a reality and one that must be strategically contested. 4 First, and brought sharply into relief by the current crisis and the responses to it, neoliberalism, and its counterpart in global ...
“Collective Representations” and the “Generalized Other”: A Review
... idea of culture that focuses on an individual‟s social-cultural development (Van de Walle, 2008:40). When this fusion was made, the thesis came very close to Durkheim‟s notion of ideas, meanings, social participation and social structure (Hinkle, 1964:279). The idea of “taking the attitude of the ot ...
... idea of culture that focuses on an individual‟s social-cultural development (Van de Walle, 2008:40). When this fusion was made, the thesis came very close to Durkheim‟s notion of ideas, meanings, social participation and social structure (Hinkle, 1964:279). The idea of “taking the attitude of the ot ...
Chromosome Replacement Therapy
... Certainly, the sociology of science has subsequently evolved in new directions, not all predicted by his father. The most common accusation leveled against Merton is that he has never really studied the impact of society upon science, intended as a cultural and cognitive product. He has concentrated ...
... Certainly, the sociology of science has subsequently evolved in new directions, not all predicted by his father. The most common accusation leveled against Merton is that he has never really studied the impact of society upon science, intended as a cultural and cognitive product. He has concentrated ...
Eduard Bernstein, The Preconditions of Socialism
... At the Erfurt Conference, held in the autumn of 1891, the leadership of the party managed to stave off the assaults from both left and right. The new party programme which the conference eventually accepted had been drafted mainly by Kautsky and Bernstein. It is therefore not surprising that the the ...
... At the Erfurt Conference, held in the autumn of 1891, the leadership of the party managed to stave off the assaults from both left and right. The new party programme which the conference eventually accepted had been drafted mainly by Kautsky and Bernstein. It is therefore not surprising that the the ...
Making science by serendipity. A review of Robert K. Merton
... Certainly, the sociology of science has subsequently evolved in new directions, not all predicted by his father. The most common accusation leveled against Merton is that he has never really studied the impact of society upon science, intended as a cultural and cognitive product. He has concentrated ...
... Certainly, the sociology of science has subsequently evolved in new directions, not all predicted by his father. The most common accusation leveled against Merton is that he has never really studied the impact of society upon science, intended as a cultural and cognitive product. He has concentrated ...
Power: A `family resemblance` concept
... paradigms (1977), Geertz’s account of culture (1973), virtually any post-positivist interpretive sociology, and so on. If power is essentially contested in this sense, it is hard to disagree, but it is not a terribly informative observation, as all concepts would qualify (see Gray, 1978, for similar ...
... paradigms (1977), Geertz’s account of culture (1973), virtually any post-positivist interpretive sociology, and so on. If power is essentially contested in this sense, it is hard to disagree, but it is not a terribly informative observation, as all concepts would qualify (see Gray, 1978, for similar ...
Injustice and the Normative Nature of Meaning
... 7. Rawls uses the "veil of ignorance" to impose this lack of knowledge. When behind the veil of ignorance, parties "do not know how the various alternatives will affect their own particular case and they are obliged to evaluate principles solely on the basis of general considerations." Id. at 136-37 ...
... 7. Rawls uses the "veil of ignorance" to impose this lack of knowledge. When behind the veil of ignorance, parties "do not know how the various alternatives will affect their own particular case and they are obliged to evaluate principles solely on the basis of general considerations." Id. at 136-37 ...
Applied Mainline Economics - FA Hayek Program
... Naïve correlations. The simplest way to assess these theories is to collect data and look for patterns. We might, for example, gather data on per capita GDP from the Penn World Tables and see how well the data correlate with certain institutional features, such as democracy, or certain interventions ...
... Naïve correlations. The simplest way to assess these theories is to collect data and look for patterns. We might, for example, gather data on per capita GDP from the Penn World Tables and see how well the data correlate with certain institutional features, such as democracy, or certain interventions ...
Universal Values, Contextualization and Bioethics: Knowledge
... lives. As Judith Butler has formulated »the problem is not with the universality, as such, but with an operation of universality that fails to be responsive to cultural particularity and fails to undergo a reformulation of itself in response to social and cultural conditions it includes within the s ...
... lives. As Judith Butler has formulated »the problem is not with the universality, as such, but with an operation of universality that fails to be responsive to cultural particularity and fails to undergo a reformulation of itself in response to social and cultural conditions it includes within the s ...
Socialization and sociability - ITALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
... Durkheim’s and Simmel’s general assumptions (the former normative-structural, the latter cultural-relational) that of investigating the extent to which, the way in which, and if, these two categories are still capable of performing their strategic function of directing, facilitating and promoting, o ...
... Durkheim’s and Simmel’s general assumptions (the former normative-structural, the latter cultural-relational) that of investigating the extent to which, the way in which, and if, these two categories are still capable of performing their strategic function of directing, facilitating and promoting, o ...
Deviance
... certain forms of behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the audiences which directly or indirectly witness them. The critical variable in the study of deviance, then, is the social audience rather than the individual actor”. - Kai T. Erikson (1964) ...
... certain forms of behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the audiences which directly or indirectly witness them. The critical variable in the study of deviance, then, is the social audience rather than the individual actor”. - Kai T. Erikson (1964) ...
critical political ecology
... Furthermore, this approach also implies questioning how far environmental degradation, per se may be attributed simply to capitalism, or the exploitation of industry and the state. By questioning the essentialist link between capitalism and environmental degradation, this book challenges virtually a ...
... Furthermore, this approach also implies questioning how far environmental degradation, per se may be attributed simply to capitalism, or the exploitation of industry and the state. By questioning the essentialist link between capitalism and environmental degradation, this book challenges virtually a ...
Reorienting Critical Realism: the Actual Essence of the Capitalist
... positions, with associated rules and resources. This does not mean that human individuals are denied autonomy. On the contrary, people uniquely posses the emergent powers of ‘mind’, enabling their purposeful activities. ‘Mind’, and hence human agency, is causally irreducible to the (presumably) neur ...
... positions, with associated rules and resources. This does not mean that human individuals are denied autonomy. On the contrary, people uniquely posses the emergent powers of ‘mind’, enabling their purposeful activities. ‘Mind’, and hence human agency, is causally irreducible to the (presumably) neur ...
chapter - TEST BANK 360
... and access to important informal networks. The dominant class possesses more cultural capital which, in turn, ensures that their children will possess more—thereby reproducing the class structure. Sociologists, like lay persons, view society in different ways. The functionalist perspective views soc ...
... and access to important informal networks. The dominant class possesses more cultural capital which, in turn, ensures that their children will possess more—thereby reproducing the class structure. Sociologists, like lay persons, view society in different ways. The functionalist perspective views soc ...
Entrepreneurship and Business History
... industrial and economic change. Social scientific investigation of entrepreneurship needed to focus not only on entrepreneurs and their firms but also on temporal changes in the industries, markets, societies, economies, and political systems in which they operated, an eclectic approach that history ...
... industrial and economic change. Social scientific investigation of entrepreneurship needed to focus not only on entrepreneurs and their firms but also on temporal changes in the industries, markets, societies, economies, and political systems in which they operated, an eclectic approach that history ...
An Exercise
... critically about the things I say as well. In fact, if you don’t like the definitions (mine or those of others) of the concepts in the glossary, find another one that makes more sense to you and send it to me. If I feel it would be helpful to other students, I’ll put it up on the glossary as an alte ...
... critically about the things I say as well. In fact, if you don’t like the definitions (mine or those of others) of the concepts in the glossary, find another one that makes more sense to you and send it to me. If I feel it would be helpful to other students, I’ll put it up on the glossary as an alte ...
The Americanization of German Culture? - John-F.-Kennedy
... social interaction that, in turn, diminished the symbolical distance between groups that were traditionally in unequal positions of power: women and men, young and old. It is therefore not farfetched to claim that this growing informality contributed to the democratization of German society. Finally ...
... social interaction that, in turn, diminished the symbolical distance between groups that were traditionally in unequal positions of power: women and men, young and old. It is therefore not farfetched to claim that this growing informality contributed to the democratization of German society. Finally ...
Alvin W. Gouldner and Industrial Sociology at Columbia University
... Although it is clear that up through the 1920s Columbia sociology's reformist and ame liorative impulses were strong and abiding, Giddings did not want sociology to become identified solely or primarily by the activities of moral philanthropy, settlement houses, social workers and reformers, and ot ...
... Although it is clear that up through the 1920s Columbia sociology's reformist and ame liorative impulses were strong and abiding, Giddings did not want sociology to become identified solely or primarily by the activities of moral philanthropy, settlement houses, social workers and reformers, and ot ...