Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and
... presupposes that certain aspects of the human condition necessarily lie outside history and culture, and unlike unreflective constructivism that presupposes that no aspect of the human condition lies outside history and culture, the self-reflexive preoccupation of the ‘corporealist’ (or the ‘neo-ess ...
... presupposes that certain aspects of the human condition necessarily lie outside history and culture, and unlike unreflective constructivism that presupposes that no aspect of the human condition lies outside history and culture, the self-reflexive preoccupation of the ‘corporealist’ (or the ‘neo-ess ...
Theorizing in Social Science: The Context of Discovery
... Is this a realistic project? And if so, how can it be accomplished? March hesitates, but not when it comes to the urgency of these ideas. What he finds difficult is instead to outline what these new techniques should look like and how to teach them. In the meantime, however, he says there are some t ...
... Is this a realistic project? And if so, how can it be accomplished? March hesitates, but not when it comes to the urgency of these ideas. What he finds difficult is instead to outline what these new techniques should look like and how to teach them. In the meantime, however, he says there are some t ...
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
... The central theme of this book is that for the past two hundred years economic theory has played a pivotal role in social thought, so that social theory has developed on the basis of the dominant version of economic theory. It is therefore in its relation to the development of economic theory that w ...
... The central theme of this book is that for the past two hundred years economic theory has played a pivotal role in social thought, so that social theory has developed on the basis of the dominant version of economic theory. It is therefore in its relation to the development of economic theory that w ...
The Social Construction of Whiteness
... “race” and whiteness has produced “human traces.” “What people do, how they behave and structure their daily lives, and even how humans are affected by certain ideological stances can all be observed in traces people either intentionally or inadvertently leave behind” (Berg 1989:85). This analysis in ...
... “race” and whiteness has produced “human traces.” “What people do, how they behave and structure their daily lives, and even how humans are affected by certain ideological stances can all be observed in traces people either intentionally or inadvertently leave behind” (Berg 1989:85). This analysis in ...
Federalism and Its Discontents - Foundation for Law, Justice and
... there is often a political choice in policy relevance. For example, do we want more income equality with lower economic growth, or more inequality with higher growth? Politicians have electoral accountability, bureaucrats follow the political will, but for academics things are different. Political p ...
... there is often a political choice in policy relevance. For example, do we want more income equality with lower economic growth, or more inequality with higher growth? Politicians have electoral accountability, bureaucrats follow the political will, but for academics things are different. Political p ...
... by the gaining of positions by the popular and progressive forces, even if this strengthens the antinomies of the whole. Concepts like "society," "people," "nation," "state," "institutions and ideological mechanisms of the state" are neither mere one-sided creations of capital, nor simple tools for ...
Review of Jan A.M. Snoek, Initiating Women in Freemasonry
... meanings into a coherent whole that is often decipherable only to the members of a group. In this case, how is it even possible to interpret rituals’ individual and collective meanings? As Snoek demonstrates, ritual is sensitive to local figures of speech, especially to metaphor, and an analysis of ...
... meanings into a coherent whole that is often decipherable only to the members of a group. In this case, how is it even possible to interpret rituals’ individual and collective meanings? As Snoek demonstrates, ritual is sensitive to local figures of speech, especially to metaphor, and an analysis of ...
Philosophical Pitfalls: The Methods Debate in American Political
... methodology to pursue (Lane, 1997, p. 14). This changed in 1960, when Angus Campbell and his colleagues published The American Voter, a groundbreaking study that relied on the latest survey research methods, expansive data collection, and the statistical analysis of the gathered data (Campbell et. a ...
... methodology to pursue (Lane, 1997, p. 14). This changed in 1960, when Angus Campbell and his colleagues published The American Voter, a groundbreaking study that relied on the latest survey research methods, expansive data collection, and the statistical analysis of the gathered data (Campbell et. a ...
Alfred Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations
... views of managers was more pragmatic and grounded than March and Simon. This worked in several ways. Chandler viewed the purpose of the firm as an organizational device to bring products to market. In the 19th century, markets grew as the population became more urbanized, educated, and richer. To ta ...
... views of managers was more pragmatic and grounded than March and Simon. This worked in several ways. Chandler viewed the purpose of the firm as an organizational device to bring products to market. In the 19th century, markets grew as the population became more urbanized, educated, and richer. To ta ...
Popular Culture and Narrative—Introduction
... narrative. It clarifies the views they share and the issues that divide them, and points to the value such work has for generating new ways of conceptualising and investigating the social world. Adopting a distinctively ‘psychosocial’ approach, the book draws together examples of narrative theory, m ...
... narrative. It clarifies the views they share and the issues that divide them, and points to the value such work has for generating new ways of conceptualising and investigating the social world. Adopting a distinctively ‘psychosocial’ approach, the book draws together examples of narrative theory, m ...
Introduction - University of Idaho
... a reduction in the number of deaths from criminally induced injuries. In this regard, Doerner points out “results indicate that medical resources do impinge on criminally induced lethality ... trauma studies show that prompt ambulance response reduces the time that the patient languishes in the fiel ...
... a reduction in the number of deaths from criminally induced injuries. In this regard, Doerner points out “results indicate that medical resources do impinge on criminally induced lethality ... trauma studies show that prompt ambulance response reduces the time that the patient languishes in the fiel ...
Migration and Social Transformation
... But we must ask: why this is happening? Is it because social scientists and university heads have recognised that mobility of people is one of the key dynamics of global change and that migration studies must have a central place in social analysis? Or is it because migration regulation, immigrant i ...
... But we must ask: why this is happening? Is it because social scientists and university heads have recognised that mobility of people is one of the key dynamics of global change and that migration studies must have a central place in social analysis? Or is it because migration regulation, immigrant i ...
a critical literature review of social class in american sociology
... Century (Greenhouse 2008: 38). Rampant inequality is rooted in capitalism’s everincreasing power over politics in the United States, which has reduced the need for mass support, resulting in a ‘disconnect’ between profits and wages and an effort by companies to shift costs and risks onto their worke ...
... Century (Greenhouse 2008: 38). Rampant inequality is rooted in capitalism’s everincreasing power over politics in the United States, which has reduced the need for mass support, resulting in a ‘disconnect’ between profits and wages and an effort by companies to shift costs and risks onto their worke ...
Nikolas Rose Critical History and Psychology
... persons that inhabit it. Psychology, that is to say, has been bound up with the production of new domains of objectivity. It has made certain old things thinkable in new ways, and made certain new things thinkable and practicable. How should we do the history of psychology5 How might one do a histor ...
... persons that inhabit it. Psychology, that is to say, has been bound up with the production of new domains of objectivity. It has made certain old things thinkable in new ways, and made certain new things thinkable and practicable. How should we do the history of psychology5 How might one do a histor ...
What has Sociology to Contribute to the Study of Inequality Trends
... appreciated the implications of job displacement unless they studied earnings mobility as well as occupational mobility. As indicated earlier, the two factors that were most notable about the American trend were first, that it was happening at all, and second, that the American trends were different ...
... appreciated the implications of job displacement unless they studied earnings mobility as well as occupational mobility. As indicated earlier, the two factors that were most notable about the American trend were first, that it was happening at all, and second, that the American trends were different ...
Thesis Eleven - capacité d`affect
... throughout his whole reflection on power, namely resistance. Resistance was conceptualized by Canetti in terms of transformation, a subject which he grew more and more interested in, but did not succeed in transforming into a full book. Besides some chapters in Crowds and Power, there are also a num ...
... throughout his whole reflection on power, namely resistance. Resistance was conceptualized by Canetti in terms of transformation, a subject which he grew more and more interested in, but did not succeed in transforming into a full book. Besides some chapters in Crowds and Power, there are also a num ...