stratification - JHU Department of Sociology
... language of stratification and those which speak the language of class struggle corresponds to two ways of seeing the social world.’ Second, the presentation overly formalizes what for some was an informal term, often used as shorthand for the simple notion of a systematic pattern of inequality. In ...
... language of stratification and those which speak the language of class struggle corresponds to two ways of seeing the social world.’ Second, the presentation overly formalizes what for some was an informal term, often used as shorthand for the simple notion of a systematic pattern of inequality. In ...
Canadian Political Economy: A Critique
... sectors. The greater these spin-offs or linkages, the greater the possibility that the economy will transcend its purely staple base. The production function associated with staples such as fur or lumber generated few spin-offs of significance because of low capital investment and labour demand, whi ...
... sectors. The greater these spin-offs or linkages, the greater the possibility that the economy will transcend its purely staple base. The production function associated with staples such as fur or lumber generated few spin-offs of significance because of low capital investment and labour demand, whi ...
athabasca university change in systems: theory and implications by
... field had accumulated the knowledge to reduce the crime rate by up to 63%. His lecture addressed the question of ‘how.’ I emailed him after the lecture to inquire if there was an applied institute of sociology somewhere that implemented all these brilliant ideas? He replied that sociologists (at tha ...
... field had accumulated the knowledge to reduce the crime rate by up to 63%. His lecture addressed the question of ‘how.’ I emailed him after the lecture to inquire if there was an applied institute of sociology somewhere that implemented all these brilliant ideas? He replied that sociologists (at tha ...
Telenovelas, Culture and Social Change
... central agents. And it was neither fully public nor fully private. In material terms, it is the space constituted by the living room, but with its open doors and windows out to the often narrow streets of low income urban areas in Brazil, and as such becoming a grey-zone between the public and the p ...
... central agents. And it was neither fully public nor fully private. In material terms, it is the space constituted by the living room, but with its open doors and windows out to the often narrow streets of low income urban areas in Brazil, and as such becoming a grey-zone between the public and the p ...
Cognitive and Cultural Views of Emotions
... What is more, emotional life then becomes a site for cultural production and a stage upon which cultural dramas are played. Geertz’s studies of Javanese life and, for examples, emotional displays at funerals, suggest ways in which not just the management and display but the experience of emotions is ...
... What is more, emotional life then becomes a site for cultural production and a stage upon which cultural dramas are played. Geertz’s studies of Javanese life and, for examples, emotional displays at funerals, suggest ways in which not just the management and display but the experience of emotions is ...
- Munich Personal RePEc Archive
... against which to compare history, but it cannot explain the origin of inequality. But as helpful as Nozick's remarks are, they are incomplete, for there is in fact another way in which social contract theory may be used: as a normative thought-experiment. This is how Rawls (1971) uses social contra ...
... against which to compare history, but it cannot explain the origin of inequality. But as helpful as Nozick's remarks are, they are incomplete, for there is in fact another way in which social contract theory may be used: as a normative thought-experiment. This is how Rawls (1971) uses social contra ...
Manifest and Latent Functions
... directions which promise most for the theoretic development of the discipline. He examines the familiar (or planned) social practice to ascertain the latent, and hence generally unrecognized, functions (as well, of course, as the manifest functions). He considers, for example, the consequences of th ...
... directions which promise most for the theoretic development of the discipline. He examines the familiar (or planned) social practice to ascertain the latent, and hence generally unrecognized, functions (as well, of course, as the manifest functions). He considers, for example, the consequences of th ...
Generally Speaking: The Logic and Mechanics of Social Pattern
... The fact that a formal pattern manifests itself ‘‘in myriad ways across times and places’’ (Horwitz, 1990:16) does not mean, however, that it is therefore not one and the same pattern.11 Indeed, it is its common features across those different contexts that social pattern analysts need to uncover. A ...
... The fact that a formal pattern manifests itself ‘‘in myriad ways across times and places’’ (Horwitz, 1990:16) does not mean, however, that it is therefore not one and the same pattern.11 Indeed, it is its common features across those different contexts that social pattern analysts need to uncover. A ...
Sociological Imagination
... from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew. Mills defined sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.” It is the ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other. To have ...
... from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew. Mills defined sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.” It is the ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other. To have ...
Social and Socialist Musings on the Sector Skills Agreement
... most unstable and unproductive of the four tendencies of socialism, although theoretically it proposes the most (non-violent) revolutionary change in society, leading if taken to extreme a moral and conceptual nihilism (Berki, 1975, p29). Berki, 1975, p14) though offers a pertinent warning to would ...
... most unstable and unproductive of the four tendencies of socialism, although theoretically it proposes the most (non-violent) revolutionary change in society, leading if taken to extreme a moral and conceptual nihilism (Berki, 1975, p29). Berki, 1975, p14) though offers a pertinent warning to would ...
Cultural and Creative Index: an approach to Latin America and the
... The second part is a descriptive empirical analysis of economic, social and cultural development in Latin America. To begin with, this section will define the geographical area and the countries that will be studied. Then we will analyze the relevant indicators for this analysis that include econom ...
... The second part is a descriptive empirical analysis of economic, social and cultural development in Latin America. To begin with, this section will define the geographical area and the countries that will be studied. Then we will analyze the relevant indicators for this analysis that include econom ...
Exploring reality through new lenses
... Exploring reality through new lenses The informal essay as a an academic genre ...
... Exploring reality through new lenses The informal essay as a an academic genre ...
Not So Different After All?: The EU and Myths of Exceptionalism
... identify the EU as a distinct and exclusive political community. We will explore whether and how political myths, especially those of exceptionalism, provide ontological security; that is, confidence in who the EU is, what it does and why. It builds on arguments by Mitzen and Steele to explore the e ...
... identify the EU as a distinct and exclusive political community. We will explore whether and how political myths, especially those of exceptionalism, provide ontological security; that is, confidence in who the EU is, what it does and why. It builds on arguments by Mitzen and Steele to explore the e ...
On Social Structure The Journal of the Royal Anthropological
... science. For these persons social anthropology, as I have defined it, is something that does not, and never will, exist. For them, of course, my remarks will have no meaning, or at least not the meaning I intend them to have. While I have defined social anthropology as the study of human society, th ...
... science. For these persons social anthropology, as I have defined it, is something that does not, and never will, exist. For them, of course, my remarks will have no meaning, or at least not the meaning I intend them to have. While I have defined social anthropology as the study of human society, th ...
