Recovering Morality: Pragmatic Sociology and Literary Studies Shai
... The purpose of this article is to offer tools for studying the ways in which literature as a social practice enacts and performs moral evaluation. A novel which exposes the reader to a sense of injustice or to a dilemma and which imbues these dilemmas and injustices with emotional value is not only ...
... The purpose of this article is to offer tools for studying the ways in which literature as a social practice enacts and performs moral evaluation. A novel which exposes the reader to a sense of injustice or to a dilemma and which imbues these dilemmas and injustices with emotional value is not only ...
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... connections between social factors based on a theory of the underlying processes. 2. We may use a broadly inductive approach, justifying the claim that A caused B on the ground that events of type A are commonly associated with events of type B. ...
... connections between social factors based on a theory of the underlying processes. 2. We may use a broadly inductive approach, justifying the claim that A caused B on the ground that events of type A are commonly associated with events of type B. ...
The Dynamics of the Sociological Imagination
... The theories are based on actually social theoretical and methodological instruments which interpreted the causality as probability of the fulfillment of events. This led to the assumption that the human society is not something “historically inevitable”, but the result of many alternatives. The the ...
... The theories are based on actually social theoretical and methodological instruments which interpreted the causality as probability of the fulfillment of events. This led to the assumption that the human society is not something “historically inevitable”, but the result of many alternatives. The the ...
Social Problems Research
... What Do You Think? • Research indicates that traditional media sources (like local newspapers) are having a difficult time holding on to their consumers. – If your local print and/or online newspaper folded, where would you go for your news? – What role do the various media play in our awareness of ...
... What Do You Think? • Research indicates that traditional media sources (like local newspapers) are having a difficult time holding on to their consumers. – If your local print and/or online newspaper folded, where would you go for your news? – What role do the various media play in our awareness of ...
The good economy?
... Following the departure of Dr Adam Lent as director of the RSA Action and Research Centre (ARC) at the end of April, there have been some internal staff changes. Rowan Conway becomes director of research and innovation and Anthony Painter is now director of policy and strategy. Rowan will lead the i ...
... Following the departure of Dr Adam Lent as director of the RSA Action and Research Centre (ARC) at the end of April, there have been some internal staff changes. Rowan Conway becomes director of research and innovation and Anthony Painter is now director of policy and strategy. Rowan will lead the i ...
introduction to the relationship between modernity and sociology in
... seek to ‘understand’ this conduct and by means of this understanding to ‘explain’ it interpretively’… All we are interested in here is one particular type namely ‘rational’ interpretation”. As you shall see, when Durkheim uses the methodology of natural sciences and ignoring the human factor, Weber ...
... seek to ‘understand’ this conduct and by means of this understanding to ‘explain’ it interpretively’… All we are interested in here is one particular type namely ‘rational’ interpretation”. As you shall see, when Durkheim uses the methodology of natural sciences and ignoring the human factor, Weber ...
Darwin and the Body Politic
... Society, Schäffle therefore proclaims, is made of the same ideal tissues as man. Five “social tissues” form Schäffle’s body politic, corresponding to the osseous (i.e. the bones), tegumentary (i.e. the skin), vascular (i.e. the vessels carrying fluids), muscular, and nervous organic tissues of the b ...
... Society, Schäffle therefore proclaims, is made of the same ideal tissues as man. Five “social tissues” form Schäffle’s body politic, corresponding to the osseous (i.e. the bones), tegumentary (i.e. the skin), vascular (i.e. the vessels carrying fluids), muscular, and nervous organic tissues of the b ...
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
... poor households in how the work of social reproduction is accomplished and by whom. In many places, these shifts have had a particularly chilling effect on women, who for the most part continue to fill the gap between state and market in ensuring their households’ reproduction and well-being. The bo ...
... poor households in how the work of social reproduction is accomplished and by whom. In many places, these shifts have had a particularly chilling effect on women, who for the most part continue to fill the gap between state and market in ensuring their households’ reproduction and well-being. The bo ...
Celebrating risk: The politics of self
... rules about smoking in their home (for self or others), and report being less likely to defer to non-smokers in public situations. It is instructive to examine how adamant smokers handle what ‘reluctant’ smokers (POLAND, COHEN et al., 2000) would normally conceal as problematic stigma symbols. In so ...
... rules about smoking in their home (for self or others), and report being less likely to defer to non-smokers in public situations. It is instructive to examine how adamant smokers handle what ‘reluctant’ smokers (POLAND, COHEN et al., 2000) would normally conceal as problematic stigma symbols. In so ...
Michael Lambek, Immanence of Ethics
... deliberate. I was not quite so naïve as to say that people always do what is right and good. But I think it is important to recognize that they usually want to, or think that they are. No different from anthropologists in this respect. Recognizing this brings us one step closer to understanding our ...
... deliberate. I was not quite so naïve as to say that people always do what is right and good. But I think it is important to recognize that they usually want to, or think that they are. No different from anthropologists in this respect. Recognizing this brings us one step closer to understanding our ...
genders, races, and religious cultures in modern american poetry
... women writers and how social differences could manifest in cultural products that much work was needed to bring women writers up to judicious and informed scrutiny. A parallel point can be made about the resurgence of cultural studies concerning ethnicity and AfricanAmerican writers. As Griselda Pol ...
... women writers and how social differences could manifest in cultural products that much work was needed to bring women writers up to judicious and informed scrutiny. A parallel point can be made about the resurgence of cultural studies concerning ethnicity and AfricanAmerican writers. As Griselda Pol ...
Essay outline for Class Stratification
... In addition, there are lots of other important divisions within society which are ignored by Marxist perspective, eg race, age, gender) as clearly not all ‘workers’ have the same experiences in the workplace, despite being similar in terms of their relationship to the means of production. Male and F ...
... In addition, there are lots of other important divisions within society which are ignored by Marxist perspective, eg race, age, gender) as clearly not all ‘workers’ have the same experiences in the workplace, despite being similar in terms of their relationship to the means of production. Male and F ...
Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The
... begins by asking, “What manner of people are we, who destroy human life in public rituals of revenge ?” This most decidedly is not a question about incentives. To take another example, the conservative drift of US. social welfare policy in recent years was driven primarily by the desire of many Amer ...
... begins by asking, “What manner of people are we, who destroy human life in public rituals of revenge ?” This most decidedly is not a question about incentives. To take another example, the conservative drift of US. social welfare policy in recent years was driven primarily by the desire of many Amer ...
Paper 2 – Class Stratification
... Marx argued that workers would realise their common bond of exploitation in a Capitalist system, but working classes have less in common with each other in modern societies. The traditional working class has all but died out and has been replaced by a more private, white-collar/ admin/ hi-tech emplo ...
... Marx argued that workers would realise their common bond of exploitation in a Capitalist system, but working classes have less in common with each other in modern societies. The traditional working class has all but died out and has been replaced by a more private, white-collar/ admin/ hi-tech emplo ...
lifestyle - Netwerk Duurzame Mobiliteit
... through these consumption patterns, that person tries to elucidate his/her social status/position next to an economic dimension, there is a cultural dimension ...
... through these consumption patterns, that person tries to elucidate his/her social status/position next to an economic dimension, there is a cultural dimension ...
SOCIOLOGY Ch 5
... In life, we can choose our own cues and responses. The process of choosing the role and then acting it out occurs in nearly all ...
... In life, we can choose our own cues and responses. The process of choosing the role and then acting it out occurs in nearly all ...
Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency
... marketing and public relations. In fact most of the lobbying firms currently operating out of K Street in Washington, around the Rue de la Loi in the Euro Quartier in Brussels and in the back streets around Westminster in London, are actually owned by transnational communication conglomerates, inclu ...
... marketing and public relations. In fact most of the lobbying firms currently operating out of K Street in Washington, around the Rue de la Loi in the Euro Quartier in Brussels and in the back streets around Westminster in London, are actually owned by transnational communication conglomerates, inclu ...
CHAPTER 8: Public Opinion
... is considered the cause of public policy; public opinion is considered the determinant of public policy. The delegate model of democracy is based on the delegate theory of representation. The delegate theory of representation describes elected government officials as obligated to do the will of the ...
... is considered the cause of public policy; public opinion is considered the determinant of public policy. The delegate model of democracy is based on the delegate theory of representation. The delegate theory of representation describes elected government officials as obligated to do the will of the ...