1 The Arbitrariness and Normativity of Social Conventions NB
... The game theoretic approach to convention is worthy of discussion in virtue of its analytical elegance, simplicity and the fact it can claim to relieve the tension between normativity and arbitrariness – at least by its own standards. By formalizing convention in the language of rational choice, ga ...
... The game theoretic approach to convention is worthy of discussion in virtue of its analytical elegance, simplicity and the fact it can claim to relieve the tension between normativity and arbitrariness – at least by its own standards. By formalizing convention in the language of rational choice, ga ...
Annotations to Bhaskar`s Possibility of Naturalism Hans G. Ehrbar
... possibility of a non-reductionist naturalism on transcendental realist lines, then I must establish not only the autonomy of a possible sociology, but the reality of any objects so designated. That is to say, I must show that societies are complex real objects irreducible to simpler ones, such as pe ...
... possibility of a non-reductionist naturalism on transcendental realist lines, then I must establish not only the autonomy of a possible sociology, but the reality of any objects so designated. That is to say, I must show that societies are complex real objects irreducible to simpler ones, such as pe ...
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Market Expansion
... conditions and culture of societies around the globe. A short visit to a department store in Singapore, Shanghai or Caracas will convince us of the existence of a global market economy. We can muster and buy shirts made in Indonesia but with a label designed in New York or Frankfurt, canned tomatoes ...
... conditions and culture of societies around the globe. A short visit to a department store in Singapore, Shanghai or Caracas will convince us of the existence of a global market economy. We can muster and buy shirts made in Indonesia but with a label designed in New York or Frankfurt, canned tomatoes ...
The Poverty of Historicism
... either way (with the winner or with the underdog), or one way for opposite reasons (with the winner or against the loser, or against the winner and for the underdog). Notoriously also, people act in a way that feeds inflation just because they expect inflation to continue.' All this is obvious enoug ...
... either way (with the winner or with the underdog), or one way for opposite reasons (with the winner or against the loser, or against the winner and for the underdog). Notoriously also, people act in a way that feeds inflation just because they expect inflation to continue.' All this is obvious enoug ...
Justice Criminology and Criminal
... close to, perhaps even entirely compatible with, Wacquant’s view of the matter, notwithstanding some differences in vocabulary and style. However, it is also designedly inclusive and is by no means restricted to, and certainly does not automatically prefer, one way of engagement over all others. We ...
... close to, perhaps even entirely compatible with, Wacquant’s view of the matter, notwithstanding some differences in vocabulary and style. However, it is also designedly inclusive and is by no means restricted to, and certainly does not automatically prefer, one way of engagement over all others. We ...
Readings on Social Movements
... and layoffs at work. Indeed, it is difficult to think of a major social issue in which social movements are not involved on one or both sides. The movements associated with such issues are important social phenomena as well, capturing our attention because they bring into bold relief sizable numbers ...
... and layoffs at work. Indeed, it is difficult to think of a major social issue in which social movements are not involved on one or both sides. The movements associated with such issues are important social phenomena as well, capturing our attention because they bring into bold relief sizable numbers ...
Social Science and Its Methods - Distant Production House University
... into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House or Capitol. They succeeded with three of the planes, causing enormous destruction. The fourth plane crashed, but thanks to passengers who discovered the highjackers’ plans and attacked the highjackers, the destruction of the White House ...
... into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House or Capitol. They succeeded with three of the planes, causing enormous destruction. The fourth plane crashed, but thanks to passengers who discovered the highjackers’ plans and attacked the highjackers, the destruction of the White House ...
Structuration Theory and Self-Organization
... functionalism is also true for Luhmann’s conception of society. This is especially the case for Luhmann’s neglect of human, knowledgeable agents. In his main work, The Constitution of Society. Giddens (1984) refers to Luhmann as one of the representatives of neo-Parsonianism whose work is sophistica ...
... functionalism is also true for Luhmann’s conception of society. This is especially the case for Luhmann’s neglect of human, knowledgeable agents. In his main work, The Constitution of Society. Giddens (1984) refers to Luhmann as one of the representatives of neo-Parsonianism whose work is sophistica ...
The Property-Owning Democracy vesus the Welfare State∗
... equality and rejects the fair value of equal liberties and fair equality of opportunity. Its principles of e ciency and growth are constrained by only a low social minimum. State-socialism, another ideal-type, with its command economy supervised by one-party regime, violates equal basic rights and i ...
... equality and rejects the fair value of equal liberties and fair equality of opportunity. Its principles of e ciency and growth are constrained by only a low social minimum. State-socialism, another ideal-type, with its command economy supervised by one-party regime, violates equal basic rights and i ...
LIEPP-Working paper Morel
... welfare states from a familialist care regime to a ‘migrant-in-the-family’ care regime. Recent research has shown that the use of migrant domestic workers is on the rise in other countries also (cf. Lutz, 2008; van Hooren, 2012), including in the Nordic welfare states (Gavanas, 2010; Widding Isaksen ...
... welfare states from a familialist care regime to a ‘migrant-in-the-family’ care regime. Recent research has shown that the use of migrant domestic workers is on the rise in other countries also (cf. Lutz, 2008; van Hooren, 2012), including in the Nordic welfare states (Gavanas, 2010; Widding Isaksen ...
Women and Social Capital - London South Bank University
... ESRC Research Group, on women and social capital. Recognising that social capital theories touch on issues that feminism has long worked to put on the political agenda, we were interested to explore the harmony and dissonance between the two. Feminists have noted the ways, for example, that social c ...
... ESRC Research Group, on women and social capital. Recognising that social capital theories touch on issues that feminism has long worked to put on the political agenda, we were interested to explore the harmony and dissonance between the two. Feminists have noted the ways, for example, that social c ...
2 Conceptualising Poverty Peter Townsend
... long history in the Western world. Their assumptions, values and interests have much in common. They have tended to shape perceptions, explanations and policies simultaneously. This statement may be difficult to accept or even understand, and deserves to be illustrated briefly, as a necessary prelim ...
... long history in the Western world. Their assumptions, values and interests have much in common. They have tended to shape perceptions, explanations and policies simultaneously. This statement may be difficult to accept or even understand, and deserves to be illustrated briefly, as a necessary prelim ...
Chapter 1 Public Policy: The Lens of Political Economy
... interests but are unable to evolve any machinery for deliberate political action; politically inert interest groups; or groups which not only lack any mechanism for coordinated policy action but also have members unresponsive to policy choices. The relationship between organized interest groups and ...
... interests but are unable to evolve any machinery for deliberate political action; politically inert interest groups; or groups which not only lack any mechanism for coordinated policy action but also have members unresponsive to policy choices. The relationship between organized interest groups and ...
Consumption Kritik - HS Impact
... euphoria of contemporary energy studies is noteworthy for its historical consistency with a nearly unbroken social narrative of wonderment extending from the advent of steam power through the spread of electricity (Nye, 1999). The modern energy regime that now powers nuclear weaponry and risks disru ...
... euphoria of contemporary energy studies is noteworthy for its historical consistency with a nearly unbroken social narrative of wonderment extending from the advent of steam power through the spread of electricity (Nye, 1999). The modern energy regime that now powers nuclear weaponry and risks disru ...
The Welfare State, Local Government and Participation in Area
... directly target specific neighbourhoods in urban settings that are considered `problem´ areas. These neighbourhoods usually experience social problems related to poverty, migration and social exclusion. The decentralization that has occurred since the 1960s regarding the welfare state has now penetr ...
... directly target specific neighbourhoods in urban settings that are considered `problem´ areas. These neighbourhoods usually experience social problems related to poverty, migration and social exclusion. The decentralization that has occurred since the 1960s regarding the welfare state has now penetr ...
estratégia - Universidade FUMEC
... 1984). This is done in an attempt to capture the strategic practice in power at the moment of its occurrences. Thus, economic assumptions of a “given” reality do not fit this dynamic perspective because there is a need to look at the moment and its temporal aspect rather than conduct an analysis of ...
... 1984). This is done in an attempt to capture the strategic practice in power at the moment of its occurrences. Thus, economic assumptions of a “given” reality do not fit this dynamic perspective because there is a need to look at the moment and its temporal aspect rather than conduct an analysis of ...
Social Watch General Assembly - Institute for Agriculture and Trade
... International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and WTO create an over-lapping and inter-locking web that effectively covers all developing countries. The United Nations has been restructured and systematically disempowered since the early 1980s. At that time, the South was asserting its right to reor ...
... International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and WTO create an over-lapping and inter-locking web that effectively covers all developing countries. The United Nations has been restructured and systematically disempowered since the early 1980s. At that time, the South was asserting its right to reor ...
Amédée or how to get rid of it: social representations... Ivana Markova, University of Stirling
... about this cadaver? If so, how will they explain its existence in their apartment? Amédée has always promised Madeleine to get rid of this growing monster - but Madeleine no longer trusts him. Anyway, even if he would get rid of it now, who would return her the lost fifteen years filled with worry a ...
... about this cadaver? If so, how will they explain its existence in their apartment? Amédée has always promised Madeleine to get rid of this growing monster - but Madeleine no longer trusts him. Anyway, even if he would get rid of it now, who would return her the lost fifteen years filled with worry a ...
The history and philosophy of social science
... judgements are directly ascertainable and they should form the basic material of social analysis. In effect, Louch tries to overturn two Humean doctrines - the nonobservability of causation, and the distinction between facts and values - and to argue that because the social scientist, an inside obse ...
... judgements are directly ascertainable and they should form the basic material of social analysis. In effect, Louch tries to overturn two Humean doctrines - the nonobservability of causation, and the distinction between facts and values - and to argue that because the social scientist, an inside obse ...
The scholarship of teaching is a concept with multiple ramifications
... educational reform but not about the underlying political economic and ‘developmental’ conceptions informing such policy in the post-apartheid period. Hence any attempt at understanding educational policy and how it is implemented must reckon with what informs the ‘developmental’ perspective of the ...
... educational reform but not about the underlying political economic and ‘developmental’ conceptions informing such policy in the post-apartheid period. Hence any attempt at understanding educational policy and how it is implemented must reckon with what informs the ‘developmental’ perspective of the ...
Twenty Years of Ideas
... Demos has been at the heart of the intellectual and party political convergence on a mix of social and economic liberalism. As the journalist Steve Richards said recently, liberalism is the most elastic concept in the political lexicon, but it may be that the next 20 years will require a greater emp ...
... Demos has been at the heart of the intellectual and party political convergence on a mix of social and economic liberalism. As the journalist Steve Richards said recently, liberalism is the most elastic concept in the political lexicon, but it may be that the next 20 years will require a greater emp ...
The Nature of Social Reality - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... of its main concepts. Searle’s approach continues to shape the debate, but his construction is more and more sharply dissected, both in its details and in its general assumptions. Furthermore, new perspectives, not rooted in analytical tradition, are taking place, so that not only alternative answer ...
... of its main concepts. Searle’s approach continues to shape the debate, but his construction is more and more sharply dissected, both in its details and in its general assumptions. Furthermore, new perspectives, not rooted in analytical tradition, are taking place, so that not only alternative answer ...
Ontological Foundations of EAP
... that “knowledge may be not only of what appears, but of underlying structures, which endure longer than those appearances, and generate them or make them possible.” (P. 6) Counter-phenomenallity: It refers to the epistemological stance which claims that “knowledge of the deep structure of something ...
... that “knowledge may be not only of what appears, but of underlying structures, which endure longer than those appearances, and generate them or make them possible.” (P. 6) Counter-phenomenallity: It refers to the epistemological stance which claims that “knowledge of the deep structure of something ...
towards a new strategy - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
... side and the new international order on the other. PETŘÍČEK reflects on how progressives could succeed in incorporating new issues into their agenda, proving the strong links between socio-economic and environmental crisis. A number of thoughts how to reconnect with the society also through the inte ...
... side and the new international order on the other. PETŘÍČEK reflects on how progressives could succeed in incorporating new issues into their agenda, proving the strong links between socio-economic and environmental crisis. A number of thoughts how to reconnect with the society also through the inte ...
Understanding Social Problems
... Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in other formats) from a student-friendly publisher, Unnamed Publisher, tries to answer these questions with the latest theory and research from sociology and other ...
... Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in other formats) from a student-friendly publisher, Unnamed Publisher, tries to answer these questions with the latest theory and research from sociology and other ...
Third Way
In politics, the Third Way is a position that tries to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies. The Third Way was created as a serious re-evaluation of political policies within various centre-left progressive movements in response to international doubt regarding the economic viability of the state; economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularized by Keynesianism and contrasted with the corresponding rise of popularity for economic liberalism and the New Right. The Third Way is promoted by some social democratic and social liberal movements.Major Third Way social democratic proponent Tony Blair claimed that the socialism he advocated was different from traditional conceptions of socialism. Blair said ""My kind of socialism is a set of values based around notions of social justice ... Socialism as a rigid form of economic determinism has ended, and rightly"". Blair referred to it as ""social-ism"" that involves politics that recognized individuals as socially interdependent, and advocated social justice, social cohesion, equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity. Third Way social democratic theorist Anthony Giddens has said that the Third Way rejects the traditional conception of socialism, and instead accepts the conception of socialism as conceived of by Anthony Crosland as an ethical doctrine that views social democratic governments as having achieved a viable ethical socialism by removing the unjust elements of capitalism by providing social welfare and other policies, and that contemporary socialism has outgrown the Marxian claim for the need of the abolition of capitalism. Blair in 2009 publicly declared support for a ""new capitalism"".It supports the pursuit of greater egalitarianism in society through action to increase the distribution of skills, capacities, and productive endowments, while rejecting income redistribution as the means to achieve this. It emphasizes commitment to balanced budgets, providing equal opportunity combined with an emphasis on personal responsibility, decentralization of government power to the lowest level possible, encouragement of public-private partnerships, improving labour supply, investment in human development, protection of social capital, and protection of the environment.The Third Way has been criticized by some conservatives and libertarians who advocate laissez-faire capitalism. It has also been heavily criticized by many social democrats, democratic socialists and communists in particular as a betrayal of left-wing values. Specific definitions of Third Way policies may differ between Europe and America.