Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT
... process of refounding and reassuming an interrupted historicity within rep resentations” (183), in other words, the process by which Africans can have greater autonomy over how they are represented and how they can con struct their own social and cultural models in ways not so mediated by a Wester ...
... process of refounding and reassuming an interrupted historicity within rep resentations” (183), in other words, the process by which Africans can have greater autonomy over how they are represented and how they can con struct their own social and cultural models in ways not so mediated by a Wester ...
2014 Annual Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal
... John Brewer is Professor of Post-Conflict Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He runs the £1.26m Leverhulme Trust-funded Compromise after Conflict research programme, which focuses on victims in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa, and has a special interest in religious peace-building. ...
... John Brewer is Professor of Post-Conflict Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He runs the £1.26m Leverhulme Trust-funded Compromise after Conflict research programme, which focuses on victims in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and South Africa, and has a special interest in religious peace-building. ...
Globalization in Latin America: from dependency to interdependency
... addition of value. It was shouldering unwieldy external debt and lacked competitiveness, and was suffering depredation of natural resources and inflationary processes, while its industry and technology were becoming obsolete. The external debt, the raising of interest rates in the United States and ...
... addition of value. It was shouldering unwieldy external debt and lacked competitiveness, and was suffering depredation of natural resources and inflationary processes, while its industry and technology were becoming obsolete. The external debt, the raising of interest rates in the United States and ...
Ellie Vasta - MUEP
... but also influenced government policies. Unfortunately, academic research has become more and more dependent on ARC and industry funding, both of which have control over such matters as methodology that is highly influenced by the amount of funding available. For example, longitudinal research is no ...
... but also influenced government policies. Unfortunately, academic research has become more and more dependent on ARC and industry funding, both of which have control over such matters as methodology that is highly influenced by the amount of funding available. For example, longitudinal research is no ...
IfS DP 02_2013 Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of
... Instead of referring to stereotypical classifications that emphasize generalized statements on nature, the role and function of the society or the economy, independent of specific cultural and historical contexts, economic life never takes place without an interplay with its real social and economic ...
... Instead of referring to stereotypical classifications that emphasize generalized statements on nature, the role and function of the society or the economy, independent of specific cultural and historical contexts, economic life never takes place without an interplay with its real social and economic ...
The Promise of the Sociological Imagination
... Yet men and women do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the pat ...
... Yet men and women do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well-being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live. Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the pat ...
Globalizing Labour Historiography - International Institute of Social
... of it tends to be Eurocentric, mainly for political and cultural reasons, but also because the quantity of data available is not the same for all regions. For the historian who wants to use secondary sources, it is obviously important that such sources exist. If the history of a particular working-c ...
... of it tends to be Eurocentric, mainly for political and cultural reasons, but also because the quantity of data available is not the same for all regions. For the historian who wants to use secondary sources, it is obviously important that such sources exist. If the history of a particular working-c ...
A Multidisciplinary-economic Framework of Analysis
... different research programs. They do barely have a place in the textbooks that dominate academic education. Scientifically speaking, however, they contribute significantly to a better understanding of the functioning of our economies and societies. Post-Keynesians and radical economists have develop ...
... different research programs. They do barely have a place in the textbooks that dominate academic education. Scientifically speaking, however, they contribute significantly to a better understanding of the functioning of our economies and societies. Post-Keynesians and radical economists have develop ...
epistemic confusion and patterns of sociological knowledge
... comes recognition of our limited epistemic and explanatory capacities. Two quick conclusions should be introduced at this point. One is that epistemic shortcomings reflect on our ability to act, to reason and predict and to feel good about our capacity to grasp the world around us. Another conclusio ...
... comes recognition of our limited epistemic and explanatory capacities. Two quick conclusions should be introduced at this point. One is that epistemic shortcomings reflect on our ability to act, to reason and predict and to feel good about our capacity to grasp the world around us. Another conclusio ...
Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
... explain consumption/savingspatterns in terms of "keeping up with the Joneses," to John Kenneth Galbraith's notion that consumer tastes are created by advertising. Doubtless the most recognized of such critics is Herbert Simon, whose concept of "bounded rationality" has motivated considerable researc ...
... explain consumption/savingspatterns in terms of "keeping up with the Joneses," to John Kenneth Galbraith's notion that consumer tastes are created by advertising. Doubtless the most recognized of such critics is Herbert Simon, whose concept of "bounded rationality" has motivated considerable researc ...
Chapter 4 Sociology
... its heyday was subject to strong criticism. Structural-functionalism is worth mentioning here not for its continuing interest, but because its picture of individuals motivated by a coherent framework of norms and values is what many outsiders have in mind when they think of the sociological approach ...
... its heyday was subject to strong criticism. Structural-functionalism is worth mentioning here not for its continuing interest, but because its picture of individuals motivated by a coherent framework of norms and values is what many outsiders have in mind when they think of the sociological approach ...
Struttura del volume
... For the new sociology of childhood, socialization may still have partial validity as a theoretical tool only as a process in which children actively respond to adult effort to pattern their life and shape their future. In a different but closely linked perspective, this very aim to portrait the chil ...
... For the new sociology of childhood, socialization may still have partial validity as a theoretical tool only as a process in which children actively respond to adult effort to pattern their life and shape their future. In a different but closely linked perspective, this very aim to portrait the chil ...
Manifesto for a human economy Keith Hart
... South-South and North-South dialogues about how to build a better world. This will be achieved through research and intellectual exchange more than by issuing programmatic statements. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize. So why not ask where the human economy is situated in a historical sequen ...
... South-South and North-South dialogues about how to build a better world. This will be achieved through research and intellectual exchange more than by issuing programmatic statements. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize. So why not ask where the human economy is situated in a historical sequen ...
The New Coevolution of Information Science and Social Science:
... agent computing. While the nature of these applications is each somewhat idiosyncratic, they are unified methodologically in the search for agent specifications that yield empirically-observed (or at least empirically-plausible) social behavior. In anthropology there are a variety of research groups ...
... agent computing. While the nature of these applications is each somewhat idiosyncratic, they are unified methodologically in the search for agent specifications that yield empirically-observed (or at least empirically-plausible) social behavior. In anthropology there are a variety of research groups ...
Paper Complexity, mobility, migration
... intersecting voices of the participants. Dialogue is also the place in which categorization takes place and where the establishment, negotiation and the rejection of categories happens. The above, of course, does not imply that the meaning of categories during a dialogical situation, as that of a t ...
... intersecting voices of the participants. Dialogue is also the place in which categorization takes place and where the establishment, negotiation and the rejection of categories happens. The above, of course, does not imply that the meaning of categories during a dialogical situation, as that of a t ...
Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of
... the pluralist claim that the array of organized groups and their impact on government constituted an accurate representation or vector sum of the demands and preferences of individual citizens. Instead, the 'corporatist' theories argued, many groups had been organized not 'from below' by citizens, b ...
... the pluralist claim that the array of organized groups and their impact on government constituted an accurate representation or vector sum of the demands and preferences of individual citizens. Instead, the 'corporatist' theories argued, many groups had been organized not 'from below' by citizens, b ...
preliminary paper #130 conceptualizing disasters from a
... In our view, part of the problem is that Kreps is operating with common sense notions of social problems--namely, something happens that disturbs people. However, the considerable theoretical and research sociological literature on social problems advance far more sophisticated definitions. It is pe ...
... In our view, part of the problem is that Kreps is operating with common sense notions of social problems--namely, something happens that disturbs people. However, the considerable theoretical and research sociological literature on social problems advance far more sophisticated definitions. It is pe ...
Mathematical Political Science
... Is there are a ‘theory of everything’ for the social universe? Figure 1 Behavioral and environmental assumptions and model types ...
... Is there are a ‘theory of everything’ for the social universe? Figure 1 Behavioral and environmental assumptions and model types ...
Capitalism Vs. Capitalism
... There is a large American insurance company whose pay policy has made it famous throughout the industry. Every year, it publishes its 'Christmas list' of staff performance: the company calculates how much each employee costs the firm, and how much each one brings in; salaries (and careers) are then ...
... There is a large American insurance company whose pay policy has made it famous throughout the industry. Every year, it publishes its 'Christmas list' of staff performance: the company calculates how much each employee costs the firm, and how much each one brings in; salaries (and careers) are then ...
1 / What Is Social Constructionism?
... of these texts, I would contend that it is deeply misleading to conflate the term “social construction” (or any other term) with the concept(s) it is meant to capture (Skinner 1989). As Michael Lynch (1998, 29) notes, since its introduction into the social scientific lexicon, the term “social constr ...
... of these texts, I would contend that it is deeply misleading to conflate the term “social construction” (or any other term) with the concept(s) it is meant to capture (Skinner 1989). As Michael Lynch (1998, 29) notes, since its introduction into the social scientific lexicon, the term “social constr ...
Social Psychology as Social Construction: The Emerging Vision
... generate highly sophisticated and well-tested theoretical accounts (principles and explanations) of broad generality. These accounts would not be biased by any particular ideology, political position, or ethical commitment. In effect, these accounts could be made available to all people, so that pol ...
... generate highly sophisticated and well-tested theoretical accounts (principles and explanations) of broad generality. These accounts would not be biased by any particular ideology, political position, or ethical commitment. In effect, these accounts could be made available to all people, so that pol ...
Max Weber
... his ideal types of legitimate domination or authority. Rational-legal authority rests on rules and law. Traditional authority rests on belief in established practices and traditions — i.e., authority is legitimate because it is exercised the way it has always been exercised. Charismatic authority re ...
... his ideal types of legitimate domination or authority. Rational-legal authority rests on rules and law. Traditional authority rests on belief in established practices and traditions — i.e., authority is legitimate because it is exercised the way it has always been exercised. Charismatic authority re ...
From the Viewpoint of Development Sociology
... who decides what is important. They therefore stand on the assumption that the knowledge can be manufactured by the researchers who make subjective interpretations of the realities experienced by the researched. A growing number of sociologists and anthropologists share this assumption amidst the ri ...
... who decides what is important. They therefore stand on the assumption that the knowledge can be manufactured by the researchers who make subjective interpretations of the realities experienced by the researched. A growing number of sociologists and anthropologists share this assumption amidst the ri ...
Social cohesion and subjective wellbeing
... cohesion refers to a specific aspect of a society’s collective quality of life: the solidarity exhibited by the people of that society. In other words, cohesion describes the sense of community and the degree of brotherhood that exist. Collective property, not an individual. ...
... cohesion refers to a specific aspect of a society’s collective quality of life: the solidarity exhibited by the people of that society. In other words, cohesion describes the sense of community and the degree of brotherhood that exist. Collective property, not an individual. ...
the emerging world order and european change
... structural power of internationally mobile capital (partly reflected in its relative scarcity: this was by contrast with the 1970s, when, because of petro-dollar recycling and low real rates of interest, there was a glut of such capital). Competition to attract such capital, by both governments and ...
... structural power of internationally mobile capital (partly reflected in its relative scarcity: this was by contrast with the 1970s, when, because of petro-dollar recycling and low real rates of interest, there was a glut of such capital). Competition to attract such capital, by both governments and ...
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.