Empirical Training and Sociological Thought

1953 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svend Riemer
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Thought

Social Mindscapes and the Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 387-402
Author(s):  
Jamie L. Mullaney
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Culture And Cognition ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Relationship

While the relationship between culture and cognition has long-standing roots in sociological thought, scholars face the issue regarding how to “do” cognitive sociology. This chapter discusses the methodological approach of social pattern analysis (SPA) from Zerubavel’s social mindscapes tradition or culturalist cognitive sociology (SM/CCS), which encourages researchers to move away from content-driven inquiries toward those that explore processes across time, context, and even disciplinary boundaries. Using the specific example of virginity studies, the chapter then demonstrates how the flexible nature of SPA may serve as an asset in understanding generic identity processes more broadly.

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: I - Montesquieu/Comte/Marx/ Tocqueville/ The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848.

1965 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Coser ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
Richard Howard ◽  
Helen Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
The Revolution

scholarly journals O pensamento de Alberto Torres e a educação rural no Brasil: contribuições ao surgimento do ruralismo pedagógico

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Augusto Totti ◽  
Vitor Machado
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Education In Brazil

Este texto pretende discorrer sobre o pensamento de Alberto Torres, um dos mais importantes precursores do pensamento sociológico brasileiro, que viveu o momento da implantação da República (1889), dedicando-se a pensar temas relacionados a educação. Por conta da sua biografia política e intelectual, esteve preocupado com problemas que até então a intelectualidade brasileira não se importava em discutir. Tais problemas giravam em torno da defesa do meio ambiente e da necessidade em demonstrar a importância em se educar o homem do campo, para que ele pudesse proteger e resguardar os recursos naturais provenientes da terra. Procuramos demonstrar também que as ideias de Alberto Torres contribuíram de forma significativa para a origem do Ruralismo Pedagógico.Palavras-chave: Alberto Torres. Ruralidade. Ruralismo pedagógico. AbstractThe thought of Alberto Torres and rural education in Brazil: contributions to the emergence of educational ruralismThis paper intends to discuss the thought of Alberto Torres, one of the most important precursors of the Brazilian sociological thought, who lived the moment of the Republic establishment (1889), devoting himself to think about topics related to education. On account of his political and intellectual biography, he was concerned with problems that the Brazilian intellectuality did not care to discuss yet. Suchproblems revolved around the defense of the environment and the need to demonstrate the importance of educating the farmer, so that he could protect and safeguard the earth natural resources. We also demonstrate that the ideas of Alberto Torres contributed significantly to the origin of Educational Ruralism.Keywords: Alberto Torres. Rurality. Educational ruralism. ResumenPensamiento de Alberto Torres y educación rural en Brasil: contribuciones a la aparición de ruralismo educativoEste trabajo tiene como objetivo discutir el pensamiento de Alberto Torres, uno de los precursores más importantes del pensamiento sociológico brasileño, que vivió el momento de la creación de la República (1889) , dedicándose a pensar en temas relacionados con la educación. A causa de su biografía política e intelectual, estaba preocupado con los problemas que hasta ahora la intelectualidad brasileña no le importaba que discutir. Tales problemas voceaban en torno a la defensa del medio ambiente y la necesidad de demostrar la importancia de educar al agricultor, por lo que podrían proteger y preservar los recursos naturales de la tierra. También trató de demostrar que las ideas de Alberto Torres contribuyeron significativamente al origen del Pedagógico ruralismo.Palabras-clave: Alberto Torres. Asuntos rurales. Ruralismo pedagógico. Revisor do inglês: Prof. Ms. Wellington da Silva OliveiraRevisor do espanhol: Prof. Lilian de Souza

scholarly journals The Origin of Management Ideas in Sociology in Chinese Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-142
Author(s):  
Evgeny Kremnyov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Western Science ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
New Science ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Management Issues

n the beginning of the 20th century, China faced the need to look for new ways of development and, like other countries, turned towards the resources provided by social sciences in the attempt to comprehend and interpret this experience. This article reviews and analyzes Chinese sociological thought of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on management issues. The subject of this work is the genesis of management ideas in sociology in Chinese society. The material for the study comprises the works of thinkers, publicists, and political figures of that time who set themselves the task of applying sociological theories to the development of the country. The main problem discussed in the article is the ratio of Western and native Chinese views and ideas in sociological approaches to the study of managerial processes in China. The analysis of materials from that time shows three different tendencies in the formation of management ideas in sociology; identifying the prerequisites for a new science to be used in traditional ideas about management, demonstrating the predominance of Western science over Chinese traditional sciences, and the attempts at synthesizing the first two tendencies. The conclusion of the article is that, by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, the nascent management ideas in sociology in China were a heterogeneous fusion of Western and traditional Chinese concepts, and was closely related to other sciences such as political science, sociology, philosophy, etc. During this period, traditional ideas that were largely distinguished by speculation and ideology bore the function of an ideological “shield” to preserve the integrity of the Chinese nation in the context of the growing influence of Western powers on Chinese society.

scholarly journals Controversies in Tolcott Parsons' Justification of Functionalist Style of Sociological Thinking

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Structural Functionalism ◽  
American Scientist ◽  
The Way

The article focuses on identifying contradictions of functionalist oriented sociological thought, which accumulates various tendencies that determine the ways and styles of sociological theorizing. In particular, an analysis of the link between the life and creative biography of Tolcott Parsons as one of the founders of structural functionalism, their influence on the way and style of his sociological thinking. From the point of view of the authors of the article, T. Parsons' autobiography suggests that the liberal way of thinking was natural to the American scientist. It is this method that has found its adequate reflection in his scientific work and determined the thinking style of one of the most prominent representatives of structural functionalism. It is emphasized that, in response to the accusations of violating the "balance between succession and opportunism" in his "intellectual history", T. Parsons raised questions that did not resolve this contradiction but significantly exacerbated it. Similar situations are classified by a number of intellectuals as schizophrenic in the culture of late capitalism. But they have their logic, based on the rules of which theorists offer different ways of getting out of contradictory social situations that provide temporary success, while creating the effect of their delayed exacerbation. It is emphasized that in the works of T. Parsons the contradiction between “social” and “societal” is realized but not resolved, where “societal” requires development and “social” requires order. It is proved that the functionalist style of sociological thinking creates the illusion of the possibility of its solution by the method of undeclared refusal to develop in the name of order, which, in turn, leads to a radical rejection of the principle of rationalism.

Generations Later: The Same Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student

2022 ◽  
pp. 000276422110660
Author(s):  
Jalia Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Social World ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
White Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Informal Rules

In this article, the author relies on a narrative based format to explore the interactions between everyday race-making processes and the white space of academia. Recognizing the unique ways systems of power interact with their experiences in the social world, they chronicle their engagements detailing the pervasive ways rules of white space are placed. The article recognizes three informal rules of white space in academia: the accepted reification of white sociological thought; the acceptance of white professional standards; and the continued centering of white comfort.

Site Unseen

Site Reading ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
David J. Alworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Site

This chapter argues that to perform a site reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is to appreciate how the text functions as a novel of purpose that aims to vivify the planet as what Latour would call a “matter of concern.” Still, The Road reads less as a critique of contemporary social problems than as a “thought-experiment,” a sort of literary climate model, forecasting a chillingly plausible correlation between a ruined site and a grisly social order. By imagining this correlation through narrative form, McCarthy offers his own striking contribution to environmental and sociological thought, a contribution that starts to become apparent the moment we ask how his setting functions as an actant, both in the novel itself and beyond.

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