On the Theory Contiguous to the world. Qualitative studies in search of the continuity between the life practice and the sociological theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grażyna Woroniecka
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
The World

Rekonstruktive Sozialforschung als strukturale Hermeneutik

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Schulz-Nieswandt
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Hermeneutics

With special reference to the works of Ulrich Oevermann and Fritz Schütze, this book outlines the dense foundations of the logic of reconstructive social research from the perspective of structural hermeneutics. In this context, the author’s explanations focus on the social ontological prerequisites of the aforementioned methodology. Against the background of aspects of knowledge theory and science theory, the study emphasises the appropriate theory of the embedded subject in relation to the world around it and, in doing so, synthesises structuralism and hermeneutics. In this context, sociological theory cannot be appropriately understood without psychoanalysis of the deep mechanisms of the intra-individual work apparatus.

scholarly journals Przemiana – społeczna i osobista. „Chłop polski” jako przyczynek do analizy współczesnych przemian w szkolnictwie wyższym na świecie

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Hermanowicz Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The present work represents an extrapolation of Wiliam I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, on behalf of the development of sociological theory. The subject consists of careers and institutions in higher education. The curriculum vitae serves as the novel human document by which to investigate both social and personal change. Academic careers are studied by virtue of their objective and subjective dimensions. Objectively, the institution of education is revealed for the shifting expectations that govern work in academia in specific historical times (indicated by the cohort in which academics earned their Ph.D.s) and in specific socially bound places (indicated by the type of university in which academics work). Major social change in education likely spells personal change for the way in which people subjectively experience the contemporary academic career. The data come from U.S.-based academics; parallel transformational changes are observable globally. The global change discussed in the work centers on diffusion and institutionalization of the research role. The sources and consequences of this change are problematic. Akin to Thomas and Znaniecki’s larger analytic aims, patterns of change are used inductively to formulate theory: the paper culminates by postulating a theory of increasing tendencies in the way knowledge is produced in higher education institutions throughout the world.

scholarly journals Change – social and personal: Thomas and Znaniecki’s The Polish Peasant for the study of present-day change in global higher education

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Way

The present work represents an extrapolation of W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, on behalf of the development of sociological theory. The article focuses on careers and institutions in higher education. The curriculum vitae serves as the novel human document by which to investigate both social and personal change. Academic careers are studied by virtue of their objective and subjective dimensions. Objectively, the institution of education is revealed through the shifting expectations that govern work in academia in specific historical times (indicated by the cohort in which academics earned their Ph.D.s) and in specific socially bound places (indicated by the type of university in which academics work). Major social change in education is likely to spell personal change for the way in which people subjectively experience the contemporary academic career. The data come from U.S.-based academics; parallel transformational changes are observable globally. The global change discussed in the work centres on the diffusion and institutionalization of the research role. The sources and consequences of this change are problematic. Akin to Thomas and Znaniecki’s larger analytic aims, patterns of change are used inductively to formulate theory: the paper culminates by postulating a theory of increasing tendencies in the way knowledge is produced in higher education institutions throughout the world.

scholarly journals Qualitative Research and the Generalizability Question: Standing Firm with Proteus

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Myers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Sense

Qualitative studies are tools used in understanding and describing the world of human experience. Since we maintain our humanity throughout the research process, it is largely impossible to escape the subjective experience, even for the most seasoned of researchers. As we proceed through the research process, our humanness informs us and often directs us through such subtleties as intuition or 'aha' moments. Speaking about the world of human experience requires an extensive commitment in terms of time and dedication to process; however, this world is often dismissed as 'subjective' and regarded with suspicion. This paper acknowledges that small qualitative studies are not generalizable in the traditional sense, yet have redeeming qualities that set them above that requirement.

scholarly journals Qualitative Marketing Research, Neurosciences, and Transdisciplinarity

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Guelfand
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
Objective Information ◽  
The World

Qualitative studies often refer to the notion of the inconscious and neurosciences reveal to us the existence of a neuronal inconscious. But inconscious is not only neuronal, and the qualitative method does not offer ways to measure the mental reactions in individuals. In qualitative, we decipher the incounscious conditioned by our social, historical, and cultural environnementmake; we read how the consumer projects himself onto the objects of the world; we tap into creative imagination; we can pull everything apart and reconstruct it; and we take part in the strategic objectives of a brand.  For example, to construct a Brand strategy, we have to think differently; to break the beliefs; to think in a contradictory way. Qualitative is about going beyond the concrete facts and the measurements, which allows to think out of the box; it is about control and emerging meaning. In a world increasingly saturated with objective information, qualitative has a symbolic  function that helps overcome the deadlocks of rationality. Qualitative is a transdisciplinary discipline.

scholarly journals Roma Housing and Eating in 1775 and 2013: A Comparison

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Kozubik ◽  
Jitse P van Dijk ◽  
Barbora Odraskova
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Life Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
The World ◽  
Roma Women

Objectives: We compared housing and the eating habits of Roma. Contemporary findings (2013) were compared with those from the first monothematic work on Roma (1775) depicting their housing and eating habits. Methods: Data come from a journal (1775) and from semi-structured interviews (2013) with more than 70 Roma women and men who live segregated in excluded settlements at the edges of villages or scattered among the majority. Data were collected in two villages and one district town in the Tatra region, where data from the 1775 measurements originate. We used classical sociological theory and new ethnography to interpret the obtained data. Results: The main findings showed differences between specific social classes then and now regarding housing as well as eating habits, related to both conditions among Roma in the Tatra. The national Roma foods gója or marikľa are traditional foods of Slovak ancestors living in poverty in the country. The houses of Roma do not greatly differ from those of the majority. Conclusions: We conclude that life strategies of the citizens of poor settlements now are similar to two centuries ago, typical for the culture of poverty in various countries of the world even after the centuries.

scholarly journals From The Hermeneutics of Suspicion to the Sociology of Suspiciousness: Between Paul Ricœur And Niklas Luhmann

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-174
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Multiple Worlds ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Conceptual Work

The article explores the significance of suspicion for conceptual work in sociological theory. The key question is what the relationship is between the transcendental suspicion of the researcher and the mutual suspicion among social agents? Can we say that the suspicion of a sociologist is only a special case of the universal fundamental suspicion of social agents? Or instead that the suspicion of sociologists forces them to attribute the property of suspicion to the suspects themselves? Paul Ricœur’s “hermeneutics of suspicion” does not allow an answer to this question because Ricœur makes three reductive maneuvers: he makes suspicion a condition for distinguishing between consciousness and the unconscious, eliminates the symmetry of suspicion, and reduces suspicion of motives to suspicion of consciousness. Ricœur’s concept of suspicion therefore is triply encumbered: it is excluded from the world, disconnected from intersubjectivity, and alienated from action. Niklas Luhmann explicates suspicion precisely in the mode of “suspicion of motives,” for which Marxist social criticism or, in other words, exposing hypocrisy is the paradigm. However, Luhmann is faced as Marx was with the problem of distinguishing between mutual social suspicion and the privileged transcendental suspicion of the researcher. Focusing on motives locates unity in the difference between transcendental and social suspicion and allows us to distinguish two specific forms of suspicion: the paranoid form aimed at detecting a “double bottom” in human actions; and the schizoid form which finds a “double bottom” in surrounding reality itself, which makes schizoid suspicion a much more fundamental stance. It is based on ontological doubt — a refusal to recognize the visible as valid. That doubt fostered the metaphysics of multiple worlds (only one of which is social) that has become an unproblematic axiomatic assumption of sociology.

scholarly journals From Eleanor Rigby to Nannanet: The greying of the World Wide Web

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Brabazon
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Older Populations

The proportion and number of wired seniors is small. A grey gap punctuates in the digital divide. The World Wide Web is not a panacea or salve for the isolation and ageism that confronts senior citizens. Yet a proactive and political desire to wire those who are living, dancing, talking and thinking in God’s Waiting Rooms around the world provide one more safety net and social safeguard to collectivize the dispersed and dispossessed. This article uses quantitative and qualitative studies to investigate how and why older populations dis/connect from the digital environment. Commencing with international surveys monitoring Web users, the study then drills down to regions with a high proportion of older residents, exploring if and then how seniors use the World Wide Web.

scholarly journals ASPEK KULTURAL “BISMILLAHIRRAHMÂNIRRAHIM” DALAM KEISLAMAN ORANG BUTON: KAJIAN TERHADAP KABANTI AJONGA INDA MALUSA

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Ali Rosdin
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Of Literature

This study aimed at describing to what extent expression bismilllahirrahmânirrahim influenced Islamic lives of Buton people in the past. The object of the study is script kabanti Ajonga Inda Malusa as H. Abdul Ganiu’s work. The study focuses on understanding the meanings constructed in kabanti Ajonga Inda Malusa by looking at its relationship with cultural elements and historical background of Buton people. In understanding the phrase bismilllahirrahmânirrahim, it used hermeneutic method supported with the sociological theory of literature, that views literature as (1) a reflection of its supporting society, (2) a document that records cultural social reality and the bias of the reality of society in its time, and (3) other aspects related to a society in accordance with conventions and historical background in its cultural social framework. The results showed that the statement bismilllahirrahmânirrahim is a tradition of Sufi poets in the past Buton Sultanate to start their work, which can be interpreted as a form of practice of Islamic refinement that always refers to the al Quran and Hadis. In the Islamic context of Buton people, the phrase bismilllahirrahmânirrahim then explored and elaborated into whole aspects of life, the world and the hereafter.

Purse, Soul and Intellectual Poverty: A Self-Infested Cause in Ben Tomoloju’s ‘Jankariwo’

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Itsewah Steve James
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Leadership Traits ◽  
Intellectual Deficiency ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

Nigeria is a nation blessed beyond the borders of lack, yet Nigeria may be described from the planes as an impoverished state. A cross section of the dissection of the problems anchored within reveals that poverty and lack are the sole conditions upon which evident incongruities rest. Poverty of the soul, purse and of the mind or intellectual rationality are the major tripartite wheel upon which the glitches of the nation is foregrounded. This is manifested in the application of followership and leadership traits, the ways and manners that issues and concerns are treated are evidences of capricious leadership. It is believed that when leaders dothe needful and are sensitive enough to the provision of basic amenities to the citizenry, Nigeria state would have been one of the world powers. But the insensitivity and venality of our supposed leaders are unforgiveable and unforgettable, which has afflicted and infested on many families’ purse, soul and their intellectual deficiency. Evidences of aforementioned are captured in the play “Jankariwo”. This paper intends to chronicle the manners in which our leaders perpetrate their nefarious, callous, and ferocious acts with impunity, which has brought the country and many Nigerians to their knees via poverty affliction. However, the paper shall harvest the sociological theory and analytical methodology in dilating the level of these leaders’ ungodly act infested on those who voted them into power through Ben Tomoloju’s ‘Jankariwo’, (Cobwebs).

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