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- the_practice_of_social_theory @6916:2020
- ====== The practice of social theory ====== [RS: This may need some updating. Thoughts?] This is a diffi... ng called into question. Generally speaking, the social sciences developed in the West in a period in whi... ansformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to understand and explain why this tra... en as an expression of this modernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming consc
- the_practice_of_social_theory @6916:2018
- # The practice of social theory This is a difficult time to study questions of culture, development, and ... g called into question. Generally speaking, the social sciences developed in the West in a period in whi... ansformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to understand and explain why this tra... en as an expression of this modernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming consc
- the_pleasures_of_theory_-_a_rationale_for_the_unit_design @6916:2018
- f development practice: (1) it takes place within social systems; (2) those social systems are internally contested and diverse; (3) it attempts to change social systems; (4) it is an intercultural project. Thus... ges. This class is a very general introduction to social theory, but we do try to come back to these four
- about_this_seminar @6916:2024
- s the many different ways people make society and social conditions thinkable. This class was developed to... serve as a required unit on the basic concepts of social sciences for students of development. Over time, it became an all-purpose introduction to social theory. When the development studies degree was brought into the Masters of Social Justice as a concentration, it had to change agai
- plan @6916:2020
- 5 | Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory | | |\\ | 2 | Mar 3 | The material conditi... (2009) |\\ | 3 | Mar 10 | The rationality of the social actor | Weber ([1904] 1946) | Brenner (1996); Ger... nd Winant (2014) |\\ | 6 | Mar 31 | Exchange as a social, not economic, fact | Mauss ([1925] 1990) | Piot (1999) |\\ | 7 | Apr 7 | Sex and gender as social constructs and social process | Rubin (1975) | |\
- themes @6916:2018
- is a totality. Individuals just work here. * Social facts, what are they and why have they been important in social theory? * division of labor and solidarity * the sacred, or morality * Rationality in social action - Types of social action - The meaning of social action as a perspective * Value, Marx
- weekly_plan_and_assigned_readings @6916:2018
- ===== Week 1 (4 iii 2015): An invitation to the social sciences ===== An introduction to the unit. we will discuss the puzzles of our inherently social existence and the pleasures of social theory. [[1|More information...]] ===== Week 2 (11 iii 15): Collec... m, chap. 1, Durkheim, chap. 2* Write: “Consider social facts as things” (Durkheim 1964 [1895]: 14) It is
- books_about_social_theory @6916:2018
- # Books about social theory and social anthropology # ## Secondary literature ## These books are textbooks and anthologies of social theory and sociocultural anthropology, and may be useful as an orientation to the social sciences as a field. Adams, Bert, and R. A. Syd
- 2024 @6916:2024
- 16: Culture and development—Key concepts (or, The social in justice) ====== ===== Semester 2, 2024 ===== Social science has always been central to the study and ... at makes societies change. But where you stand on social change depends on where you sit. When the whole w... dams (1916) | |\\ | **2** | **August 07** | **[[2|Social work as ethical knowledge]]** | Addams (1902), in
- 8 @6916:2024
- ise as power ===== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 6916: The social in justice\\ Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Slide... ciety from the ground up, in terms of patterns of social action. Forms of social action can be more or less rational, and can be rational in different ways. Social actions can be motivated by * Tradition: This
- 7 @6916:2024
- going dispossession Ryan Schram ANTH 6916: The social in justice September 11, 2024 Slides availab... pitalism. ===== Fordist production and a Fordist social contract ===== In the first half of the 20th cen... s. * The Fordist industrial model is also a new social contract, a new normative idea of people’s entitl... w-skill labor, creating opportunities for greater social mobility and wealth accumulation [mostly for whit
- 2020 @6916:2020
- * | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au |\\ ^ **Office:** | Social Sciences Building 410 (A02) |\\ ^ **Office hours:... nge. It has evolved into a more general survey of social theory which is relevant to any advanced social scientific inquiry. In many postgraduate social science programs students devote themselves to the study
- about_this_seminar @6916:2018
- -purpose survey of theories of society. As I am a social and cultural anthropologist, I have a tendency to... n the subtle and imponderable aspects of people's social existence. Yet ultimately, and like all social scientists, I want to ask big questions about the human co... join with me and your fellow students in various social sciences in a discussion about what it means to b
- about_this_seminar @6916:2020
- -purpose survey of theories of society. As I am a social and cultural anthropologist, I have a tendency to... n the subtle and imponderable aspects of people’s social existence. Yet ultimately, and like all social scientists, I want to ask big questions about the human co... join with me and your fellow students in various social sciences in a discussion about what it means to b
- essay @6916:2020
- out, that is, what is the larger significance for social science in general, and how does it reflect the l... ibrary and find a published academic article in a social science journal which presents empirical data about a social phenomenon and attempts to explain it or interpret it. The social sciences are very diverse in both subject matter