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Alan Swingewood

Bio: Alan Swingewood is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conflict theories & Positivism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 194 citations.

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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of historical determinism is addressed in the context of sociological positivism and its critique of positivism in the social sciences, including the role of social action in social change.
Abstract: Part 1 Foundations: origins of sociology human nature and social order Vico - science and history Montesquieu the Scottish enlightenment problems of method the emergence of class the dialectics of social change industrialisation and the rise of sociological positivism: empiricism and positivism the French Revolution and sociology the concept of industrial society - Saint-Simon Comte and positive science positivism and determinism sociology, political economy and the division of labour evolutionism and sociological positivism - Mill and Spencer Marxism - a positive science of capitalist development the development of Marxism alienation of labour the concept of ideology Marx's method - materialism and dialectics calss formation and class consciousness laws of development - the problem of historical determinism Part 2 Classical sociology: critique of positivism - 1 Durkheim Durkheim and the development of sociology positivism and morality division of labour, social cohesion and conflict anomie suicide and social solidarity functionalism, holism and political theory critique of positivism - 11 social action inderstanding and the social sciences - Dilthey formal sociology - Simmel and sociation understanding and the problem of method - Weber ideal types and social action religion and social action - capitalism and the Priotestant ethic capitalism and culture - Sombart and Simmel social action and social system - Pareto the socioloy of class and domination Marx's theory of domination the state and class domination the theory of class - Weber capitalism, bureaucracy and democracy - Weber's theory of domination Marxism and sociology Marxism after Marx Marxism as revolutionary consciousness - Lukacs and the concept of totality culture and domination - Gramsci and the concept of hegemony Marxism and the sociology of intellectuals - Gramsci Lukacs and Gramsci on sociology Marxism and sociology - the Austro-Marxists conclusion Part 3 Modern sociology: functionalism sociological functionalism - general features the concept of system functionalism and the dialectic of social life - Merton functionalism, social conflict and social change functionalism and stratification self, society and the sociology of everyday life action theory and the concept of slef - the early and later Parsons psycho-analysis and self - Freud the social self - Mead and symbolic interactionism sociological phenomenology - Schutz and the reality of everyday life structuralism the development of structuralism - Saussure post-Saussurian structuralism - language and culture Marxism and structuralism (part contents)

194 citations


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TL;DR: The authors provided a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches (i.e., narrative research, case study research, grounded theory, phenomenology, and participatory action research) as alternative qualitative procedures useful in understanding test interpretation.
Abstract: Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches— narrative research; case study research; grounded theory; phenomenology; and participatory action research—as alternative qualitative procedures useful in understanding test interpretation. For each approach, the authors offer perspectives about historical origins, definition, variants, and the procedures of research.

2,409 citations

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TL;DR: The familiar canon embodies an untenable foundation story of great men theorizing European modernity as mentioned in this paper, but sociology actually emerged from a broad cultural dynamic in which tensions of liberalism and empire were central.
Abstract: The familiar canon embodies an untenable foundation story of great men theorizing European modernity. Sociology actually emerged from a broad cultural dynamic in which tensions of liberalism and empire were central. Global expansion and colonization gave sociology its main conceptual framework and much of its data, key problems, and methods. After early‐20th‐century crisis, a profoundly reconstructed American discipline emerged, centered on difference and disorder within the metropole. The retrospective creation of a “classical” canon solved certain cultural dilemmas for this enterprise and generated a discipline‐defining pedagogy, at the price of narrowing sociology's intellectual scope and concealing much of its history.

392 citations

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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: Gardiner as discussed by the authors argues that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising, which has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge.
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: *The French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau *Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics *Carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin *Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life. Critiques of Everyday Life demonstrates the importance of an alternative, multidisciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorising and empirical research.

340 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the Andean community of Taquile Island, Peru is presented, where a framework of community integration in tourism is developed and applied to this community.

338 citations

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26 Nov 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career, covering the period from the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1857.
Abstract: This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1857. During these early years of the Second Empire, Comte became increasingly conservative and anxious to control his disciples. This study offers the first study of the tensions within his movement. Focusing on his second masterpiece, the Systeme de politique positive, and other important books, such as the Synthese subjective, Mary Pickering not only sheds light on Comte's intellectual development but also traces the dissemination of positivism and the Religion of Humanity throughout many parts of the world.

241 citations