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Inquiry into Inquiries: Essays in Social Theory

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The article was published on 1975-12-10 and is currently open access. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social theory.

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Dewey, Peirce, and the Learning Paradox

TL;DR: In this paper, ideas are viewed as the real carriers of meaning, rather than schemas or post-modernist discourse, and ideas are thought to be generated through a metaphoric process known as abduction.
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Current Self-Regulation Views of Learning and Motivation Viewed Through a Deweyan Lens: The Problems With Dualism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the problems associated with the mischievous ontological distinction between mind and world, a practice which has given rise to a number of other false dichotomies, such as that between subject and object and that between child and curriculum.
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Individuals as Social Relationships: 18 Ways that Acting Alone can be thought of as Social Behavior:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue to replace individualistic explanations of behavior with descriptions of social and historical context, arguing that playing a guitar alone in a room can be more effective than doing so with a group of people.
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Replacing Catharsis and Uncertainty Reduction Theories with Descriptions of Historical and Social Context

TL;DR: The authors criticizes such notions and suggests three ways that such theories can be replaced with faithfulness, drive reduction, or uncertainty reduction instead of catharsis, drive reductions, and uncertainty reduction.
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The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain

TL;DR: The brain is a troubling object for sociologists as discussed by the authors, and the body politic is a problematic object for many of them, especially in the context of the brain's role in human work and interaction.