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The archaeology of knowledge

Gary Gutting
- pp 227-260
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We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract
We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

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The Plurality of Truth in Culture, Context, and Heritage: A (Mostly) Post-Structuralist Analysis of Urban Conservation Charters

TL;DR: The authors analyzes international heritage conservation charters through the poststructuralist lens of relative and perspective-driven "truths,” fragmentation, and dramatic settings, and concludes that the question of future interpretive acts within the dramatic scene of cultural heritage must reconcile the positivist past of preBurra Charter documents with the relativism of later documents.
Dissertation

Who cared for the carers? : a study of the occupational health of general and mental health nurses 1890 to 1948

TL;DR: This study sheds light on why nurses’ health attracted little attention before the Second World War but also explains why this situation began to change from the 1940s, and explains why attitudes towards the care of sick nurses changed over time and varied between different types of institutions.
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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Sam Kirkham
- 01 Nov 2015 - 
TL;DR: This article examined how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class, and social practice, focusing on the realisation of the happy vowel in Sheffield English, which is reported to be a lax variant [e] amongst working-class speakers but is undergoing change towards a tense variant [i] amongst middle class speakers.
Dissertation

Muslim discourses on integration and schooling

TL;DR: This paper used the sociological theory of "asabiyya" to make sense of Muslim discourses through a theoretic interpretation drawn from Muslim intellectual history and provided a space for Muslim pupils and parents to articulate their own discourses on integrated and segregated schools in Britain.
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Xenoracism: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Construction of Asylum Seekers and its Implications for Social Work Practice

Shepard Masocha, +1 more
- 18 Feb 2011 - 
TL;DR: The aim is to illuminate how the construction of asylum seekers is underpinned by xenoracism and how social workers are not immune to these discourses and to discuss the implications of these issues for social work.
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Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

TL;DR: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
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A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems

TL;DR: A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale, and the usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three publishedinterpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature.
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
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On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One

TL;DR: In this article, two such metaphors are identified: the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor, and their entailments are discussed and evaluated, and the question of theoretical unification of research on learning is addressed, wherein the purpose is to show how too great a devotion to one particular metaphor can lead to theoretical distortions and to undesirable practices.
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Generating Research Questions Through Problematization

TL;DR: Problematization is proposed as a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing literature and, based on that, formulating research questions that are likely to lead to more influential theories.