Showing papers on "Field (Bourdieu) published in 1972"

Complex organizations : a critical essay

Abstract: This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition.

The Office Environment: Space Planning and Affective Behavior:

Abstract: The present state of the art in office and space planning described, and the results of a field study of the effects of office design on the occupants are presented. The attitudes and perceptions o...

Methodology in Environmental Psychology: Problems and Issues:

Abstract: Environmental psychology is an emerging interdisciplinary, problem-oriented field concerned with the interrelations among physical settings and human behavior and experience The field is further d

Using a computer in the field : Kinship information

Abstract: In a recent paper ambitiously titled &dquo;Computer methods in kinship studies&dquo;, Gilbert (1971) begins by stating: &dquo;In discussing the application of computers to any subject one runs two risks. The first of these is that everything will be outdated before it gets into print. The second is that one will get so carried away with what could be done (as opposed to what has been done), that the reader thinks that a great deal more has been accomplished than is in fact the case.&dquo; There is a third risk, and that is that if one waits to report on what has been done, as opposed to what might be done, the article is compared with what other people said earlier might be done and is not considered original work. Anthropologists, being naive in the computer business, are easy prey to the smooth-talking computer &dquo;experts&dquo; who are careful not to make the

Strategies of Participation in Participant Observation

Abstract: Participant observation is approached by considering five strategies of participation, as reflected in the writings of field workers in the social sciences. The strategies considered are: (1) gaini...

Systems Theory in International Relations: A Critique

Abstract: While confined in terms to the area of international relations, Professor Weltman here contributes a critique of systems theory which is applicable in any field. Whether or not his arguments are persuasive perhaps depends as much upon the initial commitments which the reader brings to the article as it does upon the arguments themselves, but it is a timely and sensible approach which will deserve the best efforts of systems theorists to combat.

Philosophical Redirection of Educational Research: The Life Uses of Schooling as a Field for Research.

Abstract: The theme of this essay has three aspects which it will be difficult to keep separate: x. Educational research is in the firm grip of its own orthodoxy, viz., only processes and phenomena that can be translated into publicly observable terms are legitimate targets for research. I shall refer to this orthodoxy as the \"dogma of behavioral objectives\" and will try to show that it is in large part responsible for the embarrassing discrepancy between the mountainous labor of educational research and its mouselike results. z. The dogma of behavioral objectives restricts educational research to what I shall refer to as the replicative use of school learnings, whereas the most important life-uses of such learnings for the citizen, or man in his nonspecialist role, are the associative and interpretive ones. 3. Can research be undertaken on the associative and interpretive life-uses of schooling? Can the nonexplicit, i.e., tacit, element in these uses of schooling be studied without self-contradiction?

A systems approach to higher education with special reference to the core curriculum

Abstract: The general problem of interdisciplinary relations and transdisciplinary integration has its counterpart in the field of education in the problem of producing generalists rather than specialists, and at the undergraduate college level, in the problem of devising a rational core curriculum. At present, neither the student nor the faculty knows why one mixture of courses is better or worse than another.

A theoretical analysis of the fundamental role categories of the sociologist interaction system

Abstract: Much has been written about the true field of sociology and the functions that sociologists must fulfil. The perpetual debate regarding the relative merits of “pure” and “applied” sociology is well-known.

Science and politics

Abstract: The recent conference on social responsibility and education in physics organized by the Education Group of the Institute brought out two important general points. (l) The concern about problems of social responsibility is not limited to those physicists in the educational field.