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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In what sense does space make a difference? How important is it and how should space and its supposed effects be understood? Can there be a general theory of space and society? What are the implications of space for social theory and practice? as mentioned in this paper try to answer these questions by using concepts from realist philosophy.
Abstract: In what sense does space make a difference? How important is it and how should space and its supposed effects be understood? Can there be a general theory of space and society? What are the implications of space for social theory and practice? I shall try to answer these questions by using concepts from realist philosophy. I shall argue that despite the considerable growth of interest in space, the difference it makes and its possible implications for social theory are still widely misunderstood, largely because of a failure to distinguish abstract from concrete research. Yet even when clarified, space still presents both social research and actual practice with considerable difficulties, and these are discussed in the final section.
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: Farr as mentioned in this paper discusses the history and development of social representations in knowledge and language as approaches to a psychology of the social Uwe Flick Part I. Social knowledge as an Issue in Social Psychology: 2. The knowledge of social systems Mario von Cranach 3. Everyday knowledge in social psychology and social attributions and social representations Miles Hewstone and Martha Augoustinos 5.
Abstract: Foreword R. M. Farr 1. Social representations in knowledge and language as approaches to a psychology of the social Uwe Flick Part I. Social Knowledge as an Issue in Social Psychology: 2. The knowledge of social systems Mario von Cranach 3. Everyday knowledge in social psychology Uwe Flick 4. Social attributions and social representations Miles Hewstone and Martha Augoustinos 5. The social construction of knowledge: social marking and socio-cognitive conflict Willem Doise, Gabriel Mugny and Juan A. Perez 6. Social memory: macrospyschological aspects Augustin Echebarria Echabe and Jose Luis Gonzalez Castro 7. Self as social representation Daphna Oyserman and Hazel Rose Markus Part II. Language and Discourse as Media for Social Psychology: 8. The epistemology of social representations Rom Harre 9. Social representations discourse analysis, and racism Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell 10. Social representations and ideology: towards the study of ideological representations Martha Augoustinos 11. Social representations and development: experts' and parents' discourses about a puzzling issue Felice F. Carugati and Patrizia Selleri 12. Social representations and media communications Carlo Michael Sommer 13. The social representation of 'man' in everyday speech Lenelis Kruse Part III. Social Representations: History and Development of a Field of Research: 14. The history and actuality of social representations Serge Moscovici.
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20 Feb 2004
TL;DR: Hoy as discussed by the authors explores the genealogy of resistance from Nietzsche's break with the Cartesian concept of consciousness to Foucault's and Bourdieu's theories of how subjects are formed through embodied social practices, and considers Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida on the sources of ethical resistance.
Abstract: This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores these crucial questions through lucid readings of Nietzsche, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, and others. He traces the genealogy of resistance from Nietzsche's break with the Cartesian concept of consciousness to Foucault's and Bourdieu's theories of how subjects are formed through embodied social practices. He also considers Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida on the sources of ethical resistance. Finally, in light of current social theory from Judith Butler to Slavoj Zizek, he challenges "poststructuralism" as a category and suggests the term "post-critique" as a more accurate description of contemporary Continental philosophy.Hoy is a leading American scholar of poststructuralism. Critical Resistance is the only book in English that deals substantively with the topical concept of resistance in relation to poststructuralist thought, discussions of which have dominated Continental social thought for many years.
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26 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In the context of the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University, Jurgen Habermas as mentioned in this paper outlined an intersubjective approach to social theory that takes the concepts of meaning and communication to be central.
Abstract: In 1971 Jurgen Habermas delivered the Gauss Lectures at Princeton University. These pivotal lectures, entitled "Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology," anticipate The Theory of Communicative Action and offer an excellent introduction to it. They show why Habermas considers the linguistic turn in social philosophy to be necessary and contain the first formulation of formal pragmatics, including an important discussion of truth.In these lectures and two additional essays, Habermas outlines an intersubjective approach to social theory that takes the concepts of meaning and communication to be central. In doing so, he situates his project relative to other influential accounts of how meaning is constituted, in particular those of Edmund Husserl, Wilfrid Sellars, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He examines the nature of social interaction and its connection to communication, developing a linguistic conception of convention and intentionality. He also offers an account of social and individual pathologies using the concept of systematically distorted communication. Taken together, these analyses contribute significantly to current debates in the philosophy of action and language.
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TL;DR: In this article, a multidisciplinary review of the literature on social identity theory and its implications for learning in organizations is presented, along with some of the limitations of the theory.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review social identity theory and its implications for learning in organizations.Design/methodology/approach – This article is a conceptual paper based on a multidisciplinary review of the literature on social identity theory. This article explains the theoretical concepts, constructs, and findings of an identity‐based view of learning in organizations. The article describes the theoretical foundations of social identity theory and its elaboration as self‐categorization theory, along with some of the limitations of the theory. Important implications for workplace learning are presented.Findings – Although multiple factors influence how people work, social identity theory portends to be a unifying theory of organizational behavior because what and how people think as members of social groups influences subsequent behavior and attitudes in social systems. This influence has important implications for workplace learning..Practical implications – The social identities...
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