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About: Social theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 624898 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the concepts used in the works of Foucault that have had the greatest impact in sociology of sport and present a brief review of the important articles in sport that have been inspired by the Foucauldian approach.
Abstract: This paper is an introduction to the topic of Michel Foucault and the sociology of sport. First, we discuss the concepts used in the works of Foucault that have had the greatest impact in sociology of sport. Second, we present a brief review of the important articles in sociology of sport that have been inspired by Foucault’s approach. This exercise allows us to provide indices of the influence of the Foucauldian perspective on the sociology of sport: directly, by allowing us to situate the body at the center of research questions, or indirectly, in the context of the development and use of contemporary social theories.

154 citations

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TL;DR: A comparative analysis of three qualitative case studies of participation processes at the regional level in Quebec's healthcare system in Canada is presented to draw on observations to elaborate and discuss a sociological framework for the analysis of public participation.

154 citations

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Henk Procee1
TL;DR: Procee argues that Kant's philosophy incorporates ideas better suited to understanding reflection in education, particularly through his distinction between understanding and judgment, a distinction that supports an epistemology that accepts the special nature of reflection as judgment as opposed to formal learning as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: As even its defenders admit, reflection in education suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity. In this essay, Henk Procee provides a philosophical analysis of the central concepts in this domain. In the current literature, these concepts are usually taken from the pragmatic school of John Dewey and from critical social theory associated with Jurgen Habermas. In contrast, Procee argues that Kant’s philosophy incorporates ideas better suited to understanding reflection in education — particularly through his distinction between understanding ("Verstand") and judgment ("Urteilskraft"), a distinction that supports an epistemology that accepts the special nature of reflection as judgment as opposed to formal learning (which, in Kant’s analysis, is part of understanding). In addition, Procee discusses some consequences for the aims and methods of reflection in education.

154 citations

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TL;DR: The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources: biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms and social theory, which is pre-Darwinian.
Abstract: The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources. One from within social theory is part of the impetus to convert social studies into “social sciences” providing them with the status accorded to the natural sciences. The other comes from within biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms. The social--scientific theory of cultura evolution is pre-Darwinian, employing a developmental model of unfolding characterized by intrinsic directionality, by definable stages that succeed each other, and by some criterion of progress. It is arbitrary in its definitions of progress, and has had the political problem that a diachronic claim of cultural progress implies a synchronic differential valuation of present-day cultures. The biological scheme creates an isomorphism between the Darwinian mechanism of evolution and cultural history, postulating rules of cultural “mutation,” cultural inheritance and some mechanism of natural selection among cultural alternatives. It uses simplistic ad hoc notions of individual acculturation and of the differential survival and reproduction of cultural elements. It is unclear what useful work is done by substituting the metaphor of evolution for history.

154 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examined Schumpeter's early writings on the entrepreneur and focused on the apparent contradiction between his understanding of the inhibitory effect of social control and the entrepreneur's strength of will.
Abstract: Joseph Schumpeter's work has long been regarded as a seminal contribution to entrepreneurship theory. However, relatively little attention has been given to exploring the sociological implications of his insights. This article examines Schumpeter's early writings on the entrepreneur and focuses on the apparent contradiction between his understanding of the inhibitory effect of social control and the entrepreneur's strength of will. This tension is resolved by recourse to contemporary social theory of interaction and emotion. A synthesis of these works produces two hypothetical modes of entrepreneurial action. These are elaborated and their implications for the understanding of entrepreneurship discussed.

154 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202323
202241
2021232
2020308
2019305
2018326