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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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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, a view of collaboration is outlined that synthesizes important concepts and approaches from these other sources, and the core phenomenon for a theory of CSCL: building collaborative knowing is discussed.
Abstract: This chapter discusses a core phenomenon for a theory of CSCL: building collaborative knowing. Rather than reviewing, one after another, various theories that are currently influential in the field of CSCL (and that are described in other chapters), a view of collaboration is outlined here that synthesizes important concepts and approaches from these other sources. It takes some of the abstract concepts proposed by these theories and attempts to unwrap what is bundled up in these concepts by illustrating them with a concrete empirical example of building collaborative knowing. It contributes to a social theory of CSCL by unpacking central concepts and by using them to understand the process by which a small group collaboratively builds new knowing. The better we can understand how the processes involved in collaborative learning actually work, the better we can design computer support for them and the better we can evaluate the effectiveness of the learning and of the support.
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TL;DR: In this article, a concept of habit derived from pragmatist philosophy and sociology and from Veblenian institutional economics is used to explain how processes of habituation provide a mechanism of "reconstitutive downward causation" where institutional circumstances may affect individual preferences.
Abstract: The author claims that the conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. This paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and agency, and makes a novel addition, based on a concept of habit derived from pragmatist philosophy and sociology and from Veblenian institutional economics. The author shows how processes of habituation provide a mechanism of ‘reconstitutive downward causation’ where institutional circumstances may affect individual preferences. Finally, special characteristics of organizations are discussed, endorsing an evolutionary analytical approach that combines insights from both evolutionary economics and organization science.
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TL;DR: Hartsock as discussed by the authors argues that the continual renewal of the controversiality of standpoint theory is organically linked to its ever-expanding uses in actual research projects, and that women of color in the United States and women in and from the former European colonies cannot just be added to the feminist standpoint theory developed initially by Western feminists in the context of Western women's movements.
Abstract: The ontology, epistemology, ethics, and political commitments of standpoint theory were transformed in feminists’ appropriation of earlier class analyses in the context of the women’s movements of the 1970s. African-American and other women of color in the United States and women in and from the former European colonies cannot just be added to the feminist standpoint theory developed initially by Western feminists in the context of Western women’s movements. Some of the disputes between standpoint theorists originate in their different disciplinary locations, the distinctive discursive histories and contemporary concerns of their disciplines, and the particular projects they adopt for transforming their own disciplines. Hartsock is interested in political philosophy’s discussions of the role of progressive social movements in transformations of political philosophy and social theory. This chapter argues that the continual renewal of the controversiality of standpoint theory is organically linked to its ever-expanding uses in actual research projects.
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01 Jul 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give practical voice to the theoretical questions and research designs of an emerging agenda for organization theory that engages questions about broader social structure and organizations with theory in cultural analysis, stratification, and entrepreneurship.
Abstract: This work gives practical voice to the theoretical questions and research designs of an emerging agenda for organization theory that engages questions about broader social structure and organizations with theory in cultural analysis, stratification, and entrepreneurship.
132 citations