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TL;DR: A lengthy and intensive debate about the role of sociology in agent based social simulation dominated the email list simsoc@jiscmail.ac.uk during the autumn of 2000 and the positions of four of the main protagonists concerned specifically with the modelling issues are reprised and extended in this symposium.
Abstract: A lengthy and intensive debate about the role of sociology in agent based social simulation dominated the email list simsoc@jiscmail.ac.uk during the autumn of 2000. The debate turned on the importance of models being devised to capture the properties of whole social systems and whether those properties should determine agent behaviour or, conversely, whether the properties of social systems should emerge from the behaviour and interaction of the agents and, if so, how that emergence should be represented. The positions of four of the main protagonists concerned specifically with the modelling issues are reprised and extended in this symposium.
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TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of the possibilities for solidarity across narrative boundaries presented by adult ageing is presented, and the implications for a critical approach that reaches beyond the academy are considerable, and they conclude that both narrative and masquerade may hold the danger of becoming inward-looking and thus solipsistic, ceasing to be part of an interactive, dialogical process and end up as fixed, yet ungrounded psychic positions.
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31 Jul 2009
TL;DR: Beyond Communication as discussed by the authors is the first full-scale study of Honneth's work, covering the whole range of his writings, from his first sociological articles to the latest publications.
Abstract: Few thinkers have made such significant contribution to social and political thinking over the last three decades as Axel Honneth. His theory of recognition has rejuvenated the political vocabulary and allowed Critical Theory to move beyond Habermas. Beyond Communication is the first full-scale study of Honneth's work, covering the whole range of his writings, from his first sociological articles to the latest publications. By relocating the theory of recognition within the tradition of European social theory, the book exposes the full depth and breadth of Honneth's philosophical intervention. The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences.
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02 Jun 2006
TL;DR: This book deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management and weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day.
Abstract: This book deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. It weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day. In doing so it creates a coherent path from fundamental work on philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology through specific domains of knowledge about the nature of information and meaning, human communication, and social intervention.
118 citations
01 Jun 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
Abstract: How behavior and institutions are affected by social relations is one of the classic questions of social theory. This paper concerns the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society. Although the usual neoclassical accounts provide an "undersocialized" or atomized-actor explanation of such action, reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong. Under- and oversocialized accounts are paradoxically similar in their neglect of ongoing structures of social relations, and a sophisticated account of economic action must consider its embeddedness in such structures. The argument is illustrated by a critique of Oliver Williamsons "markets and hierarchies" research program.
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