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01 Jan 1973
TL;DR: A major contribution to criminology in which Taylor, Walton and Young provide a framework for a fully social theory of crime was made by as discussed by the authors, who considered the problem of crime as a social problem.
Abstract: A major contribution to criminology in which Taylor, Walton and Young provide a framework for a fully social theory of crime.
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02 Sep 1999TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the uses of history in the field of gender history and post-colonization history, including the following: 1. Historical awareness 2. History awareness 3. Mapping the field 4. The raw materials 5. Using the sources 6. Writing and interpretation 7. The limits of historical knowledge 8. History and social theory 9. Cultural evidence and the cultural turn 10. Memory and the spoken word 11. Conclusion.
Abstract: List of images. Preface to the Sixth Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Historical awareness 2. The uses of history 3. Mapping the field 4. The raw materials 5. Using the sources 6. Writing and interpretation 7. The limits of historical knowledge 8. History and social theory 9. Cultural evidence and the cultural turn 10. Gender history and postcolonial history 11. Memory and the spoken word 12. History beyond academia. Conclusion. Index.
409 citations
TL;DR: The conceptual reception of Bourdieu's sociology in the United States through a conceptual re-examination of the concept of Habitus is discussed in this paper, where it is shown to have roots in structural anthropology and in the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, especially the latter's generalization of the idea of operations from mathematics to the study of practical, bodily mediated cognition.
Abstract: This paper aims to balance the conceptual reception of Bourdieu's sociology in the United States through a conceptual re-examination of the concept of Habitus. I retrace the intellectual lineage of the Habitus idea, showing it to have roots in Claude Levi-Strauss structural anthropology and in the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, especially the latter's generalization of the idea of operations from mathematics to the study of practical, bodily-mediated cognition. One important payoff of this exercise is that the common misinterpretation of the Habitus as an objectivist and reductionist element in Bourdieu's thought is dispelled. The Habitus is shown to be instead a useful and flexible way to concep-tualize agency and the ability to transform social structure. Thus ultimately one of Bourdieu's major contributions to social theory consists of his development of a new radical form of cognitive sociology, along with an innovative variety of multilevel sociological explanation in which the interplay of different structural orders is highlighted. In keeping with the usual view, the goal of sociology is to uncover the most deeply buried structures of the different social worlds that make up the social universe, as well as the "mechanisms" that tend to ensure their reproduction or transformation. Merging with psychology, though with a kind of psychology undoubtedly quite different from the most widely accepted image of this science, such an exploration of the cognitive structures that agents bring to bear in their practical knowledge of the social worlds thus structured. Indeed there exists a correspondence between social structures and mental structures, between the objective divisions of the social world . . . and the principles of vision and division that agents apply to them (Bourdieu, 1996b[1989], p. 1).
406 citations
TL;DR: A review of the development of environmental sociology over the past few decades can be found in this paper, where five areas of environmental sociological scholarship are discussed: (a) the "new human ecology," (b) environmental attitudes, values, and beacons, (c) the environmental movement, (d) technological risk and risk assessment, and (e) the political economy of the environment and environ-mental politics.
Abstract: Recent research in environmental sociology is reviewed. Following a brief overview of the development of environmental sociology over the past dec ade, five areas of environmental sociological scholarship are discussed: (a) the "new human ecology," (b) environmental attitudes, values, and be haviors, (c) the environmental movement, (d) technological risk and risk assessment, and (e) the political economy of the environment and environ mental politics. It is argued that while the early environmental sociologists sought nothing less than the reorientation of sociology and social theory, environmental sociology's influence on the discipline has been modest. In stead, environmental sociology has steadily taken on characteristics of the discipline as a whole, especially its fragmentation and its dualism between theory and the pursuit of middle-range empirical puzzles. Encouraging ex amples of recent work that creatively integrates theory and empirical research in environmental sociology are discussed.
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08 Dec 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present three grand visions of history: classical evolutionism, Neo-evolutionism, and alternative vision of making history, which is the essence of social change.
Abstract: Preface. Part I: Concepts and Categories:. 1. Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change. 2. Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress. 3. Temporal Dimension of Society: Social Time. 4. Modalities of Historical Tradition. 5. Modernity and Beyond. 6. Globalization of Human Society. Part II: Three Grand Visions of History:. 7. Classical Evolutionism. 8. Neo--evolutionism. 9. Theories of Modernization: Old and New. 10. Theories of Historical Cycles. 11. Historical Materialism. Part III: Alternative Vision: Making History:. 12. Against Developmentalism: Modern Critique. 13. History as a Human Product: Evolving Theory of Agency. 14. New Historical Sociology: Concreteness and Contingenc. 15. Social Becoming: the Essence of Historical Change. Part IV: Aspects of Social Becoming:. 16. Ideas as Historical Forces. 17. Normative Emergence: Evasions and Innovations. 18. Great Individuals as Agents of Change. 19. Social Movements as Forces of Change. 20. Revolutions: the Peak of Social Change. Bibliography
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