Search results for "Sociology of knowledge" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • rates as a founder of the "sociology of knowledge"—the study ... and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge while in Frankfurt. ...
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  • Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... ecology, race relations, and the sociology of knowledge. ...
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  • Other examples include the sociology of knowledge, which studies social ... == Sociology of knowledge == Sociology of knowledge and Sociology of ...
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  • sociologist, famous for his development of Process Sociology, or Figurational ... Detachment. Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge. Original title Engagement ...
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  • and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...
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  • gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...
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  • American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard University ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...
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  • and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...
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  • in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago ... truth but rather as a necessary component of culture and human life, which ...
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  • to order capital punishment. The legitimacy of political authority is, however ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...
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  • His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World ... whole that must be understood in the context of history and the nature of the ...
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  • Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...
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  • Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society ...
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  • in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...
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  • Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison which ...
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  • Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...
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  • publications became classics in American sociology. In their work the Lynds ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...
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  • designed to equip teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, ... needed to qualify a person as a teacher: knowledge of the subject matter to ...
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  • a French thinker known as the "father of sociology." He developed ... in his later work, he embraced the concept of love as bringing the solution ...
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  • who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare. Younger sister ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...
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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... family. In keeping with the customs of the time, he spent terms at ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Category:Sociology |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ...
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  • Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...
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  • Edmund Husserl introduced the concept of the life-world in his Crisis ... is, the correlation between the functions of mind ("noesis") such ...
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  • Category:Sociology charm, a "magnetic" quality of personality and/or appearance ...
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  • was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... 1919, after the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed ...
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  • 1858 - November 15, 1917) is known as one of the originators of modern sociology ... foundation for research on the structure of human society. ...
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  • employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...
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  • ) designates a cluster of concepts such as assumptions, values, practices ... Paradigm shift|Sociology of knowledge|Systemics|Commensurability ...
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  • developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... Manfred S. Frings. Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge. London: Routledge ...
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  • Category:Sociology Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring ...
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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and ...
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  • American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...
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  • and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...
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  • but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...
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  • Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...
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  • by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ...
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  • Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...
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  • total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...
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  • day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... a sociology of economics; and a sociology of knowledge. The work is based ...
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  • Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...
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  • Category:Sociology eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ...
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  • tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right ... A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ...
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  • Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...
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  • Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...
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