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The Explanation of Social Action
Author | : John Levi Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199773440 |
The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. This "causality" has little to do with reality and instead involves the creation and validation of abstract statements that almost no social scientist would defend literally. This substitution of analysts' imaginations over actors' realities results from an intellectual history wherein social scientists began to distrust the self-understanding of actors in favor of fundamentally anti-democratic epistemologies. These were rooted most defensibly in a general understanding of an epistemic hiatus in social knowledge and least defensibly in the importation of practices of truth production from the hierarchical setting of institutions for the insane. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. This implies the need for a social aesthetics, an understanding of the process whereby actors intuit intersubjectively valid qualities of complex social objects. In this thought-provoking and ambitious book, John Levi Martin argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory.
Writing as Social Action
Author | : Marilyn M. Cooper |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The authors outline an approach to the study of literacy that does not neglect the cognitive or individual aspects of literacy but rather sees them as largely shaped by the social forces of our political, economic, and educational systems.
Social Action and Human Nature
Author | : Axel Honneth |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521339353 |
The Myth of Social Action
Author | : Colin Campbell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998-07-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521646369 |
The Myth of Social Action, first published in 1996, is a powerful critique of the sociology of the time and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy. Arguing that sociological theory had lost its way, Colin Campbell mounts a case for a new 'dynamic interpretivism' a perspective on human conduct which is more inkeeping with the spirit of traditional Weberian action theory. Discussing and dismissing one by one the main arguments of those who reject individualistic action theory, he demonstrates that this has been wrongly rejected in favour of the interactional, social situationalist approach now dominating sociological thought.
Society in Action
Author | : Piotr Sztompka |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226788159 |
In Society in Action, Piotr Sztompka sets forth a highly topical contribution to central theoretical debates of contemporary sociology. Taking the idea and practice of collective mobilization as his theme, Sztompka argues that modern institutions, particularly of late, are characterized by an increasing awareness of collective empowerment. The most obvious concrete expression of this phenomenon, as Sztompka makes clear, is the rise of a diversity of active social movements such as those which dramatically transformed Europe in the 1980s, from the birth of Solidarity in 1980 to the 1989 "Autumn of Nations." Sztompka connects the interpretations of such collective activity to a wider grasp of the nature of social action. The result is a comprehensive and original theory of social change which focuses on the self-transforming influence on society of its members' striving for freedom, autonomy, and self-fulfillment. He develops his theory by means of a general concept of "social becoming," the roots of which he traces to the early romantic and humanist work of Karl Marx and his followers and to two influential sociological schools of today, the theory of agency and historical sociology. Sztompka situates his theory midway between the rigid determinism of social totalities and the unbridled voluntarism of free individuals. Social change, he demonstrates, can be understood neither as the outcome of individual actions taken alone nor as structurally determined actions. Instead, he confers upon social organizations and movements a "self-transcending" quality: they express human agency yet, by virtue of their active character, are quite often able to achieve unpredictable outcomes. Throughout his analysis of social movements and revolutions in history, Sztompka emphasizes the dynamics of spontaneous social change generated from below—a theoretical testimony to the rapid and fundamental social change in Eastern Europe in recent history. Against the fashions of postmodernist malaise, boredom, and disenchantment, his theory of social becoming expresses the possibility of emancipation, of change leading to positive gains. His work registers a belief in progress, not inevitably gained, but its attainment fully dependent upon the creativity and optimism of an active citizenry.
Language As Social Action
Author | : Thomas M. Holtgraves |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135672652 |
"Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression management and person perception, conversational structure, perspective taking, and language and social thought."--Jacket
Why Social Justice Matters
Author | : Brian Barry |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745629938 |
He proposes a number of policies to achieve a more equal society and argues that they are economically feasible.
Change!
Author | : Scott Myers-Lipton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : College students |
ISBN | : 9781138297289 |
This is the first practical social change text devoted to students working in an academic environment. While there are many books about community organizing and social change, there are no college texts focusing on how to provide real-world experience with academic content taking into consideration the flow of the academic term. CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action is written specifically for faculty and staff to use with college students with the goal of helping students bring about the change they believe is necessary to make our community a better place to live.