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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Social Ontology"”.
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A Social Ontology of the Wage
This thesis draws on the theory and method of social ontology to explore why labour law struggles to provide for wage security and clarity of employment status today. It starts by exploring at a conceptual level the relationship between law and capitalism, before moving on to engage more …
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Toward a Social Ontology of the Family
… means that the family is a unique kind of social group with a particular purpose: to provide care in intimate settings toward the mutual well being of all family members. Families work toward this goal by meeting the needs of all family members.</p> <p>I propose that we think of needs as …
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The Social Ontology of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Ontogenetic, Interpellative Speech Act
… discipline, it also takes place within a social context that modifies its effects, particularly in its application of diagnostic categories to individuals. In this thesis, I argue that, because of this context, psychiatric diagnosis can be modeled as an ontogenetic, interpellative speech …
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Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
… bears witness to a particular form of social existence visible in the church. War, I argue, describes a form of social existence which is a counter social ontology to the existence given by Christ to the church. By examining the interrelationship of social ontology, ecclesiology, and …
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The legitimacy of NGO labour migration advocacy work with the state under neoliberalism
… State is the key actor and is bound by a realist social ontology. The interest in Karl Marx and Ralph Miliband stems from the belief that access to the economy is a key way to improve other important aspects of life.
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
… an ""institutionalized"" part of the larger social context. I argue that this larger institutional level of racism is what makes it oppressive, as opposed to simple prejudice or dislike. Chapter one establishes this basic position, and moves directly into an analysis of oppression, appealing …
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Dialectical Performance and Political Economy: Adapting the Brechtian Learning Play to Reimagine 21st Century Social Participation
… widespread assumptions on the nature of social participation through a practice of participatory performance that fosters democratic forms of access to and discussion of knowledge, such as the learning play. The thesis adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from critical theory, …
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A Comparative Study of Marxism and Critical Realism
… is based on Capital. In Capital, the method of social exploration employed by Marx is historically contextual. Capitalism provides Marx with the condition to construct his method, so that the explanation of capitalistic production is realised. In Marx‘s explanation, the calculation …
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"What if I get it wrong?" A psycho-social enquiry into SENCOs' experiences of learning, doing and teaching maths
This research applies a psycho-social approach to explore how SENCOs think about children with learning difficulties in mathematics, their feelings when performing mathematics tasks, and their own experiences of mathematics learning. Four SENCOs from different schools were interviewed twice. These …
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Creating Society as a Work of Art: Towards an Imaginative Logic of Action in Sartre's <i>Critique of Dialectical Reason</i>
… Reason is generally read as a work of social ontology and/or normative social theory. The present project proposes that it is better to approach CDR as a heuristic, as a formal, logical investigation into the elementary formal structures of history. Once the ontological and normative …
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A black art: Ontology, data, and the Tower of Babel problem
… 2011), resulting in a new type of informational ontology (Iliadis, 2013) the critical analysis of which requires new methods and frameworks. Currently, there is a lack of literature addressing the theoretical, social, and critical dimensions of such informational ontologies, applied computational …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
… by which individuals are able to form collective social institutions and to endow them with authority and agency. I examine the relationship of the individuals to collective bodies such as states that can account for how human beings are able to forge communities, and a theory which has the …
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Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency
… capacity for shared agency is fundamental to our social lives. We make movies, sit in Parliament, and fight pandemics <em>together</em>. In my thesis, I first offer a novel theory of what is required for collections of activities to count as shared. I then develop an account of cooperativeness, …
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L'individu, avenir de la sociologie ? Réflexion critique sur l'individualisme méthodologique et la sociologie de l'action à partir des travaux de R. Boudon
… extent, the individual is more "real" than the social.