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Showing 1 to 20 of 236 for “"Social theory"”.
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South African social theory : Steve Biko
… minor dissertation investigates sociological theory in South Africa. The primary aim of this dissertation is to determine if one can produce or derive sociological theory from the work of black South Africans, specifically Steve Biko. To this end one has to disseminate the idea of sociological …
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Towards a social theory of mental handicap
… this dominant paradigm by developing labelling theory accounts of how individuals and state agencies can create and maintain the category of handicap by stigniatization and differential denial of social resources, and there have been attempts to see the category as a functional one for …
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Critical social theory and the end of work
… having so-far looked atthe end of work as a social phenomenon, the project will survey the argumentsaround the move away from work as a sociological category; this chapter engageswith postmodernism and the supposed move from the 'metaphysic of labour' tothe 'metaphysic of consumption'. The …
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Kristeva’s Social Theory: A Lacanian Critique for Education
… and excluded discourses within Kristevan theory and which have enabled that theory to make sense in particular ways. The specific systems of meaning in Kristeva’s work that I will interrogate coalesce around her theory of the semiotic and the symbolic, which is presented as a revolutionary …
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Karl Mannheim's Social Theory and Concept of Education
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Modern social theory and the logic of possibility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Why Parents Choose Catholic School: A Social Theory Understanding
… for their children? Current research provides no social or religious understanding of the phenomenon of school choice.</p><p> Research Questions and hypotheses </p><p> As the title indicates, the purpose of this study is to investigate the real reasons that parents choose Catholic school for their …
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Intersubjectivity and contemporary social theory: the everyday as critique
… theorists and more traditional forms of social constructionism has been philosophically conventionalist in arguing that discourses, definitions and labelling activities directly construct meaning. The argument of this thesis is that it is possible, via Dummett's reading of Frege, to …
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
… the philosophical heritage of classical social theory. In his ongoing engagement with the philosophy of German Idealism, and with Hegel in particular, Adorno’s philosophical, sociological, and cultural critical writings involve a critical rethinking of the relationship between subject and …
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INDIVIDUAL IT USES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS: A SOCIAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… in the IT use construct by developing a theory of workplace IT use. It conceptualizes individual IT use as a socio-technical construct, instead of purely a social (i.e., perceived) or technical (i.e., objective) construct. It proposes to resolve conflicts about the conceptualization of IT …
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Three Essays at the Intersection of Social Theory and Political Economy
… lens, wedding the insights of modern social theory with heterodox political economy. The first chapter synthesizes the economic and sociological literature on wage determination, developing a conceptual apparatus, which is better situated than previous approaches, to understand the …
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History, Moral Philosophy, and Social Theory in David Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1739-1752
This thesis shows how David Hume developed his historical thought between the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and the Political Discourses (1752). It approaches Hume’s historical thought from two perspectives: historical method and historical structure. On the methodological side, the thesis …
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The psychasthenia of deep space: evaluating the ‘reassertion of space in critical social theory’
… the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre, and also seeks parallels with more populist texts on cities and space, to suggest, following Williams, that there is …
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Communicative action in information security systems: an application of social theory in a technical domain
… increasingly common practice in an established theory where no explicit theory currently exists. The common practice that is the subject of this study is information security. It is commonly held that information security means maintaining the confidentiality, integrity (accuracy) and …
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