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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"sociology of knowledge"”.
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Genetic epistemology and the sociology of knowledge
… study originates in certain shortcomings in the sociology of knowledge and in sociological theory generally. Among such shortcomings are: an unnecessarily restricted conception of knowledge, the neglect of contemporary findings in biology and psychology, and the oversocialized conception of …
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Sociology of Knowledge in Durkheim and Mannheim and Its Bearing on Educational Theory
… in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:23:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500797.pdf: 13016926 bytes, checksum: baf340236f1fcadd1ffcf18ee7705acc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Filosofisociologi : Ett sociologiskt perspektiv på filosofiskt tänkande
The subject matter of the present doctoral thesis is the sociology of philosophy, a sub-discipline within the general field of sociology. As the term clearly indicates, the sociology of philosophy concerns the sociological study of philosophy. As this domain is still, to some extent, virgin …
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Modelling The World : The Social Constructions Of Systems Analysts
This dissertation is concerned with a case study of system dynamics, a well-known simulation modelling methodology, and its implicit theory of social system behaviour. System dynamics is policy oriented and is directed towards the control and management of social systems. It originally evolved in …
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A Conceptual Model of Knowledge Acquisition and Utilisation Through Marketing Research in Tourism: Development and an Empirical Assessment
This thesis is concerned with the process of knowledge acquisition and utilisation through marketing research in tourism. Its main objective is to determine the factors that lead to a marketing research orientation in tourism organisations. A conceptual model of antecedents and consequences of …
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ACADEMIC FEMINISM IN BRITAIN AND THE USA 1980 AND 1998: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Questions concerning the relationship between knowledge and other factors in the social world are among those that have been central to contemporary academic debates both within and outside of academic feminism. Linking into these debates, this study is guided by one central, underlying question; …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
… practices and myths, as well as patterns of elite struggles in Soviet academia and society. Beyond having purely historical significance, the findings of this dissertation have implications for understanding post-Soviet culture and politics of science and intellectual elites. By adopting a …
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Cognitive Institutions: The Cultural Context of Reasoning
… intended as a contribution to the social theory of reason. This theory attempts to analyze reason (that is, the standard of rationality) as a social phenomenon, rather than, as in classical views of reason (e.g., those of Plato and Descartes) as an abstract regulative idea, universally known to …
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Knowledge and knower structures and recontextualising logics in an accounting curricular framework
Accountants require specialised knowledge, competencies and skills to deliver quality services. In the modern business environment, this can take the form of financial accounting, reporting, planning and decision-making. This thesis identifies the need for change in the accounting curriculum to …
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Discourses on refugees in Ugandan media: Homogenization and silencing in newspapers of Africa's primary refugee host country
Discourses on refugees in media are often marked by two tendencies: homogenization, a portrayal of 'the refugees' as an apparently uniform collective, and silencing, which means that refugees are mostly spoken about by others with little opportunity to speak for themselves. Yet while research with …
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Expert Interventions for Democracy: The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of International Democracy
The subject of this dissertation research is the field of professional organizations in North America that promote and assist democratization movements around the world. These organizations use a form of specialized expert knowledge to help activists, politicians and civil society organizations …
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The Music Professors of YouTubiversity
This dissertation explores the current use of YouTube in music studies in higher education while suggesting a reconsideration of the academic as both source and resource in the neo-information age. In it, I summarize interviews with ten current YouTube content creators who run music education …
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"Doing the Right Thing": A Study of Cross-Generational Eldercare Decision-making in Community and Disease Context
Utilizing the sociology of knowledge perspective, as well as elements of structural-functional theory this study examined the decision-making process as it relates to eldercare. Specifically, how does the knowledge of available resources, community context, and caregiving beliefs affect the …
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"Doing the Right Thing": A Study of Cross-Generational Eldercare Decision-making in Community and Disease Context
Utilizing the sociology of knowledge perspective, as well as elements of structural-functional theory this study examined the decision-making process as it relates to eldercare. Specifically, how does the knowledge of available resources, community context, and caregiving beliefs affect the …
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Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness
… multiple competing actors with shifting degrees of definitional power) and method (meaning process and reading theory) while also seeing it as a site of experimentation of power relations (where these actors are vying for different projects) in order to trace its multiple social reproductions (as …
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The hermeneutical praxis of the 'Rule of faith' as generating an ecclesiology of community in Irenaeus of Lyons
Introduction . 'The Glory of God is a living person...a church community fully alive.' A modern paraphrase of Irenaeus' famous dictum or a rediscovery of a profound insight? Can we build a continuity with the relevance of modern day paradigms from how Irenaeus saw his world and how we see our …
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The utilisation of social and behavioural science through consulting.
… in what they do. To preserve the 'integrity of the phenomena' the research has utilised an interviewing methodology to obtain accounts which reveal 'personal theories'. The aim has been to achieve an adequate phenomenology of consultants' ideas, rooted in their personal lives and …
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The new Westminster theology and South African evangelicalism : a critical evaluation of John Frame's methodology and epistemology with a view towards the development of a contextual evangelical theology
… the methodological and epistemological proposals of John M. Frame have anything to contribute to the construction of a contextual evangelical theology in South Africa - a theology which is both faithful to its evangelical roots and yet radically engaged with the contemporary context?" This …
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La danza come agire professionale, corporeo e artistico: percorsi e traiettorie, saperi e pratiche quotidiane nel campo italiano della danza
The thesis analyses dance as artistic profession and bodily work. The aim is to explore the social foundations of a performative, bodily and kin(aesth)etic doing, the purpose being to untie some of the knots that, in manifold ways, link together corporeal experience, (sense of) society, knowledge …
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Anishinaabe giikeedaasiwin – Indigenous knowledge: an exploration of resilience
There is a need to explore how Indigenous knowledge(s) relates to Anishinaabe ongoing resilience. I do this by telling the story of my home and privileging Anishinaabe Gikeedaasiwin, which means Anishinaabe knowledge. This study investigates socio-cultural knowledge(s) of the Lake Nipigon and Lake …
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