than with the ways in which the limits imposed by society make individual behavior scientifically predictable.Robert Merton, another prominent functionalist, has proposed a number of important distinctions to avoid potential weaknesses and clarify ambigui- ties in the basic perspective (see Merton 1968)...
The functionalist perspectivealso called functionalism, originatesin the work of French sociologist Émile Durkheim, one of the founding thinkers of sociology. Durkheim's interest was in how social order could be possible, and how society maintains stability. His writings on this topic came to be ...
Written from a sociology of education theoretical perspective, On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States seeks to ... Vasti,Torres - 《Review of Higher Education》 被引量: 3发表: 2006年 Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives Sociology of education : ...
First, they present Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan's modeling of the role of education in mediating the relationship between 1 2 • THE STRUCTURE OF SCHOOLING an individual's social origins and social destination. The second perspective, the Wisconsin model, builds on Blau and Duncan's ...
The original justification of government intervention in economic interactions was public interest. This perspective considers the market as an efficient allocation mechanism of social and economic welfare while also cautioning againstmarket failures. Market failures commonly include natural monopolies,externaliti...
In Bert Klandermans (ed.), Peace Movement in International Perspective, International Social Movement Research, Vol. 3:1–42. Greenwich, CT: JAI-Press. Klandermans, Bert, (ed. 1989 “Organizing for change: Social movement organizations in Europe and the United States.” In International ...
She warns against a possible 'strong' reading of Haraway's work, in which permanent partiality is treated as 'an epistemological ideal in itself: crudely put, the more partial the perspective, the more reliable the beliefs which issue from it' (Fricker, 1994, p. 102). The importance of ...
Within a pragmatic perspective, metatheoretical theses grounded on identity as sameness, uniqueness, and difference address the inevitability of inequality. Pragmatic meaning, furthermore, is always in the future. Temporal inequality emerges as central to meanings of identity, especially expectations of ...
Chapter 2 delves into the evolving field of cyberculture studies, discussing its historical development and different theoretical approaches, particularly the critical cyberculture perspective. Chapter 2.1 explores the concept of virtual ethnography in relation to traditional ethnographic methods, highlighting ...
The power relations between men and women can be understood from a fresh perspective, notably in terms of the distinction between formal and informal power. This distinction makes it possible to highlight the key role that women can play in business in general, and in the copreneurship in ...