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3Habit Is Thus the Enormous Flywheel of Society: Pragmatism. Social Theory, and Cognitive ScienceIn Fausto Caruana & Italo Testa (eds.), Habits: Pragmatist Approaches From Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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3Ellwood's EuropeIn Cherry Schrecker (ed.), Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas, Routledge. 2010.Charles Ellwood is usually described as a junior member of the founding generation of American Sociology. Ellwood fulfils many of the standard stereotypes of the American sociology student of the era. He was born on a farm and, after winning a state scholarship, went to Cornell, as he himself noted, ‘because it was virtually the state university of New York’.1 He then went directly on to the University of Chicago, where he was converted only partially from his concerns with social problems to a …Read more
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2Expertise and Political Responsibility: The Columbia Shuttle CatastropheIn Sabine Maasen & Peter Weingart (eds.), Democratization of expertise?: exploring novel forms of scientific advice in political decision-making, Springer. pp. 101-12. 2005.
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2Making Collective Practices into Psychological Facts: The Russian Psychology ModelIn Raffaela Giovagnoli & Robert Lowe (eds.), The Logic of Social Practices II, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 2-20. 2023.Universal Logic is the study of the formal properties of logical systems in terms of the ways in which these formal features are found across systems of various kinds. A crucial example of this problematic is found at the heart of cognitive science. Brains are computers or computer-like things. But the digital logic of computers and the logic of computer programs do not correspond in any direct way with the processes of brains, either at the neural level, or at the level of psychological descrip…Read more
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2Philosophy and SociologyIn George Ritzer (ed.), The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Sociology, Wiley. 2012.
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2Truth and DecisionIn D. E. Chubin & E. W. Chu (eds.), Science Off the Pedestal: Social Perspectives on Science and Technology, Wadsworth Publishing. pp. 175-188. 1989.
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2The Political Philosophy of Science in Historical Perspective: The Road Through Popper and Polanyi to the PresentIn Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor (eds.), The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie, Springer Verlag. pp. 257-271. 2019.One of Ian C. Jarvie’s most interesting contributions is his discussion of the thinking of Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi on the nature and workings of the scientific community and their relation to politics : 545–564, 2001). The self-image these thinkers contributed to still lingers, but their accounts capture a historical moment that has passed and was idealized even when they were written. In this chapter, I examine this tradition and identify the central themes which dominated this literatu…Read more
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2Religion and British Sociology: The Power and Necessity of the SpiritualIn J. Holmwood & J. Scott (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 97-122. 2014.Understanding the role of religion in early British sociology, as well as its fate in later sociology, requires a variety of perspectives: one is intellectual and concerns the various forms that the topic of religion took for British sociology. Another is organisational and ecological. British sociology as embodied in the Sociological Society was a part of a vast array of organisations that were part of a massive movement of social reform, international in scope, and motivated largely by the new…Read more
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2Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers. Donald T. Campbell , E. Samuel Overman (review)Isis 80 739-740. 1989.
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2DeterminismIn John Lachs Robert B. Talisse (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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2Bulmer and the Historical SensibilityEthnic and Racial Studies 45 (8). 2022.Martin Bulmer made distinguished and groundbreaking contributions to the history of sociology, particularly in his classic study of the Chicago School, which spanned the era of personal memory and archival history. His work particularly emphasized empirical research, which led him to problems relating to the Laura Spelman Rockefeller fund and its leader, Beardsley Ruml, as well as to the problematic of the relation of sociology to the social survey movement. His work on funding led to the “Fishe…Read more
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2From Education to Expertise: Sociology as a "Profession"In T. C. Halliday & M. Janowitz (eds.), Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization, University of Chicago Press. pp. 373-407. 1992.
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1Why should Sociology Care about Cognitive Science?Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section 27 (4): 9-11. 2004.
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1Causality (edited book)SAGE Publications Ltd.. 2010.This four volume major reference work covers the main issues, methods of analysis, and alternatives, of causality, including the classic texts applying these alternative concepts and methods to empirical cases. The volumes give a substantial historical and philosophical introduction relevant to the concerns of practitioners. As a whole, the volumes represent a complete guide to the literature on social science causality from the beginning to the present.
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1This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character of political values, the relation between ultimate ends and the intermediate ends that are sought by constitutions, and a reconsideration of the …Read more
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1What can We Say about the Future of Social Science?Anthropological Theory 13 (3): 187-200. 2013.Social science has for the most part lost its ambition to be ‘science’, as shown in the recent change in the American Anthropological Association statement of purpose. The new term is expertise. The change points to something fundamental: social science methods are now largely stable; they have well-developed uses for public and policy audiences; because they are user-friendly they are unlikely to radically change, and new problems arise for them to be applied to. New concepts are developed, but…Read more
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1The Future of Social TheoryIn Bryan S. Turner (ed.), The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Wiley. 2008.
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1Weber and his PhilosophersInternational Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 3 (4): 539-553. 1990.
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Mundane theorizing, bricolage, and bildungIn Richard Swedberg (ed.), Theorizing in Social Science: The Context of Discovery, Stanford University Press. 2014.
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Public Sociology and Democratic Theory Stephen P. TurnerIn Jeroen Van Bouwel (ed.), The Social Sciences and Democracy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 165. 2009.
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A Disobedient Generation: 68ers and the Transformation of Social Theory (edited book)SAGE Publications Ltd.. 2005.
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The Search for a Methodology of Social Science (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 19 (2): 391-393. 1988.
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Paul A. Roth, "Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Pluralism" (review)Theory and Society 19 (2): 252. 1990.
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