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17Sociology Responds to FascismIn Dirk Kasler & Stephen Turner (eds.), Sociology Responds to Fascism, Routledge. 1992.We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why has this history been shrouded in silence for so long? In this major work of historical scholarship sociologists from around the world describe and evaluate the reactions of sociologists to the rise and practice of fascism.
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6Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from its Classics to 1945In Stephen P. Turner & Mark W. Risjord (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Elsevier. pp. 3-69. 2006.The beginning of the 20th century coincides with the establishment of the modern disciplines of the social sciences, chiefly in the United States but on a smaller scale in Western Europe as well. These disciplinary structures, which varied from country to country, provide the organizing principle of this handbook.The immediate context of the disciplinarization of sociology was the transformation of two fields, statistics and history, which shed large chunks of content as they took their current s…Read more
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21Cognitive Science and Social TheoryIn Wayne E. Brekus & Gabe Ignatow (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, Oxford University Press. 2019.
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26Causation, Value Judgments, VerstehenIn Edith Hanke, Lawrence Scaff & Sam Whimster (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber, Oxford University Press. 2019.Weber’s “methodological writings” are some of the most influential parts of his work; they are his philosophical and technical explication of the basic problems of social science and history and their relation to other forms of knowledge, as well as the relation of knowledge to action and values. They explain his basic concepts, such as ideal type, values and value-free science, Verstehen, and the notion of causality that is appropriate to social and historical concepts. These ideas have often b…Read more
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9Tacit KnowledgeIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications. 2013.
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5The Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational StudiesIn Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence & Walter R. Nord (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies, Sage Publications Ltd.. 2006.
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22Weber, MaxIn Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1996.Max Weber, German economist, historian, sociologist, methodologist, and political thinker, is of philosophical significance for his attempted reconciliation of historical relativism with the possibility of a causal social science; his notion of a verstehende sociology; his formulation, use and epistemic account of the concept of ‘ideal types’; his views on the rational irreconcilability of ultimate value choices, and particularly his formulation of the implications for ethical political action o…Read more
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9Cause, Teleology, and MethodIn T. M. Porter & D. Ross (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57-70. 2003.The model of social science established in methodological writings of the 1830s and 1840s formed an ideal that has endured to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Subsequent authors have been obliged to excuse the social sciences for their failure to achieve this ideal model of science, to reinterpret the successes of social science in terms of it, or to construct alternative conceptions of social science in contrast to it. The ideal was worked out in two closely related texts, Auguste Com…Read more
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7ExplanationIn John Lachs Robert B. Talisse (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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2DeterminismIn John Lachs Robert B. Talisse (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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6Charles Abram EllwoodIn John Arthur Garraty & Mark Christopher Carnes (eds.), American National Biography: supplement 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 458-459. 1999.
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10Thinking Epistemically about Experts and Publics: A Response to SelingerSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3 (9): 36-43. 2014.Evan Selinger’s review nicely captures the main concerns of my collection of essays, The Politics of Expertise. He raises an important question that is touched on in several essays but not fully developed: the problem of getting expert knowledge possessed by academics into something like public discussion or the public domain. This is of course only a part of the problem of expertise and the larger problem of knowledge in society. But it can be approached in more detail than was done in the book…Read more
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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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16Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method: Is It a Classic?Sociological Perspectives 38 (1): 1-13. 1995.Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method has never enjoyed the same reputation as his major books, in part because the book is uncongenial to standard interpretations of Durkheim. In particular, its attacks on teleology do not fit his reputation as a functionalist The papers in this special issue address the work historically. Both Porter and Stedman Jones deal with aspects of the context in which Durkheim worked and transformed. Schmaus and Nemedi deal with problems of interpreting Durkheim'…Read more
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13The Road from “Vocation”: Weber and Veblen on the Purposelessness of ScholarshipJournal of Classical Sociology. forthcoming.“Science as a Vocation” describes an ideal of scholarship for a vanished world. Images of the past university still color our idea of the university. Weber dispelled illusions about the university of his own time, and pointed to its cruelty and irrationality. Veblen did something similar for the American university of his time, defended a similar ideal, and foresaw the effects of disciplinarization and the quantification of academic life. They both provide insights into the ways in which the aut…Read more
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56Book symposium on expertise: Philosophical reflections by Evan Selinger automatic press/vip, vince inc. Press 2011Philosophy and Technology 26 (1): 93-109. 2013.
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573.What Are Disciplines? And How Is Interdisciplinarity Different?In Peter Weingart & Nico Stehr (eds.), Practising Interdisciplinarity, University of Toronto Press. pp. 46-65. 2000.
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34The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political authority. This Handbook will address a range of issues that have recently emerged from the disciplines of social and political theory, focusing on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or ma…Read more
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798Book reviews : Forms of explanation. Rethinking the questions in social theory. By Alan Garfinkel. New Haven, Conn.: Yale university press, 1981. Pp. 184. $16.00 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (3): 416-418. 1984.
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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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35Practice Then and NowHuman Affairs 17 (2): 111-125. 2007.Practice Then and Now "Practice theory" has a long history in philosophy, under various names, but current practice theory is a response to failures of projects of modernity or enlightenment which attempt to reduce science or politics to formulae. Heidegger, Oakeshott, and MacIntyre are each examples of philosophers who turned to practice conceptions. Foucault and Bourdieu made similar turns. Practice accounts come in different forms: some emphasize skill-like individual accomplishments, others …Read more
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28Rationalizations and the Application of Causal Explanations of Human ActionAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 18 (3). 1981.
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21Book Reviews : Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science. By Paul Mattick, Jr. London: Hutchinson, 1986. Pp. x + 137. 12.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (4): 582-586. 1988.
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20Book Review: The English Heidegger (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (3): 353-368. 2005.Terry Nardin’s book on Oakeshott is an attempt to compare him to other 20th-century philosophers and to track the development of his philosophical thought. The project of comparison is made relevant by the fact that Oakeshott’s philosophy, like that of Heidegger and others, was the product of the dissolution of neo-Kantianism. Nardin stresses the idea of “modal confusion,” meaning responding to a question of one kind with an answer appropriate to another kind of inquiry, as a key to Oakeshott’s …Read more
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8Polanyian in Spirit: A Reply to GulickTradition and Discovery 25 (1): 12-20. 1998.Walter Gulick criticizes The Social Theory of Practices for its non-Polanyian views of the problem of the objective character of tacit knowledge, its insistence that there should be plausible causal mechanisms that correspond to claims about tacit knowledge and its “social” transmission, and its denial of the social, telic character of practices. In this reply it is asserted that the demand for causally plausible mechanisms is not scientistic or for that matter non-Polanyian, that the book has a…Read more
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