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A pragmatic sociological examination of projectification
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2019Purpose Boltanski and Thevenot’s Economies of Worth framework and the project world introduced by Boltanski and Chiapello are well known in the fields of sociology and organization theory, but have been largely ignored in the project management literature.
Régis Barondeau, Brian Hobbs
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The Foundation of Pragmatic Sociology
Journal of Classical Sociology, 2006Charles Horton Cooley was, according to George Herbert Mead, an idealist or mentalist for whom ‘imaginations’ and not ‘symbolic interactions’ are the ‘solid facts of society’. Contrary to Mead's critique, Cooley breaks through the Cartesian body–mind dualism in disagreement with idealism and behaviorism.
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Materialist Pragmatism and Sociology of Education
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1985Abstract Some problems in recent sociology of education, such as those associated with epistemological and cultural relativism, are traced to foundationalisl and dualist epistemologies. These problems are avoided by a materialist epistemology which is holist, rejecting the idea of foundations for knowledge, and monist in asserting but one kind of ...
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Pragmatism and Sociology : the French Debate
2019This chapter focuses on the sociological debates about pragmatism as well as on the paradoxical uses and criticisms of pragmatism in the two main phases of the French reception of pragmatism, associated on the one hand with Durkheim and on the other with Boltanski and Latour.
Gautier, Claude, Renault, Emmanuel
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The Sociological Foundations of Pragmatics
2015Abstract This article shows how a purely descriptive view of language cannot account for what happens to the speaking individuals on the social plane. Approaches inspired by the sociology of language and by sociolinguistics have, each from their own perspectives, endeavoured to introduce an interpretive take on language use and language ...
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Four normative languages of welfare: a pragmatic sociological investigation
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2017This article explores the normative languages used by ordinary citizens to measure ongoing welfare state transformations in Denmark. Empirically, the article turns to qualitative data from a deliberative democratic forum where 35 citizens gathered to reflect upon and discuss the future of the welfare state.
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Sociological Focus, 2011
Abstract Sociology faces a crisis of fragmentation. There is no unified general sociology. Instead, there are many different kinds of sociology and sociologists. There are at least five metaparadigms. Those who study “cultural sociology” may take a completely different approach than those who study religion, gender, deviance, or a host of other topics.
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Abstract Sociology faces a crisis of fragmentation. There is no unified general sociology. Instead, there are many different kinds of sociology and sociologists. There are at least five metaparadigms. Those who study “cultural sociology” may take a completely different approach than those who study religion, gender, deviance, or a host of other topics.
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Hermeneutics, Pragmatism and Sociology: Pragmatism’s Advantage
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PRAGMATISM IN MODERN SOCIOLOGY
Pragmatism (Greek, prͮgma, gender pragmanos, action), an movement of American philosophy that treats human thinking, scientific and philosophical knowledge as forms of activity aimed at achieving practical results. Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that emphasizes practicality and usefulness, which originated in the United States at the end of theopenaire +1 more source