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Pragmatism and medical sociology: Three precepts

Social Science & Medicine
While medical sociology has long incorporated insights from pragmatist philosophy, recent contributions call for a more explicit engagement with this tradition. Complementing Greenhalgh and Engebretsen's (2022) call for a pragmatist analysis of public health policymaking and crisis, we systemize medical sociology's engagement with pragmatism.
Eliza Brown, Iddo Tavory
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A pragmatic sociological examination of projectification

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2019
Purpose 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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Materialist Pragmatism and Sociology of Education

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1985
Abstract 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

History of European Ideas, 1985
David E. Woolwine, Emile Durkheim, J. C. Whitehouse, John A. Allcock   +3 more
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Pragmatism and Sociology : the French Debate

2019
This 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

2015
Abstract 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, 2017
This 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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Qualitative Research in an Era of AI: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Analysis, Workflow, and Computation

arXiv.org
Computational developments--particularly artificial intelligence--are reshaping social scientific research and raise new questions for in-depth methods such as ethnography and qualitative interviewing.
Corey M. Abramson, Zhuofan Li, Tara Prendergast, Daniel Dohan   +3 more
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Valuation conflicts in Madagascar’s mining reform: A pragmatic inquiry into surplus distribution from strategic transition minerals

Environment and Planning F
Lithium-ion battery (LIB) production as a central part of decarbonisation strategies is driving mineral extraction in countries of the global South, where they exacerbate existing conflicts over the creation and distribution of value.
Nicolas Hercelin, Sabine Dörry
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Hermeneutics, Pragmatism and Sociology: Pragmatism’s Advantage

The American Sociologist, 2021
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