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Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction

Social Problems, 1986
This text re-presents a deconstructive sociological reading of Michel Foucault's several investigations of the genealogy of the human sciences. We take the sociological history of criminology as an exemplar of the relation between the form and content of Western social science theorizing and the historically material pleasures associated with the ...
Stephen Pfohl
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Sociological Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Mediation of Opposites by Interpenetration

Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2014
Abstract Purpose The paper argues for a comprehensive method of sociological deconstruction and reconstruction that includes: (i) de-subjectifying interpretation, (ii) re-subjectifying explanation, (iii) de-objectifying understanding, and (iv) re-objectifying conceptualization.
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Sociological Deconstructions I: Critiquing Medical Autonomy and Altruism

2012
This chapter focuses on the development of the sociological study of the professions and professional regulation. It discusses how during the first part of the twentieth century functionalist sociologists focused on the altruistic ethos which arguably underpins professional occupations such as law and medicine. Here, the chapter notes how possession of
John Martyn Chamberlain
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Rescuing Veblen From Valhalla: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Sociological Legend

British Journal of Sociology, 1996
J. Dorfman is eulogized as the creator and curator of the definitive account of T. Veblen's life and work. He argued that Veblen was the archetypal marginal man and that this explains his dissenting contribution. Dissemination of Dorfman's pathography of Veblen led to its hegemony - until now. Andrew Veblen was the first to challenge Dorfman's portrait
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Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems

Social Problems, 1985
Stephen Pfohl
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The Sociology and Paradoxes of Deconstruction: A Reply to Agger

American Sociological Review, 1994
he most distressing fact about Agger's (1994) critique of our paper (Fuchs and Ward 1994) is that he has nothing at all to say about the substance of our argument. We explain why different scientific organizations have different cognitive styles and why skepticism and relativism are more likely in some fields than in others. In brief, we argue that the
Stephan Fuchs, Steven Ward
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A Sociology of Reuse: Deconstructing the Milk Bottle

Sociologia Ruralis, 2007
AbstractThis article investigates the practice of reuse, the relation between individuals and objects, using as a case study the refillable glass milk bottle. Based on interviews with 22 individuals in mainly rural settings, the study aims to understand what the milk bottle means today to the many people who still use it, and what the socioeconomic and
Paul Vaughan, Matthew Cook, Paul Trawick
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Deconstructing grief: a sociological analysis of Prolonged Grief Disorder

Social Theory & Health, 2020
This article discusses the forthcoming diagnostic classification of Prolonged Grief Disorder in light of sociological perspectives. By placing death and grief at the center of human life and culture, the beginning pathologization of grief may be discussed in regards to contemporary societal transformations.
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Constructing the Centrality of Culture-and Deconstructing Sociology?

Contemporary Sociology, 2000
SHA1RON HAYS University of Virginia Best, Joel. 1990. Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concerrl about Child Victims. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Churchill, Ward.1999. Review of Inventing the Savage. Contemporary Sociology 28: 350-51. Duneier, Mitchell. 1999.
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