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Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction
Social Problems, 1986This 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, Avery Gordon
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Deconstructing grief: a sociological analysis of Prolonged Grief Disorder
Social Theory & Health, 2020This 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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A Sociology of Reuse: Deconstructing the Milk Bottle
Sociologia Ruralis, 2007AbstractThis 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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The Sociology and Paradoxes of Deconstruction: A Reply to Agger
American Sociological Review, 1994he 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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Sociological (Im)Possibility of Deconstruction or Undecidable Aporia: Deconstruction and Sociology
2023Deconstruction, introduced by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida to the intellectual and academic world, has guided discussions in different intellectual fields and academic disciplines in the twenty-first century world. Although deconstruction has been discussed extensively in different disciplines such as literature, architecture, theology and ...
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Constructing the Centrality of Culture-and Deconstructing Sociology?
Contemporary Sociology, 2000SHA1RON 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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Sociological Deconstructions II: Governmentality and Restratification
2012This chapter continues to focus on the development of the sociological study of the professions and professional regulation as initially outlined in Chap. 4. Leading on from the critique of the neo-Marxist perspective outlined in Chap. 4, this chapter begins by discussing the contribution of Foucault and the governmentality perspective to the study of ...
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No Path to Paradise: Deconstructing the Promise of Public Sociology
The American Sociologist, 2013This essay treats Burawoy’s advocacy for public sociology as a social problems claim. Using a social constructionist approach, I examine the rhetorical strategies Burawoy uses to construct the discipline in a way that makes public sociology seem not only relevant, but integral to what sociologists do.
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Cultural Sociology, 2016
Standard American disciplinary history holds that the ‘founding fathers’, inspired by ‘great men theorizing European modernity’, created a sister discipline in Europe’s image. This article proposes an alternative history, which locates the founding of American sociology in the writings of ‘pro-slavery imperialists’ Henry Hughes and George Fitzhugh.
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Standard American disciplinary history holds that the ‘founding fathers’, inspired by ‘great men theorizing European modernity’, created a sister discipline in Europe’s image. This article proposes an alternative history, which locates the founding of American sociology in the writings of ‘pro-slavery imperialists’ Henry Hughes and George Fitzhugh.
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Rescuing Veblen from Valhalla: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Sociological Legend
The British Journal of Sociology, 1996J. 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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