Do racionalismo ao tradicionalismo: um problema eminente [PDF]
It is still common to find the traditionalist and rationalist conception that scientific knowledge is the most accurate way of describing natural data, as if, therefore, the notion of knowledge were identical to the notion of natural science.
Camilo de Oliveira, Bruno
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Orlando Fals Borda, sociólogo del compromiso [PDF]
This essay presents the development of thinking of the Colombian sociologist and social critic Orlando Fals Borda in three major stages: the establishment of a scientific sociology, the assertion of a committed sociology and the use of knowledge for ...
Gonzalo Cataño
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Discussion in science and technology studies (STS) about status of sociological explanation [PDF]
Sociological explanation tends to be universal. This results in expansion of explanation models from sociology into the other fields of knowledge. Scientists from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) played significant role in this process ...
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The Sociology of Health in Terra Brasilis: a short genealogy of a field of knowledge [PDF]
The sociology of health is a recent fruit of an ancient tree of knowledge that goes back millennia. This study aimed to write an essay on the field of sociology of medicine and health in Brazil. The approach was qualitative, and the existing bibliography
Miguel Ângelo Montagner +1 more
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To the question of applying the concept of scientific-educational knowledge in sociology [PDF]
G. E. Zborovsky
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Russian Sociology in the post-Soviet Period: Status and Problems of Development
The paper analyzes the role and importance of sociology as a separate field of scientific knowledge and as a demanded profession. It covers the training system for sociological specialists, with its crucial problems pointed out, namely the obvious lack ...
Mikhail K. Gorshkov
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Transnational TESOL professionals and teaching English for glocalized communication (TEGCOM) [PDF]
How should we write our research? ... the question reflects a central postmodernist realization: all knowledge is socially constructed. Writing is not a 'true' representation of an objective 'reality'; instead, language creates a particular view of ...
Akamatsu, N, Lin, A, Riazi, M, Wang, W
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Risks of the future: the demand for non-linear humanistic knowledge
The article gives a comparative analysis of the ideas about the future contained in classical and modern sociology, and also con- siders the latest approaches to the study of alternative futures that were proposed at the 3-rd Forum of the World ...
Sergey A. Kravchenko
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The Calling of Sociology: Beyond Value-detached Professionalism and Partisan Activism
Michael Burawoy’s project of public sociology provoked major debate within the sociological community about the tasks and nature of the discipline. While most participants in the debate are sympathetic to his call for a more publicly engaged sociology ...
Davorka Matić
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Des effets délétères de la division scientifique du travail sur l’évolution de la sociologie
Contemporary social sciences are experiencing a twofold process of dispersion of their works: disciplinary division, by which some disciplines focus primarily on specific areas of the social world (the economy, politics, law, education, psyche, language,
Bernard Lahire
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