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Toward A Sociological Theory of Information
Author | : Harold Garfinkel,Anne Rawls |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317250258 |
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In 1952 at Princeton University, Harold Garfinkel developed a sociological theory of information. Other prominent theories then being worked out at Princeton, including game theory, neglected the social elements of "information," modeling a rational individual whose success depends on completeness of both reason and information. In real life these conditions are not possible and these approaches therefore have always had limited and problematic practical application. Garfinkel's sociological theory treats information as a thoroughly organized social phenomenon in a way that addresses these shortcomings comprehensively. Although famous as a sociologist of everyday life, Garfinkel focuses in this new book-never before published-on the concerns of large-scale organization and decisionmaking. In the fifty years since Garfinkel wrote this treatise, there has been no systematic treatment of the problems and issues he raises. Nor has anyone proposed a theory of information like the one he proposed. Many of the same problems that troubled theorists of information and predictable order in 1952 are still problematic today.
Understanding Everyday Life
Author | : Jack D. Douglas |
Publsiher | : Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002985706 |
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Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health
Author | : Anthony Blasi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004210844 |
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This book seeks to involve recognized researchers in the social scientific study of health, medicine and religion, which has burgeoned across the past twenty years, toward more general theoretical development within the field, particularly with respect to the elderly and disadvantaged.
Face to Face
Author | : Jonathan H. Turner |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804744171 |
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Updating classic sociological theory and utilizing the results of recent research in evolutionary and neurphysiological theory, this ambitious work aims to present no less than a unified, general theory of what happens when people interact.
Search Foundations
Author | : Sachi Arafat,Elham Ashoori |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780262348485 |
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A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship. Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest.
Sociology and the New Systems Theory
Author | : Kenneth D. Bailey |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1994-01-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791495629 |
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This book provides current information about the many recent contributions of social systems theory. While some sociologists feel that the systems age ended with functionalism, in reality a number of recent developments have occurred within the field. The author makes these developments accessible to sociologists and other non-systems scholars, and begins a synthesis of the burgeoning systems field and mainstream sociological theory. The analysis shows not only that important points of rapprochement exist between systems theory and sociological theory, but also that systems theory has in some cases anticipated developments needed in mainstream theory.
Culture Structure and Agency
Author | : David Rubinstein |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0761919287 |
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This book addresses two key issues in sociological theory: the debate between structural and cultural approaches and the problem of agency. It does this through looking at the work of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim and the ideas of modern theorists like Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Talcott Parsons. The book examines economics, rational choice theory, network theory, ethnomethodology, and symbolic interactionism.
A Primer in Social and Sociological Theory
Author | : Kenneth Allan |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781452223216 |
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Organized around the discourses of modernity, democracy, and citizenship, A Primer in Social and Sociological Theory: Toward a Sociology of Citizenship helps readers to develop skills in critical thinking and theory analysis as they explore nine central ideas of thought: modernity, society, self, religion, capitalism, power, gender, race, and globalization. Each chapter concludes with a section that discusses the craft of citizenship as it relates to the chapter content.