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Edmund Chattoe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Review of Social Darwinism: Linking Evolutionary Thought to Social Theory
2001Co-Authors: Edmund ChattoeAbstract:Review of: Dickens, Peter (2000) Social Darwinism: Linking Evolutionary Thought to Social Theory. Open University Press: Buckingham.
Derek Gregory - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Theory and Human Geography
Human Geography, 1994Co-Authors: Derek GregoryAbstract:In this chapter I explore some of the relations between human geography and Social Theory. I do not want to be drawn into any boundary disputes over the first of those terms — there have been too many deadening proclamations about the ‘nature’ or ‘spirit and purpose’ of geography — but I do need to say something about the second because I do not use it as a synonym for sociology or even Social science. Instead I propose to treat Social Theory as a series of overlapping, contending and contradictory discourses that seek, in various ways and for various purposes, to reflect explicitly and more or less systematically on the constitution of Social life, to make Social practices intelligible and to intervene in their conduct and consequences. This is a bare-bones characterisation, but it does not limit Social Theory to any one discipline and it makes three closely connected claims that I hope will breathe life into the discussion that follows.
Peter Dickens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social darwinism linking evolutionary thought to Social Theory
2000Co-Authors: Peter DickensAbstract:Introduction unpacking 'Social Darwinism' Social Darwinism problems of direction, teleology, and progress Evolutionary thought in contemporary Social Theory Nature-culture dualism and beyond New forms of 'Social Darwinism' the Bell Curve and its implications An evolved human nature? Social Darwinism towards a new synthesis References Index.
Roger Cotterrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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law culture and society legal ideas in the mirror of Social Theory
2006Co-Authors: Roger CotterrellAbstract:Contents: Introduction: approaching law. Perspectives (Legal and Social Theory): Law and Social Theory Legal philosophy and legal pluralism Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically? A legal concept of community. Applications (Comparative Law and Culture): The concept of legal culture Law in culture Is there a logic of legal transplants? Sociology and comparative law Interpretation in comparative law Conclusion: Frontiers of community Bibliography Index.
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Social Theory and law
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1Co-Authors: Roger CotterrellAbstract:Social Theory embodies the claim that philosophical analyses, reflections on specific historical experience and systematic empirical observations of Social conditions may be combined to construct theoretical explanations of the nature of society – that is, of patterned human Social association in general and of the conditions that make this association possible and define its typical character. Social Theory, in this sense, can be defined broadly as Theory seeking to explain systematically the structure and organization of society and the general conditions of Social order or stability and of Social change. Since law as a system of ideas can also be thought of as purporting to specify, reflect and systematize fundamental normative structures of society, it has appeared as both a focus of interest for Social Theory and, in some sense, a source of competition with Social Theory in explaining the character of Social existence. The relation of legal thought to Social Theory is, thus, in important respects, a confrontation between competing general modes of understanding Social relationships and the conditions of Social order. In one sense, this confrontation is as old as philosophy itself. But as an element in modern philosophical consciousness it represents a gradual working-out in Western thought, over the past two centuries, of the implications of various ‘scientific’ modes of interpreting Social experience, all in one way or another the legacy of Enlightenment ideas. From the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, criteria of ‘scientific’ rationality were carried into the interpretation of Social phenomena through the development of Social Theory. These criteria also significantly influenced the development of modern legal thought. The classic Social Theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which established an enduring vocabulary of concepts for the interpretation of Social phenomena, treated law as an object of Social inquiry within its scope. It sought scientific understanding of the nature of legal phenomena in terms of broad systems of explanation of the general nature of Social relationships, structures and institutions. In the late twentieth century the relationship between Social Theory and law has been marked by fundamental changes both in the outlook of Social Theory and in forms of contemporary regulation. On the one hand, Social Theory has been subjected to wide-ranging challenges to its modern scientific pretensions. It has had to respond to scepticism about claims that Social life can usefully be analysed in terms of historical laws, or authoritatively interpreted and explained in terms of founding theoretical principles. On the other hand, the inexorable expansion of Western law’s regulatory scope and detail appears, sociologically, as largely uncontrollable by moral systems and relatively unguided by philosophical principles. Hence, in some postmodern interpretations, contemporary law is presented as a system of knowledge and interpretation of Social life of great importance, yet one that has ultimately evaded the Enlightenment ambition systematically to impose reason and principle – codified by Theory – on agencies of political and Social power.
Ron Eyerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Theory and Cultural Trauma
Memory Trauma and Identity, 2019Co-Authors: Ron EyermanAbstract:In this chapter, I use the example of three significant Social Theory texts, Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, and Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust in order to illustrate the difference between personal-, collective-, and cultural trauma. I also illustrate how personal trauma can impact the construction and representation of Social Theory.
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Social Theory and trauma
Acta Sociologica, 2013Co-Authors: Ron EyermanAbstract:Using the example of three significant Social Theory texts, Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust, this article illustrates the difference between personal, collective and cultural trauma. The aim is also to illustrate how personal trauma can impact the construction and representation of Social Theory.
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Social Theory and trauma
The Russian Sociological Review, 2013Co-Authors: Ron EyermanAbstract:Ron Eyerman is one of the authors of the cultural Theory trauma with an introduction by Jeffrey Alexander. This text may be seen as a case-study, that underlines and illuminates some of the main features of their Theory. Using the examples of three significant Social Theory texts, Horkheimer and Adorno’s “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism” and Bauman’s “Modernity and the Holocaust”, this article illustrates the difference between personal, collective and cultural trauma. All of those texts are connected to the same event - the Holocaust - and the outcome of this event. Bauman and Adorno could have become the victims, but instead survived bearing the trauma, conceptualizing it and thus becoming predecessors of the cultural trauma Theory. Ron Eyerman shows the complexity of the relationship between personal and collective trauma, and the construction of Social Theory. In analyzing these texts he goes into history of their creation, finding evidence of the traumatic experience of the authors. He also analyzes aesthetic characteristics of the texts, showing theese texts as not only pieces of Social theorizing but also as personal experiences, trying to find meaning in gaps, voids and inconsistency. The aim is also to illustrate how personal trauma can impact the construction and representation of Social Theory.
