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Ben Baumberg Geiger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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performing trustworthiness the credibility work of prominent Sociologists
Sociology, 2021Co-Authors: Ben Baumberg GeigerAbstract:To the limited extent that Sociologists have considered non-academics’ trust in Sociologists, legitimacy has become entwined with the idea of a value-free, ‘objective’ sociology. However, broader p...
Robert Gibbons - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what is economic sociology and should any economists care
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005Co-Authors: Robert GibbonsAbstract:A couple years ago, two of my colleagues independently proposed approximately the same title for their respective contributions to a series of lunchtime talks: “Why Erving Goffman is My Hero (and Should be Yours, Too).” I emerged from these two lunches mightily impressed—both by Goffman’s (1959) insights into The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and by the potential for Goffman’s micro-sociological research to inspire a major new research stream in behavioral game theory. In a similar spirit, I considered titling this introduction “Why Robert Merton is My Hero,” but this approach seemed prone to at least two problems. First, explaining hero worship in a short space would probably require poetry, which is not my forte. Second, I feared that the title would be opaque to those economists who would immediately think of Robert C. Merton, the Nobel Laureate in financial economics, rather than his father Robert K. Merton, one of the great Sociologists in the history of that discipline. I take the ideas in these papers and their underlying sociological literatures quite seriously. In fact, one sociologist friend recently declared that I have an “economist’s eye for the sociological guy.” More precisely, my interest is in economic sociology, which I will define as the sociology of economic actors and institutions; see the two Handbooks of Economic Sociology by Smelser and Swedberg (1994, forthcoming) for volumes of detail. In this introduction, I will highlight some of the prominent themes from economic sociology that are illustrated in these papers and suggest which kinds of economists might find these themes interesting.
Arthur P J Mol - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sociology environment and modernity ecological modernization as a theory of social change
The Ecological Modernisation Reader. Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice., 2009Co-Authors: Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P J MolAbstract:To minimize or at least substantially reduce damage to the natural resource sustenance-base we urgently need institutional reform within modern society. Environmental Sociologists have different views as to which institutional traits can be held primarily responsible for the environmental crisis. Examples include its capitalistic or industrial character as well as the complex, highly administrated technological system of modern society. We discuss these matters in the context of the theory of "ecological modernization" as developed by the German sociologist Joseph Huber, among others. To analyze the institutional reforms required for bringing human interaction with the sustenance-base under rational ecological control, however, the theory needs to be substantially modified and complemented in several respects. However, restructuring the processes of production and consumption is only half the story. The change to ecologically sound patterns of production and consumption is limited by the dimension of the environmental crisis that has to do with nature as sustenancebase and does not provide a solution to problems related to what we call the second dimension of the environmental crisis: the changing role of nature as "intuited nature" and the way people "deal with" these aspects of the environmental crisis within everyday life. In this respect we propose that theories of modern society as a risk-society should be given greater attention within environmental sociology.
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sociology environment and modernity ecological modernization as a theory of social change
Society & Natural Resources, 1992Co-Authors: Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P J MolAbstract:Abstract To minimize or at least substantially reduce damage to the natural resource sustenance‐base we urgently need institutional reform within modern society. Environmental Sociologists have different views as to which institutional traits can be held primarily responsible for the environmental crisis. Examples include its capitalistic or industrial character as well as the complex, highly administrated technological system of modern society. We discuss these matters in the context of the theory of “ecological modernization”; as developed by the German sociologist Joseph Huber, among others. To analyze the institutional reforms required for bringing human interaction with the sustenance‐base under rational ecological control, however, the theory needs to be substantially modified and complemented in several respects. However, restructuring the processes of production and consumption is only half the story. The change to ecologically sound patterns of production and consumption is limited by the dimensi...
Adam Hedgecoe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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research ethics review and the sociological research relationship
Sociology, 2008Co-Authors: Adam HedgecoeAbstract:For years, Sociologists working in other countries or UK-based medical Sociologists have complained about the effects of having to seek approval from a research ethics committee (REC) or its equivalent before starting work. With the arrival of the ESRC's Research Ethics Framework, concern about ethics review has expanded to Sociologists working on a wider range of topics. This article uses ethnographic data from a study of UK RECs to examine how these bodies assess applications from social scientists, particularly those proposing qualitative research (which opponents claim is given an especially hard time by such committees). These data challenge the idea that RECs are somehow ideologically biased against qualitative research and that they cannot give an adequate assessment of applications from Sociologists and other social scientists. The article concludes by suggesting Sociologists' time would be better spent studying the institutional nature of the university RECs stimulated by the ESRC.
Baumberg Geiger Ben - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Performing trustworthiness: The ‘credibility work’ of prominent Sociologists
'SAGE Publications', 2021Co-Authors: Baumberg Geiger BenAbstract:To the limited extent that Sociologists have considered non-academics’ trust in Sociologists, legitimacy has become entwined with the idea of a value-free, ‘objective’ sociology. However, broader philosophical/sociological work suggests that credibility signals are more complex, with e.g. non-partisanship being separate to ‘epistemic responsibility’ (Anderson 2012). In this paper, I explore the nature of ‘credibility work’ in practice via interviews with 15 prominent English Sociologists, making three contributions. Firstly, I find that some Sociologists deliberately pursue credibility, a phenomenon largely ignored in previous research. They do this primarily by ‘performing’ non-partisanship or epistemic responsibility within interactions. Secondly, this credibility work does not require the pursuit of ‘objectivity’; Sociologists can signal epistemic responsibility despite partisanship, or pursue ‘dispassionate advocacy’. Third, the extent and nature of credibility work varies by context; some Sociologists benefit from partisanship, while others feel no need for credibility work. I conclude by stressing the need for further research
