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2. MAKING UP EXCITED DELIRIUM.
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ANAÏS, SEANTEL
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EXCITED delirium syndrome ,STUN guns ,DEATH ,ONTOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2014
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3. Commentary and Debate/Commentaire et débat.
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Turner, Jonathan H.
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POSITIVISM ,SCIENCE & society ,CAPITALISM ,ONTOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article presents a comment on the article "Positivism Redivivus? A Critique of Recent Uncritical Proposals for Reforming Sociological Theory (and Related Foibles)," by Joseph M. Bryant that appeared in the January 1992 issue of the "Canadian Journal of Sociology." The critics of positivism are now more prevalent than the theorists they scorn. Indeed, contrary to Bryant's comments, there is no clear revival of positivism; rather, theory today is now a mixture of commentaries on: (1) the faults of positivism and scientific sociology; (2) the ontological and epistemological problems of theorizing about human interaction and organization; (3) the offering of alternatives which take into account human agency, indeterminacy, history, context, or contingency; (4) the advocacy of critique of technology, capitalism, and assorted evils or the offering of a program and plan for doing criticism when all the philosophical issues are worked out; (5) the worship of the masters through history of ideas, name dropping and quoting, or scholarship on particular theorists; and (6) the fine-tuning of the lost art of discourse. The result is that much sociological "theory" does not seek to explain how the social world operates. Bryant's critique of positivism performs at least four of these tasks: it faults the work of positivists; it tells positivists that they have not seriously considered the epistemological and ontological issues; it proposes an alternative that encompasses (3) above; and it invokes the great masters, Karl Marx and Max Weber, to substantiate the critique against positivists.
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- 1992
4. The Three Axes of Sociological Practice: The Case of French Quebec
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Jean-Philippe Warren
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Politics ,Portrait ,Sociology and Political Science ,Presidential system ,Credence ,Ontology ,Sociology ,Social science ,Public sociology ,CONTEST ,Period (music) ,Epistemology - Abstract
Public sociology is all too often presented as the polar opposite of the detached, purely objective observation of society (Clawson et al., 2007). Such a portrayal is misleading, for it tends to give credence to the idea that academic sociology is torn between two extremes, the political and the empirical poles. In this article I will not contest this divide from within. I shall not, for instance, claim that sociology is inherently politicised, each epistemology necessarily proposing a different ontology (Blau and Smith, 2006). Considering the problem differently, and referring to a historical period spanning from the late 19th century to about 1980 (Fournier, 1986; Warren, 2003), I propose a three-faceted portrait of sociology. In my view, the discipline is structured around not two but three fundamental axes or dimensions: professional, descriptive, and political, embodying three essential aims. In turn, these constitute the respective roles it can play in academia and society depending on the specific publics it seeks to address. In his much debated ASA 2004 presidential speech, Burawoy (2005a) has claimed that public sociology should be defined by its audience, whether academic (professional, critical) or extra-academic (policy and public). Without directly challenging this view, I intend in this paper to illustrate how the scholar’s individual positioning offers a slightly different perception of public sociology than the discipline’s external dynamics.
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- 2009
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