An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure.Bennett M. Berger
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 101, Heft 6, S. 1781-1783
ISSN: 1537-5390
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In: The American journal of sociology, Band 101, Heft 6, S. 1781-1783
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 1-4
ISSN: 1758-6720
The following papers represent a selection from presentations made to the Theory Session of the 1995 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in Washington, D.C. The papers document the broad diversity of styles and topics of sociological theorizing. While this diversity appears to many as an impediment to science and paradigmatic closure, others celebrate it as a sign of intellectual liveliness and excitement. Without taking sides in this debate, one can appreciate the range of the papers published here, and one may even discern some commonalities, such as the attempt to bridge the gaps between various ideological camps and perspectives. If anything, what holds this collection together is a willingness to engage a variety of arguments, and to listen to what other schools of thought have to offer. In my view, this is the foremost task of theory today, for theory is uniquely equipped to detect unity in diversity. Without this effort, sociology is in danger of disintegrating altogether.
In: Filozofia: časopis Filozofického Ústavu Slovenskej Akadémie Vied, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 28-41
ISSN: 0046-385X
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 81-88
ISSN: 1464-5297
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 99, Heft 3, S. 843-844
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Sociological perspectives, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 23-44
ISSN: 1533-8673
Three epistemologies—pragmatism, positivism, and hermeneutics—are sociologically explained as the ideologies of different groups doing various kinds of scientific work. These ideologies are shaped by the material conditions and social structures of scientific work in different areas of the sciences. Pragmatism is the ideology of research fronts that constantly produce change and innovation; positivism is the ideology of normal science with its routinized practices and high task certainty; hermeneutics is the philosophy of choice in loosely coupled textual fields with a high level of decentralization.
In: Social science quarterly, Band 74, Heft 2
ISSN: 0038-4941
In: Sociological perspectives, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 531-535
ISSN: 1533-8673
In: Sociological perspectives, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 287-301
ISSN: 1533-8673
The current debates on metatheory in sociology do not account for the fact that metatheorizing, as a distinct intellectual activity, is unequally distributed throughout the sciences. As a reflexive and critical subspecialty, metatheory and metasociology are more likely to routinely accompany work in loosely coupled and highly controversial disciplines. The theory of scientific organizations explains the propensity for metatheorizing as the outcome of weak and conversational fields that rely mostly on texts to support their discourse.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 96, Heft 3, S. 747-748
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Sociological perspectives, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 169-182
ISSN: 1533-8673
Recent microsociological reductionisms claim that societal and organizational macrostructures can be "reduced to," "explained in terms of" or "translated into" the dynamics of elementary interaction systems. Two critical lines of argumentation challenge this claim. First, neofunctionalist systems theory is drawn on to show that reductionist strategies fail to acknowledge the emergent differences between types of social systems and thus run into difficulties in the analysis of macrostructures. A model of boundary maintenance operations in interaction systems illustrates this point. Second, a more internal critique of the logic of reductionism suggests that microsociology does not provide the "foundations" for macrosociology but that micro- and macrosociology should peacefully coexist as equally legitimate ways to make sense of different aspects of social reality.
In: Social science quarterly, Band 70, Heft 4
ISSN: 0038-4941
In: Primitive man, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 71
In: Europäische Hochschulschriften
In: Reihe 31, Politikwissenschaft 381