Suchergebnisse

Según entiendo, o quisiera entender, participo inmerecidamente en esta Misión de ciencia, educación y desarrollo en condición de historiador profesional. ¿Qué puede hacer un historiador entre tanto sabio? Supongo que tratar de atemperar la mentalidad cortoplacista que nos agobia a todos, a unos más que a otros, mediante la transmisión de un sentido alternativo de ver el mundo en un horizonte temporal más amplio1.

WE IMAGINE, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, THAT WE ARE SUPERIOR TO ANIMALS YET WE ARE ACTUALLY NOTHING MORE THAN A SET OF ORGANISMIC RESPONSES TO STIMULI LIKE SMILES, PACKAGING, GENDER CODES, THE CONNATATIONS OF WORDS, IMAGES, AND SYMBOLS OF ALL KINDS. THIS ESSAY ON THE IDEA OF CONDITIONING IS EVEN A RESPONSE, AND THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS PRECISELY WHAT TRIGGERED IT.

An inaugural lecture given at the U of Bristol which presents several interpretations of race. Race as a physical category is examined through the work of James C. Pritchard (1786-1848), a Bristol MD & ethnologist who was a prominent advocate of monogenesis. Race as a role sign, as indicated by the differing views of the Mulatto (considered a Negro in the US, while interpreted more flexibly in Brazil), points to a cultural view of race. Race as a soc category is examined in the light of W. Lloyd Warner's study of Natchez, Miss, THE STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN LIFE (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh U Press, 1952), with its contrast of the Negro's situation in 1863 & 1941. All Negroes were in an inferior position in 1863; there was some overlap in 1941. Sociol'al study of race at the U is concerned with race viewed not in terms of physical distinctions, but in terms of the SR that these distinctions create. I. Langnas.

Abstract
This article examines Risse and Wollner's discussion and rejection of several strategies a) in favour of developed countries subsidising their producers, and b) against the relocation of firms operating on their territory. It argues that their critical review of these strategies remains incomplete and therefore not decisive. It starts by bringing into relief two blind spots in their moral assessment of subsidies. The first concerns the imperfect nature of the general duties of global justice they focus on; the second concerns their understanding of the relation between these duties and duties of social justice. While addressing these two difficulties, it presents another possible strategy in support of subsidies, which Risse and Wollner fail to examine: the 'equal citizenship' strategy. This strategy is mobilised again in an assessment of Risse and Wollner's treatment of relocations. In this context, some doubts are raised about the remedy Risse and Wollner prescribe to overcome both social injustices and exploitative relocations ― namely, the domestic redistribution by governments of the gains of international trade. It is argued that such a redistribution is both insufficient to combat social exclusion and threatened by the very practice of trade liberalisation that Risse and Wollner seek to defend.

Les notes présentées ici partent d'une double hypothèse. D'une part, l'impossibilité de dégager de la succession des analyses sociologiques un principe de continuité qui permettrait de définir la sociologie comme lieu d'une histoire linéaire. Chaque système théorique constitue son objet propre, son langage spécifique, et, à la limite, une méthodologie relativement autonome. À l'intérieur de chacun de ces ensembles théoriques, sans doute se produit-il unecumulativité des découvertes et des résultats, dans la mesure où l'on peut poser l'unicité des ressources et des modes de traitement. D'un système à l'autre, par contre, si des voies de passage demeurent possibles, ce ne sont que pratiques d'emprunt donnant lieu à des objets mixtes, relevant de deux ordres de signification incompatibles. D'autre part, et comme exemple, l'analyse centrée sur le concept et l'objet de société s'oppose à l'analyse mettant en place les concepts de formation sociale et de mouvements sociaux. C'est cette dernière analyse que les réflexions qui suivent essaient de présenter brièvement. Instances, registres, travail, contradictions, lignes de fracture par quoi une formation sociale produit différents modes de transformation comme sa nécessité propre, tels sont les arguments qu'une sociologie des transformations sociales paraît devoir observer.