Theories of Distinction
Title | Theories of Distinction PDF eBook |
Author | Niklas Luhmann |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804741231 |
The essays in this volume formulate what is considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The volume starts with an examination of the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition notably the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.
Theories of Distinction
Title | Theories of Distinction PDF eBook |
Author | Niklas Luhmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9781503619340 |
The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition, notably the ogy of Edmund Husserl. The next four essays concern the crucial notion of observation as defined by Luhmann. They examine the history of paradox as a logical problem and as a historically conditioned feature of rhetoric; deconstruct the thinking of Jacques Derrida, especially his language-centered allegiances; discuss the usefulness of Spencer Brown's Laws of Form; and assess the consequences of observation and paradox for epistemology. The following essays present Luhmann's theory of communication and his articulation of the difference between thought and communication, a difference that makes clear one of Luhmann's most radical and controversial theses, that the individual not only does not form the basic element of society but is excluded from it altogether, situated instead in the environment of the social system. The book concludes with a polemic against the critical thought of the Frankfurt School of postwar German social thought.
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
Title | The Sociology of Elite Distinction PDF eBook |
Author | J. Daloz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2009-11-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230246834 |
This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.
Theories of Scientific Method
Title | Theories of Scientific Method PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Nola |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317493486 |
What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the course of being trained, Nola and Sankey argue that it is possible to be explicit about what this tacit understanding of method is, rather than leave it as some unfathomable mystery. They robustly defend the idea that there is such a thing as scientific method and show how this might be legitimated. This book begins with the question of what methodology might mean and explores the notions of values, rules and principles, before investigating how methodologists have sought to show that our scientific methods are rational. Part 2 of this book sets out some principles of inductive method and examines its alternatives including abduction, IBE, and hypothetico-deductivism. Part 3 introduces probabilistic modes of reasoning, particularly Bayesianism in its various guises, and shows how it is able to give an account of many of the values and rules of method. Part 4 considers the ideas of philosophers who have proposed distinctive theories of method such as Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend and Part 5 continues this theme by considering philosophers who have proposed naturalised theories of method such as Quine, Laudan and Rescher. This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the idea of scientific method and a wide-ranging discussion of how historians of science, philosophers of science and scientists have grappled with the question over the last fifty years.
Distinction
Title | Distinction PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 113587316X |
Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks Or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of Society
Title | The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks Or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of Society PDF eBook |
Author | John Millar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1793 |
Genre | Anthropology |
ISBN |
Medieval Theories of Distinction
Title | Medieval Theories of Distinction PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Stanton Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 956 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Ontology |
ISBN |