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Remarks on Balinese Invocations
No full textDuff-Cooper Andrew. Remarks on Balinese Invocations. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°132. Anthropologie de la prière. pp. 35-57
Review essay: personal identity and social change: some theoretical considerations
No full textIn this paper, we explore some of the points of contact between Giddens' theory of self- identity and late modernity, and the broader constituency of post-modem theories of subjectivity. We take as our focus some recent work by Anthony Giddens, who has set out an account of what it means to live in 'late modernity'. This account, we argue, resonates with a parallel 'post-modern' account of subjectivity. We express reservations about the way in which both late- and post-modern subjects appear in these theoretical accounts to be disconnected from their 'real' social and political contexts. Similarly, we point to the way in which social action is increasingly seen as having broken free from material and political interests. We point to the dangers of losing sight of material conditions and political circumstances in theoretical debates about modernity and post- modernity. Moreover, we set out some broad critical propositions intended to counter this tendency. <br/
The social basis of politics : towards a theoretical synthesis
No full textSocial Theory is conventionally taken to be synonymous with sociological theory. In this study it is interpreted in a much broader sense, as an overarching category that subsumes different levels and dimensions of methodology, epistemology and substantive hypotheses, to mean theories of Society and Politics in general.Along the continuum of Social Theory a variety of ideal-typifications of Politics can be identified. In the perspectives and procedures of orthodox Political Science Politics is abstracted from its social milieux; this takes the form of discussion, at the formalized level of Staatswissenschaft, about the institutions and mechanisms that channel and domesticate - political activity and give Politics paradigmatic meaning. The Study of Politics is regarded as the study of the exercise of influence or power to achieve a necessary uniformity of policies within a polity in the presence of what, initially, started as mutually exclusive policies.In orthodox Political Sociology, political structures axe seen as the base of society, issuing a whole set of determinations for the rest of the social system according to a straightforward monistic political determinism. Or, at the other pole of the continuum, Politics receives a reductionist treatment -- in the 'Sociology of Politics' --- so that 2-e11.its descreteness, its specificity, is de-emphasized in favour of a concept of Politics as an instantiation of 'deeper' sociological phenomena.The aim of this study is to frame a general theory of Politics based on the contention that sociological practice and the study of Politics cannot be hermetically sealed off from one another. It aims to accord to Politics a discreteness but to situate it, at the sane time, firmly in a social setting so as to suggest a discreteness of a different order to that of the conventional Political Science imput_on. The context for such a project is a broad and discursive treatment of Social Theory in accordance with the prescriptions of a version of the structuralist method; there is an attempt at a totalization of all those elements consistent with, and heuristically useful to, the central aim of founding politics theoretically. Moreover, this theory of Politics aims to achieve the Hegelian Aufhebung of existing 'thinkingabout-Politics:.)sentially a monistic political determinism and a monistic economic determinism are rejected for an approach to Politics predicated on the idea of a complex symmetry between the economic base of a society and superstructural features -- of which Politic.; is the most crucially important. Politics is not conceptualized epiphenomenally, as in * Julgar' Marxism, as a crude reflection of economic factors, but is seen as being involved in a complex system of mediations ano reciprocal interactions with the economic base. Politics is seen as residing in certain structural loci --- as the 'nodal point' of inteLration (or malintegration) of a society. Additionally, it is seen as material activity, processually diffuse and situationally variable, directed at the transformation or non-transformation of the unity of the levels iii of a society (economic, cultural, ideological et al) and at the creation, maintenance and distribution of valued social resources. Politics is neither epiphenomenal nor facultative but stands, in a literal sense, in a dialectical relationship to social environment.</p
The politics of language in the novels of Thomas Hardy - with specific reference to Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Social Work: An Introduction to Contemporary Practice
No full textSocial Work: an Introduction to Contemporary Practice is an exciting, new and uniquely comprehensive introduction to the field. Essential knowledge and skills are examined with authority and depth and key debates approached in an accessible, informative and engaging way. Underpinned by research and advice to make close illustrative links with practice, this text will stimulate interest and actively engage the reader.Richly supported throughout with examples and real-life case scenarios, the authors encourage the reader to adopt a critical and reflective approach. Furthermore, as social work exists to help people through complex and painful transitions in life, the book sets the relationship at the heart/centre of social work practice. This text will be essential reading for social work students on undergraduate and post-graduate training programmes, newly qualified social workers and practitioners in a variety of settings. <br/
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