By Aysha Taryam Editor-in-Chief : The Gulf Today The creative process that spurs from a moment’s inspiration is ever so demanding. Once its call is answered the response to it must be one of sheer commitment. Perfection is its one request. Like a lov… [...]
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Attitudes toward race not significantly improved from previous yearsby Frank Newport – Gallup PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America’s race-relations problem will eventually be worked out — a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall’s historic election of Barack Obama as president.
Continue reading Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations Stephane Lelay SummaryHow précarisation salariale and social sufferance has transformed governmentability of the working class The question of precariousness is often addressed in terms of link to work and its reorganization following “fordism” and “post-fordism”. For the past 20 years, analyses have focused on how workers status and access to work evolved as a consequence of organizational transformations and managerial strategies. Key-words : gender, governmentability, précarisation salariale, social sufferance, working class. Article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Charles Tilly
Columbia University In 1844, Auguste Comte’s Lecture on the Positivist Outlook (Discours sur l’esprit positif) proposed the name “sociology” for the general science of humanity. In Comte’s vital vision, the hierarchy of sciences proceeded from mathematics at the base through astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology to sociology at the summit. The maturing of basic sciences, he declared, now made it possible to construct the capstone science, sociology. In that defining moment for the sociological discipline, Comte’s conception of sociology included history, in fact consisted largely of analyzing the development of humanity through historical stages. From that point onward, however, professional history and professional sociology moved in very different directions. Continue reading HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY Max Weber Translated and Edited by The essays in this book were written, as all methodological essays should be written, in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on the substantive problems of the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written in the years between 1903 and 1917, the most productive years of Max Weber’s life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and on the second and third parts of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Even before the earliest of the three published here —” ‘Objectivity’ in Social Science and Social Policy”^— was written, Weber had achieved eminence in Germany in a variety of fields. Continue reading On the Methodology of the Social Sciences EMILE DURKHEIM (1897-1898) in: Année sociologique, vol. II, 1897-1898, pp. 1 à 28, rubrique: “Mémoire originaux”. Paris: PUF. Texte reproduit dans Journal sociologique , pp. 140 à 165. Paris: PUF, 1969, 728 pages. Collection Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine, 728 pp. Continue reading DE LA DEFINITION DES PHENOMENES RELIGIEUX Emile Durkheim (1907) Extrait de la Revue de philosophie, vol. 7, n˚ 5, pp. 528-539 (1907); vol. 7, n˚ 7, pp. 92-114 (1907); vol. 7, n˚ 12, pp. 620-638 (1907). Texte reproduit in Émile Durkheim. Textes. 2. Religion, morale, anomie (pp. 65 à 122). Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1975, 508 pages. Collection: Le sens commun… Continue reading Cours sur les origines de la vie religieuse On Economic, Social and Cultural RightsOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights In the past 15 years interest in promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights has grown. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, Governments and the judiciary are paying increasing attention to the protection of these rights in their programmes, policies and case law, and highlighting the need to respect them as a key to ensuring greater overall enjoyment of human rights. The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights raises the hope of a renaissance for the protection of these rights, both nationally and internationally. This is timely, particularly given that the denial of economic, social and cultural rights continues and is even intensifying, in wealthy and poor countries alike… Continue reading Frequently Asked Questions Thomas S. Kane Two broad assumptions underlie this book: (1) that writing is a rational activity, and (2) that it is a valuable activity. To say that writing is rational means nothing more than that it is an exercise of mind requiring the mastery of techniques anyone can learn. Obviously, there are limits: one cannot learn to write like Shakespeare or Charles Dickens. You can’t become a genius by reading a book. Continue reading The New Oxford Guide to Writing Thomas Dixon In recent years the topic of ‘science and religion’ has become almost synonymous, especially in the United States, with debates about evolution. For this reason, two of the six chapters of this book are devoted to evolutionary subjects. The modern American debate about evolution and ‘Intelligent Design’ illustrates particularly clearly how stories about confl ict or harmony between science and religion can be used in political campaigns – in this case relating to the control of education and the interpretation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution… Continue reading Science and Religion Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot EHESS, Paris , Journal of European Sociology
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