REFLECTIVE SOCIOLOGY AS THE CREATIVE- PRACTICAL CONTEMPORARY THEORY

Reflective Argument as a Design Theory

This paper presents a design theory, an explanation why to use a particular structure for the design of socio-technical systems. This theory was created from merging argumentation theory and reflective thinking. After highlighting the relevant attributes of these, the paper goes on to demonstrate three different ways this design theory has been applied in practice. The dialectic of argument and...

Reflective Practice in Contemporary Social Work Classrooms

Social work literature provides analysis and strategies about teaching social work practice and its interrelationship with a diverse society. In this paper, we present a framework to aid instructors' understanding of and response to coriflict in the classroom, which is unavoidable. We propose the reflective practitioner paradigm along with the contributions of mindfulness, as useful for social ...

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Sociology as a Vocation

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

AS Sociology For AQA

Culture is a significant concept for sociologists because it both identifies a fundamental set of ideas about what sociologists' study and suggests a major reason for the existence of Sociology itself – that human social behaviour can be explained in the context of the social groups into which people are born and within which they live their lives. In this Chapter we're going to explore a range...