Social Sciences (Particularly Sociology)

Or Applied Social Science as Based upon Statical Sociology and the Less Complex Sciences

With regard to the actual nature of religion, as exemplified in the various races of men, Mr. Spencer agrees more nearly with Mr. Tylor than with Sir John Lubbock. Indeed, his ghost theory "differs little in itself from the “animism” of Tylor. Mr. Spencer, however, has ideas of his own respecting the origin of the belief in spiritual beings which are very entertaining. He considers ancestor-wor...

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The Sociology of Social Inclusion

This article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The article interrogates a variety of forms of social integration, including ostracism within 5th century B.C. Greece, 19th-century solidarism, and Goffman’s mid-20th-century work on stigma. It does so to demonstra...

Toward a Historical Sociology of Social Situations

rules. In both cases, though via different mechanisms, these systems gave actors a stable reference point toward which they could orient behavior. What changes in the less-institutionalized settings of postmodernity is that this stability gives way to situational contingency, and so trust becomes something that must be constantly achieved and reachieved, what Giddens (1994) refers to as the ide...

Economic Sociology: Bringing Back Social Factors

The spectacular revival of economic sociology in the US in the 1980s and in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century will be regarded as part of a paradigm shift in social sciences. Whereas classical sociology almost always dealt with normatively defined situations and value-based actions in which individual decisions, interests, and other situational aspects disappear from view, neo-classic...