This essay considers how we might come to understand social constructionism sociologically. It examines a number of related approaches to gender and sexuality that speak to sociological concerns and might be termed social constructionist: historicism, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and materialist feminism. By recognising that social constructionism is multifarious rather than unifie...

Rational choice and hermeneutics seem at odds, but the tension can be fruitfully resolved. The conflict between them closely mirrors the earlier conflict between historicism and positivism. In interwar Vienna, an influential group of social scientists tried to combine the best elements of both approaches. Rational choice was united with Verstehen and the method of ideal types, as evidenced by t...

Downtown Budapest residential properties from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, organized around inner courtyards, where historicism free style are mixed with premodernism, socialist modernism contemporary buildings. The older buildings typically neglected, in need renovation, especially more palatial examples. damaged roof on this building has been restored to its former splendour using con...

This paper considers primary school texts as resources for teaching reading and children's literature, applying principles of close New Historicism theory to explore the effects on changing social, political, pedagogical contexts in twentieth century. Particular issues discussed are predominant themes ideologies, narrative technique, representations systems authority control, positioning child ...

This paper deals with the concepts of magic, conversion to Christianity, and prayer in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest . Employing New Historicism using Christian writings, it analyses Prospero’s conversion, which have so far been neglected by scholars favor juxtaposes them magic. reading supports underrepresented view magic as heretical punishable, suggests that abjuration is comparable deliver...

The article analyses the research carried out during the last 5 years, which is dedicated not only to a historical theme in Pushkin’s works, but also historicism as a phenomenon of A.S. Pushkin’s creative mind. In contrast with traditionally considered aspects of Pushkin’s historicism, the author analyses the genesis of Pushkin’s perception of history. The events imprint...