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• Benno Werlen
  Werlen studied Geography, Ethnology, Sociology and Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland until 1980 (Instit
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• Bruno Latour
  Although he is interested in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology, his main field of interest is science policy and research -Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th editon, Pearson Education LTD
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• Cultural Capital
  * Weininger, E., Lareau, A. N.D. http://www.brockport.edu/sociology/faculty/Cultural_Capital.pdf * Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th edition, Pearson Education LTD.
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• Discourse (vs. Language)
  ...nvestigate the relations between language, structure and agency, including sociology, feminist studies, anthropology, ethnography, cultural studies, literary th
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• Duality (of structure)
  * Blogspot (2012). Anthony Giddens's Duality of Structure in Sociology. finding date: 8 october 2012, at http://criticalsociologist.blogspot.nl/20
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• Habitus
  In sociology habitus is a term that describes a sustainable way of observing (perception
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• Humanism
  * Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th edition, Pearson Education LTD.
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• Humanistic geography
  ...ciples of substantive inquiry such as hitorical idealism or interpretative sociology (Cloke, Philo & Sadler, 1991, p.57).
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• Ideal type (vs. real type)
  ...nd research; one of many subjective elements which necessarily distinguish sociology from natural science. Ideal types are simplified models of social activiti
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• Intention
  ...uses the concept of intention (meinen) in his very own special way in his sociology. Weber refers to intended meaning. He states that while it is common to use
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• Jürgen Habermas
  * Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th editoin, Pearson Education LTD
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• Max Weber
  ...omist and best known as one of the leading scholars and founders of modern sociology. At the age of eighteen (1882) he enrolled in the University of Heidelberg ...ed from the fact they observe. Weber admits it is hard to be value-free in sociology, for three reasons (Campbell, 1981, p. 171-172):
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• Max Weber 2
  ... a great influence on social research, social theory and the discipline of sociology itself. Along with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim, Weber is often cited as on The approach of social action theory is known as ‘interpretive sociology’. This means that it describes how observers outside the studied society,
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• Niklas Luhmann
  ...gulation area of his theory that led him to develop [[autopoiesis]] in the sociology term. Social systems are systems that make sense of their environment (Arno
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• Observation (vs. experience)
  * Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th edition, Pearson Education LTD
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• Pierre Bourdieu
  ... Européenne and in the eighties he got appointed the prestigious chair of sociology at the Collège de France. In 2002 Bourdieu died of cancer in Paris. ...ry]] and saw social agents as operating to a practical sense, this was the sociology side to his work. The anthropological work focused more on the mechanisms o
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• Positivism
  - Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008) Sociology. A Global introduction. 4th edition, Pearson Education LTD.
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• Practice (vs. Action)
  ...s) were seen as the object of theorization in certain branches of critical sociology and cultural anthropology. Practice theories seek to integrate objectivist
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• Semiotics
  ...eology, Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology. ''The British Journal of Sociology'' 44 (3) p473-499
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• Social Capital
  ...ital; Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology. ''Annual Review of Sociology.'' Vol. 24. (1998), pp. 1-24.[http://www.soc.washington.edu/users/matsueda/
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• Social action
  * Kivisto, P. (2004). ''Key Ideas in Sociology''.
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• Stock of knowledge
  ...nd Luckmann: ‘’The structure of the life-world.’’ In: Contemporary sociology: a journal of reviews. Vol. 3, issue 2. Pp. 112-114.
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• Structure vs. agency
  ‘One of the basic debates in sociology is that about the relative power of agency vs. structure’ (Cline, 2010).
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• Symbolic interactionism
  Symbolic interactionism has evolved into one of the major perspectives in sociology as well as in human geography. Action and meaning are keywords making it pa
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• Talcott Parsons
  ...law Malinowski and Leonard Hobhouse, among others. Het received his PhD in Sociology and Economics at the university of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1927 he became
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• Third Way
  ...sociologist [[Anthony Giddens]] has been concerned with a redevelopment of sociology and the development of [[structuration theory]]. His most recent work deals
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• Anthony Giddens
  ...idered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology. ...h 1938 in Edmonton in London. In 1959 he graduated from Hull University in sociology and psychology and took his master at The London School of Economics. After
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• Associative relationship
  [[Max Weber]]'s approach defines sociology as a science value free, attempts the interpretative understanding of socia
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• Symbolic Capital
  Symbolic capital is a term widely used within [[sociology]], [[anthropology]] and other social sciences. Symbolic capital appears whe ...1946). “Class, Status, Party.” p. 180-195 in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, H. H. Girth and C. Wright Mills (eds.). New York: Oxford University.
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• Ethnograpy
  ... for reasonable qualitative methods, such as the [[Chicago school of urban sociology]] (Cloke et al., 1999, p. 91). Cloke et al (1999, p. 90) appreciate Geertz
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• Society
  Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th edition. Pearson Education LTD
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• Ethnomethodology
  Ethnomethodology is an approach in the sociology introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel[http://en.wikipedia its origin in Talcott Parsons's functionalist sociology. [[Max Weber]], [[Alfred Schütz]], Émile Durkheim and
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• Goal rational action
  ...ax Weber]] in his 'Theory of man' (Campbell, 1981). Max Weber conceived of sociology as a science of social action; he beliefs that social processes are a resul
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• Contingent
  Contingent or contingency in philosophy or sociology means the proposition that is neither true nor false under every possible v
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• Late-modernity
  * Macionis, J. & Plummer, K. (2008). Sociology. A global introduction. 4th edition, Pearson Education LTD
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• Social constraints
  * Dale Southerton in Sociology (2006) 40: 435 Analysing the Temporal Organization of Daily Life: Social Co
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• Ideology
  ...t (1993) Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology ''The British Journal of Sociology''
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• Rationalities
  ... the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History, American Journal of Sociology , Vol. 85, No. 5, pp. 1145-1179, The University of Chicago Press
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• Behavior vs. action
  "''In sociology, social action refers to an act which takes into account the actions and re Weber finds 'action' an interesting and important concept within Sociology. He was a one of the main thinkers of [[action theory]] and explains the wo
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• (social) phenomenology
  ...onelogy to find a philosophical foundation for [[Max Weber]]s interpretive sociology(Crossman, 2012). Crossman, Ashley, 2012, Social Phenomenology an overview, URL= http://sociology.about.com/od/Sociological-Theory/a/Social-Phenomenology.htm
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• Presence-availability
  [[Category: Sociology]]
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