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Critical Realism and Composition Theory

Author : Donald Judd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134463928
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism and Composition Theory written by Donald Judd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education. This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical theories within composition theory: expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist and builds its critique on the fact that much of modern composition theory has focused on epistemological concerns while neglecting the ontological foundations of that which is being discussed. Critical Realism and Composition Theory offers an alternative approach to teaching composition. This problem-oriented alternative is designed to lead students beyond the abstract, contemplative description of a problem to an expanded understanding that shows that concerns for justice cannot be addressed intellectually without at the same time confronting the practical constraints that limiting powers of social institutions play in both defining a problem and its social solution.

A Social Theory of the Nation-State

Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134150121
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book A Social Theory of the Nation-State written by Daniel Chernilo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.

In Defence of Objectivity

Author : Andrew Collier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134402759
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Objectivity written by Andrew Collier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Realist Theory of Science

Author : Roy Bhaskar
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603536
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book A Realist Theory of Science written by Roy Bhaskar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as 'Critical Realism', which is both intellectually diverse and international in scope, has developed on the basis of key concepts outlined in the text. The book has been hailed in many quarters as a 'Copernican Revolution' in the study of the nature of science, and the implications of its account have been far-reaching for many fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Revitalizing Causality

Author : Ruth Groff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134193661
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Revitalizing Causality written by Ruth Groff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and inter-disciplinary divides, helping to stake out a new, neo-Aristotelian position within contemporary debate.

Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134336608
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism written by Christopher Norris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and philosophy of science. Norris devotes much of his discussion to some of the most prominent and widely influential source-texts of anti-realism. Also included are the sophisticated versions of verificationism developed - albeit in very different ways - by thinkers such as Michael Dummett and Bas van Fraassen. Central to Norris's argument is a prolonged engagement with the once highly influential but nowadays neglected work of Norwood Russell Hanson. This book will be welcomed especially by readers who possess some knowledge of the background debate and who wish to deepen and extend their understanding of these issues beyond an introductory level.

Emergentist Marxism

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136013423
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Emergentist Marxism written by Sean Creaven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and demonstrates how they allow the social analyst to conceptualize geo-history as embodying a tendential evolutionary directionality, rather than as simply random or indeterminate in terms of its outcomes. For those interested in social and political theory, Marxism and communism and contemporary social theory, this outstanding volume is an in important read and a valuable resource.

Explaining Global Poverty

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134164688
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Global Poverty written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes

Author : Alex Ding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350230715
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes written by Alex Ding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by pioneering architects of original social theory in educational/linguistic fields as well as expert practitioners, systematically exposes the sociological commitments of mainstream ideas and theories in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), commitments which are very often not fully examined by the discipline, but nonetheless shape practitioners' ideas and their praxis. The initial chapters outline what social theory is; the normative, critical, descriptive, social and generative purposes it serves; the scope and limits of social theory, and tracing the major historical traditions and recent currents. This mapping of social theory is followed by a detailed argument that makes the case for the centrality of social theory for EAP practitioners and praxis and the need to develop a sociological imagination to enhance knowledge and agency of practitioners. The contributions reveal the sociological foundations and commitments that underpin established theories in EAP, such as genre theories, systemic functional linguistics, and academic literacies. Each of these three major research streams in EAP is subject to critical analysis, linking each of these streams to the sociological commitments that underpin them. Finally, the book explores the social theories and approaches that have yet to make a full or significant impact on EAP research and practice, but would enable practitioners and researchers to understand educational contexts, texts, structures, culture(s), knowledge production and producers, and social agents with greater sociological clarity and sophistication. Topics covered include: social realism, legitimation code theory, critical realism, ethnography, feminism and Bourdieusian concepts for EAP. The overarching aim of this volume is to position social theory much more centrally to frameworks and conceptions of the (unstable and contested) knowledge-base for EAP practitioners and to promote a 'sociological imagination' among and for EAP practitioners.

(Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice

Author : Terry Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134137311
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book (Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice written by Terry Lovell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays considers some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions that Nancy Fraser’s work has provoked, presenting some compelling examples of its analytical power in a range of contexts.

Making Realism Work

Author : Bob Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134495013
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Making Realism Work written by Bob Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with issues such as causality, probability, and reflexivity in social science. Varied and lively contributions relate central methodological issues to detailed accounts of research projects which adopt a realist framework. Making Realism Work provides an accessible discussion of a significant current in contemporary social science and will be of interest to social theorists and social researchers alike.

Ontology of Sex

Author : Carrie Hull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134239920
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Ontology of Sex written by Carrie Hull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts. Here, Carrie Hull endorses the progressive ideals of poststructuralism while demonstrating the superiority of a realist account of sex and sexuality. Embracing biological and cultural variability, Hull nonetheless shows that the sexed body is naturally structured and deeply meaningful. Poststructuralist philosophers have argued that biological sex is a continuum rather than a binary, and that sex identity and drive are entirely performances of cultural norms rather than expressions of innate qualities. Hull draws parallels with Nelson Goodman, W.V.O. Quine, and B.F. Skinner to show that these poststructuralist theories are rooted in a nominalist, relativist, and behaviourist philosophy, and develops an alternative framework using arguments from contemporary and critical realism. Employing colourful illustrations from biology, anthropology and psychology, Hull demonstrates the rich potential of realist philosophy, and concludes that it is philosophically and scientifically correct, on one hand, and politically advisable, on the other, to maintain a distinction - albeit attenuated - between sex and gender, and sexuality and behaviour.

Transcendence

Author : Margaret S. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134306709
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence written by Margaret S. Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world. Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief becomes subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief. It uniquely demonstrates that the three pillars of critical realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion as to any other beliefs or theories. The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.

Engendering the State

Author : Lynn Savery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136024069
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Engendering the State written by Lynn Savery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have states in general been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women’s human rights norms domestically than other human rights norms and why has the diffusion of these norms varied so greatly between states? Why are some states more responsive and exert more effort than others to comply with these norms? Engendering the State explains these key issues and argues that the gender biased identity of many states represents the most significant barrier to diffusion. It also explores how particular norms have diffused into certain states at specific points in time, as a consequence of international and domestic pressure. The author: addresses the limitations of existing explanations of international norms case studies of Germany, Spain, Japan and India, which provide a new perspective on comparative analysis of Europe and Asia alternative arguments on cross-national variation and the influence of international norms of sexual discrimination the theoretical and practical implications of the argument. This book is essential to those with an interest in the topical subject of women’s human rights, gender studies and international studies.

Modelling Written Communication

Author : Deirdre Pratt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048198437
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Modelling Written Communication written by Deirdre Pratt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an alternative view to current postmodern approaches to composition. It takes a critical realist stance to arrive at the “essence” of written communication with the aim of informing a practical application: a computerised writing tutor. Following Robert Franck’s seminal work on modelling, a theoretical model of writing was first formulated, consisting of an architecture of functions which constitute the prerequisites for effective communication. Next, an applied model - a composing algorithm with an input option - was developed, showing composing to be a systemic social process with intra- and extra-systemic variation. The algorithm provided the design template for a writing tutor program which models for the learner both the systemic and the socially situated nature of writing. This book establishes composing as a communicative interaction, and shows the essential dynamism of writing, while offering an exemplar of a systems approach to modelling in the social sciences.

Critical Expressivism

Author : Tara Roeder
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602356548
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Critical Expressivism written by Tara Roeder and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intelletual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, “As far as I can tell, the term ‘expressivist’ was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit.” The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by “a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field.”

On Christian Belief

Author : Andrew Collier
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415315227
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book On Christian Belief written by Andrew Collier and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.