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The Professional Quest for Truth

Author : Stephan Fuchs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143840347X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Professional Quest for Truth written by Stephan Fuchs and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he analyzes knowledge production in scientific fields—how they differ in their resources and how these differences affect how science is conducted. The book explains why certain fields produce science and facts, while others engage in hermeneutics and conversation; why certain specialities change through cumulation rather than fragmentation; and why some fields are relativistic while others are positivist in their self-understanding. This general theory of knowledge is applicable not only to science, but to all varieties of professional groups engaged in knowledge production.

Science as a Quest for Truth

Author : Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534464
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Science as a Quest for Truth written by Bengt Kristensson Uggla and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself—so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing “the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”) by means of a new focus on collegial practices.

The Idea of the University

Author : Jerzy Brzeziński
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001466
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of the University written by Jerzy Brzeziński and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconfiguring Truth

Author : Steven C. Ward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461641861
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring Truth written by Steven C. Ward and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1996-10-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as 'reality' and 'truth' with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. Reconfiguring Knowledge is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.

The Professional Quest for Truth

Author : Stephan Fuchs
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791409237
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Professional Quest for Truth written by Stephan Fuchs and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he analyzes knowledge production in scientific fields--how they differ in their resources and how these differences affect how science is conducted. The book explains why certain fields produce science and facts, while others engage in hermeneutics and conversation; why certain specialities change through cumulation rather than fragmentation; and why some fields are relativistic while others are positivist in their self-understanding. This general theory of knowledge is applicable not only to science, but to all varieties of professional groups engaged in knowledge production.

Selective Remembrances

Author : Philip L. Kohl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226450643
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Selective Remembrances written by Philip L. Kohl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities. Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens—which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions. The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.

Communication Theory

Author : James Arthur Anderson
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572300835
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Communication Theory written by James Arthur Anderson and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-05-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough analysis of the scientific, critical, and cultural questions at the foundation of theory-building in communication and other social sciences. Any claim to knowledge, the author explains, can be analyzed in terms of a series of characteristics: the object of its explanation, the explanatory form and evidentiary method employed, its characteristic explanations, the scope of its performance, and its consequences of value. From identifying basic epistemological questions to exploring the impact of the "knowledge industry" on society, the volume offers readers the analytical tools to understand, compare, and evaluate theories and their use both inside and outside the classroom. The book also includes a systematic analysis of communication's most influential theories and traces their genealogies across different content fields and disciplines.

A Companion to Research in Education

Author : Alan D. Reid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400768095
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Research in Education by : Alan D. Reid

Download or read book A Companion to Research in Education written by Alan D. Reid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. An international team of scholars examines cross-cutting themes of how research in education is conceptualised, characterised, contextualised, legitimated and represented. Contributions include specially commissioned essays, critical commentaries, vignettes, dialogues and cases. Each section discusses the significance of a complex terrain of ideas and critiques that can inform thinking and practice in educational research. The result is a thorough and accessible volume that offers fresh insights into the perspectives and challenges that shape diverse genres of research in education.

The Faultline of Consciousness

Author : David R. Maines
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202369662
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Faultline of Consciousness written by David R. Maines and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compendium of related and cross-referential essays, David R. Maines draws from pragmatist/symbolic interactionist assumptions to formulate a consistent new view of the entire field of sociology. Suitable for courses in social theory, qualitative methods, social psychology, and narrative inquiry, this volume will change the way the general public looks at interpretive sociology. This book is organized as an expression of the centrality of interactionism to general sociology. Each chapter is designed to articulate this view of the field. Symbolic interactionism, the way Maines has come to understand and use it, is essentially the concerted application of pragmatist principles of philosophy to social inquiry. There are four basic elements to this characterization. First, people transform themselves: people are self-aware beings who reflexively form their conduct and thus are capable of adjusting their lines of action and creating new ones. Second, people transform their social worlds: human action takes place in contexts of situations and social worlds. People can modify the social matrices in which they act, and thus people are agents of change. Third, people engage in social dialogue: communication is generic and is at the heart of both stability and change. A fourth element is that people respond to and deal with their transformations. Humans construct situations and societies; they establish social structures and cultures. These are the consequences of human action, and once formed they reflexively function to direct and channel conduct. Maines argues that when people do things together they can create enduring group formations, such as divisions of labor, rules for inheritance, wage-labor relations, or ideologies. These are instances of group characteristics that influence human conduct and indeed are not reducible to the traits of individuals making up the group or society. David R. Maines is professor and chair of sociology and anthropology at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, where he teaches courses on urban sociology and social stratification. He was one of the founding members of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and in 1999 received the SSSI George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions to scholarship.

Faculty Work and the Public Good

Author : Genevieve G. Shaker
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773514
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Faculty Work and the Public Good written by Genevieve G. Shaker and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when faculty roles are under great scrutiny and faculty work itself has an uncertain future, this book offers a new approach to examining academic professionalism. This collection of essays applies a philanthropic lens to contemporary debates and considers academic work completed out of a moral responsibility to the public good. It provides a counterpoint to narrow conceptions of appropriate faculty work as limited to the production of credit hours and research dollars and offers evidence that faculty can have a wider role both within and beyond the “ivory tower.” By examining faculty members’ many contributions, not only to students but to society-at-large, Faculty Work and the Public Good provides an alternate perspective on America’s colleges and universities that will help preserve and expand professorial contributions to the public good. Although not all faculty are philanthropically inclined, highlighting those who are will help preserve valuable aspects of faculty work and encourage more such contributions to society. This volume is an essential read for higher education policymakers, trustees, and administrators; students and scholars of higher education and philanthropy; and individual faculty concerned about their profession. Contributors: Ann E. Austin, J. Herman Blake, Dwight F. Burlingame, Denise Mott DeZolt, Sean Gehrke, Audrey J. Jaeger, Adrianna Kezar, Jia G. Liang, Elizabeth Lynn, Michael Moody, Emily L. Moore, Thomas F. Nelson-Laird, Jason F. Perkins, William M. Plater, Gary Rhoades, R. Eugene Rice, John Saltmarsh, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Paul Shaker, Marty Sulek, William G. Tierney, Richard C. Turner “The contributors to this volume provide unique insights into this under-appreciated but significant dimension of academic work and culture.” —Jack H. Schuster, professor emeritus, education and public policy, senior research fellow, Claremont Graduate University “Provides a powerful rationale for broadening the definition of what are the valued contributions faculty members can make to their institutions, disciplines, and the public at large” —Judith M. Gappa, professor emerita, Purdue University

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two

Author : Dennis Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783195118
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Dennis Kelly: Plays Two written by Dennis Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks Sierz. "Without doubt, Kelly is one of the most multi-talented British playwrights to emerge in the last decade" - Aleks Sierz (from the foreword)

Social Science

Author : Delanty, Gerard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335217214
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Social Science written by Delanty, Gerard and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is social science? Does social scientific knowledge differ from other kinds of knowledge, such as the natural sciences and common sense? What is the relation between method and knowledge? This concise and accessible book provides a critical discussion and comprehensive overview of the major philosophical debates on the methodological foundations of the social sciences. From its origins in the sixteenth century when a new system of knowledge was created around the idea of modernity, the author shows how the philosophy of social science developed as a reflection on some of the central questions in modernity. Visions of modernity have been reflected in the self-understanding of the social sciences. From the positivist dispute on explanation vs. understanding to controversies about standpoint to debates about constructivism and realism, Delanty outlines the major shifts in the philosophy of social science. He argues that social science is an intellectual framework for the transformation of the social world. The new edition is updated and expanded throughout with the latest developments in the field, including a new chapter on feminist standpoint epistemology, and additional material on neo-positivism, pragmatism, and reflexivity. This is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging texts in recent years on debates on method and the contemporary situation of social science. It is of interest to undergraduate students and postgraduates as well as to professional researchers with an interest in the philosophy of the social sciences and social theory.

Teaching and Learning Practices for Academic Freedom

Author : Enakshi Sengupta
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800434804
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning Practices for Academic Freedom written by Enakshi Sengupta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although academic freedom in teaching and learning methods is crucial to a nation’s growth, the concept comes with numerous misnomers and is subjected to much academic debate and doubt. This volume maps out how truth and intellectual integrity remain the fundamental principle on which the foundation of a university should be laid.

Bourdieu and the Literary Field

Author : Jeremy Ahearne
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474463827
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Bourdieu and the Literary Field written by Jeremy Ahearne and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Bourdieu's theory of the literary field.

International Journal of Contemporary Sociology

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Journal of Contemporary Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desecration, Danger, Deliverance

Author : Martin Weber
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780828017060
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Desecration, Danger, Deliverance written by Martin Weber and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the myth of the rapture and shows what the Bible actually teaches about Armageddon, the tribulation, the antichrist, and the Second Coming of Jesus.

Trauma in the Lives of Children

Author : Kendall Johnson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1630265829
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Trauma in the Lives of Children written by Kendall Johnson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child. The nationwide movement toward School Crisis Response Teams, the DSM-IV's new category for post-traumatic stress, and the use of EMDR for treatment are covered.