Mapping Social Relations

Author : Marie Louise Campbell,Frances Mary Gregor
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0759107521

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Mapping Social Relations by Marie Louise Campbell,Frances Mary Gregor Pdf

This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by one of Canada's most respected scholars, Dorothy Smith. Institutional ethnography aims to answer questions about how everyday life is organized. What is conventionally understood as "the relationship of micro to macro processes" is, in institutional ethnography, conceptualized and explored in terms of ruling relations.The authors suggest that institutional ethnographers must adopt a particular research stance, one that recognizes that people's own knowledge and ways of knowing are crucial elements of social action and thus of social analysis. Specific attention to text analysis is integral to the approach as is a sensitive to gender relations. Institutional ethnography is remarkably well suited to the human service curriculum and the training of professionals and activists. Its strategy for learning how to understand problems existing in everyday life appeals to many researchers who are looking for guidance on how to take practical action. At the same time, the highly elaborated theoretical foundation of institutional ethnography is difficult to deal with in the brief time most students are in the classroom. The authors successfully tackle the issue of teaching and applying institutional ethnography. Campbell and Gregor have been testing out instructional methods and materials for many years. MAPPING SOCIAL RELATIONS is the product of that effort.

Author : Laura Vaughan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353060

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Mapping Society by Laura Vaughan Pdf

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.

Author : Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742546772

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Institutional Ethnography as Practice by Dorothy E. Smith Pdf

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the book aims to provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties of approaches involved in the research.

Author : Manja Stephan-Emmrich,Philipp Schröder
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1013290496

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Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas by Manja Stephan-Emmrich,Philipp Schröder Pdf

This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.Illuminating translocality as a productive concept for studying cross‐regional connectivities and networks, this volume is an important contribution to a lively field of academic discourse. Following new directions in Area Studies, the chapters aim to overcome 'territorial containers' such as the nation‐state or local community, and instead emphasize the significance of processes of translation and negotiation for understanding how meaningful localities emerge beyond conventional boundaries.Structured by the four themes 'crossing boundaries', 'travelling ideas', 'social and economic movements' and 'pious endeavours', this volume proposes three conceptual approaches to translocality: firstly, to trace how it is embodied, narrated, virtualized or institutionalized within or in reference to physical or imagined localities; secondly, to understand locality as a relational concept rather than a geographically bounded unit; and thirdly, to consider cross‐border traders, travelling students, business people and refugees as examples of non-elite mobilities that provide alternative ways to think about what 'global' means today.Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas will be of interest to students and scholars of the anthropology, history and sociology of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for those interested in new approaches to Area Studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Caelie Frampton
Publisher : Black Point, N.S. ; Fernwood
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000111571851

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Sociology for Changing the World by Caelie Frampton Pdf

This volume sets out practical ways activists can map the social relations of struggle they are engaged in and produce knowledge for more effective forms of activism for changing the world.

Author : Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759105022

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Institutional Ethnography by Dorothy E. Smith Pdf

Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is suitable for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

Author : Liz Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973556073

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Dorothy E. Smith, Feminist Sociology and Institutional Ethnography by Liz Stanley Pdf

This short introduction to the work of key feminist sociologist and theorist Dorothy E. Smith traces the development of her ideas and thinking across her publications. Smith's exposition of feminist sociology and its critique of the established mainstream and her important development of institutional ethnography are discussed in detail. This is combined with an innovative focus on how Smith translates her theoretical ideas into research practice in the analysis of institutional texts, with texts in action central to her investigations of the practical accomplishment of relations of ruling.The work of Dorothy Smith has been widely influential and this book provides an accessible guide to her central ideas and concepts. These include relations of ruling, knowledge practices, institutional texts, the everyday world as problematic, the standpoint of women and the standpoint of people, the small hero, mapping, writing the social, the local and the extralocal, institutional ethnography, the active text, the text-reader conversation, the act-text-act sequence, boss texts, public discourses, and the front-line work of organisations. It relatedly shows how these are combined in Smith's radical project of re-making sociology and the social sciences more generally. Liz Stanley's lively and readable book provides a helpful and accurate guide to Smith's work. The work of Dorothy Smith has been influential across the entirety of the social sciences and the short introduction will be essential reading for scholars and teachers at all levels who are engaging with the ideas of this key sociologist and feminist theorist.Dorothy Smith writes:"A fascinating read for me. No biography, no imposed interpretation, but a brilliant discovery of a coherent direction in my work that I could not have fully known myself. I learned from your study and I thank you. Dorothy E. Smith"

Author : Florian Znaniecki
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Social Relations and Social Roles by Florian Znaniecki Pdf

Investigation of organized interaction among human beings.

Author : Ute Dieckmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839452417

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Mapping the Unmappable? by Ute Dieckmann Pdf

How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature, human-animal, natural-supernatural. The volume brings two strands of research - cartography and »relational« anthropology - into a closer dialogue. It provides case studies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned from other continents (e.g. North America, Asia and Australia). The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies for a further decolonization of maps, and thus advance current debates in the social sciences.

Author : Michael Peachin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195188004

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World by Michael Peachin Pdf

Michael Peachin is Professor of Classics at New York University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Bryan Evans,Carlo Fanelli,Tom McDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864398

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Rising Up by Bryan Evans,Carlo Fanelli,Tom McDowell Pdf

Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response and solutions.

Author : Mark W. Hauser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748733

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Mapping Water in Dominica by Mark W. Hauser Pdf

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica’s colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.

Author : Marilynn B. Brewer,Norman Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Intergroup relations
ISBN : UCSC:32106018597481

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Intergroup Relations by Marilynn B. Brewer,Norman Miller Pdf

Intergroup Relations examines social psychology's unique contribution to our understanding of intergroup relations, examining the whole range of interactions from the level of individual psychological processes to the behaviour of large social groups.

Author : Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska
Publisher : Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 3631667841

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Social Spaces and Social Relations by Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska Pdf

The human world is an area of countless places and spaces. The authors describe and analyze those different spaces as well as the social relations created within them. They classify types of relations and observe the functioning of neighborly relations, relationships on social networks, at home, or in museums.

Author : Derek Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:37308191

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Social Relations and spatial structures by Derek Gregory Pdf