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In the fourth person singular: pragmatism, anarchism, and the earth
Nothing has done more to cement William James’s reputation than his unrepentant individualism. In a present marked by the challenge of imagining...
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Pragmatism
Social scientists have been able to abandon the dilemma of choosing methodology from a selection of either qualitative or quantitative, with the...
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Pragmatism and/or/vs Hermeneutics?
This article is the introduction to the special issue of The American Sociologist on the theme ‘Pragmatism and/or/versus Hermeneutics.’ As such, the...
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Pragmatism of Understanding and Interpretation
This paper seeks to point the way towards a new articulation between hermeneutics and pragmatism. The founders of pragmatism in large part ignored...
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Pragmatism in Archaeology: The End of Theory?
This paper will survey the uses of theory in the archaeology of the southern Levant since the late nineteenth century BCE, but particularly since the...
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Hermeneutics, Pragmatism and Sociology: Pragmatism’s Advantage
According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, intellectuals are prone to substitute a scholastic relation to the social world for the practical...
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Should practical usefulness be considered for theory building in HRD? Traditional versus pragmatism approach
Globalization has led to an increasing emphasis on the critical role of the workforce in the success of organizations. This has resulted in the shift...
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Integrating Meaningful Selfhood into the Sociological Study of Political Languages: Blending Mead's Pragmatism and Taylor's Hermeneutics
The sociological study of political culture has made important headways. Scholars have demonstrated the significance of background culture, symbols...
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George Herbert Mead’s Pragmatism and Wilhelm Dilthey’s Hermeneutics: Similarities and Differences that Widen and Deepen Sociological Analysis
The relations between George Herbert Mead’s pragmatism and Wilhelm Dilthey’s hermeneutics have been examined in recent years in a new light: based on...
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The Clerics, Legal Schisms, and Pragmatism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s, the Islamists’ desire to establish an Islamic state in the country necessitated a...
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3 → 2: American Interlude—From James (Back) to Kant: Pragmatism
This chapter looks at what was happening sociologically in the US rather than in Europe. It shows how the American tendency in the early twentieth...
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From Mohism to the school of names, from pragmatism to materialist dialectics: Chinese interpretations of Gongsun Longzi as a text and source of Chinese logic, 1919–1937
This article aims at providing a general overview of the development of interpretational discourse on Gongsun Longzi (公孫���子) as a text in Chinese...
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Interactions Between British Archaeologists and National Socialism: Pragmatism, Neutrality, Opposition and Compromise
This chapter examines interactions between British and German National Socialist archaeologists. Before the war, British archaeologists admired...
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“I Don’t Like All Those Fees” Pragmatism About Financial Services Among Low-Income Parents
Basic financial services facilitate people’s ability to manage their finances, save, and receive payments from employers or the government. Drawing...
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Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response
What is the contribution of pragmatism to the sociology of morality? I answer to the points raised by the essays in this symposium on Moral...
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Habits and the socioeconomic patterning of health-related behaviour: a pragmatist perspective
Unhealthy behaviours are more prevalent in lower than in higher socioeconomic groups. Sociological attempts to explain the socioeconomic patterning...
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The means and ends of nature
What should sociologists make of nature? Pragmatism provides one possible answer to this question by centering the practical relations between humans...
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In the absence of meaning: care practices and environmental factors behind the multiple selves of the digital psychiatry participant
This paper compares formal accounts that laboratory members use to describe a digital psychiatry intervention with lab practices as they were...
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Two Letters Between Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel, Dated 1965: Comments on the Exchange
The letters exchanged by Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel in 1965 show the interest of both philosophers in pragmatism, in the thought of Charles...
