Radical Politics and Sociological Research: Observations on Methodology and Ideology

Becker, Howard S.; Horowitz, Irving Louis

doi:10.1086/225295

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“…More importantly, from a critical standpoint, in "getting their stories," researchers in this tradition called attention to how difficult it was for practicing scientists to be "disinterested" or practicing journalists to be "fair and balanced" even if they were following certified methods (H. Becker, 1970;H. Becker & Horowitz, 1972;Hughes, 1971d).…”

Section: Bridging the Divide Between The Humble And The Proudmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutions and Work

Kaghan

Lounsbury

2010

Journal of Management Inquiry

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In this article, we argue that the flowering conversation under the label of "institutional work" can be productively enriched by segregating the notions of "institutions" and "work, and by engaging more fully with both micro-and macro-sociological contributions of the "old institutionalism." We illustrate the value of these extensions by discussing three areas of theoretical and empirical interest: methodological groupism, the relationship between social structure and social process at both micro and macro levels, and the relationship between social analysis and social critique. By pursuing these directions, we believe the notion of institutional work can avoid conflation with variants of methodological individualism, and might usefully contribute to ongoing conversations about agency across the social sciences.

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Section: Bridging the Divide Between The Humble And The Proudmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutions and Work

Kaghan

Lounsbury

2010

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Horkheimer n'est pas le seul à avoir vu ces oppositions et à avoir prôné une «conscience» de l'activité intellectuelle par opposition à une science neutre. Mentionnons Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson et Sandford (1950), Althusser (1969Althusser ( , 1970Althusser ( et 1976, Becker et Horowitz (1972), Bottomore (1964Bottomore ( et 1968, Dahrendorf (1959), Goodman (1970), Gouldner (1970), Gramsoi (1971), Habermas (1975Habermas ( et 1976, Horowitz (1969), Kolko (1969), Lefebvre (1958Lefebvre ( et 1975, Lukas (1971), Lynd (1969), Mandel (1968Mandel ( et 1971, Marcuse (1962Marcuse ( , 1968Marcuse ( et 1969, Mills (1956Mills ( , 1959Mills ( , 1960Mills ( , 1962Mills ( et 1964, Wellmer (1974), Zeitlin (1967Zeitlin ( et 1968, etc. Voilà quelques-uns de ceux parmi les philosophes sociaux et les sociologues qui ont exigé que la science s'adonne à un examen des orientations de la pensée, à l'analyse des choix de ses cibles d'étude.…”

Section: Perspectives Traditionnelles Et Perspectives Critiques En Crunclassified

Perspectives traditionnelles et perspectives critiques en criminologie

Bertrand¹

2005

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Is critical criminology “passée”? Have its fathers, the British and American sociologists who wrote Critical Criminology in the mid seventies exhaust its potential interest and flavour? It would be too bad because critical criminology never really took place. There never was a serious and rigorous attempt at unfolding the historical, epistemological, socio-political roots of the discipline, a critical look at it that took nothing for granted. Reminding the readers of the very serious and highly publicised debate around Traditional and Critical Theory in the late thirties launched by the sociologists and philosophers of the Frankfurt School, the author shows that, far from being outdated, critical theory is of the utmost practicality in criminology, even more so because its founding fathers have taken, since, a less partisan and doctrinaire view of it. The applications of their intellectual and socio-political orientations to criminology are numerous, calling for a serious socio-historical analysis of the discipline and of its academic origins that should throw light on where it is going and its impotence at developing a paradigm.

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“…Such an empirical interest however, is not shared by all sociological approaches. It is the interpretive-interactionist perspective and accompanying field methods which have contributed the initial and major understanding of the social construction of social problems, social crisis labeling (Becker, 1963;Edelman, 1977) and the consequences flowing therefrom.…”

Section: Structural Contextual Properties For Social Policymentioning

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Symbolic Interaction and Social Policy Analysis*

Estes

Edmonds

1981

Symbolic Interaction

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This paper explores the contribution that interactionist approaches may make to the study and understanding of social policy based on a discussion of: (1) the general orientation of the interactionist line on inquiry and the general assumptions which the theoretical stance makes about the character of the world, (2) the problems that are of primary interest to those who work within this perspective, and (3) the methodological and technical aspects of this approach. Fruitful foci for basic and applied research from the interactionist perspective include: (1) how policy is constructed through negotiation within a structural context, (2) the multiple interpretations of policy intent and implementation, (3) the experience and meaning of social “problems” for those who are the intended objects of the social policies, and (4) the consequences of policies for the social order. Some of the major properties of the social policy context (uncertainty, decentralization, and political pluralism) are explored for their relevance to social policy analysis. Finally, we discuss the contribution of an institutional‐contextual‐social worlds approach as a macro‐micro bridging mechanism in social policy studies.

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Radical Politics and Sociological Research: Observations on Methodology and Ideology

Cited by 42 publications

References 9 publications

Institutions and Work

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Perspectives traditionnelles et perspectives critiques en criminologie

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