Sociology

Bannister, Robert C.

doi:10.1017/chol9780521594424.019

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“…Obviamente a sociologia evoluiu significativamente e, normalmente, não mais se duvida de seu caráter científico e seu lugar enquanto parte das ciências sociais. Bannister (2008) argumenta que isto se deu porque a sociologia teve a peculiaridade de, quando surgia, não buscar delimitar um objeto de estudo exclusivamente seu (como a economia política buscaria explicar a economia, mesmo que se discordasse sobre o que tal conceito necessariamente engloba).…”

Section: Qual Sociologia?unclassified

Implicações do Methodenstreit para além da economia política:

Coelho de Souza Almeida

2024

NORUS

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Esse artigo busca apresentar como a disputa de métodos entre Menger e Schmoller no fim do século XIX pode ter influenciado aspectos das ciências sociais para além da economia política. Tendo como foco a sociologia, que nesse mesmo período iniciava seu caminho para o que se consolidaria como sociologia moderna, trazemos aspectos das obras desses autores, e de outros que compõe o contexto dessa disputa, para esclarecer suas perspectivas com relação às ciências sociais como um todo e para demonstrar como a superação do método histórico (especialmente o radical de Schmoller) foi ponto importante para o surgimento da sociologia moderna.

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Section: Qual Sociologia?unclassified

Implicações do Methodenstreit para além da economia política:

Coelho de Souza Almeida

2024

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“…In this respect they were faithful followers of Comte and Spencer. Contemporary historians have emphasized above all their commitment to value‐neutrality (so‐called “scientism”) and quantification (e.g., Bannister, , ; Ross, , pp. 390–470; 1993; Camic & Xie, ), but when early U.S. sociologists embraced the ideals of scientific method and epistemology, it was far from settled what they were embracing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While she allows that “the range of sophistication about scientific method varied” (p. 405), Ross does not examine the competing visions of what it meant to be scientific. When any plausible definition of “science” is admitted, one can compile a bewildering array of claims for when and where enthusiasm for science in sociology was peaking: in the era of “American Spencerians” Albion Small and Franklin Giddings (Hinkle, ; Turner & Turner, ; Breslau, ), in the post‐World War Two era of foundation‐funded, large‐scale social research (Turner & Turner, ; Solovey, , ; Isaac, ), or in the scientism of the 1920s (Bannister, , ; Ross, ). This paper departs from a point that Ross and others have exhaustively established, viz., for many of the early twentieth century American sociologists, claiming the mantle of “science” was a powerfully legitimating and highly desirable end.…”

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‘Laboratory Talk’ in U.S. Sociology, 1890–1930: The Performance of Scientific Legitimacy

Owens¹

2014

J History Behavioral Science

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This paper examines one aspect of early twentieth century debates over the meaning of scientific methodology and epistemology within the social sciences: the tendency of sociologists to invoke "laboratory" as a multivalent concept and in reference to diverse institutions and sites of exploration. The aspiration to designate or create laboratories as spaces of sociological knowledge production was broadly unifying in early American sociology (1890-1930), even though there was no general agreement about what "laboratory" meant, nor any explicit acknowledgment of that lack of consensus. The persistence of laboratory talk in sociology over decades reflects the power of "laboratory" as a productively ambiguous, legitimizing ideal for sociologists aspiring to make their discipline rigorously scientific.

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“…In approaching this question, urban food gardeners' motivations, legitimisations and conceptualisations of their community and backyard gardening initiatives needs to be identified. In order to achieve an understanding, Verstehen, of the subjective world views that shaped food provisioning actions of 19 urban food gardeners (Sumner, 2006;Bannister, 2003). Verstehen, as emphasised by Weber (1949), should be approached in a non-value laden way (Sumner, 2006) so as to avoid unacknowledged biases imposed by the researcher.…”

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A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

Mangru¹

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In response to the dissatisfaction with the pitfalls of the corporatised global food system over the last two decades, urban dwellers in the Global North have begun to implement alternative food initiatives (AFIs). AFIs tend to be underpinned by discourses of localism with discursive emphasis on the local place where communities can embed food production and distribution with an ethics of care, social justice and ecological responsibility. Urban AFIs consist of biochemical free production initiatives such as: commercial urban agriculture projects (city farms); growing food on sidewalk verges, vacant land and in community and backyard gardens; and distribution initiatives of crop swaps; farmers' markets; and box schemes. This thesis builds on a growing body of research that often discuss the constructions of localism discourses with some arguing that AFIs in the developed world should realise a 'reflexive' localism underpinned by a discourse that acknowledges issues at scales other than the geographic point of local system i.e. discursive emphasis on structural political change at state and global scales.Critics of many current AFIs claim that the lack of capacity of AFIs to challenge, or at least offer a viable alternative to, the corporatised global food system is partly due to practitioners' articulations of an 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism. The discourse of defensive localism embeds a non-negotiable geographic boundary enclosing a particular cohort's personal sentiments and values, which are unrepresentative of local issues at that particular place. An 'unreflexive' discourse of defensive localism includes discursive emphasis on personal responsibility, voluntary action, competition and efficiency.This thesis examines this phenomenon and is based on theorisations of subjective reflexivity and constructions of discourses at the local place, focusing on urban backyard and community garden food gardeners in the city of Brisbane, Australia. The question addressed by this thesis is: Are urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia merely growing food or reflexively constructing the local place as a response to a dysfunctional food system?The research question is explored using a qualitative, social constructivist epistemology.Using a methodology of discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 urban food gardeners who produced some of their household food requirements in community gardens and household backyards. Urban food gardeners viewed the iv hegemonic food system in Queensland as dysfunctional based on perceptions of the ecologically unsound, mechanised cultivation practices and unequal power relations that favour large scale food retailers over farmers -interpretations that conform in many respects to Marx's concept of metabolic rift.Interpretations of gardeners' strategies and motivations were theorised using Farrugia's (2013) 'reflexive subjectivity theory' along with food and agriculture studies that approach the implications of constructions of localism dis...

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Sociology

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Implicações do Methodenstreit para além da economia política:

Implicações do Methodenstreit para além da economia política:

‘Laboratory Talk’ in U.S. Sociology, 1890–1930: The Performance of Scientific Legitimacy

A reflexive discourse of the local place: urban food gardeners in Brisbane, Australia

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