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Social Explanation (social + explanation)
Selected AbstractsRealism, Regularity and Social ExplanationJOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 2 2003Stephen Kemp Stephen Kemp and John Holmwood, Realism, Regularity and Social Explanation, pp. 165,187. This article explores the difficulties raised for social scientific investigation by the absence of experiment, critically reviewing realist responses to the problem such as those offered by Bhaskar, Collier and Sayer. It suggests that realist arguments for a shift from prediction to explanation, the use of abstraction, and reliance upon interpretive forms of investigation fail to demonstrate that these approaches compensate for the lack of experimental control. Instead, it is argued that the search for regularities, when suitably conceived, provides the best alternative to experiment for the social sciences. [source] Social Facts, Social Groups and Social ExplanationNOUS, Issue 1 2003John D. Greenwood First page of article [source] Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation , By Jean AnyonANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2009Aurora Chang-Ross No abstract is available for this article. [source] First Things First: Internet Relay Chat OpeningsJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 3 2001E. Sean Rintel Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was the Internet's first widely popular quasi-synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) system. While research has consistently demonstrated the interpersonal nature of IRC, and is now turning to more structurally-oriented topics, it is argued that IRC research now needs to systematically address links between interaction structures, technological mediation and the instantiation and development of interpersonal relationships within a framework that privileges IRC interaction and social explanations. This exploration of the openings of IRC interactions is positioned as a step in that direction. The openings investigated in the study are those that occur directly following user's entries into public IRC channels, termed the newly-joined users' Channel Entry Phase (CEP). It is found that turn coordination in the CEP is often ambiguous, has the potential to disrupt relationship development, and leads to considerable emphasis on interactive strategies for the clear ordering of opening phases. [source] The Puzzle of China's Township,Village Enterprises: The Paradox of Local Corporatism in a Dual-Track Economic TransitionMANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2005Peter Ping LiArticle first published online: 6 JUL 200 abstract This paper seeks to reconcile and synthesize the diverse views about the township,village enterprises (TVEs) and local corporatism in the context of ongoing institutional changes in China as a transition economy. Specifically, I attempt to integrate the economic, political, cultural, and social explanations for TVEs, especially the two competing views of market competition and political corruption. I focus on the puzzle of TVE efficiency as well as the paradox of local corporatism as a government,business partnership with both a positive function of public alliance for wealth creation and a negative function of private collusion for wealth transfer. I argue that the key to both the puzzle of TVEs and the paradox of local corporatism lies in China's dual-track reform paradigm (i.e. a market-for-mass track and a state-for-élite track). Lastly, I discuss the critical implications for theory building and policymaking regarding economic transition in general. [source] | ||||||||||