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Fuller Appreciation (fuller + appreciation)
Selected AbstractsStudying talk and embodied practices: toward a psychology of materiality of ,race relations'JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2005Kevin Durrheim Abstract This article argues that an adequate social psychology of racism needs to take seriously people's lived experiences of ,race relations'. This involves an empirical focus on social life in ordinary contexts in which everyday practices are structured around ,race'. In particular, we argue that such a social psychology of racism needs to understand the articulation of two related domains of practices,embodied spatio-temporal practices and linguistic practices (talk),that together constitute the reality of ,race relations' in specific, concrete contexts. By discussing a case study of practices that constitute ,desegregation' on a post-apartheid beach, we show that this focus (1) allows a fuller appreciation of the nature and construction of ,race relations', (2) helps us to understand why ,race relations' are so resistant to change and (3) provides a historical and materialist account of the nature of ,race groups'. We argue that (what we term) the ,impoverished realism' of traditional attitude research and the ,selective anti-realism' of discursive social psychology both limit an appreciation of lived experience as a focus of study. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Merton as Harvard sociologist: Engagement, thematic continuities, and institutional linkagesJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 1 2010Lawrence T. Nichols In this paper I explore the significance of the initial decade of Robert K. Merton's graduate and professional career, from 1931, when he entered the new doctoral program in sociology at Harvard, until 1939, when he joined the Department of Sociology at Tulane University as an associate professor and acting chairperson. Drawing on archival sources, as well as the professional literature, I examine how Merton engaged the exceptionally rich, interdisciplinary context of Harvard in the 1930s, including both interpersonal networks and diverse intellectual perspectives. In particular, I identify connections between Merton's early writing, "oral publications" and teaching, and three locally developed and dominant paradigms of sociology. Following an assessment of the influence of Merton's works published from 1934 to 1939, I trace continuities between Merton's achievements at Harvard and his subsequent teaching and research at Tulane and Columbia. I conclude that a fuller appreciation of Merton's "less noticed" decade in Cambridge is indispensable for understanding his overall career, and that it clarifies linkages across sociological work at three universities in the mid-twentieth century. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Challenging Neo-Malthusian Deforestation Analyses in West Africa's Dynamic Forest LandscapesPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 1 2000Melissa Leach Many influential analyses of West Africa take it for granted that ,original' forest cover has progressively been converted and savannized during the twentieth century by growing populations. By testing these assumptions against historical evidence, exemplified for Ghana and Ivory Coast, this article shows that these neo-Malthusian deforestation narratives badly misrepresent people,forest relationships. They obscure important nonlinear dynamics, as well as widespread anthropogenic forest expansion and landscape enrichment. These processes are better captured, in broad terms, by a neo-Boserupian perspective on population,forest dynamics. However, comprehending variations in locale-specific trajectories of change requires fuller appreciation of social differences in environmental and resource values, of how diverse institutions shape resource access and control, and of ecological variability and path dependency in how landscapes respond to use. The second half of the article présents and illustrates such a "landscape structuretion" perspective through case studies from the forest,savanna transition zones of Ghana and Guinea. [source] China's Recovery: Why the Writing Was Always on the WallTHE POLITICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2009OLIVER TURNER China has been a major power for far longer than is typically acknowledged in the West. This paper seeks to redress established discourse of China as a ,rising' power which now enjoys common usage within Western policy-making, academic and popular circles, particularly within the United States; China can more accurately be conceived of as a ,recovering power'. A tendency by successive Washington administrations to view the world in realist terms has forced the label of ,rising' power onto China along with the negative connotations that inevitably follow. We should acknowledge the folly in utilising a theoretical approach largely devoid of any appreciation for the social and human dimensions of international relations as well as the importance of social discourse in the field. Finally, policy-makers in Washington must reconsider their realist stance and, with a fuller appreciation of world history, recognise that American hegemony was always destined to be short-lived. [source] | |||||||||||||