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Social Logic (social + logic)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Trust in the Social Logic of the Gospel

THE ECUMENICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2004
Martin Robra
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Localised agricultural knowledge and food production in sub-Saharan Africa

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, Issue 187 2006
Lazare Séhouéto
In Benin localised agricultural knowledge is produced or taken on board by the farmers according to their specific cognitive frames and social logic. It is therefore important to analyse them in their complexity. The analysis of farmers' knowledge as to the choice of associating or not associating various crops shows that, while the reasons advanced in the first case are above all ecological (more than 80 per cent of the responses), those put forward in the second are at once economic and ecological. Yet the farming calendar is not merely an adaptation to weather and climatic requirements: it brings together the implications of politics, economics, religion, and natural constraints. In this article I argue that to promote this localised knowledge which helps the majority of men and women who live south of the Sahara to survive, scientists must make more rigorous descriptions and interpretations of localised knowledge, in order to avoid the risk of becoming trapped in folklore or the mystical. [source]

Imperialism from Below: Informal Empire and the Private Sector in Nineteenth-Century Germany

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2008
Matt Fitzpatrick
Far from being the product of atavistic feudal remnants within German society, nineteenth-century German imperialism stemmed from precisely the liberal milieu that had come to prominence during 1848-49. Through an analysis of imperialist texts dealing with Central and South America, and the social logic of these imperialist works, an understanding of the nature of private sector and civil society imperialistic projects emerges that sees liberal imperialists seeking out alternatives to statist solutions in the light of political blockages to their efforts. [source]

OPERATIONALIZING OPPORTUNITIES AND CREATING PUBLICS IN SALVADORAN CHURCHES: FINDINGS FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PROCESS EVALUATION

ANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010
James Huff
This article explores how one faith-based nonprofit organization and its various Pentecostal and evangelical church partners in El Salvador are creating associational contexts within which local community development projects are identified and implemented. Observational and interview data derived from a process evaluation of a project identification exercise are examined to explore how different community and organizational stakeholders attempt to implement local development initiatives that will presumably build on local assets and associations. The study details the patterns of participation that emerged as members of local churches negotiated with their neighbors over how to best direct social change in their community. Corresponding analysis of interview data portrays how these same actors relied on diverse social logics,which are both religious and practical in nature,to make sense of and assess some of the key assumptions of a particular form of faith-based development. The case is a good example of how faith-based organizations play key roles in the formation of publics, wherein actors from diverse networks come together to deliberate over the aims and outcomes of local development projects in contemporary El Salvador. [source]