Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology

Weber, Max; Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus

doi:10.1002/9780470755679.ch3

Cited by 3,367 publications

(3,802 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

3,546

Contrasting

Unclassified

228

Order By: Relevance

“…Social scientists have long recognized the importance of typologies for providing conceptual frameworks for testing hypotheses (Lazarsfeld, 1937;Weber, [1922Weber, [ ] 1978. The typology presented here suggests several avenues for future work: First, how should recruitment strategies vary by donor group?…”

Section: Future Directions For Researchmentioning

confidence: 97%

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Asad¹,

Anteby²,

Garip³

2014

Social Science & Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most likely to donate from attitudinal survey data -educated white males over 65. This focus on survey data, however, suffers from two main limitations: First, it reveals little about individuals' actual registration or donation behavior. Second, past studies' reliance on average survey measures may have concealed variation within the donor population. To address this limitation, we employ cluster analysis on all whole-body donors' data from the Universities of California at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Two donor groups emerge from the analyses: One is made of slightly younger, educated, married individuals, an overwhelming portion of whom are U.S.-born and have U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign-born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional donor groups within and beyond the group of educated and elderly white males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics -in particular, gender and migration status -shapes the configuration of the donor pool, signaling new ways to possibly increase donations.

show abstract

Section: Future Directions For Researchmentioning

confidence: 97%

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Asad¹,

Anteby²,

Garip³

2014

Social Science & Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…to hold authority) and to the person or institution holding that power (Fay 2008) -the first two points raised in the introduction. According to Weber (1968), authority refers to power that is 'legitimate'. Legitimacy refers to 'a generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable, proper, or appropriate within some socially constructed system of norms, values, beliefs, and definitions' (Suchman 1995: 574).…”

Section: Authority Relations and Communal Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Formalizing Indigenous Commons: The Role of ‘Authority’ in the Formation of Territories in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and the Philippines

2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Indigenous peoples have sometimes sought the formalization of their customary territories to demand the enforcement of their borders, which have often not been respected by outsiders or the state. The process of formalization, however, generates new conflicts. This article explores how the recognition of indigenous forest commons is connected to questions about authority. For communal properties in particular, issues of 'authority' are central to shaping how decisions are made, whose opinion or knowledge is taken into account and how access to land and natural resources is determined in practice. The process of constituting collective territories is intimately related to the constitution of authority, as it involves not only the negotiation of physical boundaries but also the recognition of a particular entity to represent the collective. Though an entity that holds leadership powers may already exist, it is likely to be endowed with new decision-making powers and responsibilities; and in many cases a new entity will have to be created. This is not a 'local' process but rather emerges at the intersection of relations between the community, or territory, and the state. Similarly, given that 'authority' implies legitimacy, such legitimacy will have to be produced. Drawing on a comparison of cases of two indigenous territories in Nicaragua and Bolivia and an ancestral domain in the Philippines, this article shows how authority emerges from often conflictive processes of constructing the commons and shapes community rights toand powers over -forests and forest resources.

show abstract

“…Here, analysis of various kinds tends to focus on developing specific reductive explanations, rather than general appreciative understandings (Flyvbjerg, 2001;Weber, 1978). Despite the presently necessarily coarse grain characterisation of the concept of 'democracy' in terms of general capacities for challenging power, the implications may therefore be especially potentially significant for prevailing interpretations of incumbentchallenger interactions.…”

Section: Implications Of -And For -'Democracy'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

Johnstone

Stirling

2015

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

SWPS 2015-18 ( June) DisclaimerThe works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers shall be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to one of the Editors, who will process them and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor. Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process. AbstractThis paper focuses on arguably the single most striking contrast in contemporary major energy politics in Europe (and even the developed world as a whole): the starkly differing civil nuclear policies of Germany and the UK. Germany is seeking entirely to phase out nuclear power by 2022. Yet the UK advocates a 'nuclear renaissance', promoting the most ambitious new nuclear construction programme in Western Europe. Here, this paper poses a simple yet quite fundamental question: what are the particular divergent conditions most strongly implicated in the contrasting developments in these two countries. With nuclear playing such an iconic role in historical discussions over technological continuity and transformation, answering this may assist in wider understandings of sociotechnical incumbency and discontinuity in the burgeoning field of 'sustainability transitions'. To this end, an 'abductive' approach is taken: deploying nine potentially relevant criteria for understanding the different directions pursued in Germany and the UK. Together constituted by 30 parameters spanning literatures related to socio-technical regimes in general as well as nuclear technology in particular, the criteria are divided into those that are 'internal' and 'external' to the 'focal regime configuration' of nuclear power and associated 'challenger technologies' like renewables. It is 'internal' criteria that are emphasised in conventional sociotechnical regime theory, with 'external' criteria relatively less well explored. Asking under each criterion whether attempted discontinuation of nuclear power would be more likely in Germany or the UK, a clear picture emerges. 'Internal' criteria suggest attempted nuclear discontinuation should be more likely in the UK than in Germany -the reverse of what is occurring. 'External' criteria are more aligned with observed dynamics -especially those relating to military nuclear commitments and broader 'qualities of democracy'. Despite many differences of framing concerning exactly what constitutes 'democracy', a rich political science literature on t...

show abstract

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology

Cited by 3,367 publications

References 0 publications

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Formalizing Indigenous Commons: The Role of ‘Authority’ in the Formation of Territories in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and the Philippines

Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About