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Sociologie et sociétés : Les épistémès de la société : l'enclavement du savoir dans les structures sociales. Institution : Usager en libre accès Article Résumé On s’entend généralement aujourd’hui pour dire que les sociétés occidentales contemporaines sont régies, d’une manière oud’une autre, par le savoir et l’expertise. Cet article débute par une analyse des sociétés du savoir (knowledge societies ») d’unpoint de vue sociologique : Une telle analyse montre que les processus du savoir qui envahissent la vie contemporaine représententune force structurante qui façonne les formes d’ordre et d’existence de ces sociétés.

Dans le cadre de son argumentation,l’auteure analyse deux formes d’organisation sociale : les relations personnelles (présentées sous l’angle d’une sociabilitéaxée sur les objets) et l’organisation de l’entreprise (présentée sous l’angle des structures du laboratoire). Summary Epistemics in Society: On the Nesting of Knowledge Structures into Social Structures Resumen Tous droits réservés © Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal , 1998. Scott’s DiaTribes » Blog Archive » The Copyright Bill - call your MP to say you’re opposed to this version of it. Trevor Pinch - Cornell University Sociology. Rheingold.com. ACRLog. The Wales-Wide Web | Personal Learning Environments are getting closer.

Felix Stalder: Actor-Network-Theory and Communication Networks. Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes. History of Education. Selected Moments of the 20th Century A work in progress edited by Daniel Schugurensky Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) The Training Group, often referred to as the T-Group, began its evolution in 1946 and significantly changed adult education in the workplace. It can be argued that the focus on skill improvement and training in the areas of communications, conflict management, group work, etc., represented the first time an educational component was deemed as an integral part of the work environment. The birth of the T-Group was an accident. The structure of the workshop divided participants into three small groups.

As a result of this open discussion and feedback, it was recognized that when participants contributed observations based on reflections of their own behaviour, they became energized. Bradford, Leland. Laiken, Marilyn.(2002) . Mohrman, Allan et al.(1989) . Abstracts. Chapter 2. Systematic Opportunism: An approach to the study of tactical social influence Robert Cialdini, University of Arizona This chapter develops an integrative theoretical approach to the investigation of a variety of social influence phenomena that are simultaneously systematic and opportunistic. The social influence phenomena investigated via this approach are invariably tactical in nature. These phenomena extend over three domains of social influence: persuasion (e.g., anticipatory attitude and belief change, in which change occurs before the receipt of a persuasive appeal), self-presentation (e.g., basking in reflected glory, in which attempts to influence one's image in the eyes of others occur in an indirect fashion), and behavioral change (e.g., compliance with the requests of another).

Chapter 3. Increasing compliance by reducing resistance Eric S. Social influence often creates an approach-avoidance conflict for the recipient. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. The Handbook of Culture and Psychology: David Matsumoto. Personality and Individual Differences : Development of a self-presentation tactics scale. Abstract Previous personality measures examining individuals' propensity to engage in self-presentation (e.g. self-monitoring, social desirability) often dealt only with positive forms of self-presentation and have not measured individuals' proclivity to use specific self-presentation tactics. In order to overcome these problems, 4 studies were carried out to (a) develop a self-presentation tactics scale (SPT) measuring individual differences in proclivity for using 12 self-presentation tactics, (b) examine the dimensions of self-presentation and (c) to examine gender differences in self-presentation behavior.

The results of the 4 studies indicate that the SPT is internally consistent, consistent across time and that the SPT shows adequate discriminant validity. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrate that self-presentation consists of two distinct components: defensive and assertive tactics, and that these two general types of tactics are significantly correlated. Keywords. DPI - Home. The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview. Logos Fall 2002: Ulrich Beck on World Risk Society. Eptember 11, 2001, will stand for many things in the history of humanity. Among these, no less for the failure, for the silence of language before such an event: “war,” “crime,” “enemy,” “victory” and “terror”—the terms melt in the mouth like rotten mushrooms (Hugo von Hofmannsthal). NATO summed up the alliance, but it is neither an attack from the outside, nor an attack of a sovereign state against another sovereign state.

September 11th does not stand for a second Pearl Harbor. The attack was not directed toward the U.S. military machine, rather, toward innocent civilians. The act speaks the language of genocidal hate that knows “no negotiation,” “no dialogue,” “no compromises,” and lastly “no peace.” The notion, of “enemy” is misleading. It stems from an imaginary world in which armies conquer or get conquered and then sign “cease fires” and “peace treaties.” This is what makes suicide-bombings, even months or years after they have occurred, incomprehensible. Terrorism and War. Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. CJS Book Review: Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity. Review by William Leiss, Simon Fraser University This is three books in one and only the intelligence and courage of the author holds them together, forging them into a single spirited essay on broad themes that has proved to be attractive to readers in its original language (it qualifies as an academic best-seller in Germany and already has gone through three editions) and will do so, albeit to a lesser extent, to the readers of this translation.

Book number one, the theory of industrial society and the concept of "reflexive modernity,'' will have the broadest appeal and indeed, as the authors of the Introduction note, its perspective finds solid support in the analogous but independently f ormulated views of such a prominent authority as Giddens. The excellent point it makes is that the first full phase of industrial society (say 1800-1950?) The second book, which pops up here and there in the text and receives one full chapter entitled "Science beyond Truth and Enlightenment?

'' Site Web de Bruno Latour | Bruno Latour's Web Site. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Postmodern Culture. Contents, PMC 15.3. [LES PÉRIPHÉRIQUES VOUS PARLENT] Science Ed. J.L.Lemke On-line Office A large part of my research has dealt with Science Education, particularly with the role of language, and more recently of language combined with other representational media (action, gesture, mathematics, graphics and images) in scientific communication in schools and in professional science. See General Bibliography. The best summary of my early work on language in secondary school science classrooms is found in Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values (Ablex/JAI Publishing, 1990). Contents. Bibliography. Aprender a Hablar Ciencia, 1997. A recent overview of my views on the nature and teaching of scientific concepts as multimedia constructions can be found in "Teaching All the Languages of Science: Words, Symbols, Images, and Actions" [Link].

See also: Mathematics in the Middle: Measure, Picture, Gesture, Sign, and Word. There is a good collection of my conference papers in science education available in the ERIC database. Theories. J.L.Lemke Online Office Here are some brief introductions to the major theoretical perspectives I find useful in my own research in social semiotics, discourse analysis, ecosocial dynamics, and various areas of educational theory and practice.

See also the Researchers and Readings pages. Theory of Complex Self-organizing Systems Traditional European philosophy has favored theories in which causality is the dominant explanatory principle: things happen because someone, or by extension something, makes them happen. For an overview in relation to social dynamics, see: Lemke, Textual Politics, chapter 6; Lemke, Cultural Dynamics article; and Lemke, Downward Causation article. Also: Norbert Wiener, J. General Social Theory All events in an ecosocial system take place in a sociological and cultural context as well as an ecological context. The principal, useful social theories and their basic principles and formulators are: neo-Marxism: class-based analysis; K.

Also: A. General Semiotics Also: U. Postmodern Thought. Sociology of Knowledge.