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SOCIAL TERM: Συμβολική αλληλόδραση / Symbolic interactionism

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TERM TYPE: Methodological

DEFINITION (1): “[…] the interactionist perspective has been more concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life. Sociologists like Charles Horton Cooley (1902/1964), George Herbert Mead (1934/1962), Manford Kuhn (1964), and Herbert Blumer (1969) turned their attention to the individuals who make up society and asked how social interaction is possible. Answers to this question focused on individuals’ subjective experiences and understandings, and especially on how shared understandings of the world emerge from social interaction and form the basis for social life. […] Symbolic interactionism was based on three core assumptions (Mead, 1934/1962; Blumer, 1969; Fine, 1993). First, we respond to things in our environment on the basis of their meanings -that is, the understandings we have of them. […] Second, meanings are not inherent in things, but emerge from social interaction. […] Third, because we are continually interacting, shared cultural meanings are continually emerging and changing. The world we live in, therefore, is largely a social reality, manufactured by people as they intervene in the world and interpret what is happening there using the symbols and meanings available to them. Accordingly, symbolic interactionists said that we experience the world as a constructed reality.” (Hughes and Kroehler 2009: 21-22).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Διεθνικά δίκτυα συνηγορίας / Transnational advocacy networks

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): «A transnational advocacy network includes those relevant actors working internationally on an issue, who are bound together by shared values, a common discourse and dense exchanges of information and services [these] networks are communicative structures […] we call them advocacy networks because advocates plead the causes of others or defend the cause or proposition.» (Keck and Sikkink 1998: 1-10).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: Keck E., Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. (1998). Activists beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks and International Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 6-7.

SOCIAL TERM: Αξιολογικά ουδέτερη κοινωνιολογία / Value-free sociology

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TERM TYPE: Methodological

DEFINITION (1): “In his writings Weber stressed the importance of a value-free sociology. He emphasized that sociologists must not allow their personal biases to affect the conduct of their scientific research. Weber recognized that sociologists, like everyone else, have individual biases and moral convictions regarding behavior. But he insisted that sociologists must cultivate a disciplined approach to the phenomena they study so that they may see facts as they are, not as they might wish them to be. By the same token, Weber recognized that objectivity is not neutrality or moral indifference. Neutrality implies that a person does not take sides on an issue, and moral indifference that one does not care; objectivity has to do with the pursuit of scientifically verifiable knowledge.” (Hughes and Kroehler 2009: 13).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

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REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνικό κράτος / Welfare state

APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1

RELATED TERMS: Κράτος/State

TERM TYPE: Theoretical

SOCIAL TERM: Κοσμο-οικονομία / World-economy

APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1

TERM TYPE: Theoretical

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SOCIAL TERM: Συμβολική αλληλόδραση / Symbolic interactionism

REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Διεθνικά δίκτυα συνηγορίας / Transnational advocacy networks

REFERENCE: Keck E., Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. (1998). Activists beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks and International Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 6-7.

SOCIAL TERM: Αξιολογικά ουδέτερη κοινωνιολογία / Value-free sociology

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REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνικό κράτος / Welfare state

SOCIAL TERM: Κοσμο-οικονομία / World-economy

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SOCIAL TERM: Συμβολική αλληλόδραση / Symbolic interactionism

REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Διεθνικά δίκτυα συνηγορίας / Transnational advocacy networks

REFERENCE: Keck E., Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. (1998). Activists beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks and International Politics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 6-7.

SOCIAL TERM: Αξιολογικά ουδέτερη κοινωνιολογία / Value-free sociology

REFERENCE:

REFERENCE: Hughes, M., and C. Kroehler. (2009). Sociology: The Core. New York: McGraw-Hill.

SOCIAL TERM: Κοινωνικό κράτος / Welfare state

SOCIAL TERM: Κοσμο-οικονομία / World-economy

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