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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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Schack och social interaktion : Dag Østerberg, Johan Asplund och brädet
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 57:2, s. 165-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What can a theory of chess learn from sociology? And what can sociology learn from chess? This article examines the contribution of Scandinavian sociologists Dag Østerberg and Johan Asplund on chess and sociology in order to better understand chess and, to some degree, the sociologies of Østerberg and Asplund. Developing the concept of tertius as a necessary third quasi actor mediating between ego and alter, the article also contributes to a general sociological theory of games. The game is analysed as a form of interaction where each player plays (i) with tertius against the opponent, and (ii) with the opponent against tertius. The article ends by arguing that tertius could be a valuable concept for sociological theory.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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Causation and reason : R.G. Collingwood and causal analysis as the essence of social thinking
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Ingår i: Distinktion. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1600-910X .- 2159-9149. ; 18:2, s. 173-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are we to understand causal relations and analysis in social science? This paper takes R. G. Collingwood’s writing about causation as its point of departure for the answering of this question. Two different kinds of causal relations are distinguished from pseudo-causality; of the former, one is directly connected to reason, the other to our ability to manipulate the world. Their interconnection and significance are discussed and th econclusions are drawn that (a) causality belongs to the realm of human praxis and that (b) causal analysis proper is well suited forthe social sciences. It is further showed that some important explanations are not causal in any of the above-mentioned senses. These explanations could conceivably be called interpretative descriptions, but it is suggested that perhaps they can be understood as examples of causa sui, of something selfcaused.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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Människans mått : Om statistik, sociologi och världen som socialt vara
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation should be understood as an effort to provide a kind of critique of statistical reason. “A kind”, since it has another focus as well: the question of sociality. It is argued that these two topics are closely interrelated, not only, as the short exploration into the prehistory of statistics shows, for historical, but also and mainly for systematic reasons.The first part of this thesis is concerned with methods; not, in fact, so much with different methods as with the idea of methods in general. The second part deals with statistics, its prehistory and structure. It is argued that statistics is inherently causal and always and only understands the world as means (for our power), as it is. The third part explores a socio-logic, a concept meant to capture both the essence of sociality and our understanding of this sociality. And sociality, in the last analysis understood as play or game, turns out to be what cannot be controlled or dealt with in a methodical manner; it can never be reduced to what it is. The fourth and final part discusses and tries to overcome the proposed antithetical relation between statistics (methods) and sociality, and discusses possible consequences of the analysis for the fields of sociology and social thinking.In sum: The dissertation contributes to our understanding of methods, statistics and sociality and their interrelations.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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On the art of being wrong : An essay on the dialectic of errors
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Philosophy of Education. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0309-8249 .- 1467-9752. ; 43:4, s. 573-588
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay attempts to distinguish and discuss the importance and limitations of different ways of being wrong. At first it is argued that strictly falsifiable knowledge is concerned with simple (instrumental) mistakes only, and thus is incapable of understanding more complex errors (and truths). In order to gain a deeper understanding of mistakes (and to understand a deeper kind of mistake), it is argued that communicative aspects have to be taken into account. This is done in the theory of communicative action, which adds to our knowledge of errors the notion of communicative mistakes: mistakes as obstacles for sincere communication. However, to overcome this still purely negative judgement of errors, two processes are examined in which mistakes are best regarded as developmental steps, that is, steps not only meaningful in their own right (as containing some truth), but also as necessary preconditions for further progress. This would suggest that truth is born out of errors. But if so, one has to understand the wrongness of such errors; how is it that they are erroneous if they (somehow) contain the truth? At the end of this essay, a tentative answer to this question is given.
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- Palm, Fredrik, 1973-, et al.
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Sociologik : Tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- "Det sociala" tillhör de begrepp som samhällsvetenskapen utgår från men sällan känner något behov av att förklara. Ofta är socialiteten den samhällsvetenskapliga praktikens utgångspunkt och mål, men dess innebörd kan inte fastställas utan att överskrida gränserna till t.ex. filosofi, historia och religion. Kanske är avsaknaden av en kontinuerlig reflektion över det socialas innebörd rent av ett försvar av det samhällsvetenskapliga fältet. I denna bok diskuterar tio samhällsvetare och humanister det socialas betydelse från Immanuel Kant till Slavoj Zizek. Det handlar om tio sätt att tänka kring det sociala, om tio sociologiker. Detta skulle kunna tolkas som att det sociala är det objekt bokens olika bidrag behandlar ur respektive perspektiv. Men det kan också ges en snävare tolkning. Det verkliga objektet för undersökningarna blir då själva relationen mellan det sociala och vetandet. Med detta synsätt kan det sociala inte uppfattas som ett neutralt eller autonomt faktum utanför tänkandet. Snarare blir socialiteten något som framträder först i vetandets konkreta gränsdragningar och skillnadsskapanden. Denna bok är ett mångbottnat bidrag till diskussionen om vad samhället är och om möjligheterna att förändra det. Medverkande författare: Christian Abrahamsson, Magnus Fiskesjö, Maria Johansen, Per Magnus Johansson, Vessela Misheva, Gunnar Olsson, Fredrik Palm, Olli Pyyhtinen, Anders Ramsay och Sverre Wide
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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Vad är och vad kan högskolepedagogisk forskning vara? : [What is pedagogical research in higher education?]
- 2023
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Ingår i: Högre Utbildning. - : Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 2000-7558. ; 13:1, s. 29-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article’s main point is to view the emergence of pedagogical research in higher education [högskolepedagogisk forskning], not as driven by the traditional academic disciplines, but as a relatively new phenomenon with its roots in the expansion and maturation of educational development units and activities springing from them. The author thereby points to a series of problems associated with institutional, organisational complexity that may make a strict definition of pedagogical research in higher education difficult to achieve. Instead of a definition, he suggests the following description: "Now, with your permission, I would like to propose the following characterisation of our subject: pedagogical research in higher education [högskolepedagogisk forskning], is research about the university that has as its ultimate goal to understand, preserve and develop the educational activities that are carried out within academic organisations."With such a broad portrayal of what educational research in higher education [högkolepedagogisk forskning] sets out to achieve, this article sets out to stimulate a variety of research questions with a common, underlying denominator which might be described as supporting and empowering the educational context.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-, et al.
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Explanation and causal reasoning: A contribution to the interpretation of competing explanatory claims
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Ingår i: Theory & psychology. - : Sage Publications. - 0959-3543 .- 1461-7447. ; 23:6, s. 701-715
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to attain a better understanding of the relationship between competing or complementary scientific explanatory claims. First, six different ways of approaching explanatory claims are briefly described and found, in part, to be unsatisfactory. It is argued that they should be supplemented by an analysis of underlying and sometimes partly unacknowledged causal presuppositions. This approach could be termed a causal analytical investigation, and in order to demonstrate its potential, it is applied to a concrete example: research into dental anxiety. The analysis shows that seemingly competing or complementary explanatory claims here neither compete with nor complement each other; instead, the analysis demonstrates that they explain different things. We then broaden the picture by discussing the relationship between aetiology and treatment. Finally we argue in favour of the general applicability of the approach and its relevance to science in general and to science-based practice.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-
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Erving Goffman : yta, djup och socialitet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Det socialpsykologiska perspektivet. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144053707 ; , s. 141-164
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