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- Alkvist, Lars-Erik
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Max Weber och kroppens sociologi
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is about the social body in sociology, represented by the classical sociologist Max Weber. Traditional sociology has not taken the body into account. The body has been considered to belong to the realm of the natural sciences. Sociology has seen the body merely as an instrument or a tool for social action. The mind/body dichotomy, homo duplex, prevails in sociology. The purpose of this investigation is to show that Weber does not totally neglect the social body. I claim that the body is “absent but present” in Weber’s texts. The above-mentioned view that the body is ignored by sociology must, in other words, be modified. I claim that Weber’s texts imply a conception, although rudimentary, of the social body. This conception co-exists, however, with Weber’s tendency to see the body as a natural object. This is in accordance with the general picture of the way sociology treats the body. To examine the question of the social body I turn to philosophy. I believe that some philosophers have been interested in viewing the body as a social rather than a natural object. Plato, René Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant and finally Maurice Merleau-Ponty have all tried to come to terms with the relationship between the mind and the body. The above-mentioned philosophers, with the exception of Kant, are all therefore concerned with the body as more than simply a biological organism. They try to reconcile the dualistic difference between body and mind. They are, however, mainly concerned with finding a philosophical answer to how mankind can attain knowledge about the object. They are concerned with epistemology and ontology. Sociology, on the other hand, is more concrete and its corresponding concepts are “subject” and “structure”. Sociology fills these concepts with a more non-epistemological and ontological content. He has been described as a subjective sociologist or a micro sociologist, but I claim that this does not give the whole picture. Weber also sees individual intentions and purposes as determined by objective and structural constraints. I divide the works of Weber into two parts. I have named the subjectivist approach “the empowered individual”. Here Weber works at the level of the individual subject. He focuses on the subject’s own experience. The ethically shaped, and therefore systematically self-controlled, body becomes a vehicle for being in the world. The body is subjected to the governing ascetic ethic. The feelings and desires of the body become rationalised into a method and a system. In this way a far-reaching rational discipline is created, a so called “ethical conduct of life is created”. In the writings of Weber the “conduct in life” is described by the concept “habitus”. However, Weber is classical in the sense that he considers habitus as a mental attitude. Other works by Weber include a discussion of the constraining structural surroundings, but Weber prefers to use the concept “life orders” rather than “structures”. Weber describes a number of different life orders which he says form the specific cultural habits adopted by individuals in society.
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- Hansen, Peo, 1966-
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Ett 'Europa' i avkoloniseringens väntrum
- 2003
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; :4, s. 17-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Brulin, Göran
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Räddas välfärdsstaten med klasskamp?
- 2004
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Ingår i: Sociologisk Forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 41:1, s. 11-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Hilte, Mats
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Karriärmetaforens tillämpning och funktion inom missbruksfältet
- 2003
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 40:2, s. 35-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article career as metaphor and various career models are the object of a critical review. The question at issue is whether career as metaphor helps us understand the social dynamics that characterize substance abuse?Different career models such as the stepping-stone and gateway hypothesis and H S Beckerscareer model are scrutinized. It is pointed out that these career models are one-sided and have serious limitations, since they leave out important variables pertaining to class, gender, ethnicity, politics and culture.In order to create a credible representation of the development of drug abuse the different levels and dimensions of social reality must be described. Despite the extensive critique that has been passed on the concept of drug abuse as career it is still widely used by professionals as well as laymen. This fact of the matter is discussed and the author argues that the concept of drug abuse as career serves important functions in the government of drug abuse.Besides being an important instrument in drug treatment the concept of drug abuse as career is used in order to give legitimacy to the political control of drugs. From that perspective the concept drug abuse as career can be understood as a narrative serving important functions in the social control of untoward behavior.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena
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Kön görs även i moderna organisationer
- 2004
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 41:1, s. 3-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Agevall, Ola
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Max Webers Freiburger Antrittsrede : Om migrationsprocesser, social urbäddning och social förändring
- 2001
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 38:3-4, s. 148-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Max Weber in Freiburg. On migration, disembedding and social changeThis article sets out to introduce the central topics in Max Weber’s inauguration lecture in Freiburg. It is argued that the central, but largely implicit, argument in Weber’s lecture concerns the transformation from a patriarchal to a capitalist mode of employment. Upon this interpretation, Max Weber’s objective is to explain specific migration processes in terms of a configuration of causes, where the social disembedding of rural labour is the key factor.
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- Agevall, Ola
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Redaktionens förord
- 2002
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 39:3-4, s. 4-8
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