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Created: June 17, 2006
Latest Update: June 17, 2006
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Index on Democracy
- Democracy
- Left Perspective:
- Deepening Democracy By Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright.
- Mazur's dictionary of critical sociology Link no longer working on June 17, 2006. "Norm: 1. A rule in a society which specifies appropriate and desirable behavior. Much human behavior is mediated by various norms learned in socialization and emergent in everyday life. Compare to theories which ground human behavior in genes, instincts, personal desires or the single individual. 2. A statistical description of what people actually do in a situation. Much mischief accrues when statistical norms are held to be necessary social norms as in the Bell Curve. Empiricism holds that all such curves must come from the actual behavior of persons; those who believe that these forms are natural insist that all rational persons must conform to the curve. July 2003?
- Using Pensions for Social Control of Capitalist Investment June 25-27, 2004, Conference, The Havens Center, A Real Utopias 2004 Project. University of Madison-Wisconsin.
- Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism: Creating the Conditions for Egalitarian Dual Earner / Dual Caregiver Families November 4-5, 2006, The Havens Center, A Real Utopia 2006 Project, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Conference Papers.
- Right Perspective:
- Libertarian Perspective: Rational Decison Making and Individual Choice The libertarian values the individual over the community. This op-ed piece from the NY Times illustrates that perspective. jeanne.
- Religious Right Perspective:
- Arguing from an Illocutionary Discourse Perspective:
- Norms and Anti-Norms: You'll need to be sure you didn't choose an anti-norm in opposition to someone else's norm; that's just as constraining. We want individual creative decision-making, not normative behavior. Cf. dominant discourse. Like the American flags on cars after 9/11.
- Need for structural change: Poor Transitions: Social Exclusions and Young Adults by Webster, Colin, Simpson, Donald, MacDonald, Robert, Abbas, Andrea, Cieslik, Mark, Shildrick, Tracy and Simpson, Mark. Reviewed by Yvette Taylor.
"Further, some concrete policy implications are highlighted which point out the need for 'real' rather than 'fiddly', 'poverty jobs', for training with a purpose and outcome and ultimately for structural reform which targets the demand side of the local labour market. The focus on such structural vulnerabilities and uncertainties focuses attention on the broader social, economic and political context creating and sustaining such poverty, instead of further problematising the poor themselves, as in many 'welfare to work' programmes." From the review on Sociology Research OnLine- Arguing from an Instrumental Discourse Perspective:
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