Search results for "Sociological imagination"

‘Glocal’ processes in peripheral football countries:A figurational sociological comparison of Finland and Hungary

2015

The aim of this article is to increase the understanding of the global and local contexts in football by finding out what social, cultural and economic dimensions seem to characterize ‘periphery’ football. This study applies figurational sociological perspective, which is applicable to the research on globalization processes and sport. The sources utilized are publications on the history and sociology of football as well as interviews with football practitioners. First, a theoretical framework of the global football figuration is advanced. Second, applying the constructed framework, the concept of periphery football country is discussed. It was found in accordance with previous research tha…

Imagination in human social cognition, autism, and psychotic-affective conditions

2016

Abstract Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders. Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression) have been posited as psychological ‘opposites’ with regard to social-cognitive phenotypes. Imagination, considered as ‘forming new ideas, mental images, or concepts’, represents a central facet of human social evolution and cognition. Previous studies have documented reduced imagination in autism, and increased imagination in association with psychotic-affective conditions, yet these sets of findings have yet to be considered together, or evaluated in the context of the diametric mode…

¿Para qué sirve la escuela? Reflexiones sociológicas en tiempos de pandemia global

2020

La pandemia global generada por el Covid-19 y las medidas de confinamiento obligatorio de la población que de ella se derivan suponen retos sin precedentes para los sistemas educativos a nivel global. El cierre generalizado de todos los centros educativos a nivel presencial pone de relieve una pregunta clave: ¿Para qué sirve su escuela? El objetivo del artículo es reflexionar sobre esta cuestión desde una mirada sociológica y, en particular, desde un enfoque de la justicia educativa y social. Se argumenta que la función principal de la escuela como institución especializada debe ser la transmisión y adquisición de conocimientos profundos, relevantes y con sentido para todos y todas las estu…

POLITICAL THEORY'S IMAGINATION. A FEW REMARKS ON WIKTOR MARZEC BOOK

2017

Social sciences, understood as critical and not neutral by nature, they should be equipped with specific competencies and sensivity. C.  W. Mills these comptence define as sociological imagination – which is study of the relationship of history and biography, Giddens interpreted it as three basic senses: historical, anthropological, critical. The translation into political science would be a political theories imagination, it consist,, among over things like a: historicity of political phenomena, antisubstansialism, research self-awareness. Definition of political theories imagination I propose in the context of Wiktor Marzec’s paper Rebelion and Reaction, which is a study from field of his…

Enseñar Sociología a quienes no estudian Sociología

2019

[EN] The sociological imagination (Wright Mills, 1993) is fundamental in the teaching profession. It is not possible to understand individuals’ actions of the different education agents without knowing their place in the social structure. The objective of this proposal is that the students of the Degree in Preschool Education (University of Valencia) achieve this point of view. The project starts with a flipped classroom methodology in combination with other active methodologies to end contrasting scientific knowledge with the daily teacher’s work, through the realization and analyses of interviews.

Wyobraźnia teoriopolityczna: kilka uwag na marginesie książki "Rebelia i reakcja. Rewolucja 1905 roku i plebejskie doświadczenie polityczne" Wiktora …

2017

Nauki spoeczne, rozumiane jako krytyczne i nieneutralne ze swej natury, winny być wyposażone w określone kompetencje i wrażliwości. C. W. Mills jako taką kompetencję określił wyobraźnię socjologiczną - będącą badaniem nakierowanym na związek historii i biografii, a którą w późniejszym czasie Anthony Giddens zinterpretował jako trzy podstawowe wrażliwości: historyczna, antropologiczna, krytyczna. Przełożeniem na nauki polityczne byłaby wyobraźnia teriopolityczna, na którą składałyby się takie parametry m.in. jak historyczność zjawisk politycznych, antysubstancjalizm, samoświadomość badawcza. Dookreślenie wyobraźni teoriopolitycznej proponuję w kontekście pracy Wiktora Marca "Rebelia i reakcj…

Wyobraźnia teoriopolityczna jako dyrektywa poznawcza

2018

«Deberías adelgazar, te lo digo porque te quiero»: reflexiones autoetnográficas sobre la gordura

2021

La reciente construcción de una epidemia de obesidad global favorece que -además de ser estéticamente deseable- la delgadez se considere autoevidencia del estado de salud del individuo y marca de moralidad. En esta autoetnografía reflexiono sobre mi vivencia de ser gorda desde la infancia hasta la adultez, desde un enfoque sociológico feminista. La imposición cultural de la delgadez y la gordofobia alimentaron sentimientos de incapacidad, inadecuación corporal y sufrimiento psicológico que promovieron conductas alimentarias problemáticas. Mi argumento es que la guerra contra la obesidad opera en nombre de la salud, pero produce una renuncia significativa al bienestar físico y psicológico en…

Decentralization in Ukraine and Bottom-Up European Integration

2020

Decentralization is one of the most profound reforms undertaken in Ukraine. It includes the voluntary merging of previously independent villages and towns into larger Amalgamated Territorial Communities (ATCs). The European Union strongly supports the reform but does not make Ukraine’s further European integration conditional upon it. In order to study whether decentralization can, nevertheless, contribute to the country’s European integration, this chapter adopts a sociological perspective. It asks whether decentralization has led to an increase in community twinning and participation of Ukrainian communities in transnational municipal networks. It is based on a survey conducted among the …

Young athletes’ significant experiences in sport : critical sociological reflections on athlete development

2017

AbstractThe aim of this article is to provide a sociological perspective on athlete development by using the theoretical framework of socialization and life course. Significant experiences are used as an interpretational tool to study young athletes’ perceptions of their socialization process. The research data, which were collected at a sports upper secondary school, consist of life historical interviews with 26 young athletes aged 14–17 years. Through content analysis, their significant experiences in sports were divided into four categories and then analyzed further in relation to the Habermasian dualistic reality of the lifeworld and the system. The results were the following. First, no…