The Portuguese and Haoles of Hawaii Weinstein, Michael G.; Manicas, Peter T.; Leon, Joseph J.
American sociological review,
04/1990, Letnik:
55, Številka:
2
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"The Portugese and Haoles of Hawaii: Implications for the Origin of Ethnicity" (see SA 37:1/89U1484) by James A. Geschwender, Rita Carroll-Sequin, & Howard Brill is criticized regarding the accuracy ...of ethnic taxonomy, appropriateness & sufficiency of their hypothesis, & the credibility of their data analysis. In The Portugese and Haoles of Hawaii Revisited, Geschwender, Carroll-Sequin, & Brill (State U of New York, Binghamton) defend their analysis, including the distinction of the Portugese due to their homogeneity of social class, & their continued disadvantage relative to Haoles, which suggest that ethnic identity affects future achievement. Results of new analyses are provided, showing advantages of mainland-born over Hawaii-born Haoles, & that occupational discrimination is no longer directed against Portugese-Americans. 21 References. M. Malas
Reduction, Epigenesis and Explanation Manicas, Peter T
Journal for the theory of social behaviour,
September 1983, Letnik:
13, Številka:
3
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An attempt to clarify & resolve the "nurture/nature" dichotomy as it bears on the human & biological sciences, & especially regarding the problem of explaining behavior. It is argued that persons are ...ordered complexes of orderly complex & nonreducible systems, & that their capacities, behaviors, similarities, & differences are the causal products of complex transactional & epigenetic processes. The incorrect understanding of this, shared by both friends & foes of the idea of a human science, has been easily joined to a widely held, but mistaken conception of scientific explanation: the covering law model. This, in consequence, has led to erroneous claims about what a human can & cannot achieve. AA.
A review of the various writings of Barry Barnes & David Bloor. Their work is seen to be important not only for the SofK, but for epistemology & general philosophy as well. It is asserted that many ...of the misunderstandings of "the strong program" derive from an unsustainable epistemological individualism. It is argued, moreover, that the relativism of the strong program is not only consistent with an ontological realism, but that it requires one & is itself an argument in its favor; what results is a thoroughgoing naturalism. The implications of the strong program for psychology & its relation to the social sciences are shown to be considerable. AA
Replies to the comments of D. E. Leary , S. A. Mulaik , D. N. Robinson , and W. L. Stroud on the earlier presentation of the present authors about the new philosophy of science. The present authors ...are pleased with what they have been able to communicate and discuss what they feel has been misunderstood. (27 ref)
Wall Street fallacies Manicas, Peter T; Pooley, Samuel
Social alternatives,
07/1998, Letnik:
17, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
28.
State, Power, Anarchism Manicas, Peter
Perspectives on politics,
03/2011, Letnik:
9, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 464p. $35.00. The book under discussion is James C. Scott's ...latest contribution to the study of agrarian politics, culture, and society, and to the ways that marginalized communities evade or resist projects of state authority. The book offers a synoptic history of Upland Southeast Asia, a 2.5 million–kilometer region of hill country spanning Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, and China. It offers a kind of “area study.” It also builds on Scott's earlier work on “hidden transcripts” of subaltern groups and on “seeing like a state.” The book raises many important theoretical questions about research methods and social inquiry, the relationship between political science and anthropology, the nature of states, and of modernity more generally. The book is also deeply relevant to problems of “state-building” and “failed states” in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. As Scott writes, “The huge literature on state-making, contemporary and historic, pays virtually no attention to its obverse: the history of deliberate and reactive statelessness. This is the history of those who got away, and state-making cannot be understood apart from it. This is also what makes it an anarchist history” (p. x). In this symposium, I have invited a number of prominent political and social scientists to comment on the book, its historical narrative, and its broader theoretical implications for thinking about power, state failure, state-building, and foreign policy. How does the book shed light on the limits of states and the modes of resistance to state authority? Are there limits, theoretical and normative, to this “anarchist” understanding of governance and the “art of being governed”? —Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor
State, Power, Anarchism Manicas, Peter
Perspectives on politics,
03/2011, Letnik:
9, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.
By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 464p. $35.00.
The book under discussion is James C. Scott's ...latest contribution to the study of agrarian politics, culture, and society, and to the ways that marginalized communities evade or resist projects of state authority. The book offers a synoptic history of Upland Southeast Asia, a 2.5 million–kilometer region of hill country spanning Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, and China. It offers a kind of “area study.” It also builds on Scott's earlier work on “hidden transcripts” of subaltern groups and on “seeing like a state.” The book raises many important theoretical questions about research methods and social inquiry, the relationship between political science and anthropology, the nature of states, and of modernity more generally. The book is also deeply relevant to problems of “state-building” and “failed states” in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. As Scott writes, “The huge literature on state-making, contemporary and historic, pays virtually no attention to its obverse: the history of deliberate and reactive statelessness. This is the history of those who got away, and state-making cannot be understood apart from it. This is also what makes it an anarchist history” (p. x).
In this symposium, I have invited a number of prominent political and social scientists to comment on the book, its historical narrative, and its broader theoretical implications for thinking about power, state failure, state-building, and foreign policy. How does the book shed light on the limits of states and the modes of resistance to state authority? Are there limits, theoretical and normative, to this “anarchist” understanding of governance and the “art of being governed”?
—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor
Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth. By
Robert B. Westbrook. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 272p.
$29.95. In this ambitious collection, Robert Westbrook aims to ...recover, from
philosophical pragmatism, insight—and hope—regarding the
promise of democracy. Following on his John Dewey and American
Philosophy (1991), Dewey is surely his main man. Part One,
“Pragmatism Old,” offers critical discussions of Dewey,
Charles Peirce and William James. Part Two, “Pragmatism New,”
treats recent writers who have identified themselves with pragmatism,
including Hilary Putnam, Cheryl Misak, Cornel West, and Richard Posner.
Richard Rorty is surely the main character in these accounts.
