20 Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man

2015 ◽  
pp. 441-472 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The City

The Political Psychology of Religion in Plato's Laws

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1059-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Pangle
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Political Religion ◽  
The City

This paper explains Plato's conception of the relation between politics and “political religion” (ideology) in a nonliberal participatory republican system. The discussion is in the form of a commentary on the drama of a part of Plato's Laws. The underlying methodological assumption is that Plato presented his political teaching not so much through the speeches as through the drama of the dialogue, and that he held this to be the most appropriate form for political science because in this way political science can most effectively stimulate thought about its subject matter, the psyche involved in social action.Following Plato, we focus first on the psychological needs such a political system generates and attempts to satisfy through civil religion. We then move to a consideration of how political “theology” serves to mediate between science and society, or the philosopher and the city.The essay is intended to contribute to the Montesquieuian project engaging the attention of more and more political theorists: the endeavor to help contemporary political science and psychology escape from the trammeling parochialism of exclusive attention to twentieth century theoretical categories and empirical experiences.

scholarly journals SAMUEL J. ELDERSVELD

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 800-801
Author(s):  
John E. Jackson ◽  
M. Kent Jennings ◽  
Lawrence B. Mohr ◽  
Hanes Walton
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Samuel J. Eldersveld, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan and former mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, passed away in Ann Arbor on March 5, 2010, at age 92. This closed a chapter on an extraordinary association with the University of Michigan, the discipline of political science, and the city of Ann Arbor, associations that brought remarkable change to each.

Ideal Types and Negotiated Identities: A Comparative Approach to the City-State

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Paul Martoccio
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

Historians often leave the comparative analysis of the city-state in Europe to their colleagues in political science and sociology. But two recent volumes—Scott, The City-State in Europe, and Gamberini and Lazzarini (eds.), The Italian Renaissance State—address a number of traditional assumptions about the differences between Italian and transalpine cities and the differences between princely and republican regimes. Both volumes show how historians can make a valuable interdisciplinary contribution to comparative analysis by paying attention to diverse historical trajectories and contingencies—along the way revealing the resilience of urban forms of political life long thought to have declined with the rise of the territorial state.

On Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Interpretive Approach

An interpretive approach to political science provides accounts of actions and practices that are interpretations of interpretations. It is distinctive because of the extent to which it privileges meanings as ways to grasp actions. This chapter develops this argument using the idea of ‘situated agency’. It focuses on eight criticisms of this approach: an interpretive approach is mere common sense; it focuses on beliefs or discourses, not actions or practices; it ignores concepts of social structure; it seeks to understand actions and practices, not explain them; it is concerned exclusively with qualitative techniques of data generation; it must accept actors’ own accounts of their beliefs; is insensitive to the ways in which power constitutes beliefs; and is incapable of producing policy relevant knowledge. It shows that the criticisms rest on misconceptions about an interpretive approach and misplaced beliefs in the false idols of hard data and rigorous methods.

Notes on the Sociology of Knowledge

1965 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene J. Webb ◽  
Jerry R. Salancik
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
The City ◽  
Recurrent Theme

The contest is readily recognizable as a recurrent theme in the sociology of knowledge: it is David versus Goliath; the pink-cheeked country lad against the city slicker; it is reason and common sense in opposition to sophism and scholasticism in their contemporary guise. (Shubert, 1950, p. 550)

Femina Studens rei Publicae: Notes on her Professional Achievement

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (04) ◽  
pp. 622-628
Author(s):  
Victoria Schuck
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
State University ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
Small College ◽  
Professional Woman ◽  
Professional Achievement ◽  
The City

The profile ofFemina Studens rei Publicaewhich has developed from the gross statistics and the 1969 survey of departments of political science shows that the professional woman in academia is primarily in the lower ranks, often not even on the first step of the promotion “ladder” and is teaching undergraduates. Although her habitat is the small college, there are signs that she may be emerging from it to the faculties of the city and state university. Recently she has been receiving Ph.D.'s at a greater rate of growth than that for men, but she still remains a small minority. In considering the following ratios related to her publications, other evidences of scholarship, and the recognition accorded to her in the profession, it is important to stress that the woman political scientist who is teaching constitutes five percent of the membership in the A.P.S.A. and according to the 1969 survey, 8.4 percent of all faculty in political science in colleges and universities.

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