Tiina Arppe, Affectivity and the Social Bond. Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory

Lectures ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldo Haesler
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Massen: På sporet af en glemt sociologisk figur

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Borch
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Economic Behaviour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crowd Psychology ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Post War

The Crowd: In Search of a Lost Sociological Idea This article attempts to revitalize the idea of the crowd. The crowd was an important sociological idea in early sociology, but became marginal in post-war sociological thought. The article examines the idea of the crowd from two perspectives and argues that it is relevant for current social theory. First, it discusses the field of economic sociology. Specifically, I demonstrate how crowd psychology has informed speculation theory historically and how the crucial notion in crowd semantics, suggestion, may improve our understanding of economic behaviour in general. Second, the article discusses the crowd as a collection of bodies. I suggest, for example, that the sexual energies of crowds may create an important social bond. So rather than representing a threat to society (as classical crowd semantics would have it), the crowd may make a positive contribution to the social order.

Christ Existing as Community

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Sanctorum Communio ◽  
The Church

How can theologians recognize the church as a historical and human community, while still holding that it has been established by Christ and is a work of the Spirit? How can a theological account of the church draw insights and concepts from the social sciences, without Christian commitments and claims about the church being undermined or displaced? In 1927, the 21-year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer defended his licentiate dissertation, Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church. This remains his most neglected and misunderstood work. Christ Existing as Community thus retrieves and analyses Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory and attempt at ecclesiology. Against standard readings and criticisms of this work, Mawson demonstrates that it contains a rich and nuanced approach to the church, one which displays many of Bonhoeffer’s key influences—especially Luther, Hegel, Troeltsch, and Barth—while being distinctive in its own right. In particular, Mawson argues that Sanctorum Communio’s theology is built around a complex dialectic of creation, sin, and reconciliation. On this basis, he contends that Bonhoeffer’s dissertation has ongoing significance for work in theology and Christian ethics.

Feudal Europe, 800–1300: communal discourse and conflictual practices

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Structural Theory ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Fundamental Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Scientific Argument

The discipline of international relations faces a new debate of fundamental significance. After the realist challenge to the pervasive idealism of the interwar years and the social scientific argument against realism in the late 1950s, it is now the turn of critical theorists to dispute the established paradigms of international politics, having been remarkably successful in several other fields of social inquiry. In essence, critical theorists claim that all social reality is subject to historical change, that a normative discourse of understandings and values entails corresponding practices, and that social theory must include interpretation and dialectical critique. In international relations, this approach particularly critiques the ahistorical, scientific, and materialist conceptions offered by neorealists. Traditional realists, by contrast, find a little more sympathy in the eyes of critical theorists because they join them in their rejection of social science and structural theory. With regard to liberal institutionalism, critical theorists are naturally sympathetic to its communitarian component while castigating its utilitarian strand as the accomplice of neorealism. Overall, the advent of critical theory will thus focus the field of international relations on its “interparadigm debate” with neorealism.

scholarly journals The Function of Mounts in Free-Ranging Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Anzá ◽  
Bonaventura Majolo ◽  
Federica Amici
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Agonistic Behavior ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Macaca Sylvanus ◽  
Barbary Macaques ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rank Difference ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractGenerally, nonreproductive sex is thought to act as “social grease,” facilitating peaceful coexistence between subjects that lack close genetic ties. However, specifc nonreproductive sexual behaviors may fulfill different functions. With this study, we aimed to test whether nonreproductive mounts in Barbary macaques are used to 1) assert dominance, 2) reinforce social relationships, and/or 3) solve conflicts. We analyzed nonreproductive mounts (N = 236) and postmount behavior in both aggressive and nonaggressive contexts, in 118 individuals belonging to two semi-free-ranging groups at La Montagne des Singes (France). As predicted by the dominance assertion hypothesis, the probability to be the mounter increased with rank difference, especially in aggressive contexts (increasing from 0.066 to 0.797 in nonaggressive contexts, and from 0.011 to 0.969 in aggressive contexts, when the rank difference was minimal vs. maximal). The strength of the social bond did not significantly predict the proportion of mounts across dyads in nonaggressive contexts, providing no support for the relationship reinforcement hypothesis. Finally, in support of the conflict resolution hypothesis, when individuals engaged in postconflict mounts, 1) the probability of being involved in further aggression decreased from 0.825 to 0.517, while 2) the probability of being involved in grooming interactions with each other increased from 0.119 to 0.606. The strength of the social bond between former opponents had no significant effect on grooming occurrence and agonistic behavior after postconflict mounts. Overall, our findings suggest that nonreproductive mounts in Barbary macaques have different functions that are not affected by the strength of the social bond.

scholarly journals The Social Theory of Jacques Maritain

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Q. Mclnerny ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Social

The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society.

1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 727
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Coser ◽  
Robert A. Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
Social Bond ◽  
The Social

The Imposter as Social Theory

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Forms

Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

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