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3–24
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The translation of classical essay, the first chapter of Weber’s work «Economy and Society». Weber constructs the system of sociological categories, beginning with the concept «action» and finishing with concepts «unity» and «state». |
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25–43
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In his classic article, Paul Ricœur aims to test a hypothesis that the human sciences may be considered as hermeneutical, meaning hermeneutics as a set of rules required for the interpretation of the written documents of our culture. He verifies his hypothesis by discovering that a meaningful action displays some of the features constitutive of a text. By stating this, Ricœur attempts to reinterpret the concept of social action defined by Max Weber as meaningfully oriented behavior. Ricœur replaces the predicate ‘‘meaningfully oriented’’ by what he calls ‘‘readibility-characters’’ derived from the preceding theory of the text. He delineates the traits of a meaningful action that correspond to the characteristics of the text: the autonomization of action, relevance and importance, human action as an ‘‘open work’’. In the second part of the article Ricœur explains the famous dialectic between the methodological procedures of explanation and interpretation (erklären and verstehen). Analogy between structural analysis of texts and analysis of social action supports Ricœur‘s famous thesis that the procedure of understanding and explanation do not exclude but complement each other, and thus constitute the procedure of interpretation. |
Summaries
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44–48
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The review of an introduction to the collection of papers “Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scalings and Subjects” explains the main idea and the key principle, which Saskia Sassen followed to assemble the book. Sassen focuses on the idea of global which is highly popular in contemporary social sciences. Social scientists usually contrast the global scale of phenomena to the local level so that the latter is closely connected with the territory of national state. Sassen’s contribution to this discussion is a proposition to study global in the local contexts which are often dismissed. The review is concluded by the examples of the application of this approach towards different phenomenon. |
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49–52
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Richard Lloyd argues with the popular point of view that globalization results in the homogenization of space. He undertakes a study of neo-bohema, a type of spatial practices in the modern city. In the focus of his analysis is relationship between neo-bohemia and global economy. |
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53–56
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The article reported in the review studies the situation about the Old town of Havana that occured in late socialist Cuba through the concept of globalization. M.J. Hill understands the prosess of globalization as a continuous interaction of agents that defend their own interests. Through this interaction they produce different scales of perception and presentation of the town historical space. |
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57–60
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The summarized article presents the results of a study in change in local communities-favelas in Sao Paulo through the lens of discussion of the changing distribution of functions between subnational actors, national state, and supranational agents. The author studies the individual labour strategies and the strategies of community associations in their interactions with municipal authorities. Ethnography is used as research methodology. The key conclusions of the author are that the local communities are in a situation of losing their influence, growing instability, disintegration of the mechanisms of interaction with local authorities, and the individuals are wholly dependent on the global economic processes in their employment strategies. |
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61–64
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Any markets are constituted by actors and state. Financial markets are not exception. Social and cultural factors influence on a transformation process and the result significantly because even globalized market embedded in material and social spaces. This statement confirmed and illustrated by archival documents of working financial institutions which were involved in the banker’s “club” LFG and the interviews with London City traders. |
Papers and essays
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65–95
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The main purpose of the article is to codify the theoretical resources of the sociology of everyday life. The author focuses on the two research programmes of the contemporary sociology of everyday world: the frame theory and the practice theory. The author reveals basic conceptualizations of practice-orientated sociology and frame-analysis, their constructive features; analyses their inherent axiomatics and logics, trying to find their theoretical implications for the sociology of everyday life in particular and the sociological theory in the whole. The method of codification used by the author - description, distinguishing constitutive features of the basic conceptualizations, reconstructing the logic and pointing to the theoretical implications – is also the object of critical reflection in this article. |
Education
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96–116
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The paper is a historical and theoretical reconstruction of attempts made in classical European sociology to grasp the most significant traits of Modernity. The author concludes with a draft of political anthropology that might be common to classics. This would be a combination of clear self-awareness, rationality, affectivity, willingness to trust political leaders and to prefer war, not peace. |
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