Tag: communication

• August 20, 2015

  Habermas communicative rationality and how discourse ethics and a vibrant public sphere could break the stranglehold on rationality by elites

  Te belief that meaning and reason were social in nature-i.e., required mutual cooperation and collaboration in its contruction-led early pragmatists to belive that an important part of the route to progressive social change lie in democratic deliberative approaches to addressing pressing social problems. These ideas are best illustrated by Dewey´s lifelong commitment to extensive citzen…

• July 28, 2015

  INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess

  TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I. Sociology and the Social Sciences PAGE I. Sociology and “Scientific” History 1 II. Historical and Sociological Facts 6 III. Human Nature and Law 12 IV. History, Natural History, and Sociology 16 V. The Social Organism: Humanity or Leviathan? 24 VI. Social Control and Schools of Thought 27 VII. Social Control…

• April 24, 2015

  El significado social de ser pedante

  Utilizar formalismos o un vocabulario excesivamente sofisticado no es ser pedante. Ser pedante es hacerlo en contextos inapropiados y sin razón aparente. Pero cuando el contexto es apropiado, esta es la única forma de asegurarse tanto una correcta transmisión de la información lingüística y semiótica, como la proyección de los roles que juegan o pretenden jugar tanto…