Now that I have completed my doctoral dissertation, I have the feeling it could be accomplished in a shorter time and it could progress in a more straightforward manner… In short, I wish I knew where my search for method and theoretical underpinnings would lead my work to. Well, back then I didn’t know. So, the entire process of doctoral… Read more →
By Nighet Riaz This is the first of two posts based on my recent presentation at the BERA Post-graduate Symposium held at the University of Glasgow October 11th 2013 – my presentation was called: Bridging the gap: Looking at ethnicity and culture in a secondary school This post explores one of the most important tasks relating to the undertaking of… Read more →
Article: Thomas, N. (2012). Love, rights and solidarity: Studying children’s participation using Honneth’s theory of recognition. Childhood, 19(4) 453–466. Thomas’ paper on children’s participation is one of a growing number of studies applying the work of Axel Honneth to social research. Through publications such as The Struggle for Recognition: The moral grammar of social conflicts (1995) and Disrespect: The normative… Read more →
This post has emerged from a paper that Mark Murphy and myself presented (with input from Jim Conroy) at BERA 2013. The overarching idea behind the paper was to show, using my research as an example, some of the difficulties faced by new researchers in selecting appropriate social theory. To jazz things up a bit, we used some of the… Read more →
Readings taken from Habermas, J: Chapter 7, Section C (PP225-234): The Refinement of the System Concept and the Abandonment of the Primacy of Action theory, Theory of Communicative action, volume 2, 1987 This section is formally concerned with what Habermas called the third most important decision in Parsons’ theory construction, which is Parsons’ move away from action theory and asserting… Read more →
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