Jerry Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding Opinions
Provinces of Meaning
This essay utilizes Alfred Schutz's finite provinces of meaning to understand problems associated with the determination of cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using their own ten-year experience with the NAGRPA consultation process, the author contends that by using multiple provinces of meaning to determine cultural affiliation, NAGPRA failed to adequately consider that by their distin…
The Philosophical Anthropology of Heinrich Popitz
On Humans and Environment
Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism
In this analysis, a pragmatic model of the human relationship to nature is presented. Parallels are drawn between the epistemological pragmatism used by humans to experience large‐scale environmental problems and the natural pragmatism by which all species evolve to meet the challenges of their environment. It is argued that powerful stakeholders have the ability to shift the short‐term consequences of environmental problems to less powerful poli…
Books in Louisiana Bookstores
Louisiana College is located in Pineville, a medium-sized town in Central Louisiana. The local bookstores tend to equate sociology with True Crime and Self-Help books. It is difficult enough explaining the nature of sociology to local persons. The bookstores seem to be working against us. We believe that this project will provide sociologists around the country with an opportunity to say This is sociology. We used three major criteria in selectin…
Lunch Break at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Two Days from Home
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
And Yet They Come
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
And Yet They Come
Lunch Break at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Two Days from Home
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
Books in Louisiana Bookstores
Louisiana College is located in Pineville, a medium-sized town in Central Louisiana. The local bookstores tend to equate sociology with True Crime and Self-Help books. It is difficult enough explaining the nature of sociology to local persons. The bookstores seem to be working against us. We believe that this project will provide sociologists around the country with an opportunity to say This is sociology. We used three major criteria in selectin…
On Humans and Environment
Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism
In this analysis, a pragmatic model of the human relationship to nature is presented. Parallels are drawn between the epistemological pragmatism used by humans to experience large‐scale environmental problems and the natural pragmatism by which all species evolve to meet the challenges of their environment. It is argued that powerful stakeholders have the ability to shift the short‐term consequences of environmental problems to less powerful poli…
The Philosophical Anthropology of Heinrich Popitz
Provinces of Meaning
This essay utilizes Alfred Schutz's finite provinces of meaning to understand problems associated with the determination of cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using their own ten-year experience with the NAGRPA consultation process, the author contends that by using multiple provinces of meaning to determine cultural affiliation, NAGPRA failed to adequately consider that by their distin…
Understanding Opinions
Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works)