Steven Ney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 133373 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Ney |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Ney |
| FIRMA | NEY S |
| AFILIACIONES | Constructor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7570-2419 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
I disagree, therefore I am
In the last few decades, a perspective on how to resolve wicked social problems has become increasingly prominent: the cultural theory pioneered by anthropologist Dame Mary Douglas. So far, the empirical evidence garnered in support of this approach has mostly been of a qualitative nature. Cultural theory has fared less well in survey-based, statistical tests. However, several features make it hard to test the theory with questionnaires. We overc…
Exploring the Contributions of Cultural Theory for Improving Public Deliberation about Complex Policy Problems
In this article, we argue that theCulturalTheory pioneered byMaryDouglas can help resolve two pressing issues in the study and practice of public deliberation. The first of these issues concerns how best to structure deliberative processes (or “minipublics”) that have increasingly been implemented around the world. We useCulturalTheory's analysis of social relations to derive a hypothesis concerning the ideal design of minipublics, and outline re…
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Active aging policy in Europe
New developments in cultural theory
Surveying the European Public Space - A Political and Research Agenda
This paper examines the reasons why it is justified to talk about a European 'democratic deficit'. The creation and consolidation of a European public space necessitates conceptual clarification at the normative theoretical level - as liberal democracy is historically closely bound to the nation-state - and action at the policy and political levels. A Union of European Citizens is a step towards, but not equivalent to, a democratic Union based on…
Are You Sitting Comfortably Then We'll Begin
Throughout the 1990s, the issue of how to secure pension systems in the face of demographic change has been high on policy agendas in many countries. Yet, reforming pension systems has, more often than not, proved to be a particularly difficult and awkward political undertaking. The following article explores one of the many possible reasons why pension reform in Europe has been so arduous for the would-be reformers. After briefly reviewing some …
Missing Persons
Environmental security
There are different approaches to environmental security. Time vary widely in terms of their explanatory power, their ambitions, the images they produce and their political implications. As heterogeneous as the approaches may be, the fundamental underlying assumptions are remarkably similar. They are all based on the concept of the person that is bereft of the social dimensions as well as on an antiquated concept of human needs. They also all ign…
Culture and national S&T performance
Since the 1970s, policy makers and researchers have attempted to understand what factors influence national S&T performance. Whereas researchers predominantly aimed at explaining disparate economic development paths by understanding the role of innovation and technological advance in the evolution of economic systems, policy makers hoped to discover those mechanism that would enhance national S&T performance. The work of Mary Douglas provides a f…
Cultural theory as a theory of democracy
The rapid economic, social, and political changes of the past two decades have placed considerable stress on democratic institutions. Changes in the labour market, new forms of social co‐operation, as well as an ever growing multiplicity of life‐styles have undermined the relevance of many socio‐political arrangements central to democracies in advanced capitalist societies. In particular, growing social heterogeneity has given rise to the questio…
Missing Persons
Journal Article Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 223 + xiv pp. $24.95 Get access James V. Spickard James V. Spickard University of Redlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 337–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711942 Published: 01 October 19…
Missing Persons
Missing Persons: Critique of Personhood in Social Sciences. MARY DOUGLAS and STEVEN NEY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; 223 pp. Reviewed by SUSAN PARMAN California State University, Fullerton Missing persons is first in a series of books to honor fertile mind of Aaron Wildavsky by examining public policy issues with aid of social Setting out to address issue of poverty and welfare, Douglas (an anthropologist) and Ney (a political…
Risk and Governance Part II
OUR CONCLUSION, IN PART I,* WAS THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THE expert/lay dichotomy as the basis for understanding risk perception, whilst essential, is not going to be easy. We argued that:1) Objectivism (the idea that we can clearly distinguish between what the risks really are and what people variously and erroneously believe them to be) has to give way to constructivism (the idea that risk is inherently subjective: something that we project onto…
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Exploring the Contributions of Cultural Theory for Improving Public Deliberation about Complex Policy Problems
In this article, we argue that theCulturalTheory pioneered byMaryDouglas can help resolve two pressing issues in the study and practice of public deliberation. The first of these issues concerns how best to structure deliberative processes (or “minipublics”) that have increasingly been implemented around the world. We useCulturalTheory's analysis of social relations to derive a hypothesis concerning the ideal design of minipublics, and outline re…
Risk and Governance Part II
OUR CONCLUSION, IN PART I,* WAS THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THE expert/lay dichotomy as the basis for understanding risk perception, whilst essential, is not going to be easy. We argued that:1) Objectivism (the idea that we can clearly distinguish between what the risks really are and what people variously and erroneously believe them to be) has to give way to constructivism (the idea that risk is inherently subjective: something that we project onto…
Are You Sitting Comfortably Then We'll Begin
Throughout the 1990s, the issue of how to secure pension systems in the face of demographic change has been high on policy agendas in many countries. Yet, reforming pension systems has, more often than not, proved to be a particularly difficult and awkward political undertaking. The following article explores one of the many possible reasons why pension reform in Europe has been so arduous for the would-be reformers. After briefly reviewing some …
I disagree, therefore I am
In the last few decades, a perspective on how to resolve wicked social problems has become increasingly prominent: the cultural theory pioneered by anthropologist Dame Mary Douglas. So far, the empirical evidence garnered in support of this approach has mostly been of a qualitative nature. Cultural theory has fared less well in survey-based, statistical tests. However, several features make it hard to test the theory with questionnaires. We overc…
Surveying the European Public Space - A Political and Research Agenda
This paper examines the reasons why it is justified to talk about a European 'democratic deficit'. The creation and consolidation of a European public space necessitates conceptual clarification at the normative theoretical level - as liberal democracy is historically closely bound to the nation-state - and action at the policy and political levels. A Union of European Citizens is a step towards, but not equivalent to, a democratic Union based on…
Environmental security
There are different approaches to environmental security. Time vary widely in terms of their explanatory power, their ambitions, the images they produce and their political implications. As heterogeneous as the approaches may be, the fundamental underlying assumptions are remarkably similar. They are all based on the concept of the person that is bereft of the social dimensions as well as on an antiquated concept of human needs. They also all ign…
Risk and Governance Part II
OUR CONCLUSION, IN PART I,* WAS THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THE expert/lay dichotomy as the basis for understanding risk perception, whilst essential, is not going to be easy. We argued that:1) Objectivism (the idea that we can clearly distinguish between what the risks really are and what people variously and erroneously believe them to be) has to give way to constructivism (the idea that risk is inherently subjective: something that we project onto…
Environmental security
There are different approaches to environmental security. Time vary widely in terms of their explanatory power, their ambitions, the images they produce and their political implications. As heterogeneous as the approaches may be, the fundamental underlying assumptions are remarkably similar. They are all based on the concept of the person that is bereft of the social dimensions as well as on an antiquated concept of human needs. They also all ign…
Culture and national S&T performance
Since the 1970s, policy makers and researchers have attempted to understand what factors influence national S&T performance. Whereas researchers predominantly aimed at explaining disparate economic development paths by understanding the role of innovation and technological advance in the evolution of economic systems, policy makers hoped to discover those mechanism that would enhance national S&T performance. The work of Mary Douglas provides a f…
Cultural theory as a theory of democracy
The rapid economic, social, and political changes of the past two decades have placed considerable stress on democratic institutions. Changes in the labour market, new forms of social co‐operation, as well as an ever growing multiplicity of life‐styles have undermined the relevance of many socio‐political arrangements central to democracies in advanced capitalist societies. In particular, growing social heterogeneity has given rise to the questio…
Missing Persons
Journal Article Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 223 + xiv pp. $24.95 Get access James V. Spickard James V. Spickard University of Redlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 60, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 337–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711942 Published: 01 October 19…
Missing Persons
Missing Persons: Critique of Personhood in Social Sciences. MARY DOUGLAS and STEVEN NEY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; 223 pp. Reviewed by SUSAN PARMAN California State University, Fullerton Missing persons is first in a series of books to honor fertile mind of Aaron Wildavsky by examining public policy issues with aid of social Setting out to address issue of poverty and welfare, Douglas (an anthropologist) and Ney (a political…
Are You Sitting Comfortably Then We'll Begin
Throughout the 1990s, the issue of how to secure pension systems in the face of demographic change has been high on policy agendas in many countries. Yet, reforming pension systems has, more often than not, proved to be a particularly difficult and awkward political undertaking. The following article explores one of the many possible reasons why pension reform in Europe has been so arduous for the would-be reformers. After briefly reviewing some …
Missing Persons
Surveying the European Public Space - A Political and Research Agenda
This paper examines the reasons why it is justified to talk about a European 'democratic deficit'. The creation and consolidation of a European public space necessitates conceptual clarification at the normative theoretical level - as liberal democracy is historically closely bound to the nation-state - and action at the policy and political levels. A Union of European Citizens is a step towards, but not equivalent to, a democratic Union based on…
New developments in cultural theory
Active aging policy in Europe
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty
I disagree, therefore I am
In the last few decades, a perspective on how to resolve wicked social problems has become increasingly prominent: the cultural theory pioneered by anthropologist Dame Mary Douglas. So far, the empirical evidence garnered in support of this approach has mostly been of a qualitative nature. Cultural theory has fared less well in survey-based, statistical tests. However, several features make it hard to test the theory with questionnaires. We overc…
Exploring the Contributions of Cultural Theory for Improving Public Deliberation about Complex Policy Problems
In this article, we argue that theCulturalTheory pioneered byMaryDouglas can help resolve two pressing issues in the study and practice of public deliberation. The first of these issues concerns how best to structure deliberative processes (or “minipublics”) that have increasingly been implemented around the world. We useCulturalTheory's analysis of social relations to derive a hypothesis concerning the ideal design of minipublics, and outline re…
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