Bryan S Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 177914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan S Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Karl Mannheim
How is it that some sociological texts can defy time and lay claim to be classics while others fall into obsolescence? The paper assumes that an adequate answer must include reference to discourse aims, how a text is written and reading effects. A comparison is made between the earlier (pre-1933) writings of Karl Mannheim and the later (post-1933) writings, with the aim of identifying qualities of the former that made them candidates for classic …
Learning from Henry Mayhew
The almost forgotten ethnographer, Henry Mayhew, is shown to be of methodological relevance to contemporary ethnography in the context of current hesitations, doubts, and rejections of "realist" ethnography. Through invoking Adam Smith's concept of the impartial spectator and applying it to Mayhew's textual practice of ethnography, the article seeks to find a way between the entrenched polemical positions called realistic and poetic ethnography. …
Gerontology and the Social Construction of Old Age
Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age
Theory as Style
Relativism and Its Discontents
Literary Methods and Sociological Theory
On Modern Authority
Knowing the Poor
The concept of textual reality construction how the reports have been read - a critique of reading methods reading and reality effects reality effects in the poor law reports the production of knowledge effects in the reports, textual reality construction and political critique
Knowing the Poor
Rationality and Relativism
Are there absolute truths that can be gradually approached over time through rational processes? Or are all modes and systems of thought equally valid if viewed from within their own internally consistent frames of reference? Are there universal forms of reasoning and understanding that enable us to distinguish between rational beliefs and those that are demonstrably false, or is everything relative? These central questions are addressed and deba…
Literary Methods and Sociological Theory
Learning from Henry Mayhew
The almost forgotten ethnographer, Henry Mayhew, is shown to be of methodological relevance to contemporary ethnography in the context of current hesitations, doubts, and rejections of "realist" ethnography. Through invoking Adam Smith's concept of the impartial spectator and applying it to Mayhew's textual practice of ethnography, the article seeks to find a way between the entrenched polemical positions called realistic and poetic ethnography. …
Karl Mannheim
How is it that some sociological texts can defy time and lay claim to be classics while others fall into obsolescence? The paper assumes that an adequate answer must include reference to discourse aims, how a text is written and reading effects. A comparison is made between the earlier (pre-1933) writings of Karl Mannheim and the later (post-1933) writings, with the aim of identifying qualities of the former that made them candidates for classic …
Rationality and Relativism
Are there absolute truths that can be gradually approached over time through rational processes? Or are all modes and systems of thought equally valid if viewed from within their own internally consistent frames of reference? Are there universal forms of reasoning and understanding that enable us to distinguish between rational beliefs and those that are demonstrably false, or is everything relative? These central questions are addressed and deba…
Knowing the Poor
Rationality and Relativism
Are there absolute truths that can be gradually approached over time through rational processes? Or are all modes and systems of thought equally valid if viewed from within their own internally consistent frames of reference? Are there universal forms of reasoning and understanding that enable us to distinguish between rational beliefs and those that are demonstrably false, or is everything relative? These central questions are addressed and deba…
Knowing the Poor
The concept of textual reality construction how the reports have been read - a critique of reading methods reading and reality effects reality effects in the poor law reports the production of knowledge effects in the reports, textual reality construction and political critique
On Modern Authority
Literary Methods and Sociological Theory
Theory as Style
Relativism and Its Discontents
Gerontology and the Social Construction of Old Age
Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age
Learning from Henry Mayhew
The almost forgotten ethnographer, Henry Mayhew, is shown to be of methodological relevance to contemporary ethnography in the context of current hesitations, doubts, and rejections of "realist" ethnography. Through invoking Adam Smith's concept of the impartial spectator and applying it to Mayhew's textual practice of ethnography, the article seeks to find a way between the entrenched polemical positions called realistic and poetic ethnography. …
Karl Mannheim
How is it that some sociological texts can defy time and lay claim to be classics while others fall into obsolescence? The paper assumes that an adequate answer must include reference to discourse aims, how a text is written and reading effects. A comparison is made between the earlier (pre-1933) writings of Karl Mannheim and the later (post-1933) writings, with the aim of identifying qualities of the former that made them candidates for classic …
Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)