Risto Heiskala
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 267416 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Risto Heiskala |
| PRENOMES | Risto |
| SOBRENOME | Heiskala |
| ASSINATURA | HEISKALA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4466-7491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Semiotic Sociology
Parsons, Talcott (1902–1979)
Talcott Parsons was the most important synthesizer of sociology and the major representative of the “grand theory” tradition within it. His “action frame of reference” was a creative reinterpretation of Weber's work and his later structural functionalism a creative reinterpretation of Durkheim. Building on those classics as well as other theoretical references, Parsons came up with a paradigm defining sociology as a discipline studying the develo…
Policy Design in the European Union
On agency/power, meanings/materialities, and political conjuncture in the US and Europe
For a holistic social science
The paper builds a research programme reaching beyond the contemporary fragmentation of social sciences toward a holistic approach considering society as one whole and capable of bridging the gap between the human and natural sciences. It is based on Michael Mann's IEMP model studying the Ideological, Economic, Military, and Political power sources in historical sociology. Here it is extended to the NACEVP model, which is a social-theoretical res…
Ego
The origin of the word ego is the Latin first‐person pronoun ego , meaning “I.” In the current academic world, it is used mainly in psychology, social psychology, and microsociology. Its psychological use originates in Freud's structural model of superego, ego, and id. Several schools, of which ego psychology is the most influential, have developed it further. Microsociologists such as Goffman and social psychologists such as Mead have emphasized…
Toward semiotic sociology
Departing from the common view according to which structuralist semiology (the Saussurean tradition), pragmatist semiotics (the Peircean tradition) and phenomenological sociology (Husserl, Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Garfinkel) are seen as mutually exclusive alternatives, the article attempts to outline their synthesis. The net result of the synthesis is that a conception emerges wherein action theories (rational choice, Weber, etc.) are based o…
Evidence and interest in social theory
What is social theory? This paper opens with a conception of social theory as an ontological approach explicating the nature of the worldview that we should adopt provided that the results of the most advanced empirical social science are true. After loosening the limitations of such a realist conception by introducing normative standards and dialogue with other provinces of meaning than science, it raises another question: How can we choose betw…
From modernity through postmodernity to reflexive modernization. Did we learn anything
Modernization, in the sociological tradition, was usually understood as increasing differentiation. Theorists as different as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Parsons all shared the view that modernization meant the opening of new horizons. The publication of Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition transformed the discursive universe: contrary to the tradition of differentiation theoretical sociology the pamphlet interpreted modernization as a process in whi…
The Meaning of Meaning in Sociology. The Achievements and Shortcomings of Alfred Schutz's Phenomenological Sociology
Phenomenological sociology was founded at the beginning of 1930s by Alfred Schutz. His mundane phenomenology sought to combine impulses drawn from Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and Weber's action theory. It was made famous at the turn of 1960s and 1970s by Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Berger & Luckmann's social constructionism. This paper deals with the notable accomplishments of Schutz and his followers and then proceeds to a shared…
Modernity and the articulation of the gender system
Gender system can be understood as a cultural system rooted on biological differences. Semi- otically speaking, it is a binary sign system (male : female) with some variation involved (transsexuals, homosexuals etc.). In the process of modernity, the biological motivation of the gender system is being loosened by technological innovations such as contraception and mother's milk substitute. At the same time, the state has replaced family and kin a…
Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of nations, regions, industrial sectors and organizations.
Social Innovation or Hegemonic Change? Rapid Paradigm Change in Finland in the 1980s and 1990s
This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of nations, regions, industrial sectors and organizations.
Economy and society
English The great transformation to modernity made the economy the major organizing factor of the social synthesis, thus bringing forth the issue of the economy/society relationship as the central problem of modern social theory. This article deals with two broad approaches to this problem: Parsons's and Habermas's variants of structural-functionalism, on the one hand, and various currents of (neo)institutionalism, on the other. An attempt to syn…
Informational Revolution, the Net and Cultural Identity
Theorizing power
The article is an attempt to develop a synthetic conception of power based on Weber's, Parsons's and Foucault's writings. The aim is, first, to build a bridge between the so-called resource theories of power (Weber, Parsons) and the structural approach (Foucault) and, second, to do this in the form of a conception which would be usable on both macro- and micro-levels at the same time. Four theories are discussed: (1) the distributive approach (We…
From Goffman to semiotic sociology
My last substantial chapter before the conclusion is on Erving Goffman’s sociology for three reasons. First, sociologists tend either to take interpretation of meaning for granted as lay actors of society do or approach it on the basis of some simplistic assumptions such as Durkheim’s collective representations or Weber’s ideal types (Heiskala, 2003). The problem with the former approach is that in the context of collective representations, it is…
Modernity and the intersemiotic condition
Sociology as a Discursive Space - The Coming Age of a New Orthodoxy
The field of sociology can be described as a triangle, the apexes of which are represented by the structure of social organisation (Spencer's theory of the division of labour), the structure of cultural codes (Saussure's theory of lan guage and semiology) and social action (Weber's methodological individu alism) This becomes a three-dimensional discursive space when underneath it we place, as the fourth apex, nature Consequently we have a triangu…
Sex and Gender in the Semiotic Perspective. Male and Female Cultural Identities in Finnish Cultural Products from the 1950s to the 1980s
Marx, the Modern World, and the Problem of Social Regulation
The article discusses the idea of modern society which Marx presented in his critique of political economy. According to Marx, modern society is born in the mode of capitalism but will only be actualised in its full wealth when capitalism is thrown over in favour of communism The problem with Marx's conceptual strategy, however, is that he only discusses man as human species, in this way identifying the human individual with the species being. Ac…
The Meaning of Meaning in Sociology. The Achievements and Shortcomings of Alfred Schutz's Phenomenological Sociology
Phenomenological sociology was founded at the beginning of 1930s by Alfred Schutz. His mundane phenomenology sought to combine impulses drawn from Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and Weber's action theory. It was made famous at the turn of 1960s and 1970s by Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Berger & Luckmann's social constructionism. This paper deals with the notable accomplishments of Schutz and his followers and then proceeds to a shared…
Theorizing power
The article is an attempt to develop a synthetic conception of power based on Weber's, Parsons's and Foucault's writings. The aim is, first, to build a bridge between the so-called resource theories of power (Weber, Parsons) and the structural approach (Foucault) and, second, to do this in the form of a conception which would be usable on both macro- and micro-levels at the same time. Four theories are discussed: (1) the distributive approach (We…
From Goffman to semiotic sociology
My last substantial chapter before the conclusion is on Erving Goffman’s sociology for three reasons. First, sociologists tend either to take interpretation of meaning for granted as lay actors of society do or approach it on the basis of some simplistic assumptions such as Durkheim’s collective representations or Weber’s ideal types (Heiskala, 2003). The problem with the former approach is that in the context of collective representations, it is…
Evidence and interest in social theory
What is social theory? This paper opens with a conception of social theory as an ontological approach explicating the nature of the worldview that we should adopt provided that the results of the most advanced empirical social science are true. After loosening the limitations of such a realist conception by introducing normative standards and dialogue with other provinces of meaning than science, it raises another question: How can we choose betw…
From modernity through postmodernity to reflexive modernization. Did we learn anything
Modernization, in the sociological tradition, was usually understood as increasing differentiation. Theorists as different as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Parsons all shared the view that modernization meant the opening of new horizons. The publication of Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition transformed the discursive universe: contrary to the tradition of differentiation theoretical sociology the pamphlet interpreted modernization as a process in whi…
Economy and society
English The great transformation to modernity made the economy the major organizing factor of the social synthesis, thus bringing forth the issue of the economy/society relationship as the central problem of modern social theory. This article deals with two broad approaches to this problem: Parsons's and Habermas's variants of structural-functionalism, on the one hand, and various currents of (neo)institutionalism, on the other. An attempt to syn…
Toward semiotic sociology
Departing from the common view according to which structuralist semiology (the Saussurean tradition), pragmatist semiotics (the Peircean tradition) and phenomenological sociology (Husserl, Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Garfinkel) are seen as mutually exclusive alternatives, the article attempts to outline their synthesis. The net result of the synthesis is that a conception emerges wherein action theories (rational choice, Weber, etc.) are based o…
Sociology as a Discursive Space - The Coming Age of a New Orthodoxy
The field of sociology can be described as a triangle, the apexes of which are represented by the structure of social organisation (Spencer's theory of the division of labour), the structure of cultural codes (Saussure's theory of lan guage and semiology) and social action (Weber's methodological individu alism) This becomes a three-dimensional discursive space when underneath it we place, as the fourth apex, nature Consequently we have a triangu…
For a holistic social science
The paper builds a research programme reaching beyond the contemporary fragmentation of social sciences toward a holistic approach considering society as one whole and capable of bridging the gap between the human and natural sciences. It is based on Michael Mann's IEMP model studying the Ideological, Economic, Military, and Political power sources in historical sociology. Here it is extended to the NACEVP model, which is a social-theoretical res…
Informational Revolution, the Net and Cultural Identity
Modernity and the intersemiotic condition
Marx, the Modern World, and the Problem of Social Regulation
The article discusses the idea of modern society which Marx presented in his critique of political economy. According to Marx, modern society is born in the mode of capitalism but will only be actualised in its full wealth when capitalism is thrown over in favour of communism The problem with Marx's conceptual strategy, however, is that he only discusses man as human species, in this way identifying the human individual with the species being. Ac…
Sex and Gender in the Semiotic Perspective. Male and Female Cultural Identities in Finnish Cultural Products from the 1950s to the 1980s
Sociology as a Discursive Space - The Coming Age of a New Orthodoxy
The field of sociology can be described as a triangle, the apexes of which are represented by the structure of social organisation (Spencer's theory of the division of labour), the structure of cultural codes (Saussure's theory of lan guage and semiology) and social action (Weber's methodological individu alism) This becomes a three-dimensional discursive space when underneath it we place, as the fourth apex, nature Consequently we have a triangu…
Modernity and the intersemiotic condition
From Goffman to semiotic sociology
My last substantial chapter before the conclusion is on Erving Goffman’s sociology for three reasons. First, sociologists tend either to take interpretation of meaning for granted as lay actors of society do or approach it on the basis of some simplistic assumptions such as Durkheim’s collective representations or Weber’s ideal types (Heiskala, 2003). The problem with the former approach is that in the context of collective representations, it is…
Theorizing power
The article is an attempt to develop a synthetic conception of power based on Weber's, Parsons's and Foucault's writings. The aim is, first, to build a bridge between the so-called resource theories of power (Weber, Parsons) and the structural approach (Foucault) and, second, to do this in the form of a conception which would be usable on both macro- and micro-levels at the same time. Four theories are discussed: (1) the distributive approach (We…
Informational Revolution, the Net and Cultural Identity
Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of nations, regions, industrial sectors and organizations.
Social Innovation or Hegemonic Change? Rapid Paradigm Change in Finland in the 1980s and 1990s
This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of nations, regions, industrial sectors and organizations.
Economy and society
English The great transformation to modernity made the economy the major organizing factor of the social synthesis, thus bringing forth the issue of the economy/society relationship as the central problem of modern social theory. This article deals with two broad approaches to this problem: Parsons's and Habermas's variants of structural-functionalism, on the one hand, and various currents of (neo)institutionalism, on the other. An attempt to syn…
Modernity and the articulation of the gender system
Gender system can be understood as a cultural system rooted on biological differences. Semi- otically speaking, it is a binary sign system (male : female) with some variation involved (transsexuals, homosexuals etc.). In the process of modernity, the biological motivation of the gender system is being loosened by technological innovations such as contraception and mother's milk substitute. At the same time, the state has replaced family and kin a…
From modernity through postmodernity to reflexive modernization. Did we learn anything
Modernization, in the sociological tradition, was usually understood as increasing differentiation. Theorists as different as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Parsons all shared the view that modernization meant the opening of new horizons. The publication of Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition transformed the discursive universe: contrary to the tradition of differentiation theoretical sociology the pamphlet interpreted modernization as a process in whi…
The Meaning of Meaning in Sociology. The Achievements and Shortcomings of Alfred Schutz's Phenomenological Sociology
Phenomenological sociology was founded at the beginning of 1930s by Alfred Schutz. His mundane phenomenology sought to combine impulses drawn from Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and Weber's action theory. It was made famous at the turn of 1960s and 1970s by Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Berger & Luckmann's social constructionism. This paper deals with the notable accomplishments of Schutz and his followers and then proceeds to a shared…
Toward semiotic sociology
Departing from the common view according to which structuralist semiology (the Saussurean tradition), pragmatist semiotics (the Peircean tradition) and phenomenological sociology (Husserl, Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Garfinkel) are seen as mutually exclusive alternatives, the article attempts to outline their synthesis. The net result of the synthesis is that a conception emerges wherein action theories (rational choice, Weber, etc.) are based o…
Evidence and interest in social theory
What is social theory? This paper opens with a conception of social theory as an ontological approach explicating the nature of the worldview that we should adopt provided that the results of the most advanced empirical social science are true. After loosening the limitations of such a realist conception by introducing normative standards and dialogue with other provinces of meaning than science, it raises another question: How can we choose betw…
Ego
The origin of the word ego is the Latin first‐person pronoun ego , meaning “I.” In the current academic world, it is used mainly in psychology, social psychology, and microsociology. Its psychological use originates in Freud's structural model of superego, ego, and id. Several schools, of which ego psychology is the most influential, have developed it further. Microsociologists such as Goffman and social psychologists such as Mead have emphasized…
Policy Design in the European Union
On agency/power, meanings/materialities, and political conjuncture in the US and Europe
For a holistic social science
The paper builds a research programme reaching beyond the contemporary fragmentation of social sciences toward a holistic approach considering society as one whole and capable of bridging the gap between the human and natural sciences. It is based on Michael Mann's IEMP model studying the Ideological, Economic, Military, and Political power sources in historical sociology. Here it is extended to the NACEVP model, which is a social-theoretical res…
Parsons, Talcott (1902–1979)
Talcott Parsons was the most important synthesizer of sociology and the major representative of the “grand theory” tradition within it. His “action frame of reference” was a creative reinterpretation of Weber's work and his later structural functionalism a creative reinterpretation of Durkheim. Building on those classics as well as other theoretical references, Parsons came up with a paradigm defining sociology as a discipline studying the develo…
Semiotic Sociology
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