Paul B Paolucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul B Paolucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul B |
| FAMILY NAME | Paolucci |
| SIGNATURE | PAOLUCCI P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Marx's Method of Successive Abstractions and a Historical-materialist Sociology of Religion
This second installment continues my investigation of Marx's research practice. I previously examined Marx's method of successive abstractions in his analysis of modes of production. This article applies this method to a historical-materialist analysis of religion's development across levels of historical generality. It concludes with a new taxonomy of religion based on that analysis
Marx's Method of Successive Abstractions and his Analysis of Modes of Production
This is the first of two articles that investigate Marx's method of successive abstractions, an approach that merges dialectical sensibilities with scientific procedures. This first article explains Marx's techniques of concept construction and use of constants and variables in his comparative analysis of modes of production. The second article applies the method of successive abstractions to a historical-materialist sociology of religion
Acquiring Modernity: An Investigation into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World
Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment
Marx's scientific and political criticism: The internal relation
Marx's method of critique via several philosophy of science categories reveals logical problems, as well as political biases, within different competing approaches of his period. Some principles subject to Marx's criticism include: metaphysics, ahistoricism, false universalisation, inversion, reductionism, idealism, obscurantism, incommensurability, and tautology. This paper examines these categories and their logical bases, the competing approac…
Marx and the Politics of Abstraction
中文 Deutsch English Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account Publications Subjects African Studies American Studies Ancient Near East and Egypt Art History Asian Studies Biblical Studies Biology Book History and Cartography Classical Studies Education History Human Rights and Humanitarian Law International Law International Relations Jewish Studies Languages and Linguistics Life Sciences Literature and Cultural Studies Media Studies Middle E…
Public Discourse in an Age of Deception: Forging the Iraq War
This article combines political-economic and dramaturgical frameworks to examine techniques the Bush administration used to sell the Iraq War to the public, the propaganda role of mass media, and the roots of the war. Discussion also includes the influence of oil on foreign policy, the USA's historical interest in the Middle East, and the quest of rearranging geo-political realities in that region
Public sociology, Marxism, and Marx
The prospect of public sociology is beginning to be widely discussed and debated. Critics put forth several reasons for skepticism, one of which is that the program of public sociology, under the leadership of Michael Burawoy, will infect sociology with a Marxist drift. This paper examines whether this drift in fact comports with Marx's ideas on the relationship between scientific knowledge, the role of intellectuals in the class struggle, and th…
Marx's Scientific Dialectics: A Methodological Treatise for a New Century
While Karl Marx's ideas remain influential in the social sciences, there is considerable disagreement and debate on the methodological principles that inform his work. Marx often aligned himself with both "scientific" and "dialectical" principles, at least once referring to his method as a "scientific dialectic," suggesting he believed dialectical reason could be incorporated into scientific method. By debunking several misconceptions about Marx'…
Dramaturgy, humor, and criticism: How Goffman reveals Seinfeld's critique of American culture
Both Goffman's dramaturgical paradigm and the humor of the television program
Sociology of Humor and a Critical Dramaturgy
Goffman's analytic framework can provide tools useful for a critical theory of modern society. While commentators have remarked on Goffman's apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his critical thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld's humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical. We use these themes to illuminate the critical analyses of modern social li…
Race and Racism in Marx's Camera Obscura
The charge that Marx's work leaves sociologists few tools with which to understand the phenomena of race and racism has been a common one. Against such claims, this essay attempts to mobilize several analytical devices in Marx's work that help us grasp race and racism as sociological realities. These include an understanding of the inversion process (referred to here as the 'camera obscura') Marx asserted was inherent to bourgeois ideology, his m…
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method: The Centrality of Labor for the Human Species, Its History, and Individuals
Critical Sociology has previously published examinations of the ontological assumptions Marx incorporated into his epistemological approach. These principles must be understood if intelligibility is to be made of his overall outlook. However, one such previous work failed to recognize the centrality of labor in Marx's ontological-epistemological assumptions. This omission should be rectified. The dimensions of this assumption involve the importan…
The Discursive Transformation of Marx's Communism into Soviet Diamat
Many assume the Soviet Union represented a social experiment emanating from Marx's thought. If this is so, then the abuses and failures of the Soviet system are also assumed to be the result of flaws in Marx's ideas. However, if a direct causal relationship between Leninist-Stalinism and Marx's communism is not accepted, it should be possible to demonstrate that a qualitative transformation of Marx's thought occurred after his death. This transfo…
The Scientific Method and the Dialectical Method
Classical Sociological Theory and Modern Social Problems: Marx's Concept of the Camera Obscura and the Fallacy of Individualistic Reductionism
Marx viewed ideological and classed based understandings of the social world as analogous to images in a “camera obscura”, where the outcome is backwards or distorted. Commonplace discourse “gets it backward” in the same way: causes and effects are often conflated. Current understandings of the relationship between poverty, crime and policing are examined. Rather than a conventional, individualreductionist analysis, sociologists are encouraged to…
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method
Marx employed a wide array of analytical tools and strategies. However, how the elements of his approach across its range are related to one another was left rather undeveloped by him and Engel's contributions have done little to clear up subsequent confusions. Marx also considered that his science compared well in meeting the basic criteria of sound method. All scientific methods share the fact that they must start with a series of assumptions b…
Questions of Method: Fundamental Problems Reading Dialectical Methodologies
Marx admittedly could have been more helpful in making clear and precise his methodological foundations. Leaving key issues scattered over his works has forced a slow reconstruction of Marxist epistemology by subsequent students. Grasping both the philosophy of internal relations and methods of abstraction allows analysis to interpret Marx's work in four broad, separate but interrelated moments: the dialectical method, historical materialism, pol…
Sociology of Humor and a Critical Dramaturgy
Goffman's analytic framework can provide tools useful for a critical theory of modern society. While commentators have remarked on Goffman's apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his critical thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld's humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical. We use these themes to illuminate the critical analyses of modern social li…
Classical Sociological Theory and Modern Social Problems: Marx's Concept of the Camera Obscura and the Fallacy of Individualistic Reductionism
Marx viewed ideological and classed based understandings of the social world as analogous to images in a “camera obscura”, where the outcome is backwards or distorted. Commonplace discourse “gets it backward” in the same way: causes and effects are often conflated. Current understandings of the relationship between poverty, crime and policing are examined. Rather than a conventional, individualreductionist analysis, sociologists are encouraged to…
Dramaturgy, humor, and criticism: How Goffman reveals Seinfeld's critique of American culture
Both Goffman's dramaturgical paradigm and the humor of the television program
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method
Marx employed a wide array of analytical tools and strategies. However, how the elements of his approach across its range are related to one another was left rather undeveloped by him and Engel's contributions have done little to clear up subsequent confusions. Marx also considered that his science compared well in meeting the basic criteria of sound method. All scientific methods share the fact that they must start with a series of assumptions b…
Questions of Method: Fundamental Problems Reading Dialectical Methodologies
Marx admittedly could have been more helpful in making clear and precise his methodological foundations. Leaving key issues scattered over his works has forced a slow reconstruction of Marxist epistemology by subsequent students. Grasping both the philosophy of internal relations and methods of abstraction allows analysis to interpret Marx's work in four broad, separate but interrelated moments: the dialectical method, historical materialism, pol…
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method: The Centrality of Labor for the Human Species, Its History, and Individuals
Critical Sociology has previously published examinations of the ontological assumptions Marx incorporated into his epistemological approach. These principles must be understood if intelligibility is to be made of his overall outlook. However, one such previous work failed to recognize the centrality of labor in Marx's ontological-epistemological assumptions. This omission should be rectified. The dimensions of this assumption involve the importan…
Marx's Method of Successive Abstractions and his Analysis of Modes of Production
This is the first of two articles that investigate Marx's method of successive abstractions, an approach that merges dialectical sensibilities with scientific procedures. This first article explains Marx's techniques of concept construction and use of constants and variables in his comparative analysis of modes of production. The second article applies the method of successive abstractions to a historical-materialist sociology of religion
Race and Racism in Marx's Camera Obscura
The charge that Marx's work leaves sociologists few tools with which to understand the phenomena of race and racism has been a common one. Against such claims, this essay attempts to mobilize several analytical devices in Marx's work that help us grasp race and racism as sociological realities. These include an understanding of the inversion process (referred to here as the 'camera obscura') Marx asserted was inherent to bourgeois ideology, his m…
The Discursive Transformation of Marx's Communism into Soviet Diamat
Many assume the Soviet Union represented a social experiment emanating from Marx's thought. If this is so, then the abuses and failures of the Soviet system are also assumed to be the result of flaws in Marx's ideas. However, if a direct causal relationship between Leninist-Stalinism and Marx's communism is not accepted, it should be possible to demonstrate that a qualitative transformation of Marx's thought occurred after his death. This transfo…
The Scientific Method and the Dialectical Method
Questions of Method: Fundamental Problems Reading Dialectical Methodologies
Marx admittedly could have been more helpful in making clear and precise his methodological foundations. Leaving key issues scattered over his works has forced a slow reconstruction of Marxist epistemology by subsequent students. Grasping both the philosophy of internal relations and methods of abstraction allows analysis to interpret Marx's work in four broad, separate but interrelated moments: the dialectical method, historical materialism, pol…
Classical Sociological Theory and Modern Social Problems: Marx's Concept of the Camera Obscura and the Fallacy of Individualistic Reductionism
Marx viewed ideological and classed based understandings of the social world as analogous to images in a “camera obscura”, where the outcome is backwards or distorted. Commonplace discourse “gets it backward” in the same way: causes and effects are often conflated. Current understandings of the relationship between poverty, crime and policing are examined. Rather than a conventional, individualreductionist analysis, sociologists are encouraged to…
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method
Marx employed a wide array of analytical tools and strategies. However, how the elements of his approach across its range are related to one another was left rather undeveloped by him and Engel's contributions have done little to clear up subsequent confusions. Marx also considered that his science compared well in meeting the basic criteria of sound method. All scientific methods share the fact that they must start with a series of assumptions b…
The Scientific Method and the Dialectical Method
The Discursive Transformation of Marx's Communism into Soviet Diamat
Many assume the Soviet Union represented a social experiment emanating from Marx's thought. If this is so, then the abuses and failures of the Soviet system are also assumed to be the result of flaws in Marx's ideas. However, if a direct causal relationship between Leninist-Stalinism and Marx's communism is not accepted, it should be possible to demonstrate that a qualitative transformation of Marx's thought occurred after his death. This transfo…
Assumptions of the Dialectical Method: The Centrality of Labor for the Human Species, Its History, and Individuals
Critical Sociology has previously published examinations of the ontological assumptions Marx incorporated into his epistemological approach. These principles must be understood if intelligibility is to be made of his overall outlook. However, one such previous work failed to recognize the centrality of labor in Marx's ontological-epistemological assumptions. This omission should be rectified. The dimensions of this assumption involve the importan…
Dramaturgy, humor, and criticism: How Goffman reveals Seinfeld's critique of American culture
Both Goffman's dramaturgical paradigm and the humor of the television program
Sociology of Humor and a Critical Dramaturgy
Goffman's analytic framework can provide tools useful for a critical theory of modern society. While commentators have remarked on Goffman's apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his critical thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld's humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical. We use these themes to illuminate the critical analyses of modern social li…
Race and Racism in Marx's Camera Obscura
The charge that Marx's work leaves sociologists few tools with which to understand the phenomena of race and racism has been a common one. Against such claims, this essay attempts to mobilize several analytical devices in Marx's work that help us grasp race and racism as sociological realities. These include an understanding of the inversion process (referred to here as the 'camera obscura') Marx asserted was inherent to bourgeois ideology, his m…
Marx's Scientific Dialectics: A Methodological Treatise for a New Century
While Karl Marx's ideas remain influential in the social sciences, there is considerable disagreement and debate on the methodological principles that inform his work. Marx often aligned himself with both "scientific" and "dialectical" principles, at least once referring to his method as a "scientific dialectic," suggesting he believed dialectical reason could be incorporated into scientific method. By debunking several misconceptions about Marx'…
Public sociology, Marxism, and Marx
The prospect of public sociology is beginning to be widely discussed and debated. Critics put forth several reasons for skepticism, one of which is that the program of public sociology, under the leadership of Michael Burawoy, will infect sociology with a Marxist drift. This paper examines whether this drift in fact comports with Marx's ideas on the relationship between scientific knowledge, the role of intellectuals in the class struggle, and th…
Public Discourse in an Age of Deception: Forging the Iraq War
This article combines political-economic and dramaturgical frameworks to examine techniques the Bush administration used to sell the Iraq War to the public, the propaganda role of mass media, and the roots of the war. Discussion also includes the influence of oil on foreign policy, the USA's historical interest in the Middle East, and the quest of rearranging geo-political realities in that region
Marx and the Politics of Abstraction
中文 Deutsch English Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account Publications Subjects African Studies American Studies Ancient Near East and Egypt Art History Asian Studies Biblical Studies Biology Book History and Cartography Classical Studies Education History Human Rights and Humanitarian Law International Law International Relations Jewish Studies Languages and Linguistics Life Sciences Literature and Cultural Studies Media Studies Middle E…
Marx's scientific and political criticism: The internal relation
Marx's method of critique via several philosophy of science categories reveals logical problems, as well as political biases, within different competing approaches of his period. Some principles subject to Marx's criticism include: metaphysics, ahistoricism, false universalisation, inversion, reductionism, idealism, obscurantism, incommensurability, and tautology. This paper examines these categories and their logical bases, the competing approac…
Acquiring Modernity: An Investigation into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World
Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment
Marx's Method of Successive Abstractions and a Historical-materialist Sociology of Religion
This second installment continues my investigation of Marx's research practice. I previously examined Marx's method of successive abstractions in his analysis of modes of production. This article applies this method to a historical-materialist analysis of religion's development across levels of historical generality. It concludes with a new taxonomy of religion based on that analysis
Marx's Method of Successive Abstractions and his Analysis of Modes of Production
This is the first of two articles that investigate Marx's method of successive abstractions, an approach that merges dialectical sensibilities with scientific procedures. This first article explains Marx's techniques of concept construction and use of constants and variables in his comparative analysis of modes of production. The second article applies the method of successive abstractions to a historical-materialist sociology of religion
Sociology (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (8 works) · Dialectic (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Social science (7 works)