Eric Margolis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 604209 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eric Margolis |
| PRENOMES | Eric |
| SOBRENOME | Margolis |
| ASSINATURA | MARGOLIS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5145-8976 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 285 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 11 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Making sense of domain specificity
The notion of domain specificity plays a central role in some of the most important debates in cognitive science. Yet, despite the widespread reliance on domain specificity in recent theorizing in cognitive science, this notion remains elusive. Critics have claimed that the notion of domain specificity can't bear the theoretical weight that has been put on it and that it should be abandoned. Even its most steadfast proponents have highlighted puz…
The Small Number System
I argue that the human mind includes an innate domain-specific system for representing precise small numerical quantities. This theory contrasts with object-tracking theories and with domain-general theories that only make use of mental models. I argue that there is a good amount of evidence for innate representations of small numerical quantities and that such a domain-specific system has explanatory advantages when infants’ poor working memory …
Sartre, Jean‐Paul (1905–1980)
The introduction to Sartre's monumental Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960) was published in English as Search for a Method (1963). Sartre saw the social sciences as in deep crisis arising from a basic contradiction: “We are not only knowers, in the triumph of intellectual self‐consciousness, we appear as the known.” Sociologists also remarked on the discipline's state of arrested development. For instance, at the time Sartre was writing, C. Wr…
The Conceptual Mind
New essays by leading philosophers and cognitive scientists that present recent findings and theoretical developments in the study of concepts. The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions…
Conceptual Mind
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Recent research across the disciplines of cognitive science has exerted a profound influence on how many philosophers approach problems about the nature of mind. These philosophers, while attentive to traditional philosophical concerns, are increasingly drawing both theory and evidence from empirical disciplines — both the framing of the questions and how to resolve them. However, this familiarity with the results of cognitive science has led to …
Massive Modularity
The objective of the article is to discuss the evolution, hypothesis, and some the more prominent arguments for massive modularity (MM). MM is the hypothesis that the human mind is largely or entirely composed from a great many modules. Modules are functionally characterizable cognitive mechanisms that tend to possess several features, which include domain-specificity, informationally encapsulation, innateness, inaccessibility, shallow outputs, a…
Methodological Approaches to Disclosing Historic Photographs
Architectural and built environment discourses in an educational context
This essay examines architectural photographs of schools produced for consumer magazines like House Beautiful, which helped create aspirations for the rising American middle class during the period 1935–1959. It reveals the way that schools for the upper-middle classes were promulgated as 'role models' for the boom in school construction that accompanied the post-war baby boom. We examined images of exterior and interior school architecture and b…
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods
Preface: Aims And Organization Of This Handbook PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Visual Social Research - Luc Pauwels Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture - Richard Chalfen Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry - Jon Wagner Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture - Jon Wagner PART TWO: PRODUCING VISUAL DATA AND INSIGHT Anthropological Film Ma…
School as Ceremony and Ritual
Images of the places and activities called "school" as a formal institution are rich data for the inquiring gaze. This article focuses specifically on historical photos of school rituals and ceremonies through which young people perform particular narratives of schooling through repetitive embodied practice and in turn construct values and beliefs about themselves and wider society. In particular, we look at rituals of the habitual, coming of age…
Artifacts and Original Intent
How do people decide what category an artifact belongs to? Previous studies have suggested that adults and, to some degree, children, categorize artifacts in accordance with the design stance, a categorization system which privileges the designer's original intent in making categorization judgments. However, these studies have all been conducted in Western, technologically advanced societies, where artifacts are mass produced. In this study, we e…
Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
Creations of the Mind
Caught Napping
The authors' research is concerned with the use of visual imagery as data to examine schools and schooling. In attempting to develop knowledge further by incorporating the visual in educational research, they draw on a hybrid mix of disciplines including sociology, ethnography, history and the humanities. Many scholars and historians writing about the history of education emphasize written texts (e.g. formal curricula, school board minutes); phot…
Guest Editor's Introduction
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on Contributors. Introduction. Part I: Conceptualizing Inequalities:. 1. Historical Perspectives on Inequality: Charles Tilly (Columbia University). 2. Social Exclusion: New Inequality Paradigm for the Era of Globalization?: Ronaldo Munck (University of Liverpool). 3. Unequal Nations: Race, Citizen, and the Politics of Recognition: Sallie Westwood (University of Manchester). 4. Intimate Citizenship in an Unj…
Looking at discipline, looking at labour
Native American children were subjected to a rigidly enforced regime of acculturation in a federally funded system of Indian boarding schools. This paper explores the peculiar iconography of photographs of these Indian schools, hundreds of which can now be found in Internet archives. The advent of searchable photograph archives on the Internet makes possible new forms of visual ethnography analogous to a kind of archeology. Photographs can be exa…
The McDonaldization of Higher Education
(2004). The McDonaldization of Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 368-370
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods
Preface: Aims And Organization Of This Handbook PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Visual Social Research - Luc Pauwels Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture - Richard Chalfen Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry - Jon Wagner Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture - Jon Wagner PART TWO: PRODUCING VISUAL DATA AND INSIGHT Anthropological Film Ma…
The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative
In this article, Eric Margolis and Mary Romero examine the effect of the "hidden curriculum" on women of color graduate students in sociology. They interview twenty-six women of color enrolled in Ph.D. programs in sociology to uncover how the graduate school curriculum not only produces professional sociologists, but also simultaneously reproduces gender, race, class, and other forms of inequality. In their analysis, Margolis and Romero identify …
Class Pictures
This article examines photographs taken of American public school classes between the 1880's and the 1940's. Most of the images were found in two virtual archives: The American Memory site at the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Center. These very large photograph collections were searched for representations of race, gender, and physical ability. The photographs were compared and contrasted and analyzed for elements of h…
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
Noam Chomsky's Poverty of the Stimulus Argument is one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and the mind. Though widely endorsed by linguists, the argument has met with much resistance in philosophy. Unfortunately, philosophical critics have often failed to fully appreciate the power of the argument. In this paper, we provide a systematic presentation of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument, clarifying its struc…
Concepts and Conceptual Analysis
Conceptual analysis is undergoing a revival in philosophy, and much of the credit goes to Frank Jackson. Jackson argues that conceptual analysis is needed as an integral component of so‐called serious metaphysics and that it also does explanatory work in accounting for such phenomena as categorization, meaning change, communication, and linguistic understanding. He even goes so far as to argue that opponents of conceptual analysis are implicitly …
Caught Napping
The authors' research is concerned with the use of visual imagery as data to examine schools and schooling. In attempting to develop knowledge further by incorporating the visual in educational research, they draw on a hybrid mix of disciplines including sociology, ethnography, history and the humanities. Many scholars and historians writing about the history of education emphasize written texts (e.g. formal curricula, school board minutes); phot…
War at the Top of the World
Introduction:Black Tuesday Part I - The Great Jihad 1. Soldiers of Allah 2. The Bravest Men on Earth 3.Dodge City Meets the Arabian Nights 4.Fadil the Kurd 5.The Secret War 6. Enter the Taliban 7.Brother Osama Part II - Kashmir-War in Paradise Prologue 8. The Kingdom of Sikander 9. Revolt in the Mountains 10. The Afghani 11. Deconstructing South Asia 12. The World's Most Dangerous Border 13. Paradise Lost Part III - War in the Death Zone 14. The …
Drug Policy in the Time of Aids
In 1985, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded an ethnographic research project in San Francisco to study the needle sharing behavior of injection drug users (IDUs). The goal of the research was to develop a strategy to slow the spread of HIV among this hidden and hard to reach population of drug users and their sexual partners. This small-scale project grew into a model intervention in which bleach, condoms, and street-based educati…
Visual Ethnography
Visual representations, such as photographs, maps, and computer graphics, have much to offer ethnography. In the early 1900s, photojournalists and sociologists used photography to document poverty in rural America and urban slums. Nonverbal representations played an important role in bringing social conditions to the attention of the citizenry. This article reports on a street outreach project taking place in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. …
School as Ceremony and Ritual
Images of the places and activities called "school" as a formal institution are rich data for the inquiring gaze. This article focuses specifically on historical photos of school rituals and ceremonies through which young people perform particular narratives of schooling through repetitive embodied practice and in turn construct values and beliefs about themselves and wider society. In particular, we look at rituals of the habitual, coming of age…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Picturing labor
Following Marx, Harry Braverman argued that it is not the technical nature of the machine that creates alienation but “invisible” social divisions of labor which produced and control machinery and the labor process. This paper marshals primary source material from a large visual ethnographic study of retired miners, juxtaposing photographs and oral histories in an analysis of coal mining. Photographs of the mining process, which represent the tec…
Images in struggle
Visual images produced as elements of material culture constitute a remarkable and under‐utilized resource for sociological investigation. This investigation of historic photographs of Colorado coal‐mining communities develops methods to analyze photos as sociological data. The coal industry was the site of sometimes violent struggle between workers and management. The labor intensive nature of mining and its location in under populated areas led…
Mining Photographs
Research Article| January 01 1988 Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos Eric Margolis Eric Margolis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (40): 33–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-40-33 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …
The Small Number System
I argue that the human mind includes an innate domain-specific system for representing precise small numerical quantities. This theory contrasts with object-tracking theories and with domain-general theories that only make use of mental models. I argue that there is a good amount of evidence for innate representations of small numerical quantities and that such a domain-specific system has explanatory advantages when infants’ poor working memory …
Artifacts and Original Intent
How do people decide what category an artifact belongs to? Previous studies have suggested that adults and, to some degree, children, categorize artifacts in accordance with the design stance, a categorization system which privileges the designer's original intent in making categorization judgments. However, these studies have all been conducted in Western, technologically advanced societies, where artifacts are mass produced. In this study, we e…
The McDonaldization of Higher Education
(2004). The McDonaldization of Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 368-370
Integrating sociology
Mining Photographs
Research Article| January 01 1988 Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos Eric Margolis Eric Margolis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (40): 33–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-40-33 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …
In the footsteps of russel lee
Visual Ethnography
Visual representations, such as photographs, maps, and computer graphics, have much to offer ethnography. In the early 1900s, photojournalists and sociologists used photography to document poverty in rural America and urban slums. Nonverbal representations played an important role in bringing social conditions to the attention of the citizenry. This article reports on a street outreach project taking place in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. …
Drug Policy in the Time of Aids
In 1985, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded an ethnographic research project in San Francisco to study the needle sharing behavior of injection drug users (IDUs). The goal of the research was to develop a strategy to slow the spread of HIV among this hidden and hard to reach population of drug users and their sexual partners. This small-scale project grew into a model intervention in which bleach, condoms, and street-based educati…
Images in struggle
Visual images produced as elements of material culture constitute a remarkable and under‐utilized resource for sociological investigation. This investigation of historic photographs of Colorado coal‐mining communities develops methods to analyze photos as sociological data. The coal industry was the site of sometimes violent struggle between workers and management. The labor intensive nature of mining and its location in under populated areas led…
The Matter with Kids Today
Picturing labor
Following Marx, Harry Braverman argued that it is not the technical nature of the machine that creates alienation but “invisible” social divisions of labor which produced and control machinery and the labor process. This paper marshals primary source material from a large visual ethnographic study of retired miners, juxtaposing photographs and oral histories in an analysis of coal mining. Photographs of the mining process, which represent the tec…
The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative
In this article, Eric Margolis and Mary Romero examine the effect of the "hidden curriculum" on women of color graduate students in sociology. They interview twenty-six women of color enrolled in Ph.D. programs in sociology to uncover how the graduate school curriculum not only produces professional sociologists, but also simultaneously reproduces gender, race, class, and other forms of inequality. In their analysis, Margolis and Romero identify …
Moral Realism and Twin Earth
Class Pictures
This article examines photographs taken of American public school classes between the 1880's and the 1940's. Most of the images were found in two virtual archives: The American Memory site at the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Center. These very large photograph collections were searched for representations of race, gender, and physical ability. The photographs were compared and contrasted and analyzed for elements of h…
Research in Social Policy, Vol. 6
Integrating sociology
War at the Top of the World
Introduction:Black Tuesday Part I - The Great Jihad 1. Soldiers of Allah 2. The Bravest Men on Earth 3.Dodge City Meets the Arabian Nights 4.Fadil the Kurd 5.The Secret War 6. Enter the Taliban 7.Brother Osama Part II - Kashmir-War in Paradise Prologue 8. The Kingdom of Sikander 9. Revolt in the Mountains 10. The Afghani 11. Deconstructing South Asia 12. The World's Most Dangerous Border 13. Paradise Lost Part III - War in the Death Zone 14. The …
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
Noam Chomsky's Poverty of the Stimulus Argument is one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and the mind. Though widely endorsed by linguists, the argument has met with much resistance in philosophy. Unfortunately, philosophical critics have often failed to fully appreciate the power of the argument. In this paper, we provide a systematic presentation of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument, clarifying its struc…
Lewis' Strawman
In a survey of his views in the philosophy of mind, David Lewis criticizes much recent work in the field by attacking an imaginary opponent, ‘Strawman’. His case against Strawman focuses on four central theses which Lewis takes to be widely accepted among contemporary philosophers of mind. The theses concern (1) the language of thought hypothesis and its relation to folk‐psychology, (2) narrow content, (3) de se content, and (4) rationality. We r…
Wherever I Go, I Will Always Be an American
Concepts and Conceptual Analysis
Conceptual analysis is undergoing a revival in philosophy, and much of the credit goes to Frank Jackson. Jackson argues that conceptual analysis is needed as an integral component of so‐called serious metaphysics and that it also does explanatory work in accounting for such phenomena as categorization, meaning change, communication, and linguistic understanding. He even goes so far as to argue that opponents of conceptual analysis are implicitly …
Looking at discipline, looking at labour
Native American children were subjected to a rigidly enforced regime of acculturation in a federally funded system of Indian boarding schools. This paper explores the peculiar iconography of photographs of these Indian schools, hundreds of which can now be found in Internet archives. The advent of searchable photograph archives on the Internet makes possible new forms of visual ethnography analogous to a kind of archeology. Photographs can be exa…
The McDonaldization of Higher Education
(2004). The McDonaldization of Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 368-370
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
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