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Social Structures and Natural Systems : Is a Scientific Assemblage Workable?.
Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to conduct applied research on the concrete prer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-Title page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: The Post-Natural, the Post-Cultural, and Then What?; I.1. Choosing between the hegemony of theory and that of technique?; I.2. Targets, ambitions and operating instructions; 1. Non-Negotiable Conditions for a Scientific Stereoscopy; 1.1. Operating principles against metaphysical principles; 1.1.1. Ventriloquist philosophy; 1.1.2. Two materialisms and one idealism: the initial bet of science; 1.1.3. Ontology: a catch-all concept and a bottomless pit; 1.2. A "strong agenda" for interdisciplinarity?
- 1.2.1. Popperian demarcation, or exclusion decreed from the outside1.2.2. Scientific self-management and the requirement of symmetry; 1.2.3. Symmetry and reflexivity in the nature/culture couple; 1.2.4. Two modes of interdisciplinarity; 1.3. Materialism in the face of the ideal; 1.3.1. The illusory sphere of the ideas; 1.3.2. The three entries on human worlds; 1.4. The line drawn on the side of science: frame of reference; 1.4.1. The observation of the facts and the strangeness of mathematics; 1.4.2. The permanent priority of the frame of reference
- 1.4.3. Scientific clarity and the impurity of scientists1.5. "Reframed" comparison; 2. Relations Above All (and Before Any Cause); 2.1. The power of bonding: social relations and ecological interactions; 2.2. The polarity of relationship: domestication between nature and culture; 2.2.1. The asymmetry of domestication; 2.2.2. Symmetry and reflexivity in domesticators; 2.2.3. Original asymmetry and historical symmetries; 2.3. Relations in a process: the "causes" for the Neolithic; 2.4. Locks and openings; 2.4.1. Robert Cresswell's locks: an analysis tool to be imposed
- 2.4.2. Palm wine and coffee: time is money2.5. The vintage and the expert; 2.5.1. Hierarchy takes time; 2.5.2. The curse of the Languedoc vineyard; 2.5.3. The oenologist, between technocracy and aesthetics; 3. Uncertain Ensembles, Imperfect Cohesion and Disruptive Events; 3.1. Systems and structures: the search; 3.1.1. Empirical or autochthonous ensembles; 3.1.2. The structure and forgotten morphology; 3.1.3. Systems open to all winds; 3.1.4. Generalized structuralism, the subject and the event; 3.2. The undesirable and sterilized event; 3.2.1. Whitehead versus Braudel
- 3.2.2. The rot-proof event at the source of culture3.3. Events and cohesion in an accelerated Neolithization; 3.4. The event: a referee for theories?; 3.5. The forgotten service of the fundamental in favor of the applied; 4. The Spiral of Research: Centrifugal and Centripetal Approaches; 4.1. Ensembles, scales and frameworks: methodology versus methods; 4.1.1. The "enriched" scales; 4.1.2. Inclusions and overlaps among ensembles; 4.1.3. Edges, ecotones, borders and ruptures; 4.1.4. Complementarities and competitions; 4.2. Spiral research: from center to periphery, or the other way around?