The human sciences
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The reduction of socio-psychological human life to the study of the material basis of the human organism is a persistent theme of the human sciences, and one of the best examples of this was La Mettrie, who was the first person in the modern era to express the idea of man as no more than a machine. A science of the human seems either to have the capacity to be inhuman or, alternatively, to be humanistic but hardly scientific, two possibilities that represent polar opposites.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Space
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A study investigates why the processual sensualism that a material schematism provides is important and how the study of the spaces of the world is changing to accommodate that fact. It considers the different ways in which space makes a difference, using three vignettes to explore the range of spaces that can be produced and how they become attuned.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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The place of complexity
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Issues concerning complexity theory and its dissemination through the social disciplines are discussed. Topics addressed include the way social theory adds new conditions to complexity theory, as well as interpretations that suggest complexity theory offers a new and productive structure in Euro-American societies.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 1999
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