Showing papers on "Sociofact published in 1963"
TL;DR: In this article, the identification of form, or style, can be used as a principle of unification in dealing with phenomena of infinite individual variation, such as the language used by schizophrenic patients.
Abstract: Criticism, a technique more familiar in the arts than in the sciences, concerns itself with the "how" rather than the "what" of things. Its objective is the form, the manner or mode of representation, as opposed to content. In dealing with phenomena of infinite individual variation, such as the language used by schizophrenic patients, the identification of form, or style, can be used as a principle of unification. The syndrome of "concreteness," the syndrome of "ambiguity," the syndrome of "transformation into personal idiom" (illustrations given) identify styles characteristic and recurrent in this use of language. Identification of these "styles" or manner of speaking, make an intelligible transition to the manner of thinking or modes of thought. Criticism can evolve very flexible techniques for the investigation of mental operations as they appear in language. Proper criticism does not limit itself to normative standards, for
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TL;DR: The use of the word "rank" and "order" in the eighteenth-century notions of rank and order has been examined in the context of social conflict analysis as mentioned in this paper, with the focus on class action or conflict.
Abstract: "HISTORY RECEIVES ITS VOCABULARY, FOR THE MOST PART, FROM THE VERY subject matter of its study," remarked the late Marc Bloch. The vocabulary, he added, lacked unity.' The word class, for example, had one meaning for John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century and another for his great-grandsons, Henry and Brooks, at the end of the nineteenth. John Adams preferred "rank" to class. He thought of himself as belonging to the "middle rank of people in society" and spoke of a patrician "rank" which "exists in every nation under the sun and will exist forever."2 Thomas Jefferson noted the existence of "a Patrician order" in Virginia.3 Jefferson's and Adams' use of "rank" and "order" sustains Professor Briggs' view that prior to the Industrial Revolution the word class was "used in its neutral, 'classifying' sense, and its place supplied by the 'ranks,' 'orders' and 'degrees' of a more finely graded hierarchy of great subtlety and discrimination." 4 Following the Industrial Revolution, class became increasingly identified with conflict, a category for "the analysis of the dynamics of social conflict and its structural roots." Recently, the tendency has been to treat class as two analytically separable elements: class stratification harking back to the eighteenth-century conception of rank and, secondly, class action or conflict.5
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is stated that the problem of analysis of "existence" precisely as a predicate is a problem of cognition of the history of an object, and its results are set forth in various existential judgments.
Abstract: In everyday speech, expressions of the type "that thing exists" are frequently employed. What do they mean? They must be dealt with at the logical level where we seek greater precision. Also at the philosophical level, the predicate "exists" stands in need of analysis, inasmuch as its meanings are associated in one way or another with the meanings of the term "reality." It might also be stated that every entity, to the degree that it is "real" in one sense or another, exists in a manner distinctive to it. In this sense, one might say that this is a problem of cognition of the history of an object, and its results are set forth in various existential judgments. Nevertheless, analysis of "existence" precisely as a predicate is necessary. It bears a specifically logical character and, moreover, is related in a lesser degree to the purely linguistic side of things than in the case of analysis of the meanings of the predicate "to be."
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