hi, Ken A) RE: constructionism of naturalism...i have thought for years that one could argue that anything human-made, i.e., symbolic is, a construction. i can...
i sent this yesterday morning, but it never posted... i have to share an example of behavior analysis that happened this morning before i left for the...
His is a question that I hope I can pose properly. It is in the context of efforts of social scientists to make things better. If I had wanted to...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 2, 2006 1:19 am
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I'm doing a very poor job of communicating my concerns about science and naturalism, and Skinner. Let me try once more. Science, naturalism, and behaviorism...
Ken, You are doing a fine job. Of the two traditions construction/creation and nature there are many differences. However, the main one is measurement. The is...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 2, 2006 3:55 pm
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1. Where in the process do you wish to intervene? Resolving an immediate need for food? Assuring people can get the resources the need to get food on their...
Hey, Ken solving social problems is certainly a big tent and can have many approaches. as such, and as i have mentioned several times in the past, behaviorism...
Thanks for the response and pointers. Still unresolved: 1. Who is all of this addressed to? Are we (people signed up for this list) going to be doing...
thinking further about social problems...I think Mills had it correct when he stated that one person unemployed in a city is a personal problem; several...
Following that formula, numbers = social we would assert the following. One person has high blood pressure it is a personal problem if a thousand have high...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 3, 2006 9:42 pm
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Del and John, With all due respect to Durkheim, he was wrong on some things. The social is not a thing, a fact, as he claimed. It can be treated as such and...
Ken wrote. "The social is not a thing...." I think there are two components to study in sociology: social processes and social constructions. A social...
Hi, I'm not sure who wrote what. In addition there are typos, perhaps that plague us all. I continue to press for recognition of the two traditions, the word...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 5, 2006 4:03 pm
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Susan Chizeck, Ph.D. Director of Internships office GR 2.310 Editor, NSEE Quarterly phone 972-883-2248 MS GR 26 fax 972-883-2440 ...
Chizeck, Susan P
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Jun 5, 2006 7:04 pm
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Perhaps using service learning is the route to travel? I recently met a professor from San Jose State, Scott Myers Lipton, at PSA. I can't think of the title,...
I was an undergraduate in the early 90's. I did a double major in sociology-psychology. While the principles of operant conditioning (ie behaviorism...
Ken no quarrels over the subject matter of our mother discipline; one question, though... Once one knows how social "things" are assembled, then what? how does...
hi, Rebekah we have a nationally recognized service learning program at CCCC; i utilize SL in my intro classes. we have this weird thing in Texas, where public...
There is a huge literature on service learning, so I'd start there first... Susan Chizeck, Ph.D. Director of Internships office GR 2.310 Editor, NSEE...
Chizeck, Susan P
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Jun 5, 2006 8:54 pm
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well, it has only taken me six months to get this thing posted, but i finally did. it is a podcast interview of our inestimably altruistic Jay Weinstein. go to...
John, Once you have a good grasp of what's put together, how, by whom, for what purposes, etc. what you do then depends on your own relationship with that...
Ken I'm a bit lost in the assembly..... however, for what it is worth it would seem that terminology is about mechanical things not organic or social ones. ...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 7, 2006 5:38 pm
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Del, My hope is to encourage more discussion related to the subject of "turf" and how we might break through this seemingly "self-imposed barrier." I have been...
Dr Wanda Whittlesey
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Jun 7, 2006 7:13 pm
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Hi Wanda, You raise several issues. 1. Barriers First what do you mean by this seemingly "self-imposed barrier." What do you consider the barriers? Are the...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Jun 8, 2006 3:39 pm
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Thanks for the response, Del. Several strong barriers I have seen exist from (a) the separation inherent in how we have each developed, (b) turf (foundational ...
Dr Wanda Whittlesey
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Jun 8, 2006 4:46 pm
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Hey, Ken RE: assemblage...okay, so some of us are dissatisfied with the current assemblage that results in hunger and other social ills. how does knowing how...
Hi, Wanda my unsolicited $.02 in this discussion. i like social work and social workers. my experience with social work and social change has been twofold: 1)...
sorry Wanda, should have read this post before replying to the previous one...glad to hear that social work departments are returning to their roots -- let's...
Welcome to the fray. How about Wil Richan's book SW the unloved profession. I can recall a SW keynote address "A mandate from the people" right, like that...
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