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Stolz, Steven A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
MacIntyre's earlier work and concern with social science enquiry not only exposes its limits, but also provides an insight into how its knowledge claims have been put to ideological use. He maintains that the institutional embodiment of these ideological ideas is the bureaucratic manager who has had a negative role to play in social structures…
Descriptors: Role, Social Structure, Universities, Commercialization
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Kinsey, Dirk; Hayes-Conroy, Allison; Das, Jayatri – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
This paper describes the application of a "biosocial" approach to informal health and science education. As an engagement between biological and critical social sciences, biosocial theory has sought to re-articulate human bodies as fundamentally the product of interrelationships between the biological and social dimensions of human life.…
Descriptors: Human Body, Teaching Methods, Biology, Informal Education
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Bassot, Barbara – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2012
After several years of political agendas focused on social inclusion, career guidance practice needs to return to its roots of promoting equality and social justice. This conceptual article argues that for many years there has been an overreliance on theories focused on the individual, and examines the relationship between social structures and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Social Environment, Career Guidance
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McMurdo, George – Journal of Information Science, 1995
This first in a series of essays on electric writing focuses on communication efforts of the preceding oral, written, and print cultures. Topics discussed include face-to-face versus distant communication; political power; correlations between social structure and access to information; information accumulation; costs; authorship; and the content…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Correlation, Costs