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Posts Tagged ‘knowledge

2 Perspectives on academic discipline

Posted by: joelfirenze on: February 9, 2012

There are at least 2 ways in which academic disciplines can be thought as.   1. They can be thought of as areas to specialise in.   2. They can be thought of perspectives in their own right.   I’m a sociology major. One way this can be viewed is that I become “expert” in [...]

Describing a new paradigm

Posted by: joelfirenze on: May 23, 2011

In case you didn’t notice, but our knowledge has changed, and along with that, some very widely-held notions of how people are. We have gained new understandings in the idea of networks – how elements interact together in a system, and how some elements, by virtue of their position, can have disproportionate impact on the [...]


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