Cheung, Wang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-170). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract / Chapter Chapter one: --- "Research Background, Research Question and Organization------" --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter two: --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Literature on functionalism / Chapter - --- Scientific origin / Chapter - --- Approaches / Chapter - --- Objectives and logic of structural functional analysis / Chapter - --- The key concepts of structural functionalism / Chapter - --- Almond's structural functional approach / Chapter - --- Critical evaluation / Chapter 2.3 --- Literature on the classification and the functions of ombudsman / Chapter - --- Classification of ombudsman institutions by mandates / Chapter - --- Models of ombudsman / Chapter - --- Functions of ombudsman / Chapter - --- Impacts of ombudsman / Chapter Chapter three: --- Research Design and Methodology --- p.54 / Chapter - --- The structural functional perspective / Chapter - --- Research design / Chapter - --- Conceptualization and operationalization of concepts / Chapter - --- Evaluating roles and functions: method and the use of materials / Chapter Chapter four: --- The Hong Kong Ombudsman Office --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1 --- Historical review on the development of the Hong Kong Ombudsman Office / Chapter 4.2 --- The Ombudsman Ordinance / Chapter 4.3 --- Perception and expectation on the Ombudsman / Chapter - --- The perception and expectation of the general public / Chapter - --- The ombudsman's self perception / Chapter - --- Interview with the Assistant Ombudsman / Chapter 4.4 --- Cases and the ombudsman initiatives / Chapter - --- Caseload and handling methods / Chapter - --- Nature of cases / Chapter - --- Case studies: remedies and recommendations / Chapter - --- Initiatives of the Ombudsman / Chapter Chapter five: --- Conclusion and Discussions --- p.155 / Chapter - --- To study the Ombudsman by its roles / Chapter - --- The development of the Ombudsman / Chapter - --- The roles of the Ombudsman / Chapter - --- The functions of the Ombudsman / Chapter - --- Research limitations / Chapter - --- Further research possibilities / Appendix I Questionnaire for the Interview with the Assistant Ombudsman --- p.163 / Bibliography --- p.165

Thesis--Cologne. / Bibliography: p. [128]-131.

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala universitet, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-150).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-311).

Orientador: Gilda Figueiredo Portugal Gouvêa / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T02:23:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Batista_MarcosAntonioRehder_M.pdf: 1684627 bytes, checksum: 2fe52795396c836bfa1c547d56e25bef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O presente trabalho é estudo sobre a revisão feita por Robert K. Merton da analise funcional clássica, tomando por base a leitura e crítica sobre o sociólogo norte-americano feita por Anthony Giddens. Tentou-se responder os principais questionamentos apresentados pelo sociólogo britânico e demonstrar-se que a distinção entre funções manifestas e latentes pode superar o problema do papel do ator na mudança social. Um outro objetivo foi extrair da teoria dos grupos de referência a forma com que um líder rearranja os conflitos entre grupos para conseguir poder / Abstract: This present work is a study about the Robert K Merton?s revision of the classical functional analysis, using the lecture and critic writhed by Anthony Giddens about this American sociologist. It?s try to answer mains questions asked from the british sociologist and demonstrate in the distinction manifest and lantent function can overcame the trouble of the actor role in the social change. One other subject is extract from theory of reference group the way that a leader organizes the conflict between groups to give power / Mestrado / Teoria Sociológica / Mestre em Sociologia

Chen Hon-fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-261). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / INTRODUCTION: PARSONIANISM IN CONTEXT / Chapter I. --- The Context: Parsons Revival and the Reading of Parsons --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- The Problem: Relationship between Parsons' Structural-Functionalism and Luhmann's Neo-Functionalism --- p.13 / Chapter III. --- "Interpretive Perspective: Theory, Methodology and Presupposition" --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- ANALYTICAL REALISM AND VOLUNTARISM: PARSONS´ة ACTION THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Analytical Realism --- p.49 / Chapter 1.2 --- Action Frame of Reference --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- EMERGENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: PARSONS´ة SYSTEM THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION --- p.90 / INTERLUDE PARSONS̐ơ THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter I. --- From Voluntarism to Structural-Functionalism --- p.116 / Chapter II. --- From Structural-Functionalism to Systems Functionalism --- p.131 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: LUHMANN̐ơS SYSTEM THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.147 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Methodological Principle of Self-Reference --- p.150 / Chapter 3.3 --- Double Contingency and the Formation of Self-Referential Social System --- p.165 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND ANTI-HUMANISM: LUHMANN'S ACTION THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 4.1 --- Self-Reference of Communication and its Attribution to Voluntaristic Action --- p.195 / Chapter 4.2 --- Interpenetration and Anti-Humanism --- p.218 / CONCLUSION: LUHMANNIANISM ON TRIAL --- p.239 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.256

This research proposes that it is possible to meaningfully examine the differences between subjects' perceptions of concepts at two different levels of analysis. The central theory, called "fractionation", is derived from structuration theory. The theory suggests that there is an important and particular difference between subjects' perceptions of key concepts at the value (abstract) level, as differentiated from the policy (action) level. The key concepts provided here are capitalism and democracy. Three major stages of data gathering and analysis were conducted. The first stage, carried out in several phases, surveyed 337 college students to gather words commonly associated ·with two key concepts: capitalism and democracy. These words were then used as items in a multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. The results were used to represent the relationship between the two key concepts at the value level of analysis. The second stage consisted of gathering policy fragments from two mainstream newspapers. Television advertising was selected as the focal point of this search, to represent one area where democracy and capitalism co-exist. Fragments were taken from the newspapers and compiled into "fragment topics", or pieces of argument about the relationship between capitalism and democracy in television advertising. Stage III was carried out by surveying seventy-three subjects who were presented with the argumentative statements developed in each fragment topic. An assessment was made of the relationship between capitalism and democracy at the policy level based on the argument choices made by the subjects. Stage I resulted in a clear distinction between the two key concepts of capitalism and democracy at the value level, while Stage III resulted in a conflict between the two at the policy level. The comparison of results between the first stage of the research and the third stage represents the fractionation that was being sought.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Cette thèse vise à fournir un élément de réponse à un problème politicoanthropologique classique, celui de l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes. Plus précisément, elle vise à déterminer deux choses: <p>1) pourquoi des hommes, capables de culture, ont vécu pendant des centaines de milliers d'années dans des petits groupes de chasseurs-cueilleurs nomades et égalitaires<p>2) pourquoi l'apparition de sociétés de grande taille au cours du Néolithique s'est systématiquement accompagnée d'une différenciation sociale accrue, de l'apparition de hiérarchies de statuts et, éventuellement, de la centralisation du pouvoir politique.<p><p>La réponse proposée est que la taille des sociétés humaines est sensible à un effet de plafonnement. Ceci s'explique par le caractère conditionnel de la coopération humaine et par la mémoire limitée des humains en contexte social. Ce plafonnement de la taille des groupes ne peut être surmonté que si les humains créent des institutions qui permettent une division sociale du travail de sanction, ce qui à son tour dépend de l'émergence chez l'homme d'un langage et d'une théorie de l'esprit complexes. L'argument proposé est de type fonctionnaliste et vise à appuyer les théories en sciences sociales qui s'intéressent à l'évolution de la culture et des formes politiques. / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished