Academic literature on the topic 'Deconstsm'

The ArgumentI argue that “social epistemology” can be usefully reformulated as a philosophy of science accounting, specifically one that fosters a critical form of instrumental rationality. I begin by observing that philosophical and sociological species of “science accountancy” can be compared along two dimensions; constructive versus deconstve; reflexive versus unreflexive. The social epistemologist proposes a constructive and reflixive accounting for science. This possibility has been obscured, probably because of the persuasiveness of the Frankfulrt School's portrayal of “critical” and “instrumental” rationalities as polar opposites. In challenging this polarity, I present four “acciybtability conditions” that define pure critico-instrumental rationality. These conditions are most likely to be met during a period of“crisis” in the future direction of science. The bulk of the paper concerns case study of such a crisis that enables us to examine contrasting ways of meeting the four conditions. Ernst Mach and Max Planck debated“the end of science” in the first decade of this century, a time marked by both science's increasing involvement in the means of social reproduction and prowing concern that science pursued for its own sake was exhibiting diminishing margianl returns on investment. In analyzing Planck's victory, I conclude that its tegacy has been an ever-widenig gap between the“content” and“function” of scientific knowledge in society, as measured by the increasing numbers of jobs that are devoted to mediating the production and distribution of knowledge.

<p>Women movement in contemporary context is a ovement which has value, meaning and its own’s potential. The movement covers several factors in society, and one of them is women’s effort and strenght in improving living standart of the society. Furthermore, actualization of this empowerment is in forms of building and developing women cooperative institution as a medium for increaing economics’ welfare of socety. The succes of that cooperative institution gives proof and important meaning of the influence and the present of women in the middle of society as well as deconsts doubt stigma towards women’s role and their strenght. Then, phenomenollogy, the existence of women cooperative institution is the actualization of role and economics empowerment of society by women is the proof of women’s strenght in social realm and society.</p> <p>Gerakan perempuan dalam konteks kekinian adalah gerakan yang memiliki nilai, arti dan potensi tersendiri. Hal ini meliputi sekian banyak factor di dalam masyarakat, dan salah satu diantaranya adalah daya ikhtiyar dan upaya kekuatan perempuan dalam meningkatkan taraf hidup masyarakat. Selanjutnya, aktualisasi pemberdayaan ini adalah dalam bentuk pendirian dan pengembangan koperasi wanita sebagai sarana meningkatkan kesejahteraan ekonomi masyarakat. Kesuksesan yang ditunjukkan oleh koperasi wanita ini memberi bukti dan arti penting, makna pengaruh dan kehadiran perempuan di tengah masyarakat, sekaligus mendobrak stigma keraguan akan peran dan kekuatan perempuan. Selanjutnya, secara fenomenologis, eksistensi koperasi wanita adalah aktualisasi peran dan pemberdayaan ekonomi masyarakat oleh perempuan merupakan bukti akan kekuatan perempuan dalam ranah social dan masyarakat.</p>

Individual’s existential ambivalence has according to Jacques Derrida, one of the foremost proponents of post-structuralism, led to a continuous demand for structure (Cooper, 1989). Categories, used as structural tools, are however often hierarchically organized, where one category is more preferable than the other, also referred to as binary oppositions. Alternative categories and/ or references will appear when adopting a deconstruction process, which is crucial in order to invoke change and development (Cooper, 1989; Markkula et al., 2011; Marion, 2006). The aim of present research is trying to identify if Derrida’s theory of undecidable transfer of features (Agger, 1991; Cooper, 1989; Livingston, 2010; Bates, 2005) is applicable in fashion, more specifically fast- and slow fashion, and if the two categories are susceptible to a merge. Deconstructionism and Derrida’s theory of undecidable was furthermore applied as the theoretical framework throughout the study. Present research has been executed with an interpretive methodological approach and through a poststructural epistemological outlook (Hudson & Ozanne, 1988; Eriksson & Kovalainen, 2016). Data was derived through two focus group interviews, involving seven informants at a time, with Autodriving as a visual research tool (Heisley & Levy, 1991) and open-ended questions as a complementing instrument (Eriksson & Kovalainen, 2016). A thematic analysis was furthermore applied when revisiting the data and analysing its content. The findings finally suggest that a merge between fast- and slow fashion is executable, which furthermore also legitimises Derrida’s theory of undecidability. This study has however only begun the deconstruction process and does therefore encourage future researchers to continue investigating the theory of undecidability (Agger, 1991; Cooper, 1989; Livingston, 2010; Bates, 2005) not only in fashion, but also within other institutions.