International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 9 Issue 4

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CATALAN ELITES AND LANGUAGE NORMALISATION

David D. Laitin

The issue of linguistic autonomy is a central one on the agenda of Catalan politics within the Spanish state. In the transition from Francoism, virtually all political groups in…

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND CONCEPTUALISING IN MANAGEMENT

Stuart Hannabuss

It is possible to say that an expert in any field of knowledge can be expected to know particular things and techniques. This can be said of a stone mason, a physicist or a…

SOME NOTES TOWARDS A REALISTIC REALISM: THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF REALIST PHILOSOPHIES OF SCIENCE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS

Roger J. Burrows

This note is written in the spirit of Becker's dictum that “methodology is too important to be left to methodologists” (Becker, 1970: 3). The methodology I wish to examine is the…

A CRITIQUE AND REINTERPRETATION OF GORDON'S IQ — COMMENSURABILITY PROPERTY

J. Michael Bailey

In an earlier issue of this journal (Vol.7, 1987, pp. 30–96) Gordon presented a model based on IQ which, he claimed, explains black‐white differences in rates of juvenile…

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ISSN:

0144-333X

Online date, start – end:

1981

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Colin Williams