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“These chains of events have cascading effects in that they both break and reproduce existing social formations - they are 'sequences of occurrences that result in the transformation of structures' (Sewell 2005: 227; also see: Mahoney and Schensul 2006).”
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“Indeed, changes are inescapable, since these discursive patterns are reproduced through acts of human interpretation, and must respond to the creativity individuals bring to this (Sewell, 2005, p. 191).”
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“Various methods of interpretive textual analysis – ranging from more traditional historical methods to critical discourse analysis – can be used to generate and analyse data about human meaning-making (Sewell 2005: Chapter 1; Trachtenberg 2006; Fairclough 2010).”
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“Several others have suggested adaptations or variations of ST for a particular field (DeSanctis & Poole, 1994; Sewell, 2005) and in the spirit of continuous theory refinement (Lynham, 2000), we should work to adapt and improve ST to best suit work in HRD.”
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“Some of the more promising work may instead be found in recent contributions to cultural and pragmatic sociology (Lamont and Thévenot 2000) (Boltanski and Thévenot 2006) (Sewell 2005).”
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“Some event scholars (Sewell, 2005; Swidler, 1986; Zolberg, 1972) distinguish between ‘moments of madness’ (the period just after an event) and ‘normal times’ (the period years afterwards).”
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“This appears to be a realistic micro-mechanism of cultural reproduction (cf. Sewell, 2005).”
BackgroundAppropriation and Emulation in the Earliest Sculptures from Zincirli (Iron Age Samʾal)
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“187 Sewell 2005 (drawing on Sahlins’ [1981, 1985] theory of history). advocated by some archaeologists,188 may be a useful way to approach Syro-Hittite monuments.”
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“Paralleling the cultural sociological distinction between “cultural tool kit” and strategic action constructed by tools from the kit (Swidler 1986), Sewell (2005) distinguishes between a cultural schema, which is an array of trans‑ posable codes and meanings that actors in different contexts can…”
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“Blogs are primary sources of data which offer cultural and societal insights over time (Sewell, 2005).”
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“In this context, a structure can be seen as an abstract representation of patterned relations, or, as William Sewell describes it, a “ schema ” that de fi nes what it means to form a cohesive whole (Sewell, 2005).”
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“Governance is an ‘eventful’ process: politicians and officials react to what their nation has just experienced and prevailing interpretations of that (Sewell 2005; Hall 2005, 2013).”
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“Among other things, this trend has led to an engagement with historical sociology and path dependence theory (e.g., Mahoney 2000, 2006; Sewell 2005).”
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“An explosion of ‘social’ discourse occurred in the French Enlightenment (Baker, 1994; Gordon, 1994; Sewell, 2005, pp. 318 35; Singer, 1986).”
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“The latter is the author in the 1990s of some very influential papers in cultural theory and cultural sociology, now collected in Sewell (2005) 4 See in particular Becker (1963).”
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“For example, see Blau (1977), Frye (1983), Bourdieu (1990), Jackson and Phillip (1992), Sewell (2005), and Reiman (2012).”
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“…here: what are the iscursive parameters that allowed contemporaries to deterine that a given series of activities, conducted over time, onstituted a political event with beginning and end points and hose ramifications historians can subsequently assess (Koelleck 2004; Sewell 2005; Trouillot 1995)?”
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“Since, according to Sewell’s (2005) concept of structure, new structures can only be reproduced from existing ones, students”
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“This is achieved by capitalising on the characteristics of structure as outlined by Sewell (2005).”
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“…is suggested, offers opportunities to sharpen theoretical claims and enrich empirical investigation of competitive advantage in dynamic environments precisely because it is fundamentally concerned with explanations of the relationship between actors and change over time (Braudel 1958, Sewell 2005).”
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“Thus, it is the developing cultural interface that, increasingly, becomes the means to break the ‘old’ ‘path dependency’ (Sewell 2005, p. 102) of schooling.”
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Scribe and script in the Cālukya West Deccan
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Legitimacy as the Basis for Organizational Development of Voluntary Organizations
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“As already stated, legitimacy is dependent on a relationship with one or multiple audiences, whose values and beliefs may also change over time as a result of a number of structural processes that escape the reach of any single organization (Beetham 2013; Sewell 2005; Clemens and Cook 1999).”
BackgroundHeuristics for Mindfulness in Education and Beyond
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“Agency appears in various forms and outputs, depending on its social, cultural, and historical surroundings and on its interpretation by the agents acting in that context (Sewell, 2005).”
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“This approach does not preclude an analysis of the co-evolution of culture and economic outcomes, for example as in Tabellini (2008) or Bisin and Verdier (2017), but in most applications, culture tends to have the more defining effect on economic allocations and institutions than the other way around.”
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“This understanding of social change–and time–challenges the idea that change happens on a linear timeline that always moves forward (see also Sewell, 2005; Tavory, 2018).”
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“I do not assume, however, that social science is neutral, but that the researcher necessarily interacts with the social (Sewell 2005, 346–70), and for this reason, I use these terms primarily in inverted commas, not to deny their positive substance, but only to challenge simplified and prejudicial…”
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“Was the tsunami a simple occurrence with limited effect or was it an event that changed the course of history (Sewell 2005)?”
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“To develop a more comprehensive approach to the sociological study of war, I propose an event-based conceptualization of war inspired by Sewell’s concept of historical events and his theory of the duality of structures (Sewell, 2005).”
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“In this account, events thus differ from everyday happenings that merely reproduce existing social structures; they are instead “that relatively rare subclass of happenings that significantly transforms structures” (Sewell, 2005, p. 100; see also 1996b).”
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Institutional proximity and judicial corruption: A spatial approach
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