Democratic Theory as Social Codification

Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and SSK

The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties, and disciplines. In the sociology of scientific knowledge and the sociology of translation, these heterog...

Jabri , the theory of state: the social power and ideal of democratic changes

  Mohammed Abed al-jabri has advanced tow main projects in his intelectual endeavours: first, an anattempt to study and reveal, as he say, Arab-islamic reason, second to propuse ideas to  restrucutring it with an aim for political changes in The line of democratic order. In this propuse, he confronts, both directly and idirectly, with a theory of state. This research deals with consisteney of...

Towards a Social Democratic Theory of the State

The paper attempts two tasks. The first is to provide a characterization of the social democratic approach which sets i t in contrast to liberal democratic theories. This is pursued by contrasting the different interpretations of the ideal of equal respect which are associated with the two approaches. The second task is to establish that the social democratic approach is, if not clearly superio...

Cross-Cutting Social Networks: Testing Democratic Theory in Practice

Exposure to conflicting political viewpoints is widely assumed to benefit the citizens of a democratic polity. Nonetheless, the benefits of exposure to heterogeneous political viewpoints have yet to be demonstrated empirically. Drawing on national survey data that tap characteristics of people's political discussion networks, I examine the impact of heterogeneous networks of political discussio...

Codification As Judicial Empowerment – The Stephen Code