Reflections Upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer

Managing the symbolic arena: The media sociology of Herbert Gans

Given the importance of the news media in managing the symbolic arena of society, a sizeable body of research has accumulated that considers how that arena is constructed. Klaus Schönbach has touched on this area in his recent entry in the Encyclopedia of Communication, in which he questioned how news organizations were led to " synchronize " their news reports to conform to editorial policy, g...

From 'circumstances' to 'environment': Herbert Spencer and the origins of the idea of organism-environment interaction.

The word 'environment' has a history. Before the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of a singular, abstract entity--the organism--interacting with another singular, abstract entity--the environment--was virtually unknown. In this paper I trace how the idea of a plurality of external conditions or circumstances was replaced by the idea of a singular environment. The central figure behind this shif...

Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.

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Learning design: reflections upon the current landscape

The mounting wealth of open and readily available information and the accelerated evolution of social, mobile and creative technologies call for a re-conceptualisation of the role of educators: from providers of knowledge to designers of learning. This call is reverberated by the rising trend of research in learning design (LD). Addressing this, the Art and Science of Learning Design workshop b...