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This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today. The dialogical dimension of the history of science has long been marginalized by an excessive concern on why modern science emerged in Europe, but not in
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau, Trini W.-Y. Leung
Publikováno v:
The State and 'Globalization'
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315788838-7
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315788838-7
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau, Jamie Morgan
Publikováno v:
Sociology. 48:573-589
In recent developments in the realism-constructionism debate, attempts have been made by individual scholars on both sides to assimilate the other side’s insights into one’s own position. With respect to epistemology, such attempts have so far fa
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau
Publikováno v:
Journalism. 13:886-902
Constructionism has always carried problems for journalism studies, for, whereas news is supposed to be about facts and reality, constructionism problematizes these very concepts. This article bears on this tension by revisiting the proposition that
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau
Publikováno v:
Current Sociology. 60:81-100
This article examines the contemporary trends of therapy and life-‘skills’ training. Several interrelated implications are drawn for the understanding of contemporary modernity. There is a continued modernist belief in the attainability of comple
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau
Publikováno v:
Annals of Tourism Research. 38:711-714
Urry (2002) argues that ‘the organizing sense within the typical tourist experience is visual’, and the tourist ‘gaze is constructed through signs, and tourism involves the collection of signs’ (pp 3, 146). Urry cites the linguist Culler (198
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau
Publikováno v:
Annals of Tourism Research. 37:478-498
MacCannell’s thesis of tourism incorporates two implied inter-linked concepts of authenticity, which we refer to as relationship and object authenticities. Underpinned by the social realist perspective, we argue for authenticity to be conceptualize
Autor:
Raymond W. K. Lau
Publikováno v:
Current Sociology. 57:661-683
In recent years, a culture of blame has arisen in certain economically advanced societies that rules out the unexpected mishap. Its nature is theorized with reference to Mary Douglas’s blame theory. A genealogy of the modern concept of accident sho
Publikováno v:
International Criminal Justice Review. 15:38-57
After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. This article examines the change of the Hong Kong Police (HKP) and related issues during this transition. Based on an institutional perspective, it i