Sociologická technoimaginace

• Authors: Dvorak Tomas

Title variants

EN

THE SOCIOLOGICAL TECHNOIMAGINATION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article introduces the concept of 'sociological technoimagination' and delineates the field of visualizations used in the social sciences: the various forms of graphs, schemes, and diagrams. It surveys the uses and functions of visualizations in sciences generally and places their development in the wider context of the modernization of vision of the 19th century; examining the pioneering uses of visualization methods by Etienne-Jules Marey, Francis Galton, or Otto Neurath. Gabriel Tarde's account of statistics (from his Laws of Imitation, 1890) is reinterpreted in regard to both the nature and social roles of the sociological technoimagination.

Keywords

EN

MODERNIZATION OF VISION; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNOIMAGINATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 17/30
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 85-116
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dvorak Tomas

• Tomas Dvorak, Filosoficky ustav AV CR, Jilska 1, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4447/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA065116