This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at whi... Read More about Social imaginary and the metaphysical discourse: On the fundamental predicament of contemporary philosophy and social sciences.
Outputs (8)
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity (2021)
Journal Article
Contemporary social theory has consistently emphasized habitual action, rule-following, and role-performing as key aspects of social life, yet the challenge remains of combining these aspects with the omnipresent phenomenon of self-reflective conduct... Read More about On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity.
Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems (2019)
Journal Article
This article addresses the interpretation and criticism of theoretical systems. Its particular focus is on how to assess the success of theories in dealing with some specific phenomenon. We are interested in how to differentiate between cases where a... Read More about Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems.
The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal (2019)
Journal Article
This article argues that two key puzzles arising from the theories of Bourdieu are inter-related. One is the question of how Bourdieu analyses the relationship between structure and habitus, and the other is the place of reflexivity in Bourdieu's wor... Read More about The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta-theoretical reappraisal.
For reflexivity as an epistemic criterion of ontological coherence and virtuous social theorizing (2017)
Journal Article
This article offers an approach that combines, on the one hand, the philosophical notion of reflexivity, which is related to the ideas of self-reference and paradox, and, on the other hand, the sociological discussion of epistemic reflexivity as a pr... Read More about For reflexivity as an epistemic criterion of ontological coherence and virtuous social theorizing.
Book review: Greece, financialization and the EU: The political economy of debt and destruction (2017)
Journal Article
This review offers an overview of the textbook titled Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction (2013, Palgrave), by Fouskas and Dimoulas. The book is available in Serbian, Croatian and Greek in more recent ed... Read More about Book review: Greece, financialization and the EU: The political economy of debt and destruction.
What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The aim of this study is to present the analysis of an online survey that was conducted in order to investigate individual attitudes and requirements from an online financial awareness platform. The survey aimed to elicit users’ self-assessed financi... Read More about What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey.
Ontogenesis versus morphogenesis towards an anti-realist model of the constitution of society (2016)
Journal Article
This article firstly criticizes Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach for being indecisive about the realist notion of emergence it proposes as well as for her inadequate account of structural conditioning. It is argued that critical realists’ con... Read More about Ontogenesis versus morphogenesis towards an anti-realist model of the constitution of society.