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2. Scientometrics for the study of sociology.
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Sooryamoorthy, Radhamany
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SOCIOLOGY ,SCIENTOMETRICS ,QUALITATIVE research ,SOCIAL sciences ,SCIENTIFIC method - Abstract
Scientometrics has become a popular discipline, both as a field of study and a set of methods. Scientometric studies are carried out at varying levels from micro to macro. Institutions of higher learning and governments adopt scientometric measures to inform their decisions and to develop policies pertaining to ranking, standing, funding, impact, visibility and future plans. Institutions, countries and scholars can be evaluated using reliable scientometric indicators which are meaningful instruments in the study of disciplines. Scientometrics serves the purpose of determining the future of academic disciplines as well. However, it has not been applied to the study of the social sciences, including sociology, as much as it has been used in science disciplines. In this essay the need for scientometric studies in the study of sociology is put forward. Reviewing some prominent studies, the essay shows applicable models for scientometric studies for the study of sociology. As the use of scientometrics has not been effectively applied to qualitative studies, the essay presents the potential of scientometric data for qualitative studies of sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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3. Sociological research and collaboration in South Africa: Past and present.
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Sooryamoorthy, Radhamany
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SOCIOLOGICAL research ,APARTHEID ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation with research ,SCIENTOMETRICS ,SOCIOLOGY periodicals - Abstract
Sociological research in South Africa presents characteristic features in line with its historical and political phases. This article maps the production of sociological research in South Africa during the apartheid and democratic periods. The data used in the article were drawn from the publication records of South African scholars stored in the database of the Web of Science (WoS). A total of 2342 publications representing the period 1970-2015 was sampled for this scientometric analysis. Employing appropriate statistical tests, the article examines the role of collaboration in the production of sociological knowledge in South Africa, and the relationships that exist among collaboration, international partnerships, subject areas and citations. The analysis shows that South African sociological research has distinctive characteristics that represent the two periods of study. It has benefitted from collaboration, both domestic and international. Collaboration continues to grow in specific subject fields of sociological research in South Africa, and has importance in the visibility of sociological research in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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4. Sari Hanafi and Chin-Chun Yi (eds), Sociologies in Dialogue.
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Sorokin, Pavel
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SOCIOLOGY ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,NONFICTION - Published
- 2021
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5. The time of dialogic sociology.
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Flecha, Ramon, Saso, Carmen Elboj, Torras-Gómez, Elisabeth, and Joanpere, Mar
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LITERATURE ,NEOLIBERALISM ,RESEARCH ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Copyright of International Sociology is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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6. 'Theory at the edge of empire'.
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Martin, John Levi
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POWER (Social sciences) ,SOVEREIGNTY ,AUTHORITARIANISM ,COLONIES ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Reed's intervention in theories of political power is considered, critiqued and continued: we may understand chains of authorization as stretching from sovereign to agent and back again, chains whose links may be called into question and repaired only via Goffmanian performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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7. An indigenized sociology in a dual-structure society: An introduction to the Special Issue on Sociological Studies in Japan.
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Oguma, Eiji
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIETIES ,LABOR market ,SOCIAL sciences ,STATISTICS - Abstract
The article presents the discussion on the characteristics of Japanese sociology and society focusing on huge domestic publishing market and dual-structure labor market. Topics include Japanese sociologists unintentionally achieving the indigenization of social science; and requiring specialized knowledge such as the ability for interpreting statistics.
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- 2021
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8. Taxes and tithes: The organizational foundations of bolsonarismo.
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McKenna, Elizabeth
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AUTHORITARIANISM ,LABOR unions ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL democracy ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
Copyright of International Sociology is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2020
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9. A conjunctural account of upper- and middle-class support for Rodrigo Duterte.
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Garrido, Marco
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MIDDLE class ,SOCIAL democracy ,SOCIOLOGY ,CAPITALISM ,SOCIAL theory - Abstract
Copyright of International Sociology is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2020
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10. Trust: Condition of action or condition of appraisal.
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Barbalet, Jack
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TRUST ,MODERNITY ,SOLIDARITY ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Research in sociology on social trust is historically recent, reflecting changing conditions underlying self-appraisal in late modernity. Acknowledgement of these changing conditions, and especially their institutional background, contributes to a reconceptualization of the notion of trust and the role of inter-personal trust in social relationships. Under conditions of late modernity, described in the article as 'precarious institutional maturity', trust operates primarily as a term in a vocabulary of motive or as a value or appraisal regarding self and other, rather than directly facilitating social relationships. The supposed significance of trust, it is shown, tends to be exaggerated in the literature. The importance of the widely neglected institutional context is indicated in part through consideration of the case of guanxi (Chinese connections) in which high levels of social solidarity exist in the absence of trust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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11. Signs of the feminization of sociology in Turkey: Transformation of gender composition and possible scenarios.
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Ünal, Serdar and Binay, Berivan
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WOMEN ,HIGHER education ,SOCIOLOGY education ,COLLEGE curriculum ,SOCIOLOGY ,SEX ratio - Abstract
Recently, both in Turkey and the international arena, there has been a remarkable increase in the number and visibility of women among students and academic personnel, particularly in specific areas of higher education. In this respect, this article provides a gender-based picture of students and academic personnel in undergraduate and graduate sociology programs in Turkey and identifies the direction of the gender-based changes in these programs over the last 20 years in quantitative/demographic terms. The article also attempts to assess, within the framework of qualitative/cultural changes, the current and potential changes and transformations in the methodological practices of the discipline, as well as in the discipline’s present and future basic fields of interest and study. To this end, and within the scope of discussions in the literature regarding the feminization of certain academic disciplines, the article focuses on where sociology in Turkey currently stands in this respect, and on possible future scenarios regarding this discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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12. Actorhood, Agency and Power in Modernity.
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Pula, Besnik
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MODERN society ,SOCIAL influence ,SOCIOLOGY ,NONFICTION - Published
- 2022
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13. Human rights equals human survival?
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Polanska, Kasia
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HUMAN rights ,CRITICAL theory ,POLITICAL sociology ,SOCIAL movements ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This essay reviews two works that offer both similar and different visions of what the sociology of human rights should entail. Both offer accounts of how sociology, by being inherently interested in studying and uncovering power relations in society, is a particularly useful perspective through which to analyze human rights. While providing a rigorous analysis of a variety of global human rights issues, the authors point to some critical problems and challenges to human rights implementation. They also show how these can be overcome to ensure not only the observance of human rights but also human survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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14. Social representations of climate change and pro-environmental behavior intentions in Taiwan
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Mei-Fang Chen
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Sociology and Political Science ,Environmental behavior ,Climate change ,Sociology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Social psychology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
To explore how people attribute meanings to climate change in Taiwan, this study applied social representations theory (SRT) to develop a self-report semi-structured questionnaire that was used to collect data. To fill a research gap, structural equation modeling (SEM) was adopted to examine the determinants of social representation factors that may affect the public’s intentions to engage in pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). Exploratory factor analysis results obtained from 180 valid online responses indicated four factors for social representations of climate change, namely Emerging Climate Change Risk, Media Coverage and Influence, Psychological Distance, and Pro-environmental Behavior Intentions. The results of SEM analysis obtained from the total of 245 valid online and paper-and-pencil responses revealed that Emerging Climate Change Risk and Media Coverage and Influence helped explain the public’s PEBs intentions, but Psychological Distance did not. This exploratory study provides preliminary knowledge of public understanding of and response toward climate change in the Taiwanese society and demonstrates a novel application of SEM analysis to test the direct effects of social representations of climate change on PEB intentions.
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- 2019
15. Between ‘class project’ and individualization: The stratification of Europeans’ transnational activities.
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Delhey, Jan, Deutschmann, Emanuel, and Cirlanaru, Katharina
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SOCIAL stratification ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIETIES ,ECONOMIC development ,SOCIAL development - Abstract
In sociological transnationalization research, it is conventional wisdom that the upper strata are more involved in cross-border activities than the lower ones. However, proponents of the individualization/death-of-class thesis have argued that the significance of class (and of inequalities in general) for people’s actions is declining in affluent societies. Using these theories as a point of departure, this article investigates the influence of class and inequalities, more generally, on transnational activity. Using Eurobarometer 73.3 data from 27 European countries, this article examines (a) the extent to which class determines, by itself, in conjunction with other inequalities, and relative to heterogeneities, transnational practices within countries; and (b) how much the social gradient of transnational activity produced by class and inequalities varies across countries, and whether socioeconomic development tends to decrease or increase this gradient. The findings show that, in most countries, heterogeneities explain more variance in transnational activity than class, but not more variance than inequalities as more generally conceived. Further, social gradients in transnational activity are systematically larger in more affluent European countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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16. The arrest of sociology.
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Baehr, Peter
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HISTORY of sociology ,IDEOLOGY & society ,NONFICTION - Abstract
A new book from Colin Campbell, the distinguished British sociologist, asks a disquieting question: Has sociology progressed? Campbell concludes that our discipline has made little progress in the past half-century. This essay describes what Campbell means by progress, and the factors that, on his account, impede it. The discussion focuses on one such obstacle: the politicization of the university. The older current of ideological advocacy, that Campbell highlights, is today bolstered by a newer development: ideological policing. This is a posture that attacks free expression and viewpoint diversity. The fate of sociology hinges on colleagues grasping the dangers of such policing and finding ways to check it. Remedial measures are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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17. For a global sociology.
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Li, Junpeng
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AUTHORSHIP ,BOOK reviewing ,SOCIAL scientists ,PUBLISHING ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The author discusses diversity of its coverage and authorship and mentions expressions of interest in reviewing book and writing review essay from social scientists. Topics discussed include catalogues of books from publishers asking review copies and writing email inviting contributions, contact publishers and sociologists working in different language and forum for global sociology.
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- 2019
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18. Excellent and meaningful sociology from all over the world
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Marta Soler-Gallart
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Sociological theory ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Environmental ethics ,Rationality ,Social issues ,Economic Justice ,Democracy ,Original meaning ,Mandate ,Sociology ,Meaning (existential) ,Social science ,media_common - Abstract
Since 1986, International Sociology has pursued the objective to fill a void in the field of sociological publications by searching out the best contributions to sociology worldwide. While trying to make sociological work from all latitudes more visible, International Sociology has increased its position among academic journals, demonstrating that truly international forums can be a reference in our discipline. The work of Christine Inglis to this end has been remarkable, achieving high scientific standards with great geographical expansion with regard to submissions and publishing articles from more than 50 countries. Now the helm of this amazing ship is moving from Asia Pacific Sydney to Mediterranean Barcelona, and we are eager to continue navigating the journal in the same direction and respond to the ISA mandate of enhancing a scientific platform for global sociology. Lately the social sciences have been under threat, not only for the imposition of market oriented criteria, but also for citizens’ demands of contributions from research on societal issues. However, sociological theories and research have already contributed to reduce inequality or to improve human conditions in a particular region, locality or social sector. Through International Sociology, scholars from all over the world will contribute to overcome this threat by analyzing how these social improvements are being achieved in their contexts as a result of the implementation and/or the influence of sociological research results. Impact issues are becoming increasingly demanded in science, with the advance of concepts such as public knowledge, usable knowledge, or social impact. These concepts are, in fact, at the very origin of our discipline, and sociology has thus a lot to contribute. In this new period, our journal is eager to welcome research that include good examples of social impact and reflection papers that shed light to this debate. Weber has already explained how dominance of the instrumental rationality from the modern state and capitalist enterprises generates loss of meaning. The social sciences cannot be instrumentally used by state and enterprises, but rather recreate their original meaning in the framework of current society. Social sciences were born with the rise of democratic revolutions and the moral grounds of equality, justice and freedom: citizens wanted to govern themselves and for that they needed to know themselves. Sociology has provided the analyses that allow both the understanding and the transformation of 589888 ISS0010.1177/0268580915589888International SociologyEditorial research-article2015
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- 2015
19. Excellent and meaningful sociology from all over the world.
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Soler-Gallart, Marta
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
The author discusses the effort of the periodical in searching best sociological work worldwide. He states that sociology has offered analysis for both the understanding and the transformation of society. He states that the periodical has launched a social network site Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it also invite sociologists and scholars from other fields who engage with sociology to contribute to the periodical's research work.
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- 2015
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