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2. Nous n’avons que des formules et elles ne sont pas à nous : devenir (des) formules dans Les Années d’Annie Ernaux.
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Monginot, Benoît
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- 2023
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3. POSITIONIERUNGEN VON TERÉZIA MORA ZWISCHEN 1999 UND 2014.
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PROPSZT, ESZTER
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SOCIOLOGY ,LITERATURE ,LITERARY criticism - Abstract
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- 2022
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4. L'IDEOLOGIE EN PERSPECTIVE: LA DEMARCHE HISTORIQUE DE MIHAI IOVĂNEL.
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SOCACI, ANCA
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ROMANIAN literature ,CONTENT analysis ,FACTOR analysis ,LITERARY criticism ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,LITERARY movements ,AMBIVALENCE - Abstract
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- 2022
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5. De l'enfant "placé" à l'enfant "accueilli": du corps agi au corps agissant.
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JUNG, CÉLINE
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CHILD welfare ,SOCIAL context ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2019
6. Visual Methodological Approaches between Sociology and Anthropology: Photo-elicitation and Photovoice
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Nemanja Zvijer
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photo-elicitation ,photovoice ,methodology ,sociology ,anthropology ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 - Abstract
This paper gives a concise overview of two specific methods – photo-elicitation and photovoice – which originated in anthropology, but found an application in sociology as well, mostly because of the closeness of these two disciplines on the theoretical and methodological level, as well as on the institutional. This closeness is, among other things, noticeable in the highly specific academic directions of these disciplines, such as those oriented towards the visual sphere, like visual anthropology and visual sociology. The specificity of the two mentioned methods is reflected in the fact that they are based on the visual and visual materials in general, and their use is, to a large extent, legitimated by a specific social context characterised by the predominance of the visual in many aspects (representational, communicative, political, urban to mention just a few) at both the global and local levels. Despite this situation, the mentioned methods, as well as those similar to them, are still used quite ‘shyly’ in research approaches to contemporary society. This paper discusses the central features and epistemological potential of photo-elicitation and photovoice, as well as their different formal variations, especially in the case of photo-elicitation. Basically, both methods are based in traditional research approaches like classic interviews and focus group discussions. Despite this, their use represents a visible and certainly significant expansion of the methodological range. In that sense, special attention is paid to the possible advantages of these methods which separate them in a certain way from other methodological practices. In order to prevent their uncritical glorification, the limitations and disadvantages of these methods are also discussed, which should offer a more nuanced methodological picture.
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- 2023
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7. Le devoir des sciences sociales. Cyril Lemieux et le durkheimisme pragmatique.
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CALLEGARO, FRANCESCO
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GRAMMAR ,REFLEXIVITY ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,LIBERTY - Abstract
In a context marked by an unprecedented crisis of the social sciences, the work of the sociologist Cyril Lemieux clearly stands out for his ambition to relaunch their project through a systematic reading of their history guided by a pragmatic redefinition, nourished by the philosophy of the second Wittgenstein, of the holistic perspective previously advanced by Emile Durkheim. The paper presents and discusses the theoretical core of this pragmatic Durkheimism, by clarifying the general notion of “grammar” and by elucidating the specific regime of “public grammar”. The latter turns out to occupy a strategic position, insofar as it enables defining the duty of the social sciences, which encapsulates the political task that sociology assigns to them: increasing the degree of reflexivity of practices, in order to work to their lucid transformation with a view to collective emancipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. Un régime pragmatique de l’arrangement. L’endeçà du public, l’au-delà du familier.
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NACHI, MOHAMED
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AMBIGUITY ,SOCIOLOGY ,MODAL logic ,PRIVACY - Abstract
In this paper, I propose to define the properties of a new pragmatic regime of action, which I have appointed as the « regime of the arrangement ». After a review of some work on regime of action developed from the perspective of pragmatic sociology, I underlined the importance of faces of arrangement in different areas of social life. By pointing out the semantic ambiguity of the arrangement, I have been able to identify the provisions, resources and practical modalities that allow me to consider it as a hybrid regime that is positioned beyond the familiar, but below the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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9. Aux frontières de la sécurité sanitaire. Les controverses métrologiques sur les faibles doses et les perturbateurs endocriniens.
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Chateauraynaud, Francis, Debaz, Josquin, and Fintz, Matthieu
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ENDOCRINE disruptors ,RADIOACTIVITY ,ENVIRONMENTAL health ,EPISTEMIC logic ,LITERATURE reviews ,TOXICOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2013
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10. The brief history of generation – defining the concept of generation. An analysis of literature review
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Alexandra Popescu
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generation ,literature review ,sociology ,karl mannheim ,generational theories ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
The term of generation is used nowadays at conversational level to define various categories of factors / aspects: from age group, time frame, theory to the degree of kinship and animal kingdom/ regnum. As a consequence, the concept of generation is considered to be a complex term, with no well-known, unitary definition, that sometimes creates confusion in social sciences and humanities. Given the frequency of the use of this term, various scientist (from diverse domains) tried to identify and develop a comprehensive definition, but they have failed to reach a common ground, mostly as a consequence of the fact that in their research they have not taken into account the work of other authors that studied the same topic, but started the research process from the beginning. In sociology, the most iconic figure of the generational theory is considered to be Karl Mannheim, the German sociologist who managed to bring into attention the study of generations as a research subject throughout his work. However, there were also other authors (sociologists or not) who further contributed to the development of the generational theories throughout their research conducted in the years to come after Mannheim’s well-known paper. Therefore, this article aims at identifying the most iconic works that try to develop a definition for the concept of generation and at presenting the results of the research of various scientists in the field of generational theories, by conducting an extensive analysis of the literature review on this subject. Objective: The article aims to identify and map the work and results that have already been conducted and published in the domain of generational theories, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the concept of generation. Therefore, the paper will briefly analyze and present the contributions of various authors (in domains such as sociology, psychology, arts, anthropology, management and so on) to the development of the study field of generations, as a separate sociological problem. Paper selection: Structured research was carried out (based on keywords such as generation, sociology, literature review, generational theory), with no limitations in terms of type, date of publication or language of publication. Search engines that have been used include: Google Scholar, Z-library, Annual Review of Sociology.
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- 2019
11. Hikikomori: dal Giappone all’Occidente tra psicopatologia e manifestazione culturale [Hikikomori: from Japan to the West between psychopathology and cultural manifestation]
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Andrea Brucini and Carmen Berrocal Montiel
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hikikomori ,japan ,japanese culture ,psychology ,sociology ,social studies ,social withdrawal ,social protest ,web ,web 2.0 ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Hikikomori is a condition of severe social withdrawal in which people shut themselves off from society and stay alone in their homes/rooms for at least six months. The first part of this paper reports on how Hikikomori has been widely conceptualized as a clinical (i.e., psychiatric or psychological) condition. From this point of view, temperament, emotional or familiar factors have been often proposed to explain Hikikomori. The second part of this paper focuses on the thesis that Hikikomori mainly depends on historical-cultural circumstances that have prevailed in the Japanese context, and suggests that it may be best conceptualized as a form of social protest (instead of as a psychopathological condition).
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- 2019
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12. Déclin ou redéploiement ? La sociologie du travail au Royaume-Uni
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Carol Stephenson and Paul Stewart
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UK ,sociology ,criticality ,work ,business/management schools ,Labor. Work. Working class ,HD4801-8943 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
This paper takes issue with once influential accounts regarding the development and current power of the Sociology of work (SoW) in the UK by challenging the mythologies that have arisen in this sub-discipline’s wake. It relies on a sociological analysis of the political, organisational and social forces that have shaped this branch in question, as well as on a comprehensive examination of its broad and complex canon. The approach enables a refutation of previous orthodoxies suggesting that a clearly defined SoW only existed previously in (and emerged from) the narrow confines of Sociology departments - and that a ‘Golden Age’ of SoW research therefore existed in the post-WWII era, one whose demise inexorably led to the sub-discipline’s own decline. These misinterpretations are politically problematic in that they laud an era of research that neglected complex and important questions relating to who holds power; how such power is exercised; and how social inequality is reproduced through work and employment. Critical feedback has revealed that such interpretations of SoW are far too narrow. The paper overturns conventional wisdom about the sub-discipline’s contemporary importance and relevance. Where others have identified decline, it explores SoW’s relationship to power and inequality as well as the scope of its impact - concluding that it has far spread beyond the narrow confines of academia and therefore offers a real opportunity for radical social change.
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- 2021
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13. Decline or redeployment? The sociology of work in the UK
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Carol Stephenson and Paul Stewart
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UK ,sociology ,criticality ,work ,business/ management schools ,Labor. Work. Working class ,HD4801-8943 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
This paper takes issue with previous influential accounts of the evolution and contemporary potency of the Sociology of work (SoW) in the UK by challenging mythologies which have grown up around the trajectory of the sub-discipline. This paper is based on a sociological analysis of the political, organisational and social forces which have shaped the sub-discipline and comprehensive examination of its broad and complex canon. This enables a refutation of previous orthodoxies which suggest that a clearly defined SoW previously existed in, and emerged from, the narrow confines of Sociology departments only, and relatedly, that a ‘Golden Age’ of SoW research existed in the post WW II era and that its ending led to the irrevocable decline of the sub-discipline. These misinterpretations are politically problematic in that they laud an era of research which neglected complex and important questions in relation to who holds power and how that is exercised and in relation to the reproduction of social inequality within work and employment and furthermore, are based on a narrow interpretation of the SoW. This paper overturns conventional wisdom about the contemporary importance and relevance of the sub-discipline: where others have identified decline we explore SoW’s relationship to power and inequality and the spread and breath of its impact and concludes that the spread of discipline beyond the narrow confines of academia offers opportunities for radical social change.
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- 2021
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14. Energy Transition and its Societal Challenges. Themes, Gaps and Possible Developments in Sociology
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Salvatore Monaco
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energy transition ,literature review ,sociology ,data mining analysis ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 - Abstract
The issue of the energy transition, that can be defined as the transition from the use of fossil fuels (in particular coal) to low-carbon energy resources (such as wind, solar and natural gas), is assuming an increasingly central importance in the public debateand has increasingly become the focus of public concern. Scientifically speaking, the challenge and goal of achieving pursuing a more sustainable and fairer low-carbon energy sector globally has encouraged the proliferation of a series of scientific contributions, in various fields of knowledge. The paper shows the results of a literature review on the topic of energy transition. The review takes into consideration a selection of papers taken from international scientific journals with the aim of mapping at a broader level the research on the topic and the issues that were mainly addressed in the years between 2015 and 2020. With the more specific aim of understanding the role of sociology in the international scientific debate on the energy transition, the paper aims to provide an overview of 1) research fields and disciplines; 2) places of publication; 3) research topics and questions.
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- 2021
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15. LES DÉBUTS DU SURRÉALISME FRANÇAIS : RECONNAISSANCE LITTÉRAIRE ET RECONNAISSANCE MÉDIATIQUE.
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ARON, PAUL
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- 2017
16. The Social Nature of Translation: The Shift from Textual to Contextual
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Faiza BOUKHELEF and Amina BABOU
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agent ,creativity ,network ,sociology ,translation ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Adopting Latour’s 'Actor Network Theory’, This paper aims to highlight the Sociological Turn of translation studies and approach translation practice as a social action. Accordingly, the process of translating is tackled from a creative perspective. We attempt to illustrate that translation is no longer a word for word substitution; however, it is a cultural product that aims at reproduction of meaning. Furthermore, translation is more than a matter of linguistic realization and language comparison, and is incorporated in the social and cultural context. The present paper explores not only the influence of the individual translation agent, but also the impact of these agents working together as a network in translation production with a particular insight into the huge movement of translation which had been funded and supported during the Abbasid Era(Golden Age), we attempt to explore how translators interact with other actors and actants to produce knowledge. It has been concluded that translation actors and their individual social impact can be infuential upon the ultimate translation product. Consequently, the translator is not merely a technician who authomatically transfers the meaning of a text from one language into another one. Instead, he is an agent of change and transformation.
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- 2021
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17. Building villages
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Aurelio Castro
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queer families ,sociology ,polyamory ,non-monogamous relationships ,non-monogramies ,legal recognition ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
The following paper aims to contribute to the Italian literature on non-monogamy with a psychosocial interpretation towards the future of the political and legal recognition requests of non-monogamous and queer relationships, as well as of their families. Starting with a reflection on how normativities position those who are outside the binaries as noises to be ignored or cancelled, the paper then provides a critique of the concept of evaluation as a tool for acquiring rights (as it does not find a counterpart in the different-gender relationships). Psychosocial studies on the relationship quality of non-monogamous people should be used to strenghten the demands for the legal recognitions of non-monogamous relationships, families and multi-parenting. In fact, the available international literature has given voice and confirmed what the many polyfamilies experience in everyday life: that these families (non-monogamous, open, poly, extended, childless * or not) are a social reality with their positive charachteristics and criticalities. Starting from examples on the erasure of bisexualities and ame-gender families recognition – the paper discuss how including these types of psychosocial research can improve our struggle for the recognition and legal rights of non-monogamous agreements and relationships.
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- 2021
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18. Le journalisme et les sciences sociales.
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BASTIN, GILLES
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- 2016
19. THE ELEMENTARY FORMS AS A COLLECTIVE WORK: HENRI HUBERT AND MARCEL MAUSS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO ÉMILE DURKHEIM'S LATER SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION.
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FOURNIER, MARCEL
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RELIGION & sociology ,SOCIOLOGY ,RITUAL ,HOLY, The ,HISTORY of sociology ,POLITICAL attitudes - Abstract
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- 2014
20. Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity
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Lesley Frank
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food studies ,feminist studies ,sociology ,social welfare ,infant food insecurity ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop of neo-liberal social welfare approaches that shape gendered food work within food insecurity households, as well as current state approaches to infant feeding policy targeted to vulnerable populations. Based on telephone interviews with a random sample of organizations across Canada (N=26) in 2016, this paper details typical responses to infant food insecurity within a sample of family resource projects with funding from the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program, as well as typical responses from a sample of food banks. Results demonstrate that neither state nor community organizations adequately respond to infant food insecurity. This leads to serious problems of unequal access, potential food risk, and food injustice that are imposed on mothers and formula-fed infants when mothers are forced into situations of pathologized foraging to find formula. This paper argues that infant food insecurity is the result of a succession of public policy failures that are best addressed with a reflexive, feminist, food justice approach.
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- 2018
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21. Which IT.A.CÀ for Naples? A SWOT Analysis Approach
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Salvatore Monaco and Antonella Berritto
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itaca ,tourism ,sociology ,swot ,Naples ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 - Abstract
Naples has a rich and suggestive artistic, historical and cultural heritage. This characterization makes it one of the most attractive Italian tourist cities. Starting from 2018, the IT.A.CÀ Festival has also been included for two years in the already dense calendar of tourist events of the regional capital of Campania. It is one of the major Italian Festivals aimed at promoting responsible tourism and enhancing local realities. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an action-research conducted by OUT (University of Naples' Research Center on Tourism) aimed at analyzing the impacts that the Festival has had on Naples. The study involved the main representatives of associations, institutions and local bodies that organized the past Neapolitan editions of IT.A.CÀ. More specifically, using the SWOT analysis tool, the research identified the strengths and opportunities associated with the event, but also the weaknesses and threats, to individuate a number of recommendations for its realization in Naples.
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- 2024
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22. A chacun ses sciences participatives. Les conditions d'un observatoire participatif de la biodiversité sur le Bassin d'Arcachon.
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SALLES, Denis, BOUET, Bruno, LARSEN, Maja, and SAUTOUR, Benoit
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BIODIVERSITY ,CITIZEN science ,POLITICAL communication ,SOCIOLOGY ,ECOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2014
23. Le Millennium Ecosystem Assessment : anatomie d'une évaluation environnementale globale.
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Pesche, Denis
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GLOBAL environmental change ,ECOSYSTEM services ,INTERNATIONAL environmental law ,FOREST policy ,BIODIVERSITY - Abstract
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- 2013
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24. A Critical Social Theory for What and for Whom? [Uma teoria social crítica para quê/para quem?]
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Leno Francisco Danner
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Sociology ,Politics ,Institutionalism ,Democracy ,Social Criticism [Sociologia ,Política ,Institucionalismo ,Democracia ,Criticismo social] ,Epistemology. Theory of knowledge ,BD143-237 ,Metaphysics ,BD95-131 ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
A critical social theory for what and whom? This question is the key for this paper in order to problematize relationships and the dependence relating sociological theory, political praxis and strong institutionalism. The paper’s central argument is that the Western sociological tradition in the 20th century assumed a systemic understanding of society as epistemological-political basis of its constitution, legitimation and political influence, which led to strong institutionalism, that is, the correlation and self-justification between social sciences and political institutions, so that scientifical-political institutions become overlapped in relation to political praxis of social movements, as neutral and impartial regarding class struggle, depoliticizing social systems’ constitution, legitimation and evolution. The paper’s second central argument is that a critical social theory for the constitution and crisis of contemporary Western modernization must abandon the defense of and connection with strong institutionalism, supporting social movements in their epistemological-political criticism to social systems’ technicization and autonomization. [uma teoria social crítica para quê/para quem? Esta questão é a chave-de-leitura que o artigo usa com o objetivo de problematizar as relações e a dependência entre teoria sociológica, práxis política e institucionalismo forte. O argumento central do artigo consiste em que a tradição sociológica ocidental no século XX assumiu uma compreensão sistêmica de sociedade enquanto base epistemológico-política para sua constituição, legitimação e influência política, o que levou ao institucionalismo forte, isto é, à correlação e à autojustificação entre ciências sociais e instituições políticas, de modo que instituições científico-políticas tornam-se sobrepostas à práxis política dos movimentos sociais, bem como neutras e imparciais em relação às lutas de classe, despolitizando a constituição, a legitimação e a evolução dos sistemas sociais. Assim, o segundo argumento central do artigo consiste em que uma teoria social crítica para o estudo da constituição e da crise da modernização ocidental contemporânea deve abandonar sua defesa e sua conexão com o institucionalismo forte, auxiliando movimentos sociais em sua crítica epistemológico-política à tecnicização e à autonomização dos sistemas sociais]
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- 2017
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25. Legal Pluralism as a Theoretical Programme
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Emma Patrignani
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Legal pluralism ,empirical legal studies' epistemology ,law ,sociology ,anthropology ,Pluralismo jurÃ-dico ,epistemologìa de los estudios jurìdicos empìricos ,derecho ,sociologÃ-a ,antropologìa ,Social legislation ,K7585-7595 - Abstract
This paper reconstructs the development of the status of the theory of legal pluralism: while originally the term has been used as descriptive label referring to a situation observed in the world, nowadays a more sophisticated understanding of the role of the concept is needed. The epistemology of social sciences can help us make sense of the multifarious literature on legal pluralism, and of the different conceptions of the term that have been proposed. More specifically, legal pluralism is here devised as a theoretical programme and its influence on the production of social-scientific knowledge is analysed. The investigation concentrates on the role of the concept in the selection of relevant data and on the intelligibility structure imposed on them.Este artículo reconstruye el desarrollo de la situación de la teoría de pluralismo jurídico: aunque en un principio el término se utilizó como una etiqueta descriptiva referida a una situación que se observaba en el mundo, hoy en día se necesita una comprensión más sofisticada del rol del concepto. La epistemología de las ciencias sociales puede ayudar a dar sentido a la literatura heterogénea sobre pluralismo jurídico, así como a las diferentes concepciones del término que se han propuesto. Más específicamente, aquí se concibe el pluralismo jurídico como un programa teórico y se analiza su influencia en la producción de conocimiento científico social. La investigación se concentra en el papel del concepto en la selección de datos relevantes y en la estructura de inteligibilidad impuesta sobre ellos.DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2833822
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- 2016
26. Ist eine nicht-anthropozentrische Soziologie denkbar? Die Soziologie als anthropologische Humanwissenschaft bei Foucault und Latours Gegenentwurf
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Gustav Roßler
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actor-network theory ,sociology ,anthropology ,anthropocentric ,empirico-transcendental doublet ,modernity ,Genealogy ,CS1-3090 ,History (General) ,D1-2009 - Abstract
Can we imagine a sociology that is not anthropocentric? This paper deals with sociology as a human science of the 19th century as Foucault describes it in Les mots et les choses. How can the anthropological structure of sociology be defined more specifically? The paper argues that it is characterized by four features: human consciousness as agency of the social, marginalization of things, man as empirico-transcendental doublet, and sociologism. The author discusses Latour's non-anthropocentric sociology as an alternative draft of social theory and specifies the difference between the concepts of modernity used by Latour and Foucault.
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- 2018
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27. The sociology and education of the political elite in post-Soviet Georgia
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Tukvadze Avtandil A., Ubilava Irakli Z., Shulenina Nadezhda V., Gelashvili Helen Z., and Giorgashvili Nana A.
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post-soviet georgia ,political elites ,sociology ,education ,Social Sciences - Abstract
In this paper, the main reasons that led in the post-Soviet period to the process of replacing the ruling classes with the counter-elite are analyzed. In the study, using the dialectical methodology, the authors identify trends and, following them in a logical chain, explain the order of procedures for political elites’ circulation. This paper also focuses on the education factor, which significantly determines the process of formation and circulation of political elites in post-Soviet Georgia. If, in the Soviet period, one of the criteria for the formation and recruitment of local elites was local education, the trend in this direction in post-Soviet Georgia has been changed significantly. Education gained in Western, EuropeanAmerican universities has been one of the defining factors in the formation and recruitment of political elites by Georgia since its independence. However, in Georgia, mainly in Tbilisi, there are educational centers, socalled “elite schools”, the vast majority of which are attended by children of new Georgians, but according to the criteria of skills, 3-4 percent of schools accept students. This is the first phase of education for junior members of local political and powerful financial groups. The second phase is the migration of graduates of these institutions to higher education institutions of Western countries to get an education. Which makes it easier for returnees to the homeland to integrate into the elite structure. In conclusion, those criteria are set out that are necessary factors for replacing the power elite with the counter-elite.
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- 2021
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28. Ces ondes qui nous menacent. Perceptions profanes des risques associés à quatre dispositifs émettant des ondes électromagnétiques.
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Peretti-Watel, Patrick, Vergélys, Chantai, and Hammer, Béatrice
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ELECTROMAGNETIC fields ,BAROMETERS ,RISK perception ,ELECTRIC lines ,CANCER risk factors ,QUANTITATIVE research - Abstract
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- 2013
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29. Éléments pour une sociologie de l'entrepreneur-frontière Genèse et diffusion d'un programme de prévention de l'obésité.
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BERGERON, Henri, CASTEL, Patrick, and NOUGUEZ, Étienne
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BUSINESSPEOPLE ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIOLOGY ,ENTREPRENEURSHIP & society ,SOCIAL interaction - Abstract
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- 2013
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30. Moins de technique, plus de nature: pour une heuristique des pratiques d'écologisation de l'agriculture.
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Barbier, Jean-Marc and Goulet, Frédéric
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AGRICULTURAL ecology ,AGRONOMY ,FARMERS ,AGRICULTURE ,AGRICULTURAL technology ,AGRICULTURAL scientists - Abstract
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- 2013
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31. La « ville durable », de l'incantation à la profession ?
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Hamman, Philippe
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SUSTAINABLE urban development ,URBAN planning & the environment ,URBANIZATION ,LOCAL government ,CIVIL service - Abstract
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- 2011
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32. Sociologie cognitive et morale de l'addiction.
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PHARO, Patrick
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COGNITION ,MANNERS & customs ,SOCIOLOGY ,NEUROBIOLOGY ,NEUROSCIENCES - Abstract
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- 2010
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33. Ce que le moustique nous apprend sur le dualisme anthropocentrisme/biocentrisme : perspective interdisciplinaire sociologie/biologie.
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Claeys, Cécilia and Sérandour, Julien
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PEST control , *MOSQUITO vectors , *HABITATS , *BIOTIC communities , *ANTHROPOCENTRISM - Abstract
Based on an interdisciplinary analysis associating sociology and biology, this paper studies the social discourses and practices concerning mosquitoes and mosquito pest management in France. The qualitative and quantitative sociological field studies involved two areas, the Rhone river delta and the French alpine valleys. Recalling the anthropocentric heritage of our western societies, our paper shows an evolution, linked to recent social changes, towards more biocentric references, a fact that is noticeable in discourses and attitudes toward mosquitoes. Rather than a radical switch, processes of cohabitation and hybridizing may be observed, combining popular and scientific knowledge, environmental, medical and social issues. The first part of this paper highlights the social and biological relationships between the insect and its habitat, i.e., wetlands. The second part focuses on the forms of articulation between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, especially through the dualism pest/useful insect. The third and last part analyses how the "taxonomic arrangements" between anthropocentrism and biocentrism have triggered an evolution of French public policies regarding mosquito pest management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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34. NATURALISME ET PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIE DANS L'EXPLICATION SOCIOLOGIQUE : LE CAS DE L'ADDICTION.
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Pharo, Patrick
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SUBSTANCE abuse diagnosis ,PHENOMENOLOGICAL sociology ,ADDICTIONS ,SUBSTANCE abuse ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGY ,NATURALISM ,SOCIOLOGY of knowledge - Abstract
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- 2007
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35. Au bon vieux temps de la coopérative.
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Legrain, Laurent
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EVERYDAY life ,QUALITY of life ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,CIVILIZATION ,ETHNOLOGY ,SOCIAL networks ,MOUNTAIN life ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
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- 2007
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36. Jeux européens et innovation institutionnelle: Les logiques de création d'Eurojust (1996-2004).
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Mangenot, Michel
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COURTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,DECISION making ,JUDICIAL process ,LEADERSHIP ,PUBLIC officers - Abstract
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- 2006
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37. The Measurement of Opinion Leadership in Czech Sociological Research.
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Jeřábek, Hynek
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LEADERSHIP ,PUBLIC opinion ,PERSONALITY ,COSMOPOLITANISM ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper reports on the results of the successful use of the 'PS Scale', or Personality Strength Scale (Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann), for determining and measuring opinion leadership. It provides information on the results and experiences drawn from three representative sample surveys conducted in the Czech Republic, which have made use of the PS Scale for measuring personality strength, and thus also for measuring opinion leadership. The experiences drawn from using this standardised measurement tool have clearly demonstrated the usefulness of the scale, even in the case of the Czech language version, and revealed its validity and considerable reliability. The paper also reports on the connection between personality strength (opinion leadership) and selected social characteristics, including the standard EGP classification of social rank. Classic studies in this field, dating from the 1940s, were based on a small number of questions and led to the development of a dichotomous distinction between opinion leaders and opinion followers (P.F. Lazarsfeld, B. Berelson and Hazel Gaudet 1940) and local and cosmopolitan influentials (R.K. Merton 1949). Unlike these approaches, the PS Scale uses a standardised battery of questions comprised of ten items and establishes a scale ranging from a minimum of 75 to a maximum of 149 points. In a number of aspects the Czech results confirm those reached in the German studies by E. Noelle-Neumann; for example, the observation that a higher percentage of opinion leaders are formed in the groups of professions located at the higher end of the social scale. Nevertheless, even in the case of the Czech Republic, it was revealed that the opinion leaders are not recruited exclusively from the ranks of the higher social groups. Instead, they can be found in all groups of professions and in all status strata, albeit to varying degrees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
38. A szelfikultúra szerepe és veszélyei szociálpszichológiai szemszögből a Covid19-világjárvány alatt
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Alexandra Valéria Sándor
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social psychology ,sociology ,Music and books on Music ,Arts in general ,NX1-820 - Abstract
The Role and Dangers of Selfie Culture from a Social-Psychological Perspective During the COVID-19 Pandemic In 2013, “selfie” was named the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary, implying a self-portrait photograph taken by oneself using a digital camera or a smartphone, mainly to post on social media. In the past decade, selfies have become a new medium for self-expression and self-representation (Qiu et al. 2015). On social media platforms, users publish virtual self-representations that are influenced by “real-life” individual and societal changes (Hogan & Quan-Haase 2010); which is also reflected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of social media and self-representation in social media posts increased during the first and the second wave of the pandemic, with selfies among the most popular types of content shared (Sándor 2022a; Sándor 2022b). The goal of the current paper is to provide a concise review of the selfie phenomenon from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by the author's research results on self-representation and image modification on social media.
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- 2023
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39. Existence et objet de la « sociologie de la littérature », aujourd'hui.
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Leenhardt, Jacques
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- 2018
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40. Every Appearance of Common Sense?: Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s 'Sociological Gaze' to the Profession of Librarianship
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Cal Murgu
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ALA ,Bourdieu ,profession ,professionalization ,sociology ,Bibliography. Library science. Information resources - Abstract
This paper utilizes an ALA resolution from 2016 and the resulting arguments on an ALA public forum to analyze the profession of librarianship from a perspective informed by Pierre Bourdieu’s theories. Drawing on scholarship from sociology, organizational studies, and LIS, I argue that the concept of a profession is a form of symbolic capital working within multiple fields of power. Analyzing librarianship with this framework enables us to identify the internal and external battles being waged over control of symbolic capital within fields of power, and ask why we value “the profession” to such a degree. Within the profession, professionals, para-professionals, and managers are constantly attempting to shore up or acquire additional symbolic capital. Externally, professions are struggling to maintain their symbolic capital in relation to each other; some professions, like medicine and law, have been more adept at consecrating cultural, social and economic capital into symbolic capital. Ultimately, this approach makes clear that the concept of “a profession” is neither absolute nor neutral; it is a constructed, deeply historical socio-cultural classification system that has been embedded into our collective understanding of how labour is valued. Ultimately, bolstering support behind the notion of a “profession” might not be the most prudent course of action for librarians going forward; in fact, I’ll suggest that uncritically supporting the “profession” goes against the philosophical tenets that librarians are purported to uphold.
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- 2023
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41. L’esthétique sociale entre philosophie et sciences sociales
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Barbara Carnevali
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sociology ,economics ,philosophy ,aesthetics ,sociol appearances ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This paper investigates relations between philosophy and social science in the field of social aesthetics, which brings together such disciplines as sociology, literature, and art history, from a philosophical prospective. The main problems of social aesthetics are illustrated by a series of social and aesthetic phenomena (such as lifestyle, prestige, and luxury) at the intersection of social science and aesthetics (interpreted both as theory of perception and theory of arts). Social aesthetics is defined as the study of appearance in the society. The paper investigates the knowledge model and theoretical foundations of this interdisciplinary field. Respecting legitimacy and disciplinary boundaries of social science, the papers reminds us that the domain of philosophy is synthesis, ability to bring together and to give a coherent structure to empirical knowledge derived from social science. Philosophy is concerned with problematisation, homogenisation, and articulation, and also with history and genealogy: these domains are illustrated by a history of the divide between aesthetics and economy, which dates back to the 18th century. The example demonstrates critical potential of philosophy, since it allows us to question several a priori concepts that frame our idea of knowledge (such as opposition between useful and useless, necessary and gratuitous), to connect, and to find analogies between seemingly distant spheres of reality.
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- 2013
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42. La politique de la sociologie : coopération et implication dans le texte sociologique
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Danny Trom
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sociology ,reflexivity ,politics ,reception ,situation ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This paper characterizes sociology as a form of knowledge of society about itself. It asks what makes sociological texts successful when evaluated by the community of sociologists. In order to answer this question, sociological texts are examined through the cooperative work which connects the author and the readers in the act of reading. Based on a case study, the paper shows that an implicit pact governs their relationship. In exploring what this implicit pact consists in, it comes to the conclusion that a political frame underlies the production-reception of the text. This pact delineates a mode of implication of the reader in a text and organizes the modalities of this implication. Making this pact explicit as well as the entailed implication, means intensifying the reflexivity of sociology itself.
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43. ENGAGEMENT DANS LE PKK ET « TRAVAIL IDENTITAIRE » DE TROIS GÉNÉRATIONS DE COMBATTANT.E.S.
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Lafaye, Caroline Guibet
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IDENTITY (Psychology) ,GROUP identity ,SELF ,ORDER picking systems ,SOCIOLOGY ,TERRORIST organizations - Abstract
People typically have multiple identities that vary in salience and pervasiveness. This identity results from a process of socialization and structures the individual behaviour. Identification with a group is the result of an "alignment" of personal and collective identities. In order to study this process of alignment, from a micro-sociological perspective, we conducted an empirical sociology survey among 63 activists of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK). In the light of the model developed by Snow and McAdam (2000) on identity work, we highlighted the prevalence, in terms of "identity convergence," of "identity research" over "identity appropriation," including in a holistic and so-called terrorist organization such as the PKK. We also emphasized the primacy of "identity amplification" in the processes of identity construction of these Kurdish combatants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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44. Complexity and the culture of economics: a sociological and inter-disciplinary analysis
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Hendrik Van den Berg
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Culture ,Neoclassical economics ,Orthodoxy ,Pluralism ,Sociology ,Economics as a science ,HB71-74 - Abstract
This paper offers a sociological explanation for why the field of economics has so severely restricted the scope of its analysis to the point where it failed to foresee the financial crises, economic recessions, and other large shifts in economic activity that have characterized the global economy in recent decades. This paper’s analysis of the culture of economics draws heavily on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist who developed a useful framework with which to analyze the culture of an intellectual field like economics. Specifically, the paper describes how the neo-liberal doxa supports the restrictive neoclassical (marginalist) modeling approach that is a central element of the habitus of mainstream economics. Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence shows how the orthodox economics culture perpetuates itself even in the face of the complete failure of the culture’s favored neoclassical and rational expectations models to anticipate recent macroeconomic crises. The paper concludes with some thoughts on how this understanding of the culture of economics can enable economists to free themselves from the oppressive culture of mainstream economics.
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- 2012
45. ¿A qúé se dedica la sociología del turismo en España?
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Raquel Huete Neves
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sociología ,turismo ,investigación ,producción científica ,research ,sociology ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Este artículo pretende ser una aproximación a la investigación sobre el turismo que los sociólogos y sociólogas publican en España. Se trata de explorar los intereses de la sociología del turismo a partir de varias fuentes de información y para el periodo 2004-2014. En primer lugar, un análisis de nuestra participación en los grupos de investigación que se dedican al estudio del turismo a partir de la base de datos del Sistema de Información Científica del Turismo. En segundo lugar, se revisa la producción de artículos científicos publicados en las revistas incluidas en las principales bases de datos científicas. Por último, se identifican los temas de interés de los trabajos presentados en los congresos de la Federación Española de Sociología. La interpretación del panorama que resulta queda abierta en forma de propuestas de investigación. English What is the sociology of tourism devoted to in Spain? This paper is an approach to the research that the sociologists publish on tourism in Spain. Our aim is to explore the interests of the Sociology of Tourism from several sources for the period 2004-2014. First, we analyse the participation in research groups devoted to the study of tourism from the Scientific Information System of Tourism database. Second, the production of scientific articles published in journals included in major scientific databases is reviewed. Finally, issues of interest in the papers presented at the Spanish Federation of Sociology conferences are identified. The interpretation of this panorama is open as future research proposals.
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- 2015
46. La sociología francesa en el Perú
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Denis Sulmont
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Peru ,France ,sociology ,faculties of Social Sciences ,investigation ,actors ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
This paper shows how had an early influence in Peru, especially through the work of Mariano Cornejo, a lawyer who held the first chair of sociology in San Marcos University in 1896. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, institutional links between French and Peruvian sociology became stronger thanks to scholarships, academic exchange programs, and research projects. Some of the French sociologists who had an important influence in this period were François Bourricaud (power and politics); Alain Touraine (social movements); and Pierre Bourdieu (culture and education). Finally, the paper points out some of the contemporary developments in French sociology that are particularly interesting for Peruvian scholars.
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- 2007
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47. L’altro come selvaggio e come povero nel discorso dei missionari cattolici italiani [The other as savage and as poor in the discourse of the Italian Catholic missionaries]
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Anita Agostini
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other ,savage ,poor ,catholic missions ,vatican council ii ,literature ,sociology ,italy ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Language and Literature - Abstract
This paper focuses on the discourse about the Other in a group of Catholic missionaries by starting from the analysis of the magazine Le Missioni Cattoliche. Published by the Lombard Seminary for Foreign Missions, later Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), the magazine has been collecting the chronicles and accounts of mission life for decades, presenting it in a completely new way to the general public. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the discursive transformations that affect those more radical ‘Others’ that are represented by ethnic and linguistic minorities in non-European contexts. Through the analysis of the missionary reports over a period ranging from 1872 to 1962, the transformation that the categorization of these others undergoes between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second Vatican Council is highlighted. This, to demonstrate that this shift is indispensable for the formulation of the many innovations introduced by the Second Vatican Council, as well as for the general spirit that characterizes this Council. For a very long time, the understanding of these specific human communities passes through the category of ‘the savage’, which is rich in specific traits and a precise function and is not only characterized by a series of constantly repeated traits but defines, by antithesis, the identity of the same European, rational, civilized, and Christian man. By its own nature the savage is, and remains, irreducible to the civilized European. The passage to the new global Catholic community announced by Council II requires a new categorization and understanding of those same groups. At level of missionary narrative, a progressive reclassification of the otherness takes shape, the category of savage slowly disappears in favor of the already widely used category of ‘the poor’. The once savage, can, in his capacity as a poor man, be included in that unprecedented global and multifaceted ‘us’, which usually starts right from Vatican II.
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- 2021
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48. L’internalizzazione dell’Alterità come strategia di protezione identitaria. Il Caso Di Lord Of The Flies [The internalization of Otherness as an identity protection strategy. The Case Of Lord Of The Flies]
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Alice Grazzini
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anthropocentrism ,membership categorization analysis ,ancient greek ,phylogeny ,internalization of alterity ,sociology ,literature ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Specific positioning strategies in William Golding’s Lord of the flies are applied in relation to the anthropocentric epistemological paradigm, typical of Western culture. The plot aims at exploring the answer to the following question: what could happen to a group of British educated boys, if they landed on a desert island and had to survive far away from civilization? The outcome turns out to be negative: after an initial situation of balance, the boys perform a series of violent actions which culminate with murder; this is the starting point for a reflection on human nature which seems inherently evil and free to emerge in the absence of social rules. This paper aims at problematizing the position of the text to human nature. At first, the opposing categories of ‘white Western man’ and ‘black savage man’ will be outlined; thanks to the analysis of the meanings of the concept of ‘human’, we will show the conservative vision underlying the text that does not undermine the anthropocentrism or the trust in human nature. The opposition between white Western man and black savage man is connected to two opposing social models, one stemmed from the other after a crisis: a group of rebels, in fact, violently split up from the society based on the Western model. In conclusion, we can affirm that the struggle between civilization and barbarism shifted in the text from an external to an inner dimension, where evil is inborn the cultural subject (Westerners turn into savages). Lastly, such transformation is a defence strategy, to protect the concept of ‘human’ and, specifically, of ‘white Western man’, who is not simply criticized because of his nature but because of his degeneration towards other identities, which are discriminated due to stereotypes.
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- 2021
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49. Aspetti critici della disforia di genere come categoria diagnostica [Critical aspects of gender dysphoria as a diagnostic category]
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Giovanni Tumminaro, Alessia Pasciuto, Lisa Compare, and Carmen Berrocal Montiel
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gender dysphoria ,transgender ,gender ,sex ,dsm ,stigma ,discrimination ,gender studies ,sociology ,psychology ,clinical studies ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Language and Literature - Abstract
This paper provides a general critical overview of “gender dysphoria” as a DSM-5 diagnostic category. Gender dysphoria refers to persistent psychological distress associated with the incongruence between the assigned gender at birth and gender identity in transgender people. Previous research suggests that people with gender dysphoria have a higher risk of psychiatric comorbidity than general population samples. There is evidence that stressful events related to discrimination, stigma and social exclusion against transgender people contribute to explain, at least in part, gender dysphoria and comorbidity in this population. Furthermore, pathologizing gender dysphoria, through the disease connotations of this diagnostic label, may increase stigma and discrimination towards transgender people.
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- 2021
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50. Au-delà de l’histoire du droit. Retour sur la trajectoire d’un entrepreneur scientifique, Henri Lévy-Bruhl (1884-1964)
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Mathieu Soula
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Lévy-Bruhl Henri (1884-1964) ,sociology ,legal history ,discipline ,20th century ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This paper attempts to understand the scientific career of Henri Lévy-Bruhl, which took place in the first half of the Twentieth century, when French legal history was in construction (objects, methods). It tries to understand the consequences of the evolution of this discipline upon the career of Levy-Bruhl, who devoted his works to legal history and to sociology of law. It aims to show how, while being recognized, he also has been considered as an “heretic”, employing practices in contradiction with the dominant scientific representations.
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- 2022
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