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Status Concerns Drive Self‐Optimization: The Role of Status Seeking, Status Anxiety, and Competitive Working Climate

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, many sociological, psychological, and epidemiological studies have focused on the syndrome of social inequality, status concerns, and the emergence of social problems in affluent capitalist societies. The basic assumption is that increasing competitive pressures stress people and cause them to seek any small advantage in the ...
Christian Schneickert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justificação, reconhecimento e justiça: tecendo pontes entre Boltanski, Honneth e Walzer = Justification, recognition and justice: weaving bridges between Boltanski, Honneth and Walzer

open access: yesCivitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2012
Luc Boltanski, com Laurent Thévenot, propõe que a avaliação das contribuições sociais ocorre num contexto em que é necessário que cada um faça reconhecer o seu respectivo lugar nas economias de grandeza mediante justificação, onde uma diversidade de ...
Sobottka, Emil Albert   +1 more
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Are Refugee Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article addresses under‐explored aspects of boundary‐drawing, focusing on how dominant groups draw and reproduce boundaries in informal workplace settings. Based a on micro‐level study in Adana, Turkey, a secure economic hub in the proximity of the conflict region, it investigates how native Turkish employees interact with Syrian peers in
Selin Siviş
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing the “moralization shock”: The role of contingency in the translation of anticorruption policy in France

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 475-492, Fall 2025.
Abstract This article applies the concept of transaction to the process of policy transfer, through the case of conflict of interest regulation in France, using archives, documentary sources, and interviews with stakeholders. It contributes to the literature on policy translation by clarifying the role of contingency, which remains underspecified.
Sofia Wickberg
wiley   +1 more source

From dynamic frame to moving image: Remediation and history in Christian Boltanski's works [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti, 2017
The aim of the paper is to point to different strategies through which moving images appear in the work of Christian Boltanski. Moving images are discussed in relation to the concept of remediation that becomes crucial not only for understanding the ...
Marinkov-Pavlović Lidija
doaj  

Scientists who engage with society perform better academically [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called 'ivory tower' of academic research through popularization, industrial collaboration or teaching.
Croissant, Yves   +3 more
core   +6 more sources

Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre, Enrichissement. Une critique de la marchandise

open access: yes, 2017
Ce dernier livre de Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre, Enrichissement, est audacieux, dense et original mais aussi assez surprenant a la fois par rapport au domaine qu’il propose d’etudier et par les prises de position et les theses qu’il avance !
Mohamed Nachi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immigrants, Precarious Workforce as a Structural Necessity of Modern Global Capitalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article focuses on the socio-economic aspects of migration and migrants – economic refugees. The author presents the migrants as a precarious workforce, which is an indispensable part of modern global capitalism.
Rąb, Łukasz
core   +1 more source

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