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Spirals of Care: Resisting Paternalism and Palliation in Chronic Homeless Services

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how organizationally supported resistance to paternalism and palliation unfolds on the frontlines of poverty governance. Sociological research shows that poverty in the United States is often managed through paternalist behavioral control or palliative minimalism.
Alexa Damaska
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Implementing Automation: The Shopfloor Politics of Technological Change in the Canadian Aerospace Sector

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 467-479, September 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the social processes of integrating new production technologies into existing work processes? How do management and trade union approaches shape the implementation and debugging of new technologies on the shopfloor? Drawing on the industrial relations literature on debugging and four cases of technological change at a major Canadian ...
Daniel Nicholson
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The Modern Prince and the Sociological Imagination. Michael Burawoy in Conversation with Riccardo Emilio Chesta

Sociologica, 2019
In this conversation, Michael Burawoy discusses how he discovered the sociology of Gramsci in radically diverse contexts — from a vibrant post-colonial Zambia to Analytical Marxism in Chicago.
Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Michael Burawoy
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Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 570-583, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Polycrisis—understood as intersecting crises that amplify each other rather than unfolding separately—poses profound challenges for employment relations theory and practice. The employment relationship is simultaneously a site where the effects of crises are most acutely experienced and a central mechanism through which profit is generated ...
Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, Rea Prouska, Steve Williams, Sean O'Brady   +4 more
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2927-2964, September 2026.
Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Michael Burawoy emlékkonferencia

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Az ELTE Társadalomtudományi Kar Szociológia Intézete 2025. május 19-én emlékkonferenciát szervezett a 2025. február 3-án tragikus hirtelenséggel elhunyt Michael Burawoy tiszteletére. Az emlékkonferencia Burawoy elméleti munkásságának a magyarországi szociológiára való hatását igyekezett feleleveníteni.
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The Limits of Sociological Practice: On the Analytical Function of Sociology

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether sociologists have lost sight of the proper scope of the discipline from a functional perspective, arguing that many of the tensions surrounding sociology arise from expectations that exceed its analytical function. Contemporary sociology is often expected to provide immediate solutions, predict future developments
Rubén Tamboleo García
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Displacement as a Cultural Repertoire for Resilience in Chronic Crisis, in Burundi

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Prior to a new outbreak of violence in Burundi in 2015, more than 10000 Burundians had already crossed borders in search of refuge. The anticipatory displacement signalled the need to rethink displacement as contextualised in the country's long history of conflict and decline.
Lidewyde H. Berckmoes
wiley   +1 more source

Uniwersytet w kryzysie. Z Michaelem Burawoyem rozmawia Anna Szołucha

Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2013
Wychodząc od rozważań nad genezą i losami socjologii publicznej, Anna Szołucha dyskutuje z Michaelem Burawoyem o kryzysie uniwersytetu, jego komercjalizacji iregulacji oraz roli ruchów społecznych (Occupy czy Indignados) i studenckich (z Chille czy ...
Michael Burawoy, Anna Szołucha
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Por una sociología pública Por una sociología pública

Política y Sociedad, 2005
Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways.
Michael Burawoy
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