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Mercy Consent and Contained Resistance: Grievance Systems in Chinese Food‐Delivery Platforms
New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 100-115, March 2026.ABSTRACT Based on a multi‐methods qualitative study, this article investigates how in‐platform grievance systems operate in the Chinese food‐delivery platform work. Drawing on labour process theory, we examine the role of in‐platform grievance systems in shaping the dynamic interplay between control, consent, and resistance. Our findings reveal that in‐
Ziheng Liu, Wei Wei
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Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology [PDF]
Proclamations of \'current crisis\' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in British and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived \'current crisis\'. It then discusses some of
Liz Stanley, Robert Hollands
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New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 116-127, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between the gamification of platform food‐delivery work and workaholism. Drawing on a qualitative study, our findings suggest that while financial needs act as a ‘push’ factor, encouraging workers to enter off‐line platform work, gamification serves as a ‘pull’ factor ‐ driving an introjected motivation ...
Cristian Santabarbara +2 more
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Communicating the social sciences [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter reviews the sparse and somewhat scattered research literature that has specifically addressed the public communication of the social sciences (PCSS).
Cassidy, A
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Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 26-31, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I develop a contradictory argument about Black Reconstruction. First, I argue that Black Reconstruction certainly is a masterpiece, and indeed, perhaps one of Du Bois's greatest works. Second, however, I argue that we ought to view Black Reconstruction in the context of Du Bois's overall corpus of scholarship.
Ali Meghji
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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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The Governance Grenade: Mass Privatization, State Capacity and Economic Development in Postcommunist and Reforming Communist Societies. [PDF]
This article critiques neoliberal transition theory from a state-centered perspective. Neoliberal scholars have used cross-national regression analysis to argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence to neoliberal ...
Lawrence King, Patrick Hamm
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Towards a framework for analyzing interactions between social science and environmental policy [PDF]
, 2013 Interactions between social science and environmental policy have become increasingly important over the past 25 years. There has, however, been little analysis of the roles that social scientists adopt and the contributions they make.
Murphy, J., Parry, S.
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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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Sisyphus & the Labor of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management [PDF]
, 2010 Is there any radical potential left in the notion and practices of worker self-management? What I want do in this essay is to try and see if it is possible to distill something of a radical kernel from the many difficulties and complications that ...
Shukaitis, S
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