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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

Fermented fruits: scrumping, sharing, and the origin of feasting. [PDF]

Bioscience
Dominy NJ, Fannin LD, Vogel ER, Robbins MM, Hobaiter C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mediated Aspirations and Structural Walls: Daily Media Practices Among a Peripheral Roma Community in Türkiye

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
wiley   +1 more source

In the shadow of the state: Lived pluralism in Ramla. [PDF]

Crit Anthropol
Weiss E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

Eating attitudes among college students: the role of body shape concerns, mental health, and obesity. [PDF]

Eat Weight Disord
Das S, Khajuria D, Kulshreshtha M, Chandel S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived costs as drivers of wildlife management preferences in rural Tanzanian communities. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Kiffner C, Raycraft J, Becchina R, Bettermann D, Koester S, Kriegel E, Lindsay K, Ole EM, Ramirez E, Spizuco B, Carter NH.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and associated risk factors of self-reported symptoms suggestive of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) among women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Shongwe S, Kalinda C, Hlongwana K, Ginindza T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source