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Social Theory in Nursing Scholarship, From Humanism to Post-Humanism: Revisiting S. Nairn on the Structure-Agency Debate. [PDF]
Nurs PhilosABSTRACT Agency and structure are notable concepts in nursing philosophy and research. In this paper, we revisit two articles by Stuart Nairn which contrast selected theoretical perspectives exemplifying different positions within the structure‐agency debate.
West CA, Petrovskaya O.
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Bausteine zu einer Oral History der Wissenschaftsgeschichte Auf der Suche: von der Biologie und der Philosophie zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Interview mit Soraya de Chadarevian. [PDF]
Ber WissWie kann man einen historischen Blick auf das eigene Fach werfen? Diese Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten – will man einerseits nicht in einer Nabelschau und Hagiographie enden, andererseits aber auch keinen umfassenden Entwurf einer zukünftigen Historiographie vorlegen.
de Chadarevian S, Grote M, Te Heesen A.
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What Weber Got Right About Brahmins-Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Pal S.
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Antropologia e Teatro, 2019 Around the mid of the Seventies, Claude Lévi-Strauss proposed the notion of sociétés à maisons to clarify some aspects of the social organization of the Kwakiutl that had caused problems to Franz Boas.
Davide Domenici
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Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus [PDF]
, 2016 Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising ...
Bartoli Cannada +44 more
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2010 Recension av: Christer Lindberg, Samhället som tanke: Claude Lévi-Strauss och den franska strukturalismen. Lund: Arkiv förlag, 2009.
Roger Jacobsson
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how healthcare professionals navigate relational dynamics within a frontline healthcare team in a time of crisis and with limited HRM support. Drawing on scholarship about work teams, HRM and bricolage, the paper analyzes research data from interviews with kinesiologists at an Accidents & Emergency (A&E) hospital in ...
Jenny K. Rodriguez, Stephen Procter
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An Anthropological Reading of the Modern World
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2014 REVIEW TEXT: Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Anthropology before the modern world problems. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012. 94 p.
Joicy Suely Galvão da Costa Fernandes +1 more
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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