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Social Theory in Nursing Scholarship, From Humanism to Post-Humanism: Revisiting S. Nairn on the Structure-Agency Debate. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
ABSTRACT 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 Wiss
Wie 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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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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La vitalità della casa. Il modello delle sociétés à maisons nella riflessione antropologica e archeologica e la sua applicazione al contesto mesoamericano

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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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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Anmälningar och notiser

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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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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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, Ozaias Antonio Batista   +1 more
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Kinding Culture

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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