Theorizing Surveillance in the UK Crime Control Field [PDF]
Media and Communication, 2015 Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a ...
Michael McCahill
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The affective extension of ‘Family’ in the context of changing elite business networks [PDF]
, 2021 Drawing on 49 oral-history interviews with Scottish family business owner-managers, six key-informant interviews, and secondary sources, this interdisciplinary study analyses the decline of kinship-based connections and the emergence of new kinds of ...
Bika, Zografia, Frazer, Michael
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An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field‐Level Analysis [PDF]
, 2007 Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often.
Barman, Emily
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Inclusion ideals and inclusion problems: Parsons and Luhmann on religion and secularization [PDF]
, 2015 This paper builds upon the theoretical work of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann and offers a critical reconstruction of their views on religion (Christianity) and secularization in the western world.
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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A Critique of the Mainstream Management Control Theory and the Way Forward
SAGE Open, 2012 This article critiques the mainstream management control theory with a view to highlighting its gaps and to suggesting a direction for its future development. Management control theory has undergone lopsided development due to the dominance of accounting-
Chandana Rathnasiri Hewege
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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence [PDF]
, 2014 Sociological and criminological views of domestic and gender-based violencegenerally either dismiss it as not worthy of consideration, or focus on specificgroups of offenders and victims (male youth gangs, partner violence victims). Inthis paper, we take
Agnew Robert +70 more
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A Sociological Model of Agency and Parent-Child Negotiations of Sex
Socius, 2023 Agency theory explains many processes of interest to sociologists, such as overcoming conflicts of interest, information management, delegation of power and control, and the social dilemmas that arise when one acts on behalf of another.
Maria S. Grigoryeva
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Reconsidering feminisms and the work of Norbert Elias for understanding gender, sport and sport-related activities [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 North West Counties Physical Education Association and SAGE Publications.This paper reconsiders the relationships between feminist ...
Mansfield, L., Mansfield, L.
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Moral panic and social theory: Beyond the heuristic [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright @ 2011 by International Sociological Association.Critcher has recently conceptualized moral panic as a heuristic device, or 'ideal type'. While he argues that one still has to look beyond the heuristic, despite a few exceptional studies there ...
Amanda Rohloff +27 more
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2023 The article proposes an analytical perspective on artificial intelligence (AI) that can be fruitful in the sociology of work. The practical logic of new forms of AI (connectionist AI) is described as an interplay of social and technical processes of ...
Michael Heinlein, Norbert Huchler
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