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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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Seven Properties of Self-Organization in the Human Brain [PDF]
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2020 The principle of self-organization has acquired a fundamental significance in the newly emerging field of computational philosophy. Self-organizing systems have been described in various domains in science and philosophy including physics, neuroscience ...
Birgitta Dresp-Langley
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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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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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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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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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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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The calculative reproduction of social structures : The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2010 Peer ...
Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya
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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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Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans [PDF]
, 2017 Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory’s predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second ...
Ortiz, Vilma, Telles, Edward
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