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]
, 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 ...
Dresp-Langley, Birgitta
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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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Sociological and Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on the Commercialization of the Sciences [PDF]
, 2012 Both self-organization and organization are important for the further development of the sciences: the two dynamics condition and enable each other.
A Giddens +98 more
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Structural Power and Emotional Processes in Negotiation: A Social Exchange Approach [PDF]
, 1995 This chapter focuses in the abstract on when and how repeated negotiations between the same actors foster positive feelings or emotions and, in turn, an affective commitment to their relationship.
Lawler, Edward J, Yoon, Jeongkoo
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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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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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Institutional Theory and Management Accounting Research [PDF]
MAB, 2012 This article discusses the use of institutional theory in management accounting research. Three different types of institutional theory are described and their use in studying management accounting change is explained: new institutional economics (NIE),
Robert W. Scapens
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Public confidence in policing: a neo-Durkheimian perspective [PDF]
, 2007 Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological processes that underpin trust and support.
Jackson, Jonathan, Sunshine, Jason
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