Theorizing Surveillance in the UK Crime Control Field [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Structural Power and Emotional Processes in Negotiation: A Social Exchange Approach [PDF]
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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The golden circle: A way of arguing and acting about technology in the London ambulance service [PDF]
This paper analyses the way in which the London Ambulance Service recovered from the events of October 1992, when it implemented a computer-aided despatch system (LASCAD) that remained in service for less than two weeks.
A Giddens +37 more
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L'eredità di Norbert Elias nella sociologia dello sport
The paper aims to analyse Norbert Elias’ legacy in the sociology of sport, marked by the centrality of figurational theory in the tradition of this field of study.
Luca Bifulco
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Institutional Theory and Management Accounting Research [PDF]
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]
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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Tourist mobility: sociological theory and implementation practices [PDF]
The article analyzes the connection between the sociology of tourism and the general sociological theory of mobility, which leads to an understanding of modern tourist mobility not as a process of revealing the will of individuals to learn about ...
Nikolaienko Volodymyr
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Reconsidering feminisms and the work of Norbert Elias for understanding gender, sport and sport-related activities [PDF]
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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