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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the network. A critical inquiry into the limits of the actor-network theory [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
This article critically examines the limitations and challenges of Actor- Network Theory (ANT) in contemporary social theory. Originally developed as a response to structuralist and constructivist paradigms, ANT offered a radical methodological ...
Mladenović Ivica
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Sociology and Social History [PDF]

open access: yes
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Eric Hobsbawm
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Situating organizational action: the relational sociology of organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper advances a relational sociology of organization that seeks to address concerns over how organizational action is understood and situated.
Delbridge, R, Mutch, A, Ventresca, M
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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
wiley   +1 more source

Latin american sociology's contribution to sociological imagination: analysis, criticism, and social commitment

open access: yesSociologias, 2006
This paper tackles the role played by sociology in the analysis of the transformation processes in the Latin American societies, in following the construction process of both State and Nation, and in questioning the social issues in Latin America.
José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos   +2 more
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Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology [PDF]

open access: yes
Proclamations of \'current crisis\' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in British and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived \'current crisis\'. It then discusses some of
Liz Stanley, Robert Hollands
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Playing with tension:national charisma and disgrace at Euro 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
By the time of Euro 2012, deepening tensions of nationalism and internal social struggles were developing across Europe in worsening conditions of systemic crisis.
Law, Alex
core   +5 more sources

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hidden side of business anti-crisis personnel management. Social inequalities and power asymmetries in large corporations: a documentary sociological study

open access: yesClío
Social inequalities and their consequent power asymmetries that exist in all societies between the elite and the rest of the common people constitute, even today in the 21st century, a central problem for the critical social sciences.
Iryna Prokopenko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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