POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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The gendered devaluation of psychotherapy. [PDF]
Paslakis G.
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts +3 more
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
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Operationalizing the Construct of the Internal Saboteur: Development and Psychometric Validation of the Internal Saboteur Scale (ISS). [PDF]
Caretti V +6 more
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The Silent Standpoint: How Professors Explain Gender Disparities in Academia
ABSTRACT Based on 77 qualitative interviews with professors in higher education, this article explores the interviewees' opinions on how gender disparities in academia should be explained. We show that male professors relate women's career barriers to family factors and women's own interests and preferences.
Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik‐Meyer
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Weight self-stigma, weight bias internalization, and eating attitudes in relation to body appreciation. [PDF]
Koçak T +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz +2 more
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Self-consciousness negatively mediates the positive association between internalized weight bias and weight status in cross-cultural survey and brain imaging study. [PDF]
Nakamura Y, Hayashi K, Maikusa N.
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