Bridging corpus diagnostics and EAP pedagogy: A corpus-driven study on lexical hedges in Chinese scholars' spoken academic English. [PDF]
PLoS OneWang Y, Yu Y, Song H, Wu Y, Lin L.
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
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Music as a Gateway to Men's Mental Health: A Theoretical Framework for Masculinity-Congruent Intervention. [PDF]
Am J Mens HealthSieusahai JK.
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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Exploring obscenity in Nigerian Afro-pop music: A sociocultural analysis of Yoruba youth and social norms. [PDF]
PLoS OneEgbowon OE, Çiftçi D, Adeshola I.
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Communicative roles in human-anchored and AI-presented news commentary short videos: a multimodal intertextuality analysis. [PDF]
Front PsycholLi X, Wang X.
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics. [PDF]
Sci RepPreniqi V +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
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