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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Political Visions of a Global Challenge
Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2010 GIDDENS, Anthony. A política da mudança climática. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2010. 316p. ISBN: 978-85-378-0261-8. [Traduzido do original: GIDDENS, Anthony. The politics of climate change. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009]. Tradução de Vera Ribeiro.
Thiago de Araújo Mendes
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
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Consideraciones críticas sobre la teoría de la estructuración de Anthony Giddens
Athenea Digital, 2015 El propósito del trabajo es discutir algunos de los principales postulados de la teoría de la estructuración de Anthony Giddens, a fin de reflexionar acerca de la síntesis que propone entre estructura y acción.
Mariela Cambiasso
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Clinical users' perspective on telemonitoring of patients with long term conditions: Understood through concepts of Giddens's structuration theory & consequence of modernity [PDF]
, 2010 This is the post-print version of the article - Copyright @ 2010 IOS.This study involves conducting focus group discussions with clinical users (nurses and technicians) prior to the launch of telehealth service in Nottingham, UK, to elicit their initial ...
Barnett, J, Clarke, M, Sharma, U
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Book Review: Paul Michael Garrett, Social work and social theory: Making connections. The Policy Press: Bristol, 2013, ISBN 9781847429605 [PDF]
, 2014 It is important to state at the outset that I enjoyed this book, or at least large sections of it, but I also found it rather frustrating. The book is made up of 11 chapters and following an introductory chapter, is split into two parts.
Parton, Nigel
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
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Credibility assessment for sustainable consumption: A laboratory study
Cogent Business & Management, 2017 Sustainable consumption has the potential to hold firms accountable for the negative externalities they impose on society and the environment, but consumers are often unsure whether to believe that the products and companies promoted as being sustainable
Stephanie Watts, Laurie Giddens
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Apuntes sobre modernidad, reflexividad y política: más allá de la democracia dialógica
Íconos, 2001 Giddens trata de conferir rigor a sus formulaciones normativas de la nueva política radical y la democracia dialógica. Tomando a la reflexividad como basamento ontológico y campo de posibilidad para acciones políticas altruistas. ¿No cae, acaso, Giddens
Natalia Catalina León G
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Situated cultural approach versu predefined cultural archetypes models [PDF]
, 2009 Within the last 20 years, the practical relevance of researching cultural issues, and especially comparing phenomena across cultures, was questioned (Ferraro, 1990).
Ali, M
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