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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Shimmei's 'History of Sociology' and Sociological Thought

open access: yesJapanese Sociological Review, 1985
Masamichi Shimmei was the first one in Japan who wrote the outstanding 'History of Sociology', and it was well worthy of his wide erudition. His sociological history took a general view of the world sociological development from his original basic theory (Handlungszusammenhang) constructed in the early stage of his academic life.
openaire   +2 more sources

[Review of the Book \u3ci\u3ePerspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis\u3c/i\u3e] [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
[Excerpt] Over the past two decades many claims have been made for what was once called the new labor history. Deeply influenced by European scholarship (especially by the British historian, E. P.
Salvatore, Nick
core   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Décrire, comprendre et expliquer

open access: yesSociologies, 2006
To describe, understand, and explain, following the formula which expresses the purpose of the field of sociology, is here illustrated principally through the theories and approach of Pierre Bourdieu.
Jacques Hamel
doaj  

The sociology of education as the history of the present: fabrication, difference and abjection

open access: yesHorizontes, 2013
The paper explores the fabrications of human kinds in pedagogical research. It examines the social and psychological sciences of education as producing independent spaces for the study of people in order to act on them and as a cultural thesis for people
T. Popkewitz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Culture and Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Matuchniak-Krasuska, Anna
core  

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Pierre de Bie, au service d’une sociologie organique

open access: yesSociologies, 2010
Introduction and presentation of Pierre de Bie’s text "Situation de la sociologie. Contribution à une sociologie de la sociologie", first published in 1955 in Bulletin de l'Institut de recherches économiques et sociales, vol.
Casimiro Balsa
doaj  

Empirical challenges in assessing the “leaky STEM pipeline”: how the research design affects the measurement of women’s underrepresentation in STEM

open access: yesInternational Journal of STEM Education
Background Despite a well-documented underrepresentation of women in STEM majors and occupations, empirical evidence on whether there really is a “leaky STEM pipeline” is mixed due to a lack of methodological consistency.
Antje Stefani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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