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Postcolonial reflections on sociology [PDF]
, 2016 This contribution addresses the impact of postcolonial critiques on sociology by drawing parallels with the emergence of feminism and queer theory within the academy.
Bhambra, Gurminder K., +2 more
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Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth +2 more
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Archiving the History of Environmentalism: Insights from Academia and Practice
History, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum considers the current state of archiving for the environmental movement at local, national and international levels. It responds to a gap that researchers of environmentalism have long been aware of, but one that is poorly understood from the perspective of records management and collections development practice.
Henry Irving +7 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract The First World War brought with it many new opportunities for women, amongst them the chance to play football. The game became popular and an important way of raising funds for charity. However, when the war ended, there was a push to return to the pre‐war social order, which ended many of the activities women had enjoyed for the duration of ...
FIONA SKILLEN
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Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Criminology Newsletter March 2017
, 2017 Issue of Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Criminology Newsletter, a publication of the University of Scranton's Department of Criminal Justice and ...
University of Scranton. Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Criminology Newsletter October 2015
, 2015 Issue of Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Criminology Newsletter, a publication of the University of Scranton's Department of Criminal Justice and ...
University of Scranton. Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology
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Feminism and sociology : processes of transformation [PDF]
This study seeks to explicate the processes through which feminist analyses and perspectives were during the early 1970s incorporated into undergraduate sociology degree programmes.
Pullen, Elaine Florence
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Against and beyond - for sociology : a study on the self-understanding of sociologists in England [PDF]
This thesis is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the self-understanding of thirty sociologists in England and their relationship with the discipline.
Simbuerger, Elisabeth
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