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Decline or redeployment? The sociology of work in the UK [PDF]
, 2021 This paper takes issue with previous influential accounts of the evolution and contemporary potency of the Sociology of work (SoW) in the UK by challenging mythologies which have grown up around the trajectory of the sub-discipline.
Stephenson, Carol, Stewart, Paul
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Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology [PDF]
, 2023 Recent years have seen an increased epistemological and methodological interest within sociology in participatory research. Seen as one mode by which to upturn the apparent antagonism between ‘town’ and ‘gown’, and as a pragmatic way to render sociology ...
Larkins, Cath +2 more
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Sociology, Sociology and the Cultural and Creative Industries [PDF]
, 2020 Cultural and creative industries are now an established area of academic research. Yet, the welcome innovations that are associated with the development of a new field of study are also matched by confusions and conjectures.
O’Brien, Dave +2 more
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Introduction: Visual Sociology and the Relational Image
, 2021 In the introduction we define our starting points regarding the relationality and performance of the image. We reflect on the changing nature of the visual in the era of social media and outline the range of visual sociology, while briefly discussing the
Gary Bratchford +3 more
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Keynes, Kuhn and the sociology of knowledge: a comment on Pernecky and Wojick [PDF]
, 2020 Mark Pernecky and Paul Wojick use T.S. Kuhn’s philosophy of science to diagnose ‘The problematic nature and consequences of the effort to force Keynes into the conceptual cul-de-sac of Walrasian economics’.
Thomas, Rod
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CODA: Towards a Visual Sociology 3.0
, 2021 In this final chapter, we summarize the preceding chapters and point towards future directions for visually based sociology. We argue for a space where technologically afforded understandings of social reality and the multiple ways this ‘reality’ is ...
Gary Bratchford +3 more
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How facts travel: The model systems of sociology [PDF]
, 2012 The discussion in the sociology of science about the role of model systems in biology provides an invitation to reflect on whether and how similar devices operate in sociology.
Krause, Monika, Guggenheim, Michael
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Bringing it ‘Home’? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology [PDF]
, 2016 Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now ‘spun out’ beyond the dedicated departments that were once ...
Leonard, Paul +5 more
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'Not Smiling but Frowning': Sociology and the 'Problem of Happiness' [PDF]
, 2015 Mainstream British sociology has curiously neglected happiness studies despite growing interest in wellbeing in recent years. Sociologists often view happiness as a problematic, subjective phenomenon, linked to problems of modernity such as consumerism ...
Cieslik, Mark
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Managing the Tensions of Essentialism: Purity and Impurity [PDF]
, 2012 This article proposes a new interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu, as a theorist of purity and impurity. Bourdieu’s writings indicate that through the adjudication of things or people as relatively impure or pure an image is constructed of their essential ...
Sue Lampitt +3 more
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