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Netmodern: Interventions in Digital Sociology
The techno-economic grid of the Internet looks set to fulfil its autopoietic potentials as a global and multi-dimensionally immersive knowledge and memory archival network.
Brauer, Christopher
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Between Citizenship and Human Rights
, 2009 This article explores the effects of the legalization of international human rights on citizens and non-citizens within states. Adopting a sociological approach to rights it becomes clear that, even in Europe, the cosmopolitanization of law is not ...
Kate Nash, Nash, Kate
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The Proof Is In the Pudding. On 'Truth to Materials' in STS, Followed by an Attempt to Improve It
, 2011 What could it mean to use cooking as a medium or translation device for sociology? Why is the use of media other than writing so unusual in sociology, but not in other sciences?
Guggenheim, Michael
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, 2016 This article asks whether volunteering by refugees and asylum seekers holds potential to foster collective resistance to the British state’s increasingly punitive asylum policies. It draws on research that included four organizational case studies and in-
Vickers, Tom, Vickers, T
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Demystifying theoretical sampling in grounded theory research
, 2009 Theoretical sampling is a central tenet of classic grounded theory and is essential to the development and refinement of a theory that is ‘grounded’ in data.
Breckenridge, Jenna +2 more
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Placing Research: ‘City Publics’ and the ‘Public Sociologist’
, 2011 This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined ...
Addison, Michelle +5 more
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User Assemblages in Design: An Ethnographic Study
This thesis presents an ethnographic study of the role of users in user-centered design. It is written from the perspective of science and technology studies, in particular developments in actor-network theory, and draws on the notion of the assemblage ...
Wilkie, Alex, HASH(0x79501421a170)
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The Odyssey: School to Work Transitions, Serendipity and Position in the Field
, 2015 Little work on the significance and implications of decision-making has been undertaken since that led by Hodkinson in the 1990s and the experiences of young people on vocational programmes and their reasons for undertaking them remain under theorised ...
Atkins, Liz
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Vital Bodies: A Visual Sociology of Health and Illness in Everyday Life
This thesis addresses theoretical and methodological concerns to embody sociology. It offers an account of the body, health and illness in everyday life that uses a sensorially attentive research practice to take the body seriously and make it audibly ...
Bates, Charlotte
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, 2010 Sex work studies have seen an expansion in publications over the past decade, drawing together disciplines from across the social sciences, namely sociology, criminology and social policy.
Kingston, Sarah +2 more
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