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Ambivalent Agents: The Social Mobility Industry and Civil Society Under Neoliberalism in England

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines civil society organisations working to enhance social mobility in England, especially through higher education. Against the backdrop of neoliberal governance, we investigate whether these organisations operate as protective counter‐movements resisting marketisation or as institutional mechanisms that stabilise the ...
Anna Mountford‐Zimdars   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perspectives on neoliberal political‐economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to ‘society’. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the ‘neoliberal revolution’, claiming that, when ‘the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience’, commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and ...
Jan Dobbernack
wiley   +1 more source

Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

How Liberal is (the Liberal Critique of) a Liberal Eugenics?

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014
This article critically surveys the current bioethical and politico-philosophical debate about the ethical permissibility of a so-called ‘liberal eugenics’ and argues that neither the liberal argument for nor the liberal argument against human genetic enhancement is internally consistent as, ultimately, each ends up violating the very liberal ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Liberal – Liberalismo

open access: yesLer História, 2008
The history of the words liberal and liberalism and the usages that were made in the Portuguese context share, as expected, many of the lines that are detectable in other scenarios. If you seek for specifics, perhaps they can be found, firstly, in the greater persistence of the old sense of liberality, in the fact that it was not the word (Liberal ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Toward an Austro‐Libertarian Sociology

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interventionism has become a defining feature of modern societies, shaping individual behavior, economic activity, and social norms through state regulations, subsidies, and collectivist ideologies. Despite its profound impact, sociology has largely failed to critically examine the dynamics of interventionism from a praxeological standpoint in
Alexis Sémanne
wiley   +1 more source

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