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The life and work of Isidor Fischer (1868-1943)-A pioneer of the social history of medicine. [PDF]

Wien Klin Wochenschr
Hlade J.
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Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Silicosis history: from antiquity to the anthropocene. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Kurt Kayserili S, Akgün M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Engagement in women's health: a history. [PDF]

Res Involv Engagem
Perry AG, Mullins E.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Mao's Cultural War: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Revisited. [PDF]

Mod China
Wu Y.
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Dubourg E, Thouzeau V, Borredon Q, Baumard N.   +3 more
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