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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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Capitalism and justification [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2009 Weber's thesis that the spirit of capitalism was preexistent to the rise of capitalism itself inspired many sociologist to search for the cultural background of contemporary forms of capitalism.
Birešev Ana
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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, 2018 In the most general sense, the term“justification” refers to the act of providing reasons for the validity, legitimacy, and defensibility of (1) an action, (2) a belief, and/or (3) a social arrangement.
Susen, S.
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Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
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Où est passée la sociologie de la critique ? : À l’épreuve d’Affaires, scandales et grandes causes [PDF]
, 2007 International audienceCe texte consacré au dialogue entre histoire, anthropologie et sociologie en France, est une recension de l'ouvrage "Affaires, scandales et grande causes.
Fossier, Arnaud-Vivien
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Comparative moral principles: justifications, values, and foundations
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The article compares three influential theories used in sociology and psychology to categorize types of morality—Luc Boltanski & Laurent Thévenot’s justification theory, Shalom H.
Tuukka Ylä-Anttila
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Revista Controversia, 2022 El análisis de las controversias constituye, desde la perspectiva de la sociología pragmática, una oportunidad para conocer el modo en que los actores utilizan recursos argumentativos para justificar sus conductas.
José Fernando Sánchez Salcedo
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Memories of inauthenticity: Stiegler and the lost spirit of capitalism [PDF]
, 2013 No description ...
Roberts, Ben
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