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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

The Transcendences of Listening to Music: How Listening to Bob Dylan Moves His Fans

open access: yesTemenos, 2012
The theoretical starting point for my article is the concept of tran scendence in the writings of Thomas Luckmann and Alfred Schutz. Schutz describes a continuing flow of transcendences of the immediate lifeworld.
ANDREAS HÄGER
doaj   +1 more source

Sharing the Same Playground? An Analysis of the Private Sector's Role in Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes the emergence of tech diplomacy as the motivation for an investigation into shifting relationships between traditional diplomatic actors and non‐state actors. The observation that ‘new diplomatic actors’ and new diplomatic venues have led to a ‘new kind of diplomacy’ dates back to at least the 1990s.
Katharina E. Höne
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperreality, Polarization and Prejudice: Social Media Descriptions of Swedish Child Welfare Services

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
wiley   +1 more source

Luckmann’s theory of personal identity

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog instituta, 2019
The paper deals with the presentation of Tomas Luckman's theory of personal identity. After defining the concept of personal identity and description of Luckmann's approach as an interdisciplinary and dialectic, attention is shifted to the elaboration of the influence of different levels of reality on the construction, maintainance and transformation ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Speaking Up and Standing Out: How Gendered Logics Shape Women's Self‐Advocacy at Work

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A widely held assumption is that women self‐advocate less than men. Our study challenges this view. Drawing on interviews with 71 men and women in a multinational company's leadership development pipeline and 10 HRM managers, we examine how women navigate self‐advocacy within gendered organizational logics.
Vedika Lal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
wiley   +1 more source

There is no need to push the bus. An analysis of Berger-Luckmann's philosophy without philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019
This paper examines the theoretical decision of Berger and Luckmann to place and develope the question of social constructionism on the other side of philosophy.
Koprivica Časlav
doaj   +1 more source

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