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Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT There is a variety of conceptions of the public role that sociology ought to play. Perhaps the most common one presents it as serving a critical or oppositional function, not least in relation to governments and their policies. Yet this has by no means always been the dominant conception of sociology's role. In his well‐known typology, Michael
Hammersley M.
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Solidarity in disaster scholarship. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract Disaster scholarship purportedly promotes disaster risk reduction and resists disaster risk creation, thereby deeply engaging with transboundary existential risks, justice, and political power. It is thus a commitment to humanity, and for it to become truly equitable and just, solidarity must lie at its heart.
Chmutina K +5 more
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Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting
Criminology, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 1022-1044, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Marshaling ethnographic data from a county jail, this study introduces “autonomy”—a novel concept and measurement of the degree to which an actor's exchange initiations are regulated by other exchange relations. This study rearticulates mutual dependence arguments about the social order of penological living in terms of social exchange theory ...
Michael L. Walker
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Global legal change from below and above
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 295-321, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P.
TERENCE C. HALLIDAY
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1407-1428, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This article explores the sexualized nature of the gay tourism industry and examines how ‘pink dollar’ organizations tacitly encourage incidences of sexual harassment from customers. Drawing on qualitative data from two popular gay tourism destinations, the article shows the embeddedness of sex, as a selling point, in the industry which ...
Anastasios Hadjisolomou +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 302-309, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Julian Go's BJS annual lecture is discussed in reference to his landmark OUP text Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016). Go is one of the most prominent names in a "third wave" of post‐colonial thought, now spearheading a post‐ (or de‐) colonial turn in sociological theory, something that has professionally revived the sub‐field of ...
Adrian Favell
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Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 345-359, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay responds to commentaries (this issue) on Go's “Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory” (this issue). The essay addressed shared concerns and underlying themes of the commentaries, most of which pivot around the problem of the anticolonial and the status of disciplinary sociology as a knowledge project.
Julian Go
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Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology1
Sociological Forum, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 926-950, December 2022., 2022 This article is a version of Professor Smith's Presidential Address as delivered at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston, March 2022. Most sociologists go into the field hoping our work will help address the inequalities or injustices we study, but academic institutions and careers strongly guide most of our work away from ...
Robert Courtney Smith
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Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2016 Another sociological utopia The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology.
Piotr Sztompka
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The promise of public sociology [PDF]
, 2005 extraordinary event. There was a buzz of excitement, the culmination of a week of high energy discussions of ‘public sociology’, and the product also of a year in which Burawoy had criss-crossed the USA speaking to dozens of groups and urging those who ...
Calhoun, Craig
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