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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Morale et moral [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin d'histoire politique, 2005
openaire   +2 more sources

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morals, Markets, and Medicine

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

“I Have to Change Sometimes Little Pieces of Me so That I Don't Come Off a Certain Way”: Managing Black and Brown Identities at the White University

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Black and Brown students report feeling isolated and out of place in U.S. universities, especially in predominately white institutions (PWIs), and there are a host of reasons for this. Because they are the numerical minority, Black and Brown students are highly visible others whose presence and behaviors stand out.
Abigail Reiter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Moral Inference and Communication

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Humans can make moral inferences from multiple sources of input. In contrast, computational moral inference in artificial intelligence typically relies on language models with textual input. However, morality is conveyed through modalities beyond language.
Warren Zhu, Aida Ramezani, Yang Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethics in Medical Education: Training Future Physicians to Address Systemic Racism

open access: yesDiversity &Inclusion Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Systemic racism continues to plague the medical field, contributing to persistent health disparities, inequitable treatment, and deep mistrust among marginalized communities. Medical schools hold a critical responsibility in reversing this trend by training future physicians to recognize, confront, and dismantle racism in healthcare.
Kayla Butts‐Jones
wiley   +1 more source

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