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Cosmopolitanism, sociology and the otherness of the other [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is concerned with the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in sociology and examines the ways in which the discipline attempts to come to terms with the otherness of the other as a corrective to its own Eurocentrism.
Argyrou, Vassos
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Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Human populations differ reliably in the degree to which people favor family, friends and community members over strangers and outsiders. In the last decade, researchers have begun to propose several economic and evolutionary hypotheses for these cross ...
Daniel Jacob Hruschka, Joseph eHenrich
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Public Religions in a Postsecular Era: Habermas and Gandhi on Revisioning the Political [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
An embedded ideology of the religious-secular binary in its various forms has assumed currency in recent continental and Anglo-American political thought.
Verma, Vidhu
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Partiality Against Parochialism?

open access: yesGlobal justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2010
Review: Toni Erskine, Embedded Cosmopolitanism – Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008.
Christian Schemmel
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Fraternity versus Parochialism: On Religion and Populism

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The relationship between populism and religion is complex because populists hijack religion but are often more interested in belonging than believing.
Wolfgang Palaver
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William Jennings Bryan's 1905-6 world tour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article is a study of the 1905-6 world tour undertaken by William Jennings Bryan and his family. Bryan was one of the major US politicians of his era. Three times a Democratic party presidential nominee (1896, 1900, 1908), he played a prominent role
Scroop, D.
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A QUAGMIRE OF PAROCHIALISM: THE ETHICS OF REFUGEE CHILDREN’S EDUCATION

open access: yesKhazanah Pendidikan Islam, 2021
First, this paper identifies education as one of the main livelihood needs of refugee children, but addresses the “knowledge that lies” inherent in the axiological aspect of the context.
Kalyanasis Bhattacharyya
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Cultural Relativism and “Our Way of Life”: Patricia Highsmith’s The Tremor of Forgery [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2022
Like Meursault in The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus, the 34-year-old protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s The Tremor of Forgery (1969) is almost certain of having killed an Arab in self-defence but feels no remorse for the deed except as it is judged by
Robert Lance SNYDER
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Who Controls a Constitutional Convention?—A Response [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
This paper presents PDEs that describes sedimentation by a system of diffusion and transportation equations. These PDEs are implemented with a semi-implicit scheme and solved on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
Dellinger, Walter E.
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An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection between individual ‘altruism’ and individual ‘parochialism’

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behaviour? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed in the public goods and trust games when interacting with fellow group ...
Shaun eHargreaves Heap   +3 more
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