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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Development. A Review of: Enger, K. B. (2009). Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 107‐112.

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2010
Objective – To test whether acquiring books written by authors of highly cited journal articles is an effective method for building a collection in the social sciences.Design – Comparison Study.Setting – Academic library at a public university in the US ...
Scott Marsalis
doaj  

Democracy From Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Existing studies often ask whether members of the public sanction political actors who break institutional or procedural norms. In contrast, we study a shared cultural horizon, which grounds democracy as a way of living.
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how self‐descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses.
Sharon Kishik, Morten Knudsen
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Hidden City: Collecting Prison Social Network Data. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Networks, 2022
Whichard C, Schaefer DR, Kreager DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Demand Networks and Informal Volunteering

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patterns of volunteering have predominantly been explained by focusing on the supply side in terms of volunteers' resources and motivations. We shift the focus to the demand side of volunteering and develop the concept of demand networks.
Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Jonas Toubøl
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing an early warning surveillance system in jails in Calabarzon, the Philippines, 2021. [PDF]

open access: yesWestern Pac Surveill Response J
Manahan KMS   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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