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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking social capital in wildfire resilience: the case of central Portugal. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This article explores the role of social capital in wildfire resilience and is based on case study research in central Portugal. Given the recent revival of the concept across disciplines to explain how communities can cope with hazards, we critically analyse social capital through a social network analysis perspective, introducing an ...
Fachada C, Mendes JM.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
ABSTRACT Prompted by a nursing case study that occurred in 2022, this paper joins the perspectives of a nurse practitioner and cross‐cultural medical ethics professor to consider who can ask a question in the healthcare system, what questions can be heard, and how to develop pluralistic care models—beyond relativism and imperialism—that solicit more ...
Donaldson B.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Uma revolução conservadora na edição

Política & Sociedade, 2018
Assim como o livro, objeto de duas faces – econômica e simbólica –, é tanto mercadoria quanto significação, o editor é também um personagem duplo, condenado a conciliar a arte e o dinheiro, o amor à literatura e a meta de lucro, por meio de estratégias ...
Pierre Bourdieu
doaj   +1 more source

Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

A formação do habitus económico [PDF]

Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2004
Algeria during the war of national liberation offered a quasi-laboratory situation for analyzing the mismatch between the economic dispositions fashioned in a precapitalist economy and the rationalized economic cosmos imposed by colonization ...
Pierre Bourdieu
doaj  

Marginalia: algumas notas adicionais sobre o dom

Mana, 1996
Prosseguindo a análise do dom, este artigo busca ultrapassar as visões fenomenológica, estruturalista e economicista do fenômeno. Para tanto, desloca o eixo de interrogação na direção do tempo e da incerteza ligados ao intervalo entre o dom e o contradom,
Pierre Bourdieu
doaj   +1 more source

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Otra vuelta a la televisión

Revista Colombiana de Educación, 2002
Yo no pienso que los profesionales sean ciegos. Ellos viven, creo, en un estado de doble conciencia: una visión práctica que les lleva a sacar el mayor partido, algunas veces por cinismo y otras sin saberlo, de las posibilidades que les ofrece el ...
Pierre Bourdieu
doaj   +1 more source