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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source

What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing pragmatic competence in Kurdish EFL learners: The impact of a learner-centered approach. [PDF]

PLoS One
Salih ZQ, Kurt M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling Responsibility: Perspectives on Dementia Prevention From Stakeholders in Canada, Germany and Switzerland. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Petersen N, Andreoletti M, Blasimme A, Lazzaroni C, Leibing A, Schicktanz S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Sweden, as in many countries, immigrant youth tend to exhibit higher educational aspirations than native‐born youth, yet their attainment often falls short of their greater ambitions. This study, resulting from a research project focused on educational transitions in two Swedish municipalities, explores two mechanisms that help explain the ...
Andrea Voyer, Stefan Lund
wiley   +1 more source

Summation, Saliency, and Saturation (3S): a continuum for a practical approach to assessing sample adequacy and analytic completeness in qualitative implementation research. [PDF]

Implement Sci Commun
Chepp V, Skoczylas M, Gray C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma, Scarcity and the Price of Legitimacy: Chronic Pain Advocacy and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Partnerships in Canada. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
Eisenkraft Klein D, Hawkins B, Grundy Q, Schwartz R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE UTILITARIAN FOUNDATIONS OF THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR. [PDF]

The economic approach to the study of human behavior has been presented by its foremost representative as the most effective method of studying social phenomena.
Jimena Hurtado
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