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Having one’s complaint heard: Implicit knowledge in prison disciplinary reports

open access: yesCriminologie, 2022
The competence of correctional officers is judged based on their capacity to maintain order within a particular sector of a prison. In rare instances, however, an officer may decide to refer a problematic situation to a disciplinary committee.
Esther Danais-Raymond, Dominique Robert
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Descrivere associazioni di entità in trasformazione

open access: yesSocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2021
Bruno Latour – among the many ways he can be described – is one of the masters of contemporary pragmatic sociology and he has suggested many original innovations to sociology as a whole.
Andrea Spreafico
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Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article aims at gendering our understanding of populist radical right ideology, policy and activism in Italy. It does so by focusing on migrant care labour, which provides a strategic site for addressing the relationship between anti-immigration ...
Scrinzi, Francesca
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Elements of a Pragmatic Theory of Capitalism

open access: yesСоциология власти
This paper offers a review of the recent literature on capitalism in historyand sociology inspired by the Pragmatist perspective. In historical sociology and economic sociology, capitalism has largely been discussed interms of its institutional ...
Dmitrii М. Zhikharevich
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From waste product to blood, brains and narratives : developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research CentrePeer reviewedPublisher ...
Boylan, Anne-Marie   +2 more
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Pragmatism’s Legacy to Sociology Respecified [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 2015
This article provides an account of a body of sociological studies recently published which claim to adopt a pragmatist approach. It discusses the validity of this claim through highlighting the similarity between some principles of pragmatism and of sociology (the primacy of practice, the decisive nature of context, the importance of uncertainty, the ...
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Evidence, interests and argumentation: an environmental policy controversy in a small New Zealand town

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2021
This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the local community had expressed ...
Peter Skilling   +2 more
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Book review: Pragmatic humanism: on the nature and value of sociological knowledge by Marcus Morgan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge, Marcus Morgan positions sociology not as a science of society, but as a discipline of humanity.
Carter, Adam
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Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani   +2 more
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La mauvaise surprise du retour d’un fanatisme religieux meurtrier

open access: yesSociologies, 2023
This text reflects on an event that seems to have left Jean-Louis Genard speechless: the terrorist attacks that struck Brussels in 2016. Recalling that his sociology was able to grasp the issue, our text attempts to make sense of Jean-Louis Genard’s ...
Joan Stavo-Debauge
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