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Navigating authoritarian politics: towards reflexive framing in healthcare research. [PDF]
Østebø MT +3 more
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate
Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
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Mystics at war: Padre Pio and Ludwig Wittgenstein. [PDF]
Galofaro F.
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What is social science if not critical?
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
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Reasoning about possibilities: Modal logics, possible worlds, and mental models. [PDF]
Johnson-Laird PN, Ragni M.
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Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing
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
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Not evolved to save the planet, yet capable to promote pro-environmental action leveraging human nature. [PDF]
Varella MAC +11 more
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Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Oncologists' palliative care referral behaviour: testing utility of social exchange theory as an explanatory framework. [PDF]
Salins N, Hughes S, Preston N.
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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