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Perché la «sociologia pubblica» resta controversa
The public sociology promoted by Burawoy has met with consensus and skeptical voices over time. The debate has focused mainly on the model of disciplinary division of labour and on the interactions between the different types of sociology.
Carlo De Rose
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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A Sociology for the 21st Century? An Enquiry into Public Sociology Reading Zygmunt Bauman
Michael Burawoy’s public sociology presents a vision of engaged and political sociology that stands for critical debate and social justice. The article will consider public sociology in light of Zygmunt Bauman’s social thought, one of the most ...
Martin Aidnik
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The speed of social change, the need to receive feedback, the formation of the loyalty of a wide range of groups involved in the process of urban change are the reasons for turning to applied sociological research.
Larisa E. Petrova +3 more
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In this conversation, Michael Burawoy discusses how he discovered the sociology of Gramsci in radically diverse contexts — from a vibrant post-colonial Zambia to Analytical Marxism in Chicago.
Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Michael Burawoy
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Linguistics Landscape: a Cross Culture Perspective [PDF]
This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997).
Duizenberg, M. R. (Max)
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Klasická sociologie Inocence A. Bláhy v kontextu soudobých diskusí
The following text deals with the sociology of I. A. Bláha in the context of two contemporary discussions about values in social science: the first is a dispute about so called public sociology and the second represents feministic epistemological ...
Dušan Janák
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C. W. Mills in his well-known The Sociological Imagination commented critically on the argument about value neutrality of sociology, even though he developed the heritage of value neutrality of a scientific analysis himself.
Miroslav Tížik
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Nature, society and social change [PDF]
Environmental destruction has become an everyday reality in the contemporary world. Major concerns are being put forward regarding the dangers to the environment in general and to human societies in particular, with strong focus currently being put on ...
Briguglio, Michael
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