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Reification, Matrices, and the Interrelationships of Goblin Spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae)
, 2013 Platnick, Norman I. (2013): Reification, Matrices, and the Interrelationships of Goblin Spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae). Zootaxa 3608 (4): 278-280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.4.
Platnick, Norman I.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Evolving temporal conceptual schemas: the reification case (extended version)
In this report we study temporal conceptual schema evolutions related to reification, a typical and complex modeling construct. Various kinds of reification are considered.
López, J +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Reification of mental illness: Some considerations
, 2017 This chapter presents a commentary on the reification of mental illness, as discussed in the previous chapter. It explores two key issues raised in the previous chapter: the nature of mental illness as referring to a concept, not a given thing; and the ...
Dan J. Stein
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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A Hegelian Theory of Reification [PDF]
György Lukács introduces the concept of “reification” in History and Class Consciousness, describing it as the social phenomenon whereby “a relation between people takes on the character of a thing” under capitalism. Its existence, he argues, is implicit
Dowling, Thomas
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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