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Liberation Medicine in Authoritarian Contexts: The Brutality of U.S. Mass Incarceration. [PDF]
Bourgois P.
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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Southwestern Arabia through the eyes of Western orientalists during the first half of the twentieth century. [PDF]
Saigh IAI.
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Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
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What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Best Interest, Basic Interest, and Parental Autonomy in Child Vaccination Choices. On Roland Pierik and Marcel Verweij's <i>Inducing Immunity?</i> [PDF]
Giubilini A.
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Erving Goffman cuts a divisive figure in disability studies. Some criticize his conception of “stigma” as deviance‐focused and as ignoring structural forces that shape personal encounters. Others praise his recognition of stigma as an interactional phenomenon.
Gareth M. Thomas
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Generations in the grove: the Dongria Kondh's ecological kinship and intergenerational resilience. [PDF]
Yadav A.
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