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Is There a Sociology of Suicide?

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A sociology of suicide plainly exists in a historical sense. Since Durkheim, sociologists have ssshown that suicide varies with integration, regulation, inequality, relational embeddedness, institutional arrangements, and cultural repertoires of meaning.
Enrique Fernández‐Vilas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Conniving With Continuations: Representing Goals in a Domain‐Specific Language of Thought

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Wanting composes flexibly with knowing: we can want to know, want to know what someone wants, and so on. In this paper, we develop a goal representation that allows for this type of rich integration between goals and other theory‐of‐mind concepts.
Kartik Chandra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un jardin dans la ville - Quelle biodiversité urbaine pour demain ? 

open access: yesTerritoire en Mouvement, 2012
Examining a garden created in 2000, from scratch in place of a former industrial site in the South of Lyon (France). Leads to reflections on Nature and Biodiversity in town. A criticism of gloom mongering and sensationalism.
Paul Arnould
doaj   +1 more source

From Policy Legitimization to Blame Avoidance—Discursive Strategies During Denmark's Mink Culling Crisis

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments navigate policy legitimacy during crises through three distinct discursive processes: legitimization, delegitimization, and blame avoidance. Using a sequential mixed‐methods design, the study analyzes Denmark's decision to cull all mink during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis of 947 newspaper
Olivier Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migrations and Shrinking Rural Areas in Europe: The Influence of Media Narratives in the Public Discourse

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT European shrinking rural areas have played an increasingly significant role over the last decade in hosting both voluntary and forced migration. Despite the structural nature of this phenomenon, media and political narratives frequently frame migration primarily through an emergency perspective.
Chiara Davino, Pierluigi Musarò
wiley   +1 more source

“That's Just How People Interact With Me on a Daily Basis”: Trans and Nonbinary Young People's Experiences of Sexual and Gender‐Based Violence

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents findings from a UK‐based examination of personal experiences of sexual and gender‐based subjugation and violence, as narrated in interviews with trans and nonbinary people aged 18–25. Using a critical discursive approach that can account for how situated positionings and acts of violence are shaped by hegemonic discursive
Rusten Menard
wiley   +1 more source

Sensationalism and Ethics in Online Journalism

open access: yes
Ovaj rad istražuje etičke izazove senzacionalizma u novinarstvu, s naglaskom na percepciju javnosti o tim praksama. Senzacionalizam, često obilježen pretjerivanjem i provokativnim naslovima, u sukobu je s načelima točnosti i pravednosti, što otvara ...
Djura, Janja
core   +1 more source

«Sensational nonsense»

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2015
The essay explores Lear’s contribution to the Victorian aesthetic debate, characterized by a marked resistance to the literary use of sensation (epitomised in Wilkie Collins’ fiction), and in which, according to Bourdieau and to many critics after him,
Antinucci, Raffaella
doaj   +1 more source

Words That Warn: A Meta‐Analysis and a Systematic Review on How Media Exposure Shapes Natural Hazards Risk Perception

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT The research examines how exposure to risk communication about natural hazards across different media is associated with risk perception of those hazards. Although risk perception is a key driver of protective and adaptive behaviours, evidence on the role played by exposure to risk communication through different media remains fragmented.
Alessandro Milani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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