ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Abstract This paper explores what is happening, for a trainee, when an ethical boundary violation occurs by the analyst with a fellow peer in training. I am approaching this through the Jungian concept of the alchemical vas as I attempt to make meaning of a catastrophic collapse of the analytic work.
Anne Marie Allen
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From social exclusion to interpersonal alienation among Chinese college students: the sequential mediating roles of social avoidance and self-disclosure inhibition. [PDF]
Liu Y, Chen P, Lei P, Tang W.
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Capitalizing flood risk protective measures in residential real estate
Abstract This study utilizes 1.4 million residential transactions incorporating flood hazard estimates derived from a nationwide elevation model and hydrological data to examine the role of flood protections to mitigate the negative impact of flood risk on home prices.
Muhammad Ramzan Kalhoro +3 more
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Associations between organizational cynicism, workplace alienation, and nurses' work effectiveness: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey. [PDF]
Abousoliman AD, Hamed HM.
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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“Swallowed by a Black Hole”: The Neglected Impact of Endometriosis in the Workplace
ABSTRACT This study examines how endometriosis, as a chronic and cyclical condition, is experienced and managed in contemporary workplaces, and what this reveals about the limits of existing human resource management (HRM) frameworks. Drawing on Feminist Disability Theory (FDT), we conceptualise endometriosis as a form of structurally produced ...
Meltem Yavuz Sercekman, Ozlem Ayaz
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Mindfulness as a mediator and moderator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction among Taiwanese university students. [PDF]
Chang SH +4 more
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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