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Sociologizing Hau: Translation of Maussian Concepts into Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji DergisiIn 1945, Lévi-Strauss declared that the coexistence and transitivity of sociology and anthropology, which can be seen its most concrete expression in the collaboration between Durkheim and Mauss, was one of the distinctive features of French social ...
Şeyda Sevde Tunçbilek
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The Impact of Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences after 15 Years of Incursions [PDF]
, 2010 This paper provides an overview on the impact of agent-based models in the social sciences. It focuses on the reasons why agent-based models are seen as important innovations in the recent decades.
Squazzoni, Flaminio
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A Theological Challenge: Coordinating Biological, Social, and Religious Visions of Humanity [PDF]
, 1998 This paper attempts two tasks. First, it sketches how the natural sciences (including especially the biological sciences), the social sciences, and the scientific study of religion can be understood to furnish complementary, consonant perspectives on ...
Wildman, Wesley J.
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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HoSTThis text presents a thick description of Portuguese colonial science policy and diplomacy during the era of decolonization with a focus on the social sciences.
Ágoas Frederico
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Introduction - Bodies on Trial: Performances and Politics in Medicine and Biology [PDF]
, 2004 This special issue, devoted to the question of the body in medicine and biology, brings together a group of authors whose roots lie within the field of science and technology studies (STS), and at the intersections of STS with medical sociology and ...
Akrich, Madeleine, Berg, Marc
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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"Městské legendy" na pomezí oborů: antropologický, folkloristický nebo sociologický diskurs?
AntropoWebzin, 2009 Theoretical approach to contemporary oral narratives such as „urban legends“, rumour or gossip has been always afflicted by artifical gaps between various academical fields, most notably between social sciences (social anthropology, sociology) and ...
Petr Janeček
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2006 The following article presents a debate on the different approaches social sciences have assumed on regards to social representations. With this in mind an analytical review is done, starting with the classical perspective (Durkheim, Mauss), all through ...
Carlos Andrés Charry Joya
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