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A Look at the Anthropological and Sociological Ideas

Проблеми на постмодерността, 2017
The two social sciences, which are very close, are anthropology and sociology. Both sciences use the same approaches, the same methods, share the same philosophical foundations, have the same subject of research - society. While developing in parallel
Ivan Evtimov
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Sociologizing Hau: Translation of Maussian Concepts into Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
In 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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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
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Transimperial Sociology: A Peripheral Dictatorship at the Centre of Late Colonial Social-Scientific Cooperation Between Empires

HoST
This 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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Ethnography, Ethnographers and Hospitality Research: Communities, Tensions and Affiliations [PDF]

, 2009
This paper examines the professional and moral positions of ethnographers located in institutions specializing in hospitality management. The paper considers the notion of ethnographic subjectivity and argues that ethnographers working in various ...
Lugosi, Peter
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

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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