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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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Obituary: The Passing Of Professor Mario Rutten (1958–2015) [PDF]
, 2016 It is with great sadness for friends and colleagues in Asian Studies, and readers of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (where Mario was an editorial board member), to hear of the recent passing of University of Amsterdam Professor ...
Scrase, Tim
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES, 2014 Abstract - It is widely accepted among feminists that feminism implies a distinctive approach to inquiry. And for some this is not just a matter of the grounds on which topics are selected for investigation, or even of the theoretical ideas that are treated as relevant.
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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"BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION" IN BRAZILIAN SOCIAL SCIENCES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW FROM 1992 TO 2010 [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2016 This article carries out a "state of the art" review of the scientific production in the ambit of social sciences, by focusing on works where the subject of biodiversity conservation takes centre stage.
LAILA THOMAZ SANDRONI +1 more
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Research capacity and training needs for non-communicable diseases in the public health arena in Turkey [PDF]
, 2014 Background The aim of this study is to define the research capacity and training needs for professionals working on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the public health arena in Turkey.
Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen +7 more
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Breakthrough in the social research on childhood: search for the methodology of interdisciplinarity
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2019 Recently in the sciences of social-humanitarian character (education science, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychology, political science, etc.) the methodological breakthrough has taken place.
Audronė Juodaitytė +2 more
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Different conceptions of observation in sociology and anthropology [PDF]
Sociologija, 2013 The paper contains introductory considerations regarding the observation such as particular method and research procedure in social sciences. The observation is greatly neglected in favor of so called qualitative research methods or field work ...
Ilić Vladimir
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