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On the concept of habitus: Feminist critic of Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory

open access: yes, 2013
Key contemporary sociological theorists, such as Foucault or Habermas rarely explicitly discussed gender in their studies. This fact has not caused a lack of interest in the critical examination of the theoretical systems of these authors within a ...
Petrović Dejan, Petrović, Dejan
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System Theory and Ecological Approach in Social Work Practice: An Actual Case Illustration

open access: yes, 2022
The system theory has a significant impact on social workers since the 1970s. It advocates that the whole system, or a family, is made of different individuals.
Jamir Singh, Paramjit Singh   +1 more
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Microbiome−host proteostasis crosstalk—An emerging perspective on mechanisms and interventions toward healthy longevity

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
wiley   +1 more source

K. William kapp’s social theory of social costs

open access: yes, 2015
© 2015 by Duke University Press. This article deals with the theory of social costs by K. William Kapp, as outlined in his book The Social Costs of Private Enterprise (1950).
Berger, Sebastian
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Situating social theory

open access: yes, 2008
Description: Examines the implications of developments, challenges and disputes that have become important to debates in social theory, including fresh commentaries on key authors.
May, Tim   +2 more
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Affective recognition and social freedom - the psychoanalytic and normative-reconstructive logics of grounding social critique in Axel Honneth’s work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The task of this paper is the following: how should one explain and solve the theory-immanent tension in Honneth’s recent works, i.e. the tension that reflects the difference between the concept of social freedom (a concept grounded in Hegel’s ...
Werner Euler   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theory and method of social representations [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity.
Farr, Robert M   +7 more
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Social Identity Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Political psychology focuses upon a diverse range of contexts, including leadership, policy making, nationalism, racism, political extremism, war, genocide, voting, group mobilization, and many others. Given the centrality of the social political group in many of these contexts, theories of intergroup relations have proven to be very useful in ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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