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2023
This short interstitial chapter considers how waves have become figures in describing and predicting social change, from waves of opinion, immigration, and protest to waves of fascism and pandemic.
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This short interstitial chapter considers how waves have become figures in describing and predicting social change, from waves of opinion, immigration, and protest to waves of fascism and pandemic.
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Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Contemporary Sociology, 2018Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory is a book that sociologists ought to read and discuss. Author Julian Go calls for a new postcolonial sociology, one that makes visible and ‘‘critically examines the culture and episteme of empire’’ (p. 19).
J. Itzigsohn
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Social identity theory (SIT) explores how group affiliations shape individual identities, with self-categorization playing a central role. Group level mechanisms, including in-group favoritism and out-group bias, are central to SIT, and these are influencing organizational dynamics such as team formation and inclusion/exclusion processes.
Lotte Holck, Florence Villesèche
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Lotte Holck, Florence Villesèche
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2016
The category of the sacred was central to classical sociology, and remains key to understanding the contribution of social theory to the study of religion and society. Durkheim highlights the ‘socio-religious’ sacred, operating within otherworldly cosmologies and practices.
Philip A. Mellor, Chris Shilling
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The category of the sacred was central to classical sociology, and remains key to understanding the contribution of social theory to the study of religion and society. Durkheim highlights the ‘socio-religious’ sacred, operating within otherworldly cosmologies and practices.
Philip A. Mellor, Chris Shilling
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2011
Social theory refers to ideas, arguments, hypotheses, thought-experiments, and explanatory speculations about how and why human societies—or elements or structures of such societies—come to be formed, change, and develop over time or disappear. Usually supported in research institutions as a core component of the discipline of sociology, social theory ...
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Social theory refers to ideas, arguments, hypotheses, thought-experiments, and explanatory speculations about how and why human societies—or elements or structures of such societies—come to be formed, change, and develop over time or disappear. Usually supported in research institutions as a core component of the discipline of sociology, social theory ...
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