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Employing social imagination in Iraqi feminist theatrical text
الاكاديميThe act of building intellectual and cultural knowledge and concepts requires a dramatic, cognitive, and aesthetic formation to generate interpretive dimensions to form an objective and aesthetic distance for the viewer that takes space to polarize the ...
Ruqaya Wahab Bayram
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Art/Research International, 2021 In this article, I review the social fiction novel, Into the Sea, by Ash Watson, and discuss the ways in which Watson uses fiction as sociological theory.
Jessica Smartt Gullion
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Transcending History’s Heavy Hand: The Future in Economic Action
, 2020 This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain
Beckert, J., Ergen, T.
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In the footsteps of a quiet pioneer: Revisiting Pearl Jephcott’s work on youth leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong [PDF]
, 2018 Pearl Jephcott’s (1967) research on Scottish teens, Time of One’s Own, is one of the first sociological studies of leisure in the postwar period. This research is remarkable not only for its emphasis on ‘ordinary’ young people but also for its ambitious ...
Batchelor, Susan A.
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Aesthetics and class interests: Rethinking Kant [PDF]
, 2014 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Third Text, 28(2), 137 - 148, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09528822.2014.890788.Immanuel Kant's philosophy of the aesthetic is
Wayne, M
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Paving the Way to Elucidate Hg's Role in Tumorigenesis
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Tumorigenesis can result from diverse environmental carcinogens. Among them, mercury—a lifelong bioaccumulative Group 2B carcinogen—has tumorigenic potential that remains poorly understood due to confounding co‐exposures and limited organ‐specific data.
Shouying Li +10 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Public reason, adult education and social imagination
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2021 Communities of publics where citizens together develop informed opinion as basis for political decisions is crucial to democracy; and adult education can contribute vitally to such communities.
Palle Rasmussen
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The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry? [PDF]
, 2009 This paper offers a restatement of Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and tries to judge whether its promise can be credibly renewed today by addressing the question about the present and future possibilities of the social sciences as free forms ...
Frade, C
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The institutionalisation of human rights reconceived: the human rights state as a sociological 'ideal type' [PDF]
, 2017 In the contemporary political world order that continues to be structured by the principle of national sovereignty, the fate of human rights ultimately depends on states as the main guarantors and transgressors of rights.
Wolfsteller, René
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