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Later life, inequality and sociological theory [PDF]
, 1999 A central concern of many theorists of later life has been to elucidate the processes which shape the marginalisation and relative disadvantage of older people in contemporary society.
Sarah Irwin
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Children’s perspectives on being absorbed when reading fiction: A Q methodology study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Research in the intersections of literature, media, and psychology increasingly examines the absorbing story experiences of adult readers, typically relying on quantitative self-report questionnaires.
Anežka Kuzmičová +2 more
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Factors of social equilibrium shaping and preventing violence [PDF]
TemidaThe continuous landscape of violence that unfolds parallel to everyday life undermines our sense of well-being, security, and trust in the effectiveness of institutions that are evidently failing to guide individuals to act and react in socially
Pavićević Olivera +1 more
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A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism [PDF]
, 2016 This article contests the contention that sociology lacks a sound theoretical approach to the study of race and racism, instead arguing that a comprehensive and critical sociological theory of race and racism exists.
Golash-Boza, Tanya
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Coping with Climate Change: China's Efforts and Their Sociological Significance
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2018 Most scientists worldwide have accepted anthropogenic climate change as a scientific fact. However, the awareness of climate change varies according to populations, regions, nations and cultures.
Hong Dayong
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Brazilian sociological theory and postcolonial criticism
Sociedade e Estado, 2023 The article discusses to what extent sociological theories produced in the Brazilian academic field dialogue with a global intellectual movement criticizing coloniality and the Eurocentric foundations of the social sciences.
Lucas Amaral de Oliveira +1 more
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Novel Reflections on the Autonomy and Responsibility of Science
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2021 This paper explores how cultural understandings of the autonomy and responsibility of science in modern society are manifested in two contemporary science novels about research misconduct in biomedical research. In doing so, it looks at several facets of
Fabian Hempel, Fabian Hempel
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In search of quality and equity: The United Kingdom and Germany in the struggle for PISA scores
International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2022 School reforms aiming at improving educational performance (quality), closing achievement gaps and reducing the impact of family background on performance (equity) have been on the agenda worldwide for three decades.
Richard Muench, Oliver Wieczorek
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The Grand Theory Is Alive: An Interview with Jonathan H. Turner
Teorie vědy, 2021 Jonathan H. Turner is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Riverside and, for many decades, the world’s leading authority on sociological theory, with research interests in many other areas such as human and ...
Jonathan H. Turner, Petr Jedlička
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Sociological Theory from Dialogic Democracy
RIMCIS, 2019 Despite the long dialogical tradition both in Eastern and Western societies, in recent years the social dialogical turn is more and more evident in many domains of life.
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez +2 more
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