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The sociology of Theodor Adorno [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking ...
Benzer, Matthias
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The Ribbon of Love: Fuzzy-Ruled Agents in Artificial Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The paper brings two motivations to the theoretical explorations of social analysis. The first is to enrich the agent based computational sociology by incorporating the fuzzy set theory in to the computational modeling.
Situngkir, Hokky
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development

open access: yesQualitative Sociology Review, 2020
In the paper, we present the development of symbolic interactionism (SI) in Poland by tracing and discussing its beginnings, as well as the influence the Chicago School had on the reception of SI in Polish sociology. Furthermore, we differentiate between
Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna Kacperczyk
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Proč je domácí násilí klíčovým tématem pro sociologii a sociální teorii: Napětí, paradoxy a důsledky [PDF]

open access: yesGender a Výzkum, 2014
Sociology and sociological theory have been effective in analyzing societal and institutional conflict and violence, but less so in analyzing the specifics of interpersonal violence.
Jeff Hearn
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Individual and Society: Sociological Social Psychology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Unlike the few other texts for undergraduate sociological social psychology courses that present 3 distinct traditions (or faces ) ... Symbolic Interactionist (SI), Social Structure and Personality (SSP), and Group Processes and Structure (GPS) by topic
Crawford, Lizabeth A.   +1 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology, Theory, and the Feminist Sociological Canon

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2017
In this article, I revisit the concept of “doing gender” to query whether the framework as directly articulated by West and Zimmerman is meant to be a description of social life (a social theory) or a testable and potentially falsifiable explanation of ...
Shannon N. Davis
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Agentenbasierte Modellierung und Simulation

open access: yesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2017
Der Beitrag führt in die Thematik ein und gibt einen Überblick über die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der agentenbasierten Modellierung und Simulation (ABMS). Er stellt die Potenziale der neuen Methode dar und begründet, warum TA und ABMS von
Johannes Weyer, Michael Roos
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Philosophical foundations of E. Durkheim’s sociological theory

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2022
The article considers the philosophical basis of Durkheims sociological theory, which consists of such metaphysical concepts as society, solidarity, sacredness and human nature.
A. E. Kapishin
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