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In 1990, the sociologist Phil Strong wrote about “epidemic psychology” as part of his research on the recent history of AIDS. Strong described vividly how epidemics of fear, of explanation and moralization, and of (proposed) action accompanied the ...
Martyn Pickersgill
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Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories [PDF]
This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third ...
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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Historical and Comparative Sociology in a Globalizing World
Historical and comparative sociology or the so-called New Historical Sociology – resuming the older classical tradition of pre-WWII historical sociology – represents a specific theoretical and analytical perspective within sociology in cooperation with ...
Wilfried Spohn
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Psychological Inflexibility (PI) has emerged as a compelling construct to explain psychological distress (PD). Different processes have been hypothesized to underlie PI, including high experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion, and low committed action.
Olivia Bernini+3 more
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Environmental sociology as the broadest framework for a research of the globalizing social reality [PDF]
The all-encompassing processes of globalization have contributed in a large measure to the confusion within scholarly attempts to decode its comprehensiveness, its causes, and its scope.
Pušić Ljubinko
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Feminism and the sociology of everyday life [PDF]
This paper examines the influences of feminist thought on sociological theory and research, refracted through the conceptualization of the sphere of everyday life.
Spasić Ivana A.
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Towards a sociology of (public) mourning? [PDF]
Within the last decade or so there has been a growing recognition among sociologists of the role played by emotions in various aspects of human behaviour (witness, for example, the range of articles appearing in Sociology alone, e.g.
Brennan, Michael
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The American Journal of Sociology
Marriage increased in the United States from I920 to I930 even when age, nativity, and urban-rural composition are held constant. Early marriage is not increasing. Urban-rural differences and sex differences are less. There are fewer widowed.
William Graham Sumner
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In this autobiographic work, Raymond Boudon reviews his trajectory from his beginning as a student at the École Normale Supérieure to the last stages of his career.
Raymond Boudon
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The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond [PDF]
First, this article will outline the metaphysics of ‘the social’ that implicitly and explicitly connects the work of lassical and contemporary cosmopolitan sociologists as different as Durkheim, Weber, Beck and Luhmann. In a second step, I will show that
Appiah, K.A.+40 more
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