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Sociology and the Climate Crisis
What would it mean for sociology to make climate change a core disciplinary concern? This article reviews research on a selection of trends brought on by the climate crisis: ( a) compounding and cumulative disasters, infrastructure breakdown, and ...
E. Klinenberg, Malcolm Araos, Liz Koslov
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ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Întoarcerea la imaginația sociologică. Provocările sociologiei publice pentru România
The present article starts with a discussion detached from the academic community of American sociologists, which is based on public sociology, with reference on relevancy and utility of sociological knowledge production: “Sociology for whom”; “What ...
Delia Bădoi
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Today, tourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors globally and plays a decisive role in the economic development of countries. In recent decades the Yucatan peninsula has undergone great transformations connected to an uncontrolled and unrestrained ...
Giovanni Tocci
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Fondements et survie du capitalisme.
At a time when the new great economic crisis has brought criticism of capitalism back to the fore, the first questions seem as simple in appearance as they are complex in practice : How to criticize capitalism ? How to resist this ?
Leonardo da Hora, Martin Jochum
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“A lot of it is about feel”: The promise of sensory ethnography for anatomical education research
Abstract Ethnographers have constructed rich accounts of cultural settings since the early nineteenth century. A new approach, sensory ethnography, holds great promise for Health Professions Education scholars in its incorporation of the senses, particularly regarding anatomical teaching and learning. In this article, we describe sensory ethnography as
Paula Cameron, Olga Kits, Anna MacLeod
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L’homosexualité comme construction sociale : sur le tournant constructionniste et ses prémices
The French translation of English texts on homosexuality is growing but still incomplete. This article introduces the texts that have been collected and translated in this special issue and traces through them the emergence of sociological research on ...
Christophe Broqua
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Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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This paper tackles the role played by sociology in the analysis of the transformation processes in the Latin American societies, in following the construction process of both State and Nation, and in questioning the social issues in Latin America.
José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos +2 more
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The current conceptualization of homosexuality as a condition is a false one, resulting from ethnocentric bias. Homosexuality should be seen rather as a social role.
Mary McIntosh
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