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The Sociology of Refugee Migration
The Annual review of sociology, 2018 Theorization in the sociology of migration and the field of refugee studies has been retarded by a path-dependent division that we argue should be broken down by greater mutual engagement.
D. FitzGerald, R. Arar
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Întoarcerea la imaginația sociologică. Provocările sociologiei publice pentru România
Sociologie Românească, 2014 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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L’homosexualité comme construction sociale : sur le tournant constructionniste et ses prémices
Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2011 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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Assessing Community Progress on the Blueprint to End Homelessness [PDF]
, 2011 In 2002, the Indianapolis Housing Task Force published the Blueprint to End Homelessness, an ambitious 10-year strategy to end homelessness in Indianapolis by 2012.
Colburn, Kenneth +7 more
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The double bind of beauty work
Consumer Psychology Review, EarlyView.Abstract Despite marketing's influence on beauty standards, beauty work, defined as practices performed to enhance physical appearance, is underexplored in marketing. We review existing research and introduce a conceptual framework around a central tension: Consumers are pressured to alter their bodies to meet societally enforced beauty standards, yet ...
Rosanna K. Smith +2 more
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Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2011 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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“A lot of it is about feel”: The promise of sensory ethnography for anatomical education research
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.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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Sociologias, 2006 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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Mise au Point, 2011 Between 1950 and 1962, the famous journals Esprit and Les Temps modernes are devoting a large number of pages to the cinema. This corpus of texts can be explored with a sociological point of view.
Jean-Albert Bron
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.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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