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Más allá de la imaginación política y de la teoría crítica eurocéntricas

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2017
Maintaining a proper distance with respect to Eurocentric tradition is the equivalent of being aware of the fact that the diversity of human experience in the world is inexhaustible, and thus no single general theory can explain it.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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The Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases for Shift Workers in the Prospective Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shift work can disrupt circadian rhythms and is postulated to play a role in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In the German prospective population‐based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, we analyzed longitudinal associations between shift work and night‐shift work with CVD.
Katharina Wichert, Sylvia Rabstein, Raimund Erbel, Lewin Eisele, Marina Arendt, Nico Dragano, Karl‐Heinz Jöckel, Thomas Behrens   +7 more
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Anthropo-societal theory and its importance for theoretical sociology: Thinking over «General sociology» by N.I. Lapin [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2008
Anthropo-societal theory and its importance for theoretical sociology: Thinking over «General sociology» by N.I ...
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian 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
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The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation [PDF]

Children's Geographies, 2016
Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives. Examining children’s involvement in
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian 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
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The city image of Bolgar and transformation of urban identity in the context of tourism development potential

Историческая этнология
The article focuses on studying the image of the city of Bolgar and the transformation of urban identity in the context of tourism development potential.
Olga A. Maksimova, Veronika A. Maslova
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
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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The Sociology of Emotions

جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2009
The sociology of emotions as one of the sub-disciplines of sociology received attention aroundthe late 70s and mid 80s in American sociology. During this period several important contributionstook place to make the roots of the sub-discipline robust ...
Ali Rabbani Khorasghani, Masoud Kianpour
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