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VertigOThis article presents a comparative reading of four handbooks recently published in France on environmental sociology. It first recalls that these publications are part of a process of institutionalization of this field of sociology that has been ...
Giovanni Prete
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Introduction to Pareto’s sociology
PSL Quarterly Review, 2014 The essay by the well-known philosopher Bobbio, reviews the Treaty of General Sociology by Pareto, recently republished in Italy. Bobbio describes and comments on Pareto’s Treaty, which he considers both as a prodigy and an unusual piece of work, and as ...
N. BOBBIO
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Sociology of sport: Germany and Switzerland
, 2016 This chapter examines the origins and institutionalization of sport sociology in Germany and Switzerland and provides an overview of the current state of research.
Nagel, Siegfried +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot +10 more
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Comparative historical sociology and the State : problems of method [PDF]
, 2016 Historical sociology can be understood both as a specific sub-field of sociology and as providing general conceptual underpinnings of the discipline, to the extent that it provides an understanding of the specificity of the modern state and the perceived
Bhambra, Gurminder K., +3 more
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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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Sociologisk Forskning, 2020 What can a theory of chess learn from sociology? And what can sociology learn from chess? This article examines the contribution of Scandinavian sociologists Dag Østerberg and Johan Asplund on chess and sociology in order to better understand chess and,
Sverre Wide
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, 2018 Critically reconsidering Durkheim’s sociology of suicide, we develop a quantitative analysis of individual level data contained in the Canadian Community Health Survey (2009-2012) to investigate the relationship between perceptions of social support and ...
Datta, Ronjon Paul, Nakhaie, Reza
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Challenges in the Teaching of Sociology in Higher Education. Contributions to a Discussion
Societies, 2017 At a time when Sociology (either in its introductory or general dimension or in the form of specialised Sociologies) is acknowledged as a scientific discipline with important contributions in training at the higher education level, and not only for the ...
Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Sandro Serpa
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