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How can cultural sociology help us understand contemporary Chinese society?

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2018
In this editorial for the Thematic Series: Cultural Sociology and China, we discuss the global growth of cultural sociology as a sociological sub-discipline, its current state and future prospects in mainland China, and the aims of this special issue in ...
Amy Tsang, Michèle Lamont
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Here and Everywhere - Sociology of Scientific Knowledge [PDF]

, 1995
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is one of the profession's most marginal specialties, yet its objects of inquiry, its modes of inquiry, and certain of its findings have very substantial bearing upon the nature and scope of the sociological ...
Shapin, Steven
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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms

Íconos, 2021
Statistics are an essential tool for governance in contemporary public administration. The advent of this discipline in Ecuador hinged on the role played by a field of experts that appeared and achieved legitimacy in the period running between 1927 and ...
Byron Villacís
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The classical and modern sociology of knowledge: paradigm approach [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2019
There are discusses the classical and modern sociology of knowledge from the position of a paradigm approach in this article. The basis of the classical paradigm of the sociology of knowledge is the theory of social knowledge and the actions of K ...
N. V. Nikolina, A. E. Strelyaeva
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Tacit knowledge as a gift: sociology of the managerial culture in old China

Вестник университета, 2019
The interpretation of the concept of «knowledge» in spiritual culture of old China has been considered. The main ways of its acquirement and use in society has been identified.
M. Yu. Zakharov, O. V. Kryshtanovskaya, A. A. Komarova   +2 more
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Writing sociology in the Arab world: knowledge production through Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology [PDF]

, 2013
This article analyses the 18 issues of Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology, published from 2008 to 2012, including some specific variables (submission data, author nationality, article keywords, use of references).
Hanafi, Sari, Hanafi S.
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The body image of the contemporary senior and its interpretations. The perspective of different generations

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica
This article discusses part of a qualitative study carried out among representatives of four generations (the traditionalist generation, baby boomers, generation X, and generation Y), which reveals intergenerational differences in the way the ageing ...
Emilia Kramkowska
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From public sociology to collective knowledge production

, 2021
The chapter traces the terrain of doing public sociology in contemporary Singapore. I reflect on three key issues shaping the work of doing public sociology in this context: labor and its division; the effects of a dominant U.S.
Teo, Youyenn
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Sociology of Migration and Post-Western Theory

, 2021
How to build a Post-Western theory, based on the sociology of migration in France and in China? Where do “Western” and “Non-Western” theories converge, and how do common and situated knowledge coexist and interlock?

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i-Soc: An Info-Sociological Approach to Structural–Agent Causal Symmetry

Philosophies, 2020
In this article, I discuss the sociality of information flow by investigating a momentous yet often-neglected side of it—the reinforcing info-causal loops between habitus and structures.
Shing-Chung Jonathan Yam
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