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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Pål Repstad (ed.): “Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends”

, 2021
Lise Eriksson
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain being a sort of sermon in sociology of religion [PDF]

, 1999
Bruno Latour
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN FERÎDÜDDİN ATTÂR’S PENDNÂME

Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2016
Feridüddin Attar affecting many thinkers and mutasavvıf (mystics/sufis) with his works and ideas has a unique position in Turkish society especially with his work Pendname.
Vehbi ÜNAL
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Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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"Value-Conditioned Interest": Secularity, Institutional Support, and the Sociology of Religion in Graduate Departments. [PDF]

Sociol Q
Blanton M, Krasnicki D.
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Towards New Conceptual Approaches in Legal History: Rethinking 'Hindu Law' Through Weber's Sociology of Religion [PDF]

, 2013
Geetanjali Srikantan
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