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Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology [PDF]

open access: yesContemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2019
contributing factor, through the pathway of an associated increase in access to resources formerly controlled by men. Another essay, ‘‘Gender Shifts in Families’’ (Chapter Six), details how an increase in a female breadwinner model has been exaggerated ...
Bek Orr
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What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods

open access: yesSociology, 2023
Questions about the future, and futurelessness, have attracted wide-ranging attention in recent years. Our article explores what Sociology offers. We reflect on the apparent contradiction that the future was bracketed off from the discipline in its early
S. Halford, D. Southerton
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Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Research on Inequalities and Structural Change

open access: yesSocius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2021
This article outlines a research agenda for a sociology of artificial intelligence (AI). The authors review two areas in which sociological theories and methods have made significant contributions to the study of inequalities and AI: (1) the politics of ...
Kelly Joyce   +7 more
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Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology

open access: yesJournal of Health and Social Behavior, 2021
Medical sociologists and sociologists of disability study similar topics but, because of competing or conflicting theoretical paradigms, tend to arrive at different conclusions, engage with different audiences, and pursue different directions for social ...
Laura Mauldin, R. Brown
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Sociology by Any Other Name

open access: yesTeaching Sociology, 2011
This article suggests that the way in to sociology may not always be through the front door. The authors demonstrate how students in a three-day campus diversity program develop a sociological imagination despite not having a formal affiliation with the sociology department.
Meghan A. Burke, Kira Hudson Banks
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The future as a social fact. The analysis of perceptions of the future in sociology

open access: yesPoetics, 2020
A small but growing share of sociological research recognizes the importance of perceptions of the future for explaining social outcomes. This article, taking a sociology of knowledge perspective, provides a systematic study of sociological scholarship ...
Jens Beckert, Lisa Suckert
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Cosmopolitanism, sociology and the otherness of the other [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Dynamics, 2015
This article is concerned with the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in sociology and examines the ways in which the discipline attempts to come to terms with the otherness of the other as a corrective to its own Eurocentrism. It examines in particular the pluralisation of the notion of modernity and argues that although this strategy allows sociology to maintain ...
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The Sociology of Refugee Migration

open access: yesThe 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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COVID-19/Sociology

open access: yes, 2020
Though the COVID-19 epidemic is a social disaster as much as a medical one, and though some sociological ideas circulate in public discussions, disciplinary sociology has had little influence.
R. Connell
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The Sociology of Climate Change as a Sociology of Loss

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Sociology, 2018
Climate change involves human societies in problems of loss: depletion, disappearance, and collapse. The climate changes and changes other things, in specifically destructive ways.
Rebecca Elliott
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