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What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

RECONSIDERING TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY IN JAPAN

PSYCHOLOGIA, 2020
TOYA, Akihiro, NAKASHIMA, Ken’ichiro
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The mediating role of death anxiety between meaning in life and spiritual care competence among Chinese nursing interns: implications for healthcare training. [PDF]

BMC Palliat Care
Zhang Z, Yang L, Zong X, Kardiyudiani NK, Han L, Xie R, Zhang R, Ma C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for terror management theory

The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2017
openaire   +2 more sources

Learning as a shield against death: a 10-day daily diary study examining mortality salience and academic engagement among college students. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Yan Y, Xie Q, Lai J.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological and behavioural responses to death anxiety in older adults with chronic illnesses: a systematic integrative review. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Alcântara L, Figueiredo T, Midão L, Costa E, Paúl C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of emotion in terror management theory

Advances in Psychological Science, 2017
Kexin LU, Kehan SHEN, Hong LI
openaire   +1 more source