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The sociological canon reconfigured: Empire, colonial critique, and contemporary sociology [PDF]
, 2018 The essay reviews three books that were published consecutively in the last three years, and argues that they represent an important shift in sociology that could potentially reconfigure the discipline and the discipline’s theoretical canon.
Al-Hardan, Anaheed
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2023 Małgorzata Marks-Krzyszkowska +2 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Desenvolvimento e Urbanização: Senso e Contrassenso do Desenvolvimentismo
Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2011 This paper proposes a rapprochement between the sociology of development and urban sociology. The towns are the core of development as they are in them, which appear the characteristic culture of the development of the modern capitalist state - "urban ...
Sarah Pereira Soares +1 more
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia SociologicaThe aim of the paper is to present the phenomenon of the division of sociology into subdisciplines, using the sociology of the body and the sociology of sport as examples, and to show the possibility of mutual inspirations between the achievements of the
Jakub Ryszard Stempień +1 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Lithuanian Rural Settlements: The Legacy of Soviet Rural Planning and Current Challenges
Quaestiones GeographicaeThe article analyses the changes to the system of the distribution of population in rural areas in Lithuania, one of the former Soviet states: it compares the transformation of settlements during the socialist era and the transformations of the rural ...
KRIAUČIŪNAS EDIS +3 more
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The footballisation of the polish sociology of sport
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 The article addresses the issue of the unique position of football among sports, which supports Bromberger’s thesis on the footballisation of society.
Jakub Ryszard Stempień
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