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Utopias and Dystopias as Cybernetic Information Systems: Envisioning the Posthuman Neuropolity [PDF]
, 2015 While it is possible to understand utopias and dystopias as particular kinds of sociopolitical systems, in this text we argue that utopias and dystopias can also be understood as particular kinds of information systems in which data is received, stored ...
Gladden, Matthew E.
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on ‘earning while learning’ (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of ...
Mia Ruijie Zhong +5 more
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Mary Midgley: Philosopher of Human Nature and Imagination [PDF]
, 2020 The paper provides a brief introduction to Midgley's person and work, and an overview of The Biscuit Tin memorial event-series in honor of ...
Zárdai, István
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Banal Radicalism: Free Spaces and the Routinization of Radical Practices in Far‐Right Movements
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do free spaces become radicalizing spaces? Studies of far‐right radicalism have highlighted the role of insulated movement spaces in radicalizing their members. In these spaces, participants can flaunt their radical ideas and infuse them into everyday practices, forming these ideas into comprehensive and resilient worldviews.
Oded Marom
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Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a variety of conceptions of the public role that sociology ought to play. Perhaps the most common one presents it as serving a critical or oppositional function, not least in relation to governments and their policies. Yet this has by no means always been the dominant conception of sociology's role. In his well‐known typology, Michael
Martyn Hammersley
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Geographical imaginaries of escape: Discourses of escapism in the Tasmanian archive
Geographical Research, EarlyView.Tasmania is imagined as a place of escape. From bunkers and black boxes to lifestyle change, escape in Tasmania is interrelated through shared British colonial conceptions of the island state. These conceptions help form the archive of discourses that describe Tasmania, but there are still opportunities to reinterpret these discourses in more positive ...
Alexander Luke Burton
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The logic of idealization in political theory
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fundamental ambiguity over idealization's intended inferential logic: the precise way in which idealizations might yield normative knowledge.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Why Should Universities Contribute to New Utopias? [PDF]
, 2016 What would the ideal society look like, and its university? In 1516 the English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island.
Bouckaert, Geert
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Empirical realism and democratic equality
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
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