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The New Sociology of Money
Recent work by sociologists has added to our understanding of the nature of money, notably in analysing the power relationships between the state,...
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Sociology, Social Justice, and Victimhood
Campbell and Manning examine how victimhood culture affects the discipline of sociology. The moral concerns of victimhood culture can lead to...
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Getting Signed Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society
Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud? Musicians in the United States...
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Reductionism
What is remarkable about the natural sciences is that each contribution is placed as a building block in the whole. All the millions of technical...
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Gifts as Information Media: What They Say About the Giver and the Relationship with the Recipient
Gifts are a kind of symbolic language used to communicate information about the person of the giver, the perceived role of the recipient, and the...
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Gift and Counter-Gift: The Reciprocity Rule
The most important principle of gift-giving behaviour is the reciprocity rule, which states that the acceptance of a gift triggers the obligation to...
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Guido Tabellini Recommends “A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy: Nation, Class, and Redistribution” by Moses Shayo
The standard economic approach has been challenged by political scientists, based on extensive empirical and survey evidence. Sociology and...
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Introduction
This chapter provides background information about the eleven cases of averted school rampage investigated in this study and describes the key...
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Science Slam About Sheep Cheese and Car Tires
Entertaining short talks on science topics – what sounds simple is the Higher School of science communication. Humor acts here as a door opener and...
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German Angst: After the Honeymoon
Transformation became a scientific term in the 1990s to describe and name the means for a good end. On the one hand, transformation meant a transfer...
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Experiential Literary Ethnography: A Creative Approach to Revealing Cultural Value
In this chapter, the author discusses the craft and composition of experiential literary ethnographies, why creative writing techniques are integral...
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Barbara E. Weissenberger Recommends “Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives” by Kenneth A. Merchant and Wim A. Van der Stede
A key challenge in management is to achieve behavioral control, i.e., to ensure employees contribute effectively to a firm’s goals. Kenneth A....
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Feminisms in Brazil: Paths of Reinvention
Brazilian feminisms are discursive fields of agency/action, which go beyond the label of “feminism”. Black, poor, working, or peasant women were...
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American Culture and the Dollar After World War II
Having immersed myself in the literature, sociology and public debate of the post-war period, the sound that I hear most clearly, from all the noises...
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Working-Class Environmentalism An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability
This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability.
Bell argues that environmentalism...
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Chapter 10: Joan Robinson on Economic Pluralism
This chapter draws on the insights by the grande dame of economics, the post-Keynesian economist Joan Robinson. She not only criticized the dominant...
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Katja Rost Recommends “The Network Structure of Social Capital” by Ronald S. Burt
Burt connects sociology with economic insights. He argues that short-run advantages on the path to equilibrium in markets can be explained by network...
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Militarized Youth The Children of the FARC
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews from across Colombia—including former child guerillas, former hostages of the guerilla organization,...
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A New Way of Thinking
Early civilizations relied on religion and mythology to explain the world that they lived in. The idea that celestial motions and the structure of...
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Anxious Whiteness, Anti-Racism on Hold: Exploring the Contemporary Disputes About Political Anti-Racism and Decolonization in European Contexts
This chapter analyses political processes and disputes that illustrate the contemporary engagement with the agenda of political anti-racism in the...