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The Intersections of Structural Violence and Social Agency in Plantation Geographies
This paper explores the intersections between the structural oppressions and violence of slavery and the social agency of captive people in the US...
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Technical and Human Embodiments of the Social
Since the “practice turn” and the “material turn”, human bodies and technical artefacts have increasingly become a focus of sociological attention....
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Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition
Using stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) to quantify past diets is becoming increasingly common in archaeology. This study highlights important...
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The Intersectionality of Social Exclusion and International Comparison: Rethinking the Methodological Nuances
This chapter foregrounds the methodological considerations involved in a cross-national comparison of qualitative data on social exclusion and...
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What’s Wrong with the Biologization of Social Inequalities in Health? A History of Social Epidemiology and Its Moral Economy of Objectivity
The “omics” sciences might provide a biological foundation for epidemiological approaches that have previously been limited to highlighting the...
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Social Connection, (Im)material Gains and Experiences of Inclusion of Asylum Seekers’ and Refugees’ Volunteering in Glasgow
Volunteering is an activity based on a non-profit idea of engagement in productive transactions. This paper examines why and how asylum seekers and...
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The Social Life of Palimpsests: Skill, Bifacial Stone Knap**, and Differentiation in the Plowed Fields of La Martre
Archaeological palimpsests are depositional units where the remains of various human occupations have been mixed for hundreds to hundreds of...
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Simulating Echo Chamber and Polarization Problems in Social Media
One way to understand such formation is by using opinion dynamics model. Most opinion dynamics models are based in the interaction between two...
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Empowering Social Justice by Develo** a Feminist Intersectionality Framework to Increase the Inclusiveness of Historical Markers in Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan, USA
A form of activist archaeology is undertaken by conducting critical feminist intersectional research to promote social justice in representations of...
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Social Metabolism: Origins, History, Approaches, and Main Schools
The human species’ main challenge today is the future. The future is a growing concern. As never before, natural and social processes have become...
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Social Challenges of Protracted Rohingya Refugee Presence on the Host Community of Bangladesh
The Rohingya ethnic Muslim minority group in Myanmar has been subjected to various forms of persecution and state-led violence since 1978. Myanmar...
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Application of Qualitative Method for Vulnerability, Social Capital and Disaster Preparedness
The aim of the research is the establishment and explanation of social events and experiences. This study examines the catastrophe experiences,...
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Social Reality Between Global and Local
Knowledge, through its first form (social representations), influences not only the construction of reality but also the construction processes of...
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Confusing the Spatial with the Social: Can Ethnography Offer a Way Out?
Urban renewal policies applied over Europe since the 1990s have been characterized by an integrated approach towards neighbourhood regeneration,...
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Musical Representations of COVID-19 on Social Media Among Young People in Nigeria
The outbreak of COVID-19 has witnessed various human responses both scientifically and socially. As a way of slowing down the infection rate, “social...
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Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice: The Embodiment of Social Reality
This chapter focuses on critically reconstructing Bourdieu’s model. Bourdieu’s theory of practice and habitus is relevant to a social constructionist...
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Social Housing and Young People: Effect of Emerging Forms of Conditionality on Young People’s Relationships Within Local Communities
Access to social housing is becoming more selective with allocation criteria requiring applicants’ stronger financial capacity or, conversely,...
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Theory is Not Enough! Experiential and Project-Based Approaches to Teaching International Social Work
In the increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, social work education requires a more global approach to graduating better-prepared...
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‘Fourth Places’: the Contemporary Public Settings for Informal Social Life and Interaction
This chapter brings together the findings from the previous two chapters linking them back to the existing theories. It argues that social encounters...
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Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change
This work re-approaches the origins of “the Celts” by detailing the character of their society and the nature of social change in Europe across...
