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Crises as a Focal Point for Socio-Economic Problems
The topic of basic income has gained popularity and media attention not only in Germany with the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, and has brought...
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Understanding the Global Rise of Fact-Checking
The global spread of fact-checking initiatives and projects around the world reflects, at first glance, a neo-institutionalist point of view: that...
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Understanding Morality in a Racialized Society
In this chapter, we join the many active voices raising the issue of the absence of scholarship acknowledging the unique lived experiences of all...
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The Austrian Welfare State: A Halfway House
The Austrian welfare state is stable and its basic structure is not in question. Its social policy is influenced by the neoliberal mainstream in...
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Social Work with Prostitutes in Zurich: Illustrated by the Experiences of the Isla Victoria Counselling Centre
In her contribution “Social work with prostitutes in Zurich - illustrated by the experiences of the Isla Victoria counselling centre”, Regula Rother...
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Test Run II: What Is Testing? Social-Theoretical Effects of Experimentalism
In ‘Test run II’ I bring together three programmes that, again, appear to exhibit few common features at first glance: Niklas Luhmann’s theory of...
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Attention to social stratification in the public discourse: An empirical study based on big data of books (1949–2008)
Using the Chinese corpus of Google Books Ngram in line with other macro-level socioeconomic data, this paper examines and analyzes the trend of...
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Collective Life Courses: Generations, Cohorts and Social Change
This chapter discusses the two sociological concepts for capturing collective life courses: cohort and generation. First, the cohort concept, which...
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A Conceptual Review of Workplace Distress and Stigma of LGBTQIA+ Workers
Workplaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and more/plus (LGBTQIA+) employees frequently lack safety. LGBTQIA+...
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Hierarchies and the Complementarity of Authority and Equality
Authority involves hierarchy and is a component of many patterns of useful collective action, capacity-building for addressing needs, and social...
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Ecofeminist Political Economy: Critical Reflections on the Green New Deal
Can the Green New Deal (GND) point the way to a post-capitalist future? Ecofeminist political economy maintains that this is only possible if social...
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Social Widerspiegelung in Humans: Fundamentals
In the second chapter, Widerspiegelung was discussed in general terms as the Widerspiegelung of objective reality. However, Widerspiegelung also...
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From the Referential Pattern of Universal Values (RPUV) to a new Index of Human Development (HDI)
This work pursues two theoretical objectives: first, the instrumental one: to report on a "Referential Pattern of Universal Values (RPUV)" that...
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The Professional Practice of the Brazilian Social Worker: Problems About the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic situation that imposed significant changes in the living and working habits of all working-class members....
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From Social Interaction to Digital Networking: Processes of Mediatization and the Transformations of the Self
In the tradition of pragmatism and symbolic interactionism, the self is constituted in social interaction. After outlining this connection, the paper...
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Confucian Social Construction: Perspective and Methodology of Social Research in China
The perspective of localization can first be discussed through the composition and construction of society.
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Develo** Social Work Competencies to Empower Challenging Communities: From an Empty Foyer to a Shared Social Space
The chapter offers a descriptive analysis of an enhanced integration project in Hervanta, one of the largest multicultural suburbs in Finland. The...
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Zoonoses and Medicine as Social Science: Implications of Rudolf Virchow’s Work for Understanding Global Pandemics
The current COVID-19 crisis has brought to the forefront the ways in which our proximity to non-human organisms and our biological exchanges with...
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Conclusions: Towards Post-anthropocentric Masculinities Through Men’s Veganism
The concluding chapter summarises and discusses the main findings of the previous chapters and highlights the key elements of privileged men’s...