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The Phases of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Italian Sociology: Institutionalisation, Social Engagement, and Emerging Problems
This article reflects on the qualitative and quantitative methods developed and adopted by Italian sociology and the historical circumstances that...
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Art and Sociology: Thoughts on Staubmann’s Efforts
In this essay I review Helmut Staubmann’s book Sociology in a New Key , which seeks to reorient sociological work through a new attention to and...
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Sociology for Whom, once More
Recent essays have raised once again the issue of the “long-standing divide between sociology as an activist discipline vs. sociology as a science”...
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American Sociology in A “De-Civilizing” Moment: The End of “Normalcy”?
This book examines changes in the “content and status of sociology” in the United States in the present and recent past. The author understands the...
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Limited Attention to Climate Change in U.S. Sociology
Climate change is increasingly recognized as not only a biophysical and technological problem but also a social one. Nonetheless, sociologists have...
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Digital sociology: origin, development, and prospects from a global perspective
To explore the rapid development of digital technology and its profound impact on human behavior and social functioning and to study the mechanisms...
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The Orchestration of Sociology in a New Key: Consonances and Dissonances
Nine distinguished scholars contributed to the review symposium on Sociology in a New Key , offering critiques, approval, and suggestions for further...
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Sociology and Sociological Education in Italy Between Universities and Upper Secondary Schools
Sociology was first introduced to Italy in 1961, when Franco Ferrarotti became the first tenure track professor in 1960 at Rome’s Sapienza...
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The Public Role of Italian Sociology: Among Institutions, Universities and Social Engagement
Sociology has played an important role in Italy, although its centrality in public debate has fluctuated, and it has been supported or opposed by...
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The Future of Historical Consciousness in Sociology
This article examines the peripheral position and future of historical consciousness in sociology. While many sociologists consider meta-historical...
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(Why) is the Sociology of Religion Marginalized? Results from a Survey Experiment
By several metrics, the sociology of religion subfield and its specialists are marginalized within academic sociology. Though various reasons for...
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Globalization of Sociology to the Sociology of Globalization
Sociology, in the words of its putative founder, August Comte (1798–1857), is both a science of society and humanity. The other, much older founder...
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Globalizing the sociology of the arts and culture: East Asian perspectives
In this editorial, I argue for a globalized sociology of the arts and culture that transcends West-centered theories and practices. To this end, two...
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Methodological Contributions of Computational Social Science to Sociology
Currently, the data environment for sociology is changing dramatically (Salganik, 2018). Traditionally, the main type of data used by quantitative...
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Sociocultural Context, Reference Scholars and Contradictions in the Origin and Development of Sociology in Italy
The beginnings of sociology in Italy correspond more or less to those of the birth of sociology as an autonomous science in France by Durkheim...
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A ‘Southern’ Perspective: Historical Sociology and Sociology in India
This paper traces the history of sociology in India to colonial anthropology and Indology. I argue that the compulsions of post-colonial society have...
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My Happenstance Encounter with Sociology
I came to learn about Sociology around 1982. In the beginning, it was just a personal interest, as the topics related to Sociology were very close to...
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An Invitation to the Sociology of Religion: Important Questions Answered by Scholars in the Field
What are the most important questions in the sociology of religion? And how would scholars answer them? This article explores what people consider...
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For a new Sociology of Social love
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in...
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Applying Practice-orientated Digital Sociology
The previous chapter developed a practice-orientated digital sociological framework, but it did not explain how the framework might be applied...