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The misappropriation of “woke”: discriminatory social media practices, contributory injustice and context collapse
This article aims to give an analysis of the phenomena of unjust misappropriation of marginalised groups’ terms online, using the example...
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Clarifying Social Institutions in Institutional Individualism
This paper aims at clarifying social institutions in institutional individualism. I shall first examine Popper’s criticism of psychologism. Then I...
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How the Welfare State Tries to Protect Itself Against the law: Luhmann and new Forms of Social Immune Mechanism
Sociologist Niklas Luhmann argued that the law functions as society’s immune system by regulating conflicts that threaten the certainty of...
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Did Corporate Social Responsibility Vaccinate Corporations Against COVID-19?
Using an international setting consisting of 5410 corporations domiciled in 24 countries, we test the insurance-like effect of corporate social...
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Realism in Social Theory
Realism in social theory stems from the demand that all social sciences should be physically realistic about their subject matters. And their...
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Cultivating Organizations as Healing Spaces: A Typology for Responding to Suffering and Advancing Social Justice
Historic inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 and spotlighted by social justice movements like Black Lives Matter have reinforced the necessity and...
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The Social and Solidarity Economy: Roots and Horizons
In this chapter, we unfold the roots and developments of a Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) movement in different national and continental...
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Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents
Unorganised collectives that are interesting in terms of moral responsibility are a set of individuals picked out by some normatively relevant fact....
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Agency and Subjectivity in Social Sustainability
This chapter offers a theoretically informed contribution to how agency and subjectivity are key to social sustainability. Social sustainability is...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Multi-Stakeholder Governance: Pluralism, Feminist Perspectives and Women’s NGOs
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has increasingly explored relationships between civil society and social movements, including...
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Looking beyond values: The legitimacy of social perspectives, opinions and interests in science
This paper critically assesses the current debates in philosophy of science that focus on the concept of values. In these debates, it is often...
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Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?
This paper explores the question: What would conceptual engineering have to be in order to promote social justice? Specifically, it argues that to...
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Social inclusion revisited: sheltered living institutions for people with intellectual disabilities as communities of difference
The dominant idea in debates on social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities is that social inclusion requires recognition of their...
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Boundary politics and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems
In this essay, Kim Niewolny, current President of AFHVS, responds to the 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address given by Molly Anderson. Niewolny is...
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Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the...
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From Mechanisms to Dynamics: How to Embed Social Movement Studies Within Historical Materialism
Numerous studies within critical political economy try to make sense of the (post-)crisis period by focusing on top-down analyses of capitalist...
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An Externalist Theory of Social Understanding: Interaction, Psychological Models, and the Frame Problem
I put forward an externalist theory of social understanding. On this view, psychological sense making takes place in environments that contain both...
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The Political Ontology of Corporate Social Responsibility: Obscuring the Pluriverse in Place
This article examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of political ontology. We contend that CSR is not only a discursive mean...
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Emotions and Digital Well-Being: on Social Media’s Emotional Affordances
Social media technologies (SMTs) are routinely identified as a strong and pervasive threat to digital well-being (DWB). Extended screen time...