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The Structural Power of the State-Finance Nexus: Systemic Delinking for the Right to Development
The current era of financial hegemony is characterized by a dense financial actor concentration, an exacerbated reliance of many South countries on...
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A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework
This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility as an intrinsic part of broader processes...
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Profile 3: Suzanne Steinmetz
“A major goal of this study was to obtain reliable data that would provide not only information on abusive and neglectful interactions between...
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Critical Sociology
The late 1960s led to a radical break in Ecuadorian sociology. A group of young thinkers, many politicized in the artistic movement of the tzántzicos...
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Determinants of Informal Social Help Among Women Enduring Marital Separation and Poverty
The private economic assistance that women experiencing poverty can potentially receive during a marital separation has been largely overlooked. This...
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A Global Indicator to Track Well-Being in the Silver and Golden Age
In this work, we design a protocol to obtain global indicators of health and well-being from weighted and longitudinal heterogeneous multivariate...
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The Cognitive-Historical Origins of Conceptual Ambiguity in Social Theory
This chapter develops a new approach for differentiating conceptual ambiguity from vagueness in social theory. In contrast to the usual strategy, I...
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Can demographic targeting alter short-term fertility decisions? The effects of humanitarian assistance on the fertility behaviour of Syrian refugees in Turkey
Turkey, as the country with the highest number of refugees, is currently home to 3.6 million Syrians who had to flee their country due to the...
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Theory, Concept, and Research Design
This chapter clarifies why SLBs and public administrators might be interested in building local governance networks and what makes their emergence...
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Strands of Classical Theory in the Study of Social Movements
As a distinctive field of scholarship, social movement studies only emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, long after the heyday of classical social theory...
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Current Theorizing of Inter-Societal Dynamics: Origins and Critiques
This chapter reviews the most prominent perspective of inter-societal systems in sociological theory—world-systems analysis. This chapter discusses...
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Disentangling (new) labour market divides: outsiders’ and globalization losers’ socio-economic risks in Europe
In post-industrial and globalized economies, socio-economic risks have become ubiquitous for workers. Two segments of the labour force seem...
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Measuring primary school teachers’ attitudes towards new technology use: development and validation of the TANT questionnaire
This study concerns the development and validation of a questionnaire to measure primary school Teachers’ Attitudes towards New Technology use in...
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Does Financial Inclusion Matter to Population Health? Insight From a Global Dataset
Currently, extensive empirical studies exist on the impact of financial inclusion on socio-economic outcomes such as economic growth, inequality, and...
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Co** strategies for happy childless ageing: an explorative study in Poland
Childless older people face many challenges resulting from their lack of children that may have an impact on their subjective well-being, especially...
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Dependent Development
The so-called ‘dependency theory’ that emerged in Latin America during the 1960s and received worldwide attention as the main alternative to the...
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Demo-livelihoods theoretical framework: microdemographics mediating livelihoods over frontier stages in the Amazon
The sustainability of livelihoods and food security by small-scale colonists in the Amazon have been associated with the dynamics of land use and...
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Caribbean Security in an Era of Mass Migration from Venezuela: Implications for the Southern Caribbean
Map** the Caribbean Basin’s historical experiences of labour migration, trafficking and geopolitical shifts against production, knowledge, finance...
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Three Sociologists as National Leaders: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jože Pučnik and Bernardo Arévalo
Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala are PhD sociologists who served as presidents of their countries. Jože Pučnik...