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Old and New Questions for Sociology: The Global Importance of the Sociology of Emotions
This essay presents the sociology of emotions as a device to search for answers to the questions that the post-pandemic reality triggers. To achieve...
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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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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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Should Sociology be Normative?
This article critically examines recent arguments by Andrew Abbott, Jensen Sass, and Tariq Modood proposing a normative sociology, one that not only...
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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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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 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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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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Towards a Sociology of Vestiges
This essay has the purpose of underlying how an analytic approach about traces, marks and footprints is an important contribution to sociology at...
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The Sociology of Hope: Classical Sources, Structural Components, Future Agenda
The multiple problems that the planet is currently experiencing—climate crisis, conventional and unconventional wars, planetary disenchantment with...
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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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The Sociology of Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Contexts, Circulation, Debates and Criticism
This article assesses the analytical and conceptual construct of sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso by means of the way the author constructs a...
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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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Building a strong programme in sociological aesthetics: Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key
Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key develops a compelling approach to the sociologies of art and the emotions, based primarily on Talcott...
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Black Sociology: Toward a Theoretical Analysis of Systems of Oppression and Social Power
Black Sociology has reemerged as a vital scientific endeavor to understand the social conditions of Black people. One approach to Black Sociology...
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Sociology and Its (Limited) Publics: The Case of “Christian Nationalism”
This article considers the too-often limited reach of public sociology, focusing on the case of “Christian nationalism.” Despite growing media...
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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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Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy
We develop an account of societal democratization that synthesizes cultural sociology and deliberative democracy. Cultural sociologists emphasize the...
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From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration
Cultural sociology can be useful for uncovering factors facilitating and hindering immigrant incorporation. The process of incorporation blends...
