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Contemporary political sociology involves, but is not limited to, the study of the relations between state and society.
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This paper analyzes legitimation practices of international organisations in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse a sample of 252 major international governmental organisations (IGOs) and 250 international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), using information collected from their websites in September-December 2020. We seek to u...
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Introdução O presente estudo compõe um programa de pesquisas que surgiu a partir de uma pesquisa exploratória inicial que, ao longo de 2017 e 2018, mapeou as principais dinâmicas sociais e territoriais ocorridas nas últimas três décadas no território que abrange o entorno do Parque Nacional do Pau Brasil, onde se lo-caliza um conjunto de pequenos p...
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Este trabajo se pregunta por la capacidad que tienen los movimientos sociales para prevenir, minimizar y sobreponerse a la intensa ola de represión en la forma de criminalización y brutalidad que caracterizan el actuar de distintos estados de Latinoamérica y el mundo en el presente. Para ello, entabla un diálogo con autores de la teoría de los nuev...
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In this article I propose an expanded definition of the categories of “disappearance” and “disappeared” with which to address situations marked by abandonment. In the first movement, I provide a critical description of the scientific literature available about disappearance in several fields, in particular legal and political sociology. Both have g...
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The concept of ideology is central to the understanding of the many political , economic, social, and cultural processes that have occurred in the last two centuries. And yet, what is the nature of the different ideologies remains a vague, open, and much disputed question. Many political, sociological, and ideological studies have been devoted to i...
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For decades, fraud-based denaturalization was hardly used in Norway. In the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis,” however, the right-wing government decided to reinforce efforts to expose “citizenship cheaters.” This article asks how this decision emerged, what arguments the government articulated to legitimize this decision, and how parliament responded. I...
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Desde la tradición de los estudios de gubernamentalidad y sus resonancias en las sociologías políticas y de la educación, en este artículo se recuperan los debates vigentes en torno a las nociones de gubernamentalidad, gobierno y biopolítica desarrolladas en la vasta obra de Michel Foucault y sus continuadoras/es para enlazarlas con las discusiones...
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Resenha sobre o livro: O Brasil dobrou à direita: uma radiografia da eleição de Bolsonaro em2018 de autoria de Jairo Nicolau, publicado em 2020.
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, and politicians, not least because conspiracy beli...
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Despite the recent wealth of literature on national populism, research has often overlooked one crucial aspect: the border. This innovative book bridges these key concepts, providing a new theoretical conceptualisation of the interplay between populism, nationalism and territorial borders. In this book, borders are not considered as mere institutio...
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Este trabalho propõe-se a descrever e analisar de que maneira a colonialidade e o capitalismo racial moldam a modernidade, sobretudo a importância do Haiti nesse contexto. Assim, objetiva-se problematizar a formação do Estado a partir da divisão racial criada no mundo colonial, com a escravização de seres humanos negros e a consequente perpetuação...
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Apresentação da seção dedicada aos melhores textos selecionados a partir da décima segunda edição do Seminário Nacional Sociologia & Política da UFPR.
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Throughout Russian history, bouts of political reform have been repeatedly succeeded by reactionary periods of counter-reform. We surmise that this historical alternation of reform and counter-reform has been driven at least in part by comparisons made by Russians between their own situation and that of their counterparts in the west. Such "relativ...
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The adaptation of faces in visual culture, anthropology, and other disciplines is possible due to their atemporal nature and their plastic, changeful form. It is inspired by the needs of “facial society” (Macho, 1996) with the societal fixation on self-fashioning. Belting calls the mask “the medium of the face” as it visually and symbolically repre...
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Far from activism in formal groups or in visible and vocal demonstrations stands a type of citizen participation observed through everyday practices and daily activities in the public sphere. Targeted citizen actions in urban spaces, dumpster diving, responsible consumption movements or small acts of everyday resistance are all examples of what we...
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This special issue analyses the prospects for a progressive politics against right‐wing populism and capitalism. Taken as a whole, its articles underline the need to understand progressive movements as encompassing agrarian, rural, and urban settings and as socially rooted among labourers and petty commodity producers that do not accumulate (classe...
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Sustainability standards have been one of the hopefuls for decades when it comes to ensuring the sustainability of biomass for the bioeconomy, especially in the wake of their evolvement from voluntary, non-governmental to hybrid, public–private governance instruments in recent years. In addition to doubts regarding their legitimacy and effectivenes...
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Our everyday life is entangled with products and services of so-called Big Tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. International relations (IR) scholars increasingly seek to reflect on the relationships between Big Tech, capitalism, and institutionalized politics, and they engage with the practices of algorithmic governance and platfo...
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A final thesis on Political Sociology course. I would like to give an example of the urban-rural cleavage that was inherited from the Romanov Empire, survived socialism and still exists in the modern Russian Federation.
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Compassion is valued within the central elements of health care, existing in recent years a progressive increase in interest in its research, at least in part by the perception that it has decreased in health systems. For centuries it has been found universally in different cultures and disciplines but presenting variations according to different c...
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A Translational Sociology provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the key role of translation in society. There is a growing recognition of translation’s intervention in the intellectual history of sociology, in the international reception of social theory, and in approaches to the global literary and academic fields. This book brings attent...
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This is an attempt to develop a causal explanation of the war in Ukraine from the perspective of a historical political sociology of international politics. I apologize, it's written in German.
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This book probes into the beedi industry, a highly gendered and class-divided unorganised sector in India. It introduces an analysis of the lives, health status, and work of the Indian women and girl children in the industry and discusses the role of gender constructions, global capitalism, and global racism in shaping the ideologies and conception...
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El artículo indaga los cambios en la vida política electoral de la provincia de Santiago del Estero a nivel municipal. Estas reflexiones se enmarcan dentro de la sociología política, centrándose en explorar cómo en elecciones nacionales, las disputas políticas electorales en cada municipio pueden dotarse de sentidos y conflictos particulares. Los h...
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RESUMO O projeto de extensão 'Semeando ConsCiência', vinculado ao Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), atua na promoção de ações de divulgação científica com foco na educação inclusiva. Além das atividades educativas de extensão desenvolvidas nas escolas da região, o projeto inicio...
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Internationally renowned as the romantic setting of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the formulation of 'love' the city of Verona has come to champion is prem-ised on heteronormative scripts, where the 'natural family' between 'natives' is espoused as the panacea against the ills of a globalizing society. It is no coincidence that Verona was th...
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Based on psychological, pedagogical, social, philosophical and other literature, the article examines the mechanisms of formation of the Russian identity of students. Various positions of the study of Russian identity are presented and characterized, among which: historical, political, sociological, cultural, regional, psychological and pedagogical...
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This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external votin...
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The book examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, and politicians, not least because conspiracy beliefs have the potential to negatively an...
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O objetivo deste ensaio é identificar e organizar teoricamente uma sociologia política das práticas dos operadores do direito brasileiro. Esta sociologia política busca dialogar de forma mais ampla com os problemas da modernidade e das relações entre sociedade e estado articulando uma reflexão interdisciplinar entre as ciências sociais e o direito....
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Introduction Studies regarding the composition and activities of the Legislative Power have advanced in the Brazilian Political Science. This article combines, in a new way, the neoinstitutionalist lens with the political sociology approach to study the permanent Parliamentary Commissions on the Senate, focusing its internal compositions. Material...
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In this contribution, we propose to analyze the statements coming from two ''civic tech'' platforms-the governmental platform, ''Grand D{\'e}bat National'' and, its political and algorithmic response proposed by a Yellow Vest collective, ''Vrai D{\'e}bat''-, by confronting two families of algorithms dedicated to text analysis. We propose to impleme...
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Globale Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die Corona-Pandemie machen die Politische Ökologie zu einem unverzichtbaren Forschungsfeld der Zukunft. Die Beiträger*innen des ersten deutschsprachigen Handbuchs zum Thema stellen die hierfür relevanten Theorien vor und zeigen anhand konkreter Konflikte und Kämpfe die Aktualität und den Mehrwert einer politis...
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What do the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in the Ukraine, and climate change have in common? An understanding that politics, whether global, international, or planetary, are defined by struggles for survival. In each of these cases, delivering security intensely operates as the first and main objective of politics. Borders close to an unseen extend to...
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Alongside practice, performativity has inspired numerous engagements with ontology and epistemology in international political sociology . Some of the most exciting developments in sociologies of the international have their roots in embracing theories that foreground how words, discourse, things, data have performative effects. From reconfiguring...
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We are witnessing a clash of (i) biocentric or ecocentric ideologies that grant equal rights to all living creatures, with (ii) an ideology that arose on the basis of anthropocentrism that gives the palm of priority to man. Hunters who are accused of killing defenseless animals for entertainment are at the heart of this dispute. Meanwhile, hunters...
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The out-of-this-world hype cycle describes expectations and realities for extra-terrestrial resource production. Triggered by a technological innovation cluster in communication/automation/transport for the space industries, it inspires visions of prospecting and inter-planetary travel for economic gains. Visionary narratives are founded on (1) tec...
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The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement. Beyond the Arab Uprisings Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America,...
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Our main goal is to provide a preliminary, descriptive, and thematic overview of civic education courses in Serbia until 2020 from the perspectives of international political sociology, critical pedagogy and critical curriculum studies. After clarifying pertinent conceptual assumptions of curriculum analysis, we review the methodology employed to e...
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European societies have experienced extensive secularization. However, the impact of religion in governing people’s political attitudes and behaviors persists, which has been enhanced by several recent developments, including the growing salience of religious and conservative values for the remaining committed religious people, the rise of radical...
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In this doctoral thesis, I work with one of the least studied sources of financing in the literature (that somehow relates to the political and the economic powers): electoral self-financing. I understand self-financing as the use of own resources (patrimony and/or income) by candidates in elections. My goal is to answer two main questions: what ex...
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The analysis of the congruence between the demand- and supply-side of populism is key to understand the relationship between citizens and populist parties, and to what extent this is mainly a “pull” or “push” phenomenon. Although the study of populism has experienced an unprecedented growth across social sciences during the last decade, research di...
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Hard climate policy (e.g., regulation, taxes/pricing, phaseouts) is needed to meet ambitious climate targets, but when such policy is introduced, it can sometimes trigger backlash. Backlash involves an abrupt and forceful negative reaction by a significant number of actors seeking to reverse a policy, often through extraordinary means that transgre...
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Defender as vanguardas latino-americanas das décadas de 1940 e 1950 como simultâneas aos cânones europeus é a principal contribuição de Andrea Giunta no livro Contra el Canon. El arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro [Contra o Cânone. Arte contemporânea em um mundo sem centro, trad. nossa], lançado em 2020 na Argentina. A autora vai além, afirm...
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Enseignant chercheur, spécialiste en sociologie politique Université Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah, Fès Hind SIYOURI Doctorante en droit public et sciences politiques Université Cadi ayyad, Marrakech Ben Ahmed HOUGUA Teacher-researcher, specialist in political sociology Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fez Hind SIYOURI PhD student in public law an...
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This book is a treatise on cultural globalization and the global political economy. By introducing the transnational public domain in the study of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the book goes beyond existing theoretical frameworks involving both the ‘clash between civilizations’ and the ‘time-worn division’ of the world into North and Sout...
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Pablo Kreimer, referente del campo de los estudios sociales de la ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS), relata su trayectoria académica desde las inquietudes que se le presentaron en distintos momentos de su vida respecto a la ciencia y la tecnología y su relación con el entorno desde las políticas científicas nacionales, las relaciones entre centr...
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State is one of first concepts of political sociology that has an independent entry in sources of 20th century. In modern era many political thinkers today have spoken about concept of state, and there has been astonishment chaos in definition of state but Weber's definition is a reference. He considered modern state to be one of specific concepts...
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В политической социологии, которая интегрирует возможности социальных и политических наук, существует несколько проверенных и признанных исследовательских подходов в теоретическом и эмпирическом изучении политических режимов в различных странах. Особое значение приобретает методология и методика конструирования мониторинга изменений социально-полит...
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As reformas recentes no campo do ensino médio no Brasil promoveram uma série de questionamentos e incertezas em relação ao futuro da disciplina de Sociologia nesta etapa de ensino. Tanto a Reforma do Ensino Médio quanto a adoção da BNCC apontam para uma redução da carga horária da disciplina no currículo escolar, de modo que docentes, pesquisadores...
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Incarceration has become naturalized as a primary mode of punishment within the penal systems of modern states across the globe. This study examines how states develop the capacity to execute incarceration as a routine state function. I argue that rationalization and bureaucratization are key for transforming carceral enclosures into a naturalized...
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Poverty is unevenly distributed within the United States – – a fact demonstrated by a rich literature on inequality in the US. By ignoring such variation, research runs the risk of overlooking the geographical distribution of poverty and risks that increase the likelihood of poverty. In this article, I address this by: (1) building on the prevalenc...
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Pelo menos até 2016, a palavra lawfare não constava nos vocabulários jurídico e político dos brasileiros. Poucos anos depois, o termo se tornou sinônimo de perseguição política do Estado pelas vias judiciais. Nesse artigo, procuramos entender de que forma esse conceito foi introduzido no cenário nacional. Para tanto, mobilizamos diferentes técnicas...
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The work of Dell Hymes has been highly influential in language education and the field of linguistics more generally. Questions about the appropriateness of engaging with his work have been raised following allegations of sexual harassment during his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. However, the radical nature of his work and its role in d...
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The citizenship is one of the important issues that nowadays occupies the interest of researchers and experts from different knowledge fields, such as politics, sociology, religion, media, etc. This interest is not limited to one context without another, but the value of citizenship is present in almost all modern human societies. The Western visio...
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In contemporary times, scholars have increasingly turned to the research on norms to study behavior and identity transformation in international politics. This has led to understanding stigma as attached to global actors refusing to follow normatively shared expectations of social conduct. However, the field of nuclear politics has largely ignored...
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This study examines the complexity of measuring social capital and presents the Barometer of Social Capital (BARCAS) as a comprehensive research methodology to do so. The BARCAS is a multilevel, multi-setting, multivariate, and cross-national instrument developed in Colombia and applied four times over two decades, in 1997, 2005, 2011, and 2017. Th...
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Resumen El presente artículo tiene como objetivo sistematizar un enfoque socio-antropológico para la investigación de políticas educativas. Para ello se realiza una revisión bibliográfica en el cual se conjugan aportes de la Antropología de las Políticas Públicas y del Estado, así como de la Sociología Política de la Educación. Se analizan recorrid...
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El texto tiene como objetivo abordar el modo en que se reinstaló en Ecuador el régimen laboral neoliberal a partir de 2017 aún en un marco constitucional caracterizado por una orientación tuitiva del trabajo. La hipótesis que sostiene el texto afirma que la acelerada renovación del modelo de regulación laboral fue posible por la permeabilidad estat...
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Growing interest in the diffusion of radicalism reflects concern with political discontent and widening social inequality. It also reflects the profoundly different forms of communication emerging from the new digital media environment that are recasting radical politics. Sociology has important and longstanding insights into the incubation of radi...
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The idea of measurement (of bodies and identities) is a guiding principle of globalized surveillance in the War on Terror. Nevertheless, this inherently scientific notion is so naturalized in public and academic discourse that its meaning and implications are left undiscussed. This paper builds on quantum theory to present an immanent critique of m...
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This study determines political choices in the legislative general election in Palembang by responding to political realities that are not directly related to religious issues and the creation of voter polarization and voter subjectivity. Political relations between religion and other political instruments are considered something that does not sho...
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Herdsmen/farmers crisis has compounded endemic internal conflicts in Nigeria. Despite subsisting interventions, the menace has continued to aggravate in some parts of the country including Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Taraba, Zamfara and Gombe States, thereby undermining national security and development process. This study investigates...
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This is a work of commemoration for David Graeber, who passed away unexpectedly in 2020, leaving abundant sources in the field of social anthropology and political sociology. He is known as the anarchist anthropologist who was a leading organizer in 99% movement against the Wall Street incorporated. He also has built politically-active follower gro...
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The book offers a comprehensive overview of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social policy, pension systems, health care systems, disability ins...
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This research lays out the debates and contradictory findings regarding the impacts of corruption on forest loss in a cross‐national context, specifically in low‐ and middle‐income nations. After, I describe how these inconsistent findings may be due to difficulties in untangling the complexities of corruption definitionally and then operationalizi...
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Drawing on empirical data this paper explores how a new articulation of meritocracy has emerged over time in UK Higher Education. To this end, we analyze the five major HE reports produced in the UK over the past 2 decades (1997–2010). The proposed analytical design combines semantic mapping, natural language processing (NLP), and critical discours...
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Against the dark backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant. Part of its vibrancy comes from people’s belief that they should and can solve these issues and build a better society through their participation in self-governing activities. Their desire to improve their societies, their imagination of a good society,...
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La investigación analiza el ingreso del Jefe de Gobierno de Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires a TikTok durante la pandemia. Esta red social representa una novedad para la política, lo que la convierte no solo en un territorio a explorar sino y, fundamentalmente, en un nuevo espacio a conquistar. Desde el punto de vista conceptual, la investigación re...
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Bu çalışmada, son dönemde Türkiye'de yoğun olarak gündeme gelen politik kutuplaşma olgusunun tarihsel kökenleri analiz edilecektir. Halihazırda Türkiye'de artan politik kutuplaşma verili bir durum olarak değerlendirilirken, temel-yapısal nedenleri analiz edilmeden bu olgunun nedenleri güncel politik tartışmalarda aranmaktadır. Çoğu durumda da sonuç...
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Students are one of the smallest groups in society that have a role in the life of campus political sociology. So, students' awareness of their role as agents of change can provide a change in a social building for the better. The purpose of this research is to socialize in creating student awareness to participate in campus life. The method used i...
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A long-standing critique of liberalism is that it is both amoral and anti-communitarian. Bound to the totemic figures of the Law and the Market, the "liberal art of governing" is unable to conceive of social regulations outside this twin rational framework. However, the 1990s saw the international dissemination of State managerial reform-embodied b...
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RESUMEN Este trabajo se pregunta por la capacidad que tienen los movimientos sociales para prevenir, minimizar y sobreponerse a la in-tensa ola de represión, en forma de criminalización y brutalidad que caracterizan el actuar de distintos Estados de Latinoamérica y el mundo hoy en día. Para ello, entabla un diálogo con autores de la teoría de los n...
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This article reconceptualizes ideology in social movement studies. 'Ideology' has become something of a watered-down term in the literature, and is frequently conflated with the similar (but distinct) concept of 'frames' (Oliver and Johnston, 2000). Against this conflation, I contend that radical ideologies are quests for authenticity of the self....
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This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology for a statistical study of the complex interrelationship between Norwegian citizens’ attention and engagement in the world of politics and broader public debate, and how such public lifestyles align with social structures. Using multiple factor analysis the article provides a broad mapping...
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O estudo discute o estado da arte das políticas educacionais brasileiras para o atendimento educacional em ambiente hospitalar e domiciliar nos contextos nacional, governamental e municipal. Fundamenta-se em teóricos da filosofia, sociologia, políticas públicas e educação especial. A metodologia é descritiva, exploratória. Os dados foram catalogado...
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Por mucho tiempo considerada una disciplina preocupada con el problema del orden, las Relaciones Internacionales pasaron por un proceso de transformación que amplió su alcance hacia las esferas más diversas de la vida social y política del mundo contemporáneo. Una parte significativa del crédito de este proceso de renovación puede ser atribuida al...
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This paper not only examines the intersectionality between class, caste and gender but also political, sociological, psychological, economic and technological influences within a post-neo-liberal framework which has been dominated by geopolitics. After India’s liberalisation in the early nineties, the nature and quality of media coverage on issues...
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By revisiting three empirical qualitative studies, the paper elaborates on conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to clarification of the use of the concept of politicization and “ordinary relationships to politics.” The first study was conducted at the end of the 1990s on voluntary associations of young people of foreign descent in the Fr...
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Scholarly efforts to build a contemporary instititutional theory for organizations date back to 1970s. Although the institutional work on organizational theory is named "new" or "neo" institutionalism after inspirational studies of 70s and early 80s, institutionalists were already working on organizations and their embeddedness with environment and...
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Thousands of people occupied the streets of Brazil in June 2013, to contest various social problems. Some of the protest guidelines claimed quality in basic public services, denoted repudiation to high spending on sports mega-events and the denouces of corruption. The protests of June 2013 had great proportions, impacting the brazilian political dy...
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What is populism today? How does it manifest itself and what connection does it have with other relevant phenomena of our time? This volume, edited by Antonella Coco, Pietro Fantozzi and Lorenzo Viviani, is a systematic empirical and theoretical treatment of the theme from the perspective of political sociology. Contemporary democracies offer fe...
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In Europe, improvements in water-use efficiency have been encouraged in order to achieve the Water Framework Directive’s environmental goals. However, it is often unclear where the saved water (if any) goes and to what extent it benefits aquatic ecosystems. While the technical aspects of this question have been widely debated, its political dimensi...
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Theorising a non-Eurocentric "global international relations" has been a main preoccupation of scholars associated with international political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that scholars within the IPS tradition have provided a powerful critique of, but no clear alternative to, Eurocentrism. This is partly attributable to their insuffi...
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Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been a main preoccupation of scholars associated with international political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that scholars within the IPS tradition have provided a powerful critique of, but no clear alternative to, Eurocentrism. This is partly attributable to their insuffi...
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„Solidarität“ gilt in der politischen Soziologie als der Transmissionsriemen, der moderne Gesellschaften ideell und materiell zusammenhält, und ist insbesondere mit der Frage gesellschaftlicher (Re-)Distributionsprozesse und Chancengleichheit verknüpft. Umstritten ist in der Forschung jedoch, wie im Licht zunehmender Krisenmomente und gesellschaftl...
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This article interrogates dominant definitions of “populism” found in the social sciences, focusing on the term’s conceptual utility in understanding recent changes in Western polities. Though populism is typically treated as a deviant form of politics, this article finds that it in fact holds remarkable continuities with conventional politics, and...
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This study will analyze the historical origins of the phenomenon of political polarization, which has been on the agenda recently in Turkey. While it is currently considered as an increasing and a given situation in Turkey, the reasons for this phenomenon are sought in current political debates without analyzing the basic-structural causes. In most...
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A century ago, many historians considered - together with colleagues in the fields of Economics, Politics, Sociology and Anthropology - their studies to be "scientific". They applied the methods of the natural sciences and believed that their conclusions were objective. Today, this vision has been largely abandoned. However, the learning that histo...
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This article defines and situates the concept of the racial state within the sociological literature on educational inequality. Currently, much of the sociology of education literature fails to engage with theories of the state or does so in undertheorized ways. Drawing on theories of the racial state and forms of state violence, this article contr...
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Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party preferences. Simultaneously, more attention has been paid to what might be called the culturalization of politics, as epitomiz...
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The existence of Correctional Institutions is part of the criminal system in Indonesia. The criminal law policy which is not yet ideal and the management of prisons that are not optimal have caused over capacity in all prisons. Therefore, in the event of a prison fire disaster, mitigation and rapid evacuation of the inmates cannot be carried out an...
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The past few years have witnessed that the success (or failure) of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) depends to a large extent upon engagement with and responses from recipient countries. The article explores the impact of Southeast Asian countries' domestic socio-political factors on their foreign policymaking and BRI projects in Southeast Asia....
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El presente artículo analiza la marcha de mujeres llevada a cabo en la ciudad de Montevideo el 26 de setiembre de 1968, organizada por el que luego se llamaría Movimiento Femenino por la Justicia y la Paz Social. Para ello se recurre a la literatura de la sociología política y de la ciencia política sobre movimientos sociales ―especialmente la teor...
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