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This book addresses a gap in and outside academia: how to help Sociology undergraduates develop skills for career success while maintaining a sociologically rigorous approach. Matching sociological theories, methods, and knowledge with contemporary capitalistic managerial and work practices, it shows how sociology undergraduates are not only employ...

(pre-publication version) This contribution outlines several questions concerning the very paradigm of intersubjective recognition in post-Hegelian German philosophy in response to the work of Jon Stewart and Axel Honneth. It briefly traces, in conjunction with Stewart's recent book on recognition, how discontent with this Hegelian paradigm, and it...

Background : In order to recruit and retain Latinx teachers, we must first understand how they choose to enter teaching; are socialized; and the influence of factors such as race, ethnicity, and culture on their beliefs and teaching practices. Purpose : The purpose of this study was to explore the life history of Oscar, a Latino immigrant preservic...

Although several new international brands in the information technology services industry have emerged in China, most previous research on the paths of internationalization taken by Chinese brands has focused on the manufacturing industry. Further exploration of the diversity and novel characteristics of these paths remains necessary. Taking into a...

In this article, I advance the formulation of a paradigm whose components have arisen inorganically in the sociological field in the Western Hemisphere since the beginning of the 21st century. This intellectual corpus, which I call the “World Paradigm” (WP), contains a scientific device structured on the basis of the dialectic between three princip...

As a plethora of sustainability challenges are rooted in human behaviour, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that brings behavioural insights to the forefront in corporate sustainability research. The ABCD (attention, belief formation, choice, determination) approach, which is meant to assist policy-makers in analysing and d...

Zusammenfassung Inwiefern Digitalisierung ein gesellschaftstransformatives Potenzial hat, ist umstritten. Diese Frage wird der empirischen Analyse zugänglich, wenn man die Steuerung von Verhalten in den Blick nimmt. Es fehlt jedoch bislang eine differenzierte sozialtheoretische Perspektive, mit der unterschiedliche Steuerungen von Verhalten präzise...

Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the most enigmatic, divisive, and influential figures in Western intellectual history. He is often connected with the philosophical movement known as Deconstruction. His work was influenced by Philosophy, literature, law, political theory, and social theory. Derrida's writing style is whimsical, meandering, and...

A interpretação abstrata de Castoriadis sobre Freud centra-se na ideia da imaginação radical. A introdução deste conceito na psicanálise tem consequências que afetam todos os níveis do projeto freudiano. Na opinião de Castoriadis, as percepções fundamentais de Freud não estão em disputa discussão/controvérsia, mas a referência à imaginação faz poss...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo dar una breve introducción al pensamiento de Luhmann, enfocándose en los cambios de las posturas del siglo XX y analizando conceptos básicos del autor. Así misml, revisar que la teoría social de Niklas Luhmann adopta una nueva forma de comprender a una sociedad que se ha complejizado en la etapa de la modern...

O objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar a maneira peculiar como Roberto Schwarz se apropriou de certos trabalhos do pensamento social brasileiro, em especial os da chamada “sociologia paulista”, e os articulou com a teoria crítica frankfurtiana para levar a cabo uma interpretação da forma literária do primeiro romance de maturidade de Machado de...

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a vital component of large-scale scientific research, relying on the collaboration of participants and scientists in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and disseminating new discoveries. Research has shown that citizen science participants not only assist in data collection but also make significant...

Objective: To examine the foundations that govern human development, seen as an active subject of history, in the causes that motivate social facts and the mechanisms that move the threads of human relations of IBN Jaldun. Theoretical framework: The Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun is a work where the author addresses topics as varied as the philosophy of...

Este artigo tem por objetivo promover uma análise em torno da formatação assumida pelas políticas sociais no Brasil diante do acirramento do projeto neoliberal, com vistas para suas contradições e características principais. De modo que se torna indispensável uma retomada histórica, ainda que breve, aos seus fundamentos, além de uma abordagem sobre...

O presente trabalho trata-se de um ensaio elaborado para o curso Teoria Social, Política e Educação. Com o objetivo de problematizar a relação entre política e educação, a bibliografia da unidade II, “Capitalismo: política e educação na sociedade de classes”, consiste em Americanismo e Fordismo, de Antonio Gramsci (2008) e Textos sobre educação e e...

Zusammenfassung Die Corona-Pandemie hat zum tiefsten wirtschaftlichen Ein-bruch seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführt. Wirtschaftliche Krisen haben in der Vergangenheit häufig einen Richtungswechsel in der Entwicklung des Kapitalismus bewirkt. Was sind die Folgen der Corona-Krise? Der Rezensionsaufsatz nimmt ei-ne Bestandsaufnahme von 26 Büchern vor,...

Esse trabalho buscou discutir os fundamentos sócio-históricos da ética para o Serviço Social e de que maneira eles podem elucidar as possibilidades e limitações de efetivação do Projeto Ético-Político da categoria. Por meio de uma revisão de literatura analítica, foi possível perceber como a abordagem de ética teve modificações históricas pelo Serv...

Men in feminist spaces often find themselves the recipients of disproportionate gratitude and attention—along with other persistent effects of male privilege that I have elsewhere termed the Pedestal Effect—despite this running counter to both prevailing feminist ideologies and the desires of the men themselves. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild describ...

Neste artigo, cujo objetivo é analisar as possibilidades e limites postos à diversidade humana no Estado democrático burguês, recorremos à pesquisa bibliográfica por meio da qual apresentamos os fundamentos teóricos do Estado na teoria social clássica; as contraposições explicitadas pelo materialismo histórico-critico dialético acerca do Estado bur...

¿Cuál es la evolución del conceptode «ideología» en el pensamiento social, y es posible desarrollar una definición que sintetice sus diferentes aspectos? En este ensayo hago unarevisión de las principales conceptualizaciones de ideología, primeramente desde un enfoque de teoría social y marxismo occidental, seguido por conceptualizaciones desde soc...

Introduction . The Chinese language, unlike Russian, has several terms, denoting different statuses of Chinese migrants, but there is no term such as “diaspora”. These features are interpreted by the authors along the lines of social ontology as independent sociological concepts, constructing particular migrant groups. The article’s oobjective is t...

Este trabalho traz como questão central o debate sobre como a teoria da performance social, aqui abordada a partir dos textos dos autores Erving Goffman, Jeffrey Alexander e Richard Schechner, agrega na reflexão sobre a natureza e a repercussão das estratégias estéticas adotadas pelos movimentos feministas no Brasil da última década. Tanto em seus...

The topological characterization of complex systems has significantly contributed to our understanding of the principles of collective dynamics. However, the representation of general complex networks is not enough for explaining certain problems, such as collective actions. Considering the effectiveness of hypernetworks on modeling real-world comp...

Na esteira das comemorações dos 30 anos da Temáticas, e reconhecendo a importância da área de teoria social para a história da revista, publicamos o Simpósio - Passado, presente e futuro: perspectivas sobre a teoria social no Brasil, que reúne cinco pesquisadores de diferentes gerações e instituições. Buscamos construir um proveitoso intercâmbio de...

Figura 3 presente na referência: CLAUDINO, Guilherme dos Santos. Vasto Mundo: Horizontes da Teoria Social e dos Mundos Possíveis nas confluências do Pensamento Geográfico. In SPOSITO, Eliseu Savério; CLAUDINO, Guilherme dos Santos (Orgs). Teorias na Geografia III: Mundos Possíveis. Rio de Janeiro: Consequência Editora, 2023, p. 44.

A Teoria Social, embora tenha certa inclinação a fazer reflexões que se propõem universais, é historicamente marcada pelo androcentrismo. Nesse sentido, para defender a proposta de abordagem teórica não centrada apenas em sujeitos masculinos, que tem se figurado de maneira substancial na Teoria Feminista, esse breve artigo se detém sobre a discussã...

Social innovation (SI) has received increasing attention from policymakers and researchers. It has become one of the answers to contemporary societal challenges (Grimm et al., 2013), a policy in the European Union (Nicholls and Edmiston 2018), and is still an emerging area of innovation studies (Van der Have and Rubalcaba 2016). Even though the emp...

Background Subjective well-being has a significant impact on an individual’s physical and mental health. Socioeconomic status, class identity, and social activity participation play important roles in subjective well-being. Therefore, the aim of this study was to uncover the mechanisms through which these factors influence subjective well-being. M...

No caso da pandemia de Covid-19, a América Latina presenciou as mais diversas formas de mobilização social. Num primeiro momento, muitos atores fizeram uma conversão abrupta de atividades presenciais para atividades digitais, a exemplo dos eventos transmitidos ao vivo e da criação de hashtags. Contudo, logo os conflitos sociais foram também para as...

z Sosyal problemleri feminist perspektiften ele almak daha adil ve eşitlikçi toplumların oluşmasında, problemlerin bilinmeyen yönlerinin ve içerdiği güç ilişkilerinin gün yüzüne çıkarılarak mikro ve makro düzeylerde farkındalık oluşturmasında önemli bir adımdır. Bir sorunun feminist düzlemde yeniden okunması, başlangıç noktasının kadınlar olmasını...

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag möchte den Analysen zur Digitalisierung in der Sozialen Arbeit eine arbeits- und interaktionssoziologische Perspektive hinzufügen. Auf diese Weise werden mögliche Vor- und Nachteile der Digitalisierung aus der Sicht von Fachkräften, Hilfsbedürftigen und Organisationen deutlich. Es zeigt sich, dass die im Zuge...

¿Cuáles relaciones se establecen entre las categorías analíticas del sujeto moderno y la de subjetivación del poder? Con respecto a la primera, el establecimiento teórico desarrollado se ha orientado mediante conceptualizaciones diversas, donde, junto a la interpretación de la categoría sujeto, surge un nuevo entendimiento basado en contraposicione...

Critical physiotherapy has been a rapidly expanding field over the last decade and could now justifiably be called a professional sub-discipline. In this paper we define three different but somewhat interconnected critical positions that have emerged over the last decade that share a critique of physiotherapy's historical approach to health and ill...

This article discusses Volume 42(6) where the editors (Gilles Merminod and Raymund Vitorio) push for a metapragmatic approach to reflexive practices of sociolinguistic differentiation. With reference to my own trajectory, I review this lens as suitable to accounting for how people affectively take part in the making of difference and similarities b...

Concerns about consequences of everyday nutrition have led to a gender gap in pro-environmental nutrition (PEN), implying that women decide more often to limit their meat consumption than men. For sport and football managers who increasingly deal with environmental sustainability while aiming to increase female audiences, the question arises of whe...

Jürgen Habermas is not often thought of as a philosopher of technology. After presenting his early critique of technocratic consciousness, I will contend that the main problem of Habermas’ conception of technology lies in the conflation of “technology” with “technical rationality”. Feenberg criticizes Habermas’ position for implicitly depoliticizin...

The ability of governments and nations to handle crises and protect the lives of citizens is heavily dependent on the public's trust in their governments and related social institutions. The aim of the present research was to understand public trust in government during a time of crisis, drawing on interview data (N = 56) collected during the COVID...

As a crucial component of internal corporate governance, remuneration controls possess the potential to influence the cash holdings of firms. However, identifying the causal relationship between these controls and such holdings presents a considerable challenge. To address this research gap, this paper leverages the implementation of China's Guidan...

During early adolescence, parental influence diminishes, whereas friends’ influence increases in shaping emotion regulation abilities. However, it is unclear how parents and friends jointly contribute to emotion regulation abilities and how their joint effects vary by gender. This study examines fathers, mothers, and friends as simultaneous emotion...

Technological surveillance, which began as a business mechanism for client recruitment and loyalty, has undergone such a technological development that, together with the massive collection of unconsciously produced data and its processing by artificial intelligence, has enabled the anticipation of trends and the constant monitoring of users' desir...

Are we lost in translation for various disciplinary concepts and praxises in urban studies? This research aims to bring into discussion the possibilities of assemblage thinking in bridging four urban morphological approaches: the historico-geographical, process typological, configurational and spatial analysis. Derived from philosophy and social th...

Introduction. The anthropogenic impact of the households and climate change is a significant burden on the environment, along with industry and thermal power engineering. This article reviews leading sociological theories related to climate action with the aim of finding effective behavioral management strategies. Materials and methods. To search f...

This article explores the realities underpinning the statistically left outs and socio-historically legitimized groups in Nepal by relating the Vedic and Western theoretical perspectives to perceive the reality at the grassroots level. It does so by summarizing the Vedic perspectives and various sociological theories and then looking at the local i...

This paper proposes a novel educational approach to epistemic-vice-rehabilitation. Like Cassam 2 , we remain optimistic about the possibility of improvement with regard to epistemic vice. However, unlike the aforementioned, who places the burden of minimizing or overcoming epistemic vices and their consequences on the individual, we argue instead t...

This article presents a mini review of systems and resilience approaches to tourism analysis and to protected area management, and of how the Social-Ecological Complex Adaptive Systems (SECAS) framework can help link them together. SECAS is a unique framework that integrates social theories (structuration) and ecological theories (hierarchical patc...

Psychotherapists and cultural pundits tell us today that contemporary society is fundamentally narcissistic. The therapeutic concept of Narcissism was propagated by Sigmund Freud in 1914, building on his immediate predecessors who had linked narcissistic personality traits with criminal homosexuality. In Freud's thinking, the story of Narcissus bec...

This paper introduces the idea that institutions are social models (‘dynamic social theories’) in which political scientist need to work with practitioners to create better theories. Part I outlines threats to representative democracy and argues that much political science is like anatomy, analyzing the body politic without healing it, with notable...

Argumentaire La traduction est un travail interactif conversationnel et communicatif sérieux, qui nécessite une grande maîtrise de la langue cible et de la langue originelle objet de traduction. Dans ce colloque, nous allons essayer de soulever des questions importantes relatives à la traduction qui concernent les sciences humaines, surtout la litt...

The article examines the rise of contemporary populist movements in Europe and North America. These movements are driven primarily by working-class men who feel marginalized by developments in employment, work conditions, family life, and, in particular, by gender politics and the modern status of women. The growth of the service sector has created...

So, we reached out to Dr. Chris Hackley and conducted a comprehensive interview on Critical Theory, Social Constructionism, and Marketing. At the end of the interview, you will find a bibliography of some of the sources that Dr.Hackley refers to and/or that will help to deepen the discussion.

Marcel Mauss escribió en 1924 en su ensayo El don que encontraba en los motivos del intercambio de dones en sociedades "arcaicas" "una de las rocas humanas sobre las que están construidas nuestras sociedades". Esta tesis plantea preguntas: ¿cómo establece el don un vínculo social entre las personas en las sociedades premodernas? ¿lo consigue tambié...

Despite mass protests, demands to defund the police, and a range of institutional reforms, historic patterns of abuse and violence in US policing persist. This article calls for a renewed and reinvigorated critical policing studies to give leadership in the search for remedy. Fifty years ago, Taylor, Walton, and Young envisioned a “fully social the...

This paper is a quantitative analysis of the data collected globally by the World Value Survey. The data is used to study the trajectories of change in individuals’ religious beliefs, values, and behaviors in societies. Utilizing random forest, we aim to identify the key factors of religiosity and classify respondents of the survey as religious and...

In a recent systemic review of research on Disabled*1 students in Higher Education (HE), Kutscher and Tuckwiller (2019) highlighted the lack of any intersectional examination of disability and argued that research examining the intersections of disability and gender, race, sexuality, et cetera. are urgently needed. In the UK, a House of Lords Commi...

In diesem Beitrag stelle ich vor dem Hintergrund der laufenden Debatte zur Orientierung der Deutschdidaktik an der Literalität oder Digitalität Überlegungen zu einer postdigitalen Deutschdidaktik am Beispiel des Lesens und Schreibens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Künstlicher Intelligenz an. Dafür lege ich zunächst dar, dass sich in der Lese-und...

This study sets out to examine the effect on non-native speakers of utilizing English for business. Specifically, the study examines the effect of utilizing English on non-natives’ negotiation skills and marketing abilities, and the way in which fluency or vocabulary affects their bargaining power in international business. The effect of establishi...

Studies and reports indicate that some graduates struggle to find jobs, in part because they lack the key presentation skills and competencies the labor market needs. Thus, this research investigated the effectiveness of a Blackboard-mediated intervention program in strengthening English as a foreign language (EFL) students' presentation skills. Th...

O pensamento da socióloga Margaret Archer, para além da questão da reflexividade, é pouco difundido no Brasil, não obstante a existência de publicações sobre o Realismo Crítico no país, perspectiva que, por certo, reverberou no pensamento da autora. Por esse motivo, o presente artigo busca detalhar a lógica teorética proposta por Archer acerca da r...

This paper is a contribution to the debate on how social scientists especially sociologists use different theories to explain the purposes of schooling, the relationship between the purpose and the theory as well as the researcher's own views about the theory, the purposes of schooling in Ghana and the meaning of schooling in Ghana. The study is th...

This article dialogues with "yoga studies" and the social scientific study of religion (e.g., the sociology of religion and religious studies), arguing that both substantially neglect a thorough discussion of scholars' engagement in the field despite being largely composed by "scholar-practitioners". This is problematic from a methodological point...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

Based on the leadership-member exchange perspective, this study proposes that subordinates are more likely to express their voice in a leader-supported work environment, and this relationship is stronger when they have close social ties with their supervisor. In the case of subordinates supported by supervisors, public service motivation serves as...

This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how government policymaking works, developing an ontological basis from which to examine existing government approaches and imagine an...

This article examines how cryptocurrencies are increasingly entangled with crises in Latin American political discourse and everyday economic life. In an effort of interdisciplinary integration, combining human geography with political economy and cultural anthropology, we critically assess the linkages between cryptocurrency, economic crisis and f...

University-based teacher educators are key agents of educational and societal change. Yet their academic careers across institutions and countries have received insufficient attention. To bridge this gap, our empirical study collected data from 12 teacher educators in different Chilean and Finnish research-oriented universities. Drawing from Archer...

BTS, a seven-member K-pop boy band from South Korea, is regarded as cultural, social, and economic "Next Generation Leaders" due to their commitment to themes such as mental health, education, and the environment. A significant part of their success is attributed to their dedicated fan community, the BTS A.R.M.Y. This transnational community, activ...

This article is a study of the biography and intellectual work of Tan Malaka as a figure. The study of the biography of Tan Malaka will look at factual life and the form of its important role. Through the study of the intellectual work of Tan Malaka, it will be seen how the factuality of the birth of the work and the changes it creates. For this re...

The multiple problems that the planet is currently experiencing—climate crisis, conventional and unconventional wars, planetary disenchantment with political systems, growth of inequality, increase in all kinds of intersectional violence, destructuring of the political economy of morality, etc.—are not a favorable scenario for thinking about hope....

Paul Singer é um intelectual amplamente reconhecido no Brasil por obras que versam sobre o desenvolvimento, o socialismo e a economia solidária. Contudo, seus estudos são mais abrangentes incluindo temas como o solo urbano, o desenvolvimento capitalista, a política, o poder e a educação. O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar de forma concisa a contr...

Abstract: To create a human community with a shared future, cultural exchanges between countries should be strengthened (Xi, 2020, p. 365). Classical Chinese poetry is an important part of the communication of Chinese culture. The most translated Li Bai’s poems in Cathay not only promoted better reception of Li Bai’s poems in a foreign context, bu...

There has always been a close relation between thermodynamic theory and sociological theory, although they repeatedly part company and later rejoin. I discuss some of the most important ways in which the two have been in contact, focusing on the potential passage from theories of energy to theories of information and vice versa. I close by discussi...

Os problemas socioambientais são cada vez mais nocivos ao meio ambiente e devem ser trabalhados na escola. Esse artigo apresenta os resultados de uma atividade que oportunizou a discussão reflexiva sobre a importância da Educação Ambiental na escola. O objetivo foi trabalhar a Educação Ambiental numa visão crítica, com atividades que envolveram 25...

This article investigates the normlessness and strain situation radicalizing impact on youth radicalization in Pashtun semi-tribal society. The major objective of the study is to explore the Anomic and Strain Conditions in Pashtun Society in the light of sociological theories and the effects of the anomic situation on youth radicalization in Pashtu...

Lesson planning, assessment, and reflection constitute the key actions that teachers perform when students are not present in the classroom (henceforth, “Type D” variable). These “pre- and post-”actions are the most direct ways through which teachers shape their observable teaching work as mediated by their goals for their teaching. These goals are...

Introduction Seminal emotion socialization theories classify parents according to two patterns of parent emotion socialization processes: ‘emotion coaching’ (i.e., parents validate and teach children about emotions) versus ‘emotion dismissing’ parenting (i.e., parents minimize and dismiss their children’s emotions). However, empirical evidence supp...

Purpose:The research departs from the problem of the need for more understanding of students majoring in Islamic accounting regarding the use of social theory (ethnomethodology) for the study of cultural accounting. This is reflected, among others, that there are still many students majoring in Shariaaccounting who have yet to be able to complete t...

Zusammenfassung Den Ausgangspunkt dieses Beitrags bildet die Beobachtung, dass Bourdieus Rechtsdenken bislang nur einseitig zur Kenntnis genommen wird. In der Literatur gilt er in seiner rechtsbezogenen Analyse vor allem als Feldtheoretiker. Er steht in dieser Lesart für die Betrachtung eines Rechts, das – angereichert um eine Machtanalytik – entla...

Family members and friends play an important supportive role in the management of chronic illnesses like diabetes, which often require substantial lifestyle changes. Some studies suggest that there may be racial differences in the kinds of support people receive, though little research has examined this idea within a chronic illness context. The cu...

The intention of this volume is to explore how non-affirmative education theory, as a general theory of pedagogics or education (Allgemeine Pädagogik), enables us to rethink the contemporary approaches in education. This volume argues that we need to revisit core ideas that have eroded, especially during the recent decades of neoliberal performativ...

Hay una creencia generalizada en el pensamiento social y político contemporáneo que señala a la desigualdad como una causa eficiente que origina el delito y la violencia en las sociedades. Lo singular de esta creencia es que la comparten autores y actores de un amplio espectro político, desde agitadores de izquierda has- ta conservadores representa...

Mainstream theories of social inequality frequently compartmentalize experiences, but inequality rarely works that way in real life. Instead, individuals are comprised of many different identities at once, and these identities will interact with one another in unique ways. Furthermore, multiple systems and institutions are simultaneously at work in...

This study explores the correlation between political power and criminal behavior among political elites in Nigeria. It utilizes a qualitative methodology, including a thorough examination of existing literature, to understand the nature and consequences of criminal behavior in Nigeria. The study finds that socioeconomic inequality is a key factor...

Fraser is one of the most important American philosophers and one of the leading figures of contemporary critical theory. From the 1980s to the present, Fraser has published on political philosophy and social theory, reflected upon feminism, justice, and capitalism, and has participated in public debates on current issues. The interview aims at ret...

Abstract The immediate establishment of a new normal in response to the present global crisis made leaders relook into the well-being of their employees through a new lens. Hence, promoting empowering leadership in any organisation to attain employee well-being became the key to surviving the detrimental impact of endangered organisational product...

In the United States, increasing access to the internet, the increasing costs of large-scale face-to-face data collections, and the general reluctance of the public to participate in intrusive in-person data collections all mean that new approaches to nationally representative surveys are urgently needed. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need...

¿Cómo abordar los procesos de producción social del espacio en un caso específico desde los imaginarios urbanos? ¿Es posible desplegar un análisis de lo urbano desde la perspectiva socio-fenomenológica de los imaginarios sociales? ¿Cómo operacionalizar estas articulaciones teóricas? En este trabajo exponemos los avances teórico-metodológicos que ve...

This study aims to explore the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance in the presence of the moderating role of CEO chair duality. It is widely believed that CSR initiatives and firm performance are largely influenced by psychological factors and the behavior of the decision maker (manager/CEO). Hence, CEO chair dua...

This study explored how the holiday effect impacts the fluctuations in various scale indexes. Using differential and double-difference methods, the researchers of this study analyzed the impact of the lockdown in Wuhan, China on the holiday effect during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research objects used in this study include CSI All Share, CNI1000,...

Behind the facades of humanity’s technological advances and urban lifestyles, there is in fact no real wall that separates us from the web of life. Biology, physics, Western social theory, and Indigenous scholarship all tell us that we are embedded in the natural world; to operate otherwise is a dangerous misconception and leads to the human-center...

Recent scholarship explores the relevance and canonical status of W. E. B. Du Bois in sociological theory; yet less is said about his contributions to symbolic interactionism. This paper interrogates the emerging meaning of W. E. B. Du Bois for sociology, and the nature of his canonical incorporation. We explore the less “official” dimensions of Du...

Besides being one of the fastest growing platforms since entering the social media fray in 2016, TikTok is notably monopolized by teenagers, which makes it a veritable source of information not to be overlooked by gerontologists. Currently, most studies regarding age stereotypes on social media have examined content on Twitter and Facebook. Our stu...

The education sector is an important component of the UK's net zero strategy, in terms of both the carbon footprint of school buildings and operations, and the opportunities to teach about environmental issues and empower climate action. However, school sustainability is often narrowly defined around individual choices and behaviours by different s...

El artículo analiza la noción de ley constitucional en el Estado social de derecho a partir de una conferencia de Hermann Heller titulada “El concepto de ley en la Constitución del Reich”, que fue pronunciada en 1927 en las jornadas de la Asociación de Profesores Alemanes de teoría jurídica del Estado. En esa conferencia, Heller ejecuta una aguda c...