Sociological Theory - Science topic

Accounting research demonstrated that financial audit can hardly be conceived of as a trust engendering technology yet. According to the sociological theory of trust, trust in auditors is divided into first order and second order trust. First order trust aims at identifying the factors that primarily contribute to the auditor’s trustworthiness, whe...

The paper reconstructs the genesis of a sociological theory and especially a systems theory of world society. The first books on world society in World War II and immediately after it look at the possibility of world government and its relevance for the solution of global problems. Other authors are interested in the behavioural and normative unifi...

JEJAK HILANG YANG PULANG: UNEILING THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF MEANINGABSTRACTThe author is like an architect who constructs the structure or framework of the text and fills it with layers ofmeaning. These layers of meaning should be conveyed through significant conceptualization within the text.Conceptualisation refers to the formation process or dev...

Objective: This research analyses the laws and regulations that apply to courts in adjudicating unlawful acts (torts) the Government commits. Methods: This research uses a socio-legal approach to prepare a normative juridical study complemented by an analysis of legal sociological theories. Conclusions: The research results show that, as stated in...

This paper investigates the relationship between music qualification choice and academic performance in secondary education in England at Key Stage 4 (KS4; usually at ages 15 and 16). We analysed data from 2257 pupils at 18 educational settings in a city in the southeast of England. Two regression analyses with clustered errors modelled KS4 music q...

This paper aims to understand the struggles and joys of individuals who have dyslexia. Situated in sociological theory, I contend that dyslexia is biological by nature, but socially constructed as a learning disability. This social construction is culturally shaped and bound by values of nonverbal communication which, consequently, is the area in w...

Auf Talcott Parsons’ Schultheorie wird zwar immer wieder verwiesen, ihre systematische Aufarbeitung stand jedoch bisher aus. Diese Leerstelle füllt die vorliegende Monographie. Sie bündelt Parsons’ allgemeine soziologische Theorie und seine Bildungssoziologie, formuliert Gegenstand und Anspruch von Schultheorie und ordnet Parsons in den Kontext fun...

Luhmann (1998) diagnostica una crisis en la teoría sociológica y esboza los lineamientos alrededor de los sistemas sociales autorreferenciales como cuestión fundamental de la Sociología. Las teorías sociológicas clásicas focalizan su preocupación en diferentes ámbitos: la sociedad, fenómenos y procesos sociales, las relaciones sociales o las estruc...

Land is not only defined as an object of ownership by certain community groups, especially indigenous communities. Land has intrinsic value inherent in the way of life and culture, thus affecting the quality of life. This article examines the potential implications of the land acquisiton process in the prospected Nusantara Capital in regards to the...

The uniqueness of tourism destination is informed by tourism business actors to the world community as the branding to attract the tourist has not been done optimally. The objective of research is to analyze the strategy of managing Solo the Spirit of Java as the branding based on smart information systems in Surakarta Indonesia with Lupton’s Digit...

Does the current celibate, semi-monastic, and all-male seminary formation contribute to the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church? Applying sociological theories on socialization, total institutions, and social resistance as the primary conceptual framework, and drawing on secondary literature, media reports, the author...

El objetivo general del presente artículo es explorar la naturaleza social del concepto de riesgo, analizando paralelamente la evolución de un enfoque (estudio del riesgo) que se encuentra estrechamente ligado a la trayectoria histórica de la teoría sociológica. Se señala la inevitable relación entre el concepto de riesgo y una época [la modernidad...

This chapter aims to clarify whether the mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church causes clerical sexual abuse. If it does, under what circumstances does it enable it. It primarily applies the sociological theories on power, hegemony, and social resistance and the qualitative research method to investigate how the compulsory clerica...

This chapter investigates how the mandatory clerical celibacy law was employed by the Roman Catholic Church during the Medieval period, especially during 11th and 12th century, as a primary ecclesial tool and strategy for social and ecclesial reform to address the various pressing problems which were connected to clerical marriages-instead of recog...

Combining the sociological theories on law, symbolic interaction, and social resistance as the overall theoretical framework and drawing on secondary literature as the primary textual data, this chapter examines the passive social resistance of Catholic priests at the backstage of clerical life. It argues that the imposition of the mandatory celiba...

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...

Este artículo aborda la ausencia de acuerdo sobre el concepto de neoliberalismo y su uso en el campo de estudios de la educación superior. Plantea que la reflexión sociológica ofrece valiosas herramientas para contrarrestar esa ausencia y, de paso, contribuir a los esfuerzos de conceptualización en dicho campo de estudios. Al efecto, propone una re...

Este artículo presenta el “proceso de reproblematización teórica” como una propuesta metodológica especialmente diseñada para llevar adelante investigaciones sociológicas eminentemente teóricas. Parte de la libre articulación de las nociones de “problematización” de Robert Castel y de “teorización” de Richard Swedberg. Luego, aborda en detalle los...

People from Black and Asian backgrounds are more likely to die from COVID-19 but less likely to be vaccinated, threatening to exacerbate health inequalities already experienced by ethnic minority groups. The literature suggests that mistrust rooted in structural inequality (including socioeconomic position and experience of racism) may be a key bar...

Human rights are every human's. His existence is an absolute thing. But in application, human rights abuses continue to occur. Human rights abuses are also carried out by law enforcement officials to demonstrators. What factors have led to the action of human rights abuses by law enforcement officials to demonstrators on the basis of law sociology...

Call for Abstracts: In comparative religious studies, notions of grace (charis) and charisma are widely used, but often in a routine manner. Despite ample criticism of this usage, popular interpretations of the term "charisma" as an indicator of personal appeal can still be found even in scholarly work. Ever since Max Weber attributed sociological...

Ochsenfeld (2016) has found that a substantial part of sex segregation in higher education results from differences in vocational interests (i.e., preferences), while constraints (e.g., relative math grades) play only a minor role. We challenge the validity of these findings because earlier work employed a cross-sectional student sample and might t...

The paper aims to analyze the Brazilian essayism through the category of modern chronotope and reflect upon the theoretical junction between imaginative cartography and figuration as interpretative axes of essayism and Brazilian social thought as an example of peripheral intellectual experience, highlighting the multiple paths and interpretations o...

This article is a thorough examination of the core principles underlying numerous crime theories, offering a complete explanation of these notions. The review commences by scrutinizing the definition of crime, the concept of guilt, and deviation. Following this, the discussion explores a range of societal, individual, psychological, and biological...

Background The social dimension of health literacy, also referred to as social health literacy or distributed health literacy, is meaningful and captures important aspects of the concept that areavailable within the social environment of people. While many studies in the realm of public health research, both qualitative and quantitative, rather foc...

Pakistan possesses a huge gap of conducting humanitarian aid programs. The leading socioeconomic and security challenges are over population, poverty, crime and unemployment. Non-government organizations are having robust presence in the country and have been strongly contributing a significant role in development of country's ignored sectors inclu...

O trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre as possibilidades de diálogo entre narrativas teóricas e ficcionais, especificamente a obra Um artista da fome, de Franz Kafka (1883-1924) e a crítica da cultura de Georg Simmel. Por meio de revisão bibliográfica, busco analisar versões do contraste entre indivíduo e sociedade através das transversalidades entre...

Este artigo contextualiza a importância de “Os Sertões” de Euclides da Cunha, na Guerra de Canudos e no desenvolvimento da Sociologia Brasileira, destacando sua transcendência além de uma mera narrativa histórica ao explorar a intersecção entre ciência e arte, marcando a literatura brasileira. O objetivo principal é analisar como uma suposta perspe...

Michel Freitag developed a ground-breaking sociological theory synthesizing the thought of sociology’s founders into the form of a dialectical sociology that conceives of the symbolic as ontological to social reality. After outlining his conceptualization of the historical evolution of society through its ‘modes of reproduction’, we will see how hi...

In the discipline of forensic sociology, sociological theories, methodologies, and concepts are applied to comprehend and examine criminal behaviour, the criminal justice system, and the effects of crime on society. It examines the social dynamics and institutions that support criminal behaviour as well as the responses of society to deviant behavi...

La solidaridad ha pasado de ser un concepto prácticamente olvidado a presentarse con un renovado auge. En este capítulo se busca delimitar conceptualmente la solidaridad, explicando su relación con conceptos afines como fraternidad, caridad o amistad cívica. En segundo lugar, se analizan los debates sobre la solidaridad como concepto jurídico y pol...

This article proposes that social change, a fundamental topic in sociological theory, can be productively revisited by attending to studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). We argue that the corpus of EM/CA research, from the 1960s until the present day, provides details of the constitutive and identifying aspects of practices...

The novel is one means of expressing a history and the existence of forms of interaction in each plot of the novel. This study aims to describe the forms of social interaction experienced by the main characters Surya and Segara Alam in the novels Noda Tak Kasat Mata by Agnes Jessica and Pulang by Leila S. Chudori. The approach used is Georg Simmel’...

Zusammenfassung Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung sind zwei Tendenzen gesellschaftlichen Wandels, die in verschiedene Richtungen weisen. Nachhaltigkeit wird als angestrebte, jedoch im Ergebnis unzureichend bleibende Veränderung gesehen, während Digitalisierung – erwünscht oder auch nicht – schlicht erfolgt. Diese Diskrepanz zu untersuchen, ist ein...

Neste texto analiso, de modo comparativo, as potencialidades e os limites da teoria da hegemonia de Ernesto Laclau e Chantal Mouffe e da concepção de bem comum na perspectiva da teoria da ressonância, de Hartmut Rosa, como instrumentos teóricos e analíticos para a construção de uma teoria antiessencialista da luta de classes, a partir dos conceitos...

Objetivo: Com base na micros sociologia de Erving Goffman e na teoria sociológica de Pierre Bourdieu, o presente estudo objetivou analisar até que ponto o setor da musculação pode ser considerado um espaço generificado e sexualizado. Metodologia: Durante um ano, entre 2012-2013, realizou-se uma etnografia interacionista comparativa entre duas acade...

El presente escrito busca adentrarse en algunos debates de la teoría sociológica que aportan herramientas heurísticas como ejercicio reflexivo intrínseco para repensar los problemas de investigación específicos. El objetivo es indagar sobre los fundamentos de por qué la dimensión creativa de la acción es clave para abordar la danza como práctica ar...

La noción de agencia ha tenido un impacto indiscutible en la teoría sociológica contemporánea. Sin embargo, es poco lo que se ha reflexionado acerca de las potencialidades y las limitaciones epistemológicas de este concepto para la acción estratégica del sujeto. Este artículo presenta dichas potencialidades y limitaciones en las perspectivas de Pie...

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 article addresses some considerations on the theoretical design of a sociology of literature. It focuses on two major dimensions, one epistemological, the other institutional. In the first two sections, both are evaluated from a general overview of the social sciences and humanities. Then, more precise considerations are made about the two dim...

De la tradición de pensamiento sociológico, Luhmann destaca la figura de Parsons por identificar el problema del orden como el tema constituyente de la disciplina. También resalta la manera en que lo conecta con la doble contingencia, aporte que permite tratar lo normal como improbable. Sin embargo, hasta allí llega el reconocimiento, pues desmarca...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Com base nos estudos de gênero e na teoria sociológica, realizamos neste artigo uma análise e estudo comparado do conto Um telefonema de Dorothy Parker (2020) e de sua transposição audiovisual de mesmo nome (REDEMOINHO, 2021). Para além das divergências e similitudes entre ambos, exploramos de que modo os papéis de gênero historicamente construídos...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Este texto é um ensaio em teoria sociológica cujo objetivo primordial é testar os limites e a aplicabilidade da sociologia do risco de Ulrich Beck em contraposição ao cenário pandêmico da COVID-19 no Brasil. Este exercício parte dos próprios pressupostos teóricos da sociologia do risco de Beck para rever sua atualidade e aplicabilidade. Trata-se de...

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...

This paper adds to a vital international tradition of discussing the history of sociological theory by empirically investigating its structure, dynamics, and relationships. Our primary contribution to this tradition is to bring to the conversation a greater level of comparative and historical scope, a more systematic quantitative methodology, and a...

Pound’s Cathay is a vivid case of cultural exchange between China and English-speaking countries. The most translated Li Bai’s poems in Cathay not only promoted better reception of Li Bai’s poems in a foreign context, but also injected powerful vitality into the Western literary world. This paper investigated Pound’s translation practice of Li Bai’...

This paper examines managing religious moderation education by strengthening religious symbols, namely songkok, with NU logic. This study aimed to analyze how the use of symbols on the NU skullcap can shape the personality of SD Islamiyah Magetan students in forming an understanding of religious moderation from the perspective of Peter L. Berger's...

The issue of combating crime has always been a priority for every rule-of-law state. The low level of crime is a symbiosis of effectively implementing a system of balanced measures. However, these measures must necessarily consider the specific features of the theoretical perception and awareness of crime as a phenomenon and features of the formati...

A lo largo de la historia, constantes y extensos debates sobre conflictos sociales han permitido el desarrollo de nuevos enfoques y miradas que intentan explicar el origen de la acción colectiva. En este contexto, la teoría sociológica del siglo XX estuvo dominada por dos de las principales tradiciones holistas sobre este campo. Por un lado, la paz...

This article examines the relationship between progressive Islam, Marxism, and Tan Malaka. Progressive Islam is one of the new movements in contemporary Islamic dynamics. Marxism is a tradition of thought. Tan Malaka is one of the Muslim leaders who uses the tradition of Marxism in every thought and struggle. This article uses the method of philoso...

Resumen: Conforme a las teorías sociológicas de la individualización, la migración de estilo de vida es vista como resultado de procesos de autorrealización de sujetos reflexivos. Este trabajo aporta una aproximación alternativa centrada en la producción de formas de subjetividad. Fundamentada en entrevistas en profundidad a migrantes internacional...

This article seeks to grasp the legal category of international child abduction through the conceptual lens of trust, from the standpoint of judges. In a more ambitious way, we delve into the relationship between law and trust in the context of the transnationalisation of family law. Going beyond the legal principle of mutual trust, we propose a so...

El presente trabajo da cuenta de un análisis sobre las teorías sociológicas ligadas al envejecimiento y las personas mayores, agregando, una visión aplicada a la investigación contemporánea y la definición de las políticas públicas en la materia. Desde una perspectiva general, se da cuenta del lento avance en la temática del envejecimiento articula...

BECO designed an Equity Audit tool to measure racial diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within workplaces. The tool has three versions (K-12 schools, For-Profits, and Non-Profits) and is currently undergoing the Standard Setting Process. This study reports on quantitative and qualitative findings for For-Profits and Non-Profits and by doing so,...

Western culture is fundamentally built on the idea of a divide between nature and society, a notion that has shaped its evolution since antiquity and permeates sociology. This paper explores three perspectives on the nature-society relationship: thinking of nature (a positivist view of causality), naturalism (seeing nature as a moral blueprint for...

Communication research is interdisciplinary in nature. Many communication scholars have addressed the interdisciplinary nature of communication from diverse perspectives. While communication scholars have discussed the communicator, I propose introducing a sociological approach to the communication field, particularly drawing on relational sociolog...

It is commonly held that the most laudable research is constructed around a healthy interplay among theories, methods, and data. Despite this long-standing consensus, many scholars have voiced concerns that theoretical frameworks are too often given inadequate attention and are generally underdeveloped. This impression has yet to be expressed with...

Este artículo argumenta que la comunicación es el punto central de toda vida en sociedad, presenta algo así como el programa resumido de una teoría sociológica de la comunicación. Entre sus aciertos está explicar diáfanamente el concepto de comunicación y apuntar filias (tradiciones teóricas compartidas) y fobias (teorías alternativas que confronta...

Pedregal de Santo Domingo es uno de los más poblados y emblemáticos barrios de la alcaldía de Coyoacán (Ciudad de México). Este artículo muestra el comportamiento electoral de dicho barrio y alcaldía mediante un análisis estadístico y geográfico que incluye los procesos electorales federales de 2012 y 2018, en los que se escogían los cargos para pr...

The literature on chronic pain management for people who use drugs (PWUD) is suffused with research from western societies. Comparatively, less is known about the experiences of PWUD in Africa. In this study, we explore health-care interactions and barriers to pain management for PWUD in Nigeria. We used qualitative data from in-depth, individual i...

The article argues that the history of sociology has multiple origins and greater diversity than the canonical narrative that focuses on male European thinkers. The article introduces a project that aims to recover the contributions of women from different regions and contexts to the making of social theory, and to challenge the marginalization of...

One of the characteristics of modern social systems is that in them friendly and private relationships are established with people who can be chosen from among the possibilities. In the atmosphere of modern social systems and in the depth of this atmosphere is the knowledge reserve of people, which has two levels of general knowledge and scientific...

This book offers an analysis of the sociological, historical, and cultural factors that lie behind mandatory clerical celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church and examines the negative impact of celibacy on the Catholic priesthood in our contemporary age. Drawing on sociological theory and secondary qualitative data, together with Church documents, it...

This chapter sociologically explores the four major challenges posed by the globalization of the contemporary world to the clerical celibacy of Catholic priests. Applying the sociological theory on globalization, technology, and confluent love, and the qualitative secondary research method that utilizes research articles, books, media reports, and...

All organizations are made up of organizational structures, which are made up of individual members who require motivation, development, performance, and psychological fulfilment. Management must exercise caution in upholding collectivist values, which have their roots in classical sociological theory, which opposes citizens’ autonomous desires in...

Purpose: There is a growing worry about people possibly isolating themselves in online bubbles and avoiding contact with ideas that differ from their beliefs, creating a scenario of ideological polarization. To investigate into this matter, this work aims for a reflection about the contingency of communication in social media. Does social media mak...

Latina women living in the USA experience disproportionately higher rates of psychological distress compared to their non-Latina White counterparts. Poor maternal mental health during pregnancy can contribute to intergenerational mental health disparities. Through this pathway, mothers' experiences, environments, and exposures (henceforth "exposure...

Este artigo tem por objetivo realizar uma breve análise sobre o nascimento e consolidação da sociologia como uma ciência moderna. Para isso, discute-se a contribuição dos seus pais fundadores, Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim e Max Weber; identifica-se categorias fundamentais da análise sociológica; o pensamento de alguns dos sociólogos contemporâneos; e...

The paper deals with the translations of sociological books into Polish, published from the post-Stalinist thaw in 1956 until the end of Communism in 1989. Translations played a special role in the formation of a distinctive identity of Polish sociology, which was relatively open to the West, but the scale of its international contacts was seriousl...

In recent years, literatures related to the use of technology for teaching and learning have proliferated, which can be divided into two groups: technology positivism and technology criticism. The technology positivism literatures posit that communities can be created in online platforms whereas the second group of literatures argue that learning t...

Neste artigo, apresentamos uma discussão sobre a contribuição dos principais teóricos sociais clássicos para a reflexão sobre as políticas públicas e sociais. Entre convergências problemáticas e divergências teóricas e políticas, as contribuições de Marx, Engels, Durkheim e Weber são mais complementares que excludentes entre si. Na medida do possív...

Social cohesion – the question what holds societies together – has always been a core question of sociological theory. Hence, the current political and sociological discourse concerning the crisis of social cohesion refers back to well established sociological ideas. Talcott Parsons (1971) identified an overarching consensus among members of societ...

Congratulations to all paper presenters and session chairs of the RC 46 conference program in the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology from June 25-July 1, 2023 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Our dynamic Vice-President for Programme, Tina Uys, has organized 18 sessions with a total of sixty (60) paper presentations. For details, s...