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The right tool for the job: problems and solutions in visualizing sociological theory

Gordon Brett, Daniel Silver, Kaspar Beelen

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour > 50 > 2 > 223 - 248

The visualization of social theory is an important part of the development and communication of our theoretical ideas. While most theorists use figures of some kind, few if any have formal training, or guiding rules or principles for the representation of theory. This has often led to poor visualization efforts, and the visual culture of sociology continues to lag behind the natural sciences. The...

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Utowarowienie i odtowarowienie w ujęciu socjologicznym: próba (re)konceptualizacji

Marek Ziółkowski, Rafał Drozdowski, Mariusz Baranowski

Studia Socjologiczne > 2020 > 3(238) > 53-77

Zasadniczym celem artykułu jest próba rekonceptualizacji socjologicznego ujęcia szeroko rozumianych procesów utowarowienia i odtowarowienia oraz zjawisk pokrewnych, która ma służyć poszerzeniu ich mocy heurystycznej. Tekst posiada dwie warstwy. Po pierwsze, stanowi propozycję ramy teoretycznej, czyli zestawu wstępnych kategorii analitycznych pozwalających uchwycić zróżnicowane przypadki oraz dynamikę...

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Polish Sociology in the Face of Social and Political Changes of the 20th Century

Piotr T. Kwiatkowski, Jonathan Weber

Kultura i Społeczeństwo > 2019 > 63 > 4 > 193-201

The author of this essay deals with the specif‌icity of sociology in Poland, reaching for the book of Antoni Sułek A Mirror on the High Road. Chapters from the History of Social Research in Poland (2019). Chapters of this book taken as a set constitute a review of the key issues that Polish sociologists strived to tackle in the 20th century. For approximately half of the book (6 chapters) Sułek focuses...

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Editorial for the special issue “Scopes of the Social Imaginary in Sociology” in the ÖZS

Regine Herbrik, Tobias Schlechtriemen

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie > 2019 > 44 > 2 > 1-15

In this editorial, we offer an overview of research on the social imaginary. We begin by sketching the difficulties one faces when dealing scientifically with the social imaginary as an object of study, as a theoretical concept, or as an approach to studying cultural phenomena. We then collect the different lines of tradition, which have so far referred to the social imaginary within sociology. Although...

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A dynamic and multifunctional account of middle‐range theories[Note 1. I would like to thank Gianluca Pozzoni, Mikko Siponen, ...]

Tuukka Kaidesoja

The British Journal of Sociology > 70 > 4 > 1469 - 1489

This article develops a novel account of middle‐range theories for combining theoretical and empirical analysis in explanatory sociology. I first revisit Robert K. Merton’s original ideas on middle‐range theories and identify a tension between his developmental approach to middle‐range theorizing that recognizes multiple functions of theories in sociological research and his static definition of the...

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Sociological Theory: the Last Bastion of Sexism in Sociology

Lynn McDonald

The American Sociologist > 2019 > 50 > 3 > 402-413

While great improvements have been made in women’s professional advancement in sociology, it is contended that enormous sexism remains in sociological theory books, and the courses (often compulsory) associated with them. This has a broad effect in all fields within sociology, giving students the impression that men are the sources (the only in earlier times). Women are included only late, in contemporary...

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Autodivination – Autodeviation – Autokreation. Typologie religiöser Bewegungen von Kollektiven

Heike Delitz, Robert Seyfert

Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik > 2019 > 3 > 1 > 151-175

Der Beitrag schließt an Wolfgang Eßbachs religionssoziologische Studie dezidiert gesellschaftstheoretische Überlegungen an. Er entfaltet aus Eßbachs detaillierter historischer Rekonstruktion drei Thesen zur gesellschaftlichen Relevanz von Religion: In religiösen Bewegungen vollziehen Kollektive 1) ihre Selbstheiligung (Autodivination). Hier handelt es sich um eine durkheimianische Religionssoziologie...

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Empathy as Care: the Model of Palliative Medicine

Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Daniel R. Morrison

Society > 2019 > 56 > 2 > 158-165

This article elaborates the ascent of what we call the empathy as care model in contemporary medicine. We make the following arguments: First, does empathy mean care? We examine this question in the context of medicine. We argue that empathy may not mean care throughout all medical practice, as findings from the medical education field show. However, empathy as care is rising in one specialty, palliative...

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Moral decisionism and its discontents

Gabriel Abend

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour > 49 > 1 > 59 - 83

Decisionists use decision/choice concepts to understand and represent X: bees, Deep Blue, and Ron Carter make decisions. Explicit decisionists argue that X should be understood and represented using decision/choice concepts: it's correct to speak of bees', computers', and jazz improvisers' decision‐making. Explicit anti‐decisionists disagree: bees, computers, jazz improvisers, algorithms, and drug...

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The Public and Social Character of Love in the History of Sociological Thought

Silvia Cataldi

Paedagogia Christiana > 2018 > 2/42 > 101-120

The starting point of this paper is represented by the research carried out by the study group of Social-One (Iorio, 2014; 2015; Araújo et al., 2015; Araújo et al., 2016; Martins, Cataldi, 2016), which recognised a public dimension and not only the intimate and personal dimension of love in today’s society. Taking as a reference point the work of Luc Boltanski, L’amour et la justice comme competences...

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Cultures of choice: towards a sociology of choice as a cultural phenomenon

Ori Schwarz

The British Journal of Sociology > 69 > 3 > 845 - 864

The article explores different ways to conceptualize the relationship between choice and culture. These two notions are often constructed as opposites: while sociologies of modernization (such as Giddens’) portray a shift from cultural traditions to culturally disembedded choice, dispositional sociologies (such as Bourdieu's) uncover cultural determination as the hidden truth behind apparent choice...

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A sociological formalization of Searle's social ontology

Kevin McCaffree

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour > 48 > 3 > 330 - 349

John Searle's theory of social reality is among the most influential accounts in the history of philosophy. His theory also implicates concepts and issues of foundational interest to sociologists, including social structure, institutional differentiation and the relationship between linguistic performativity and institutional reality. Despite this overlap with sociological theory, and despite some...

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Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of banal and everyday nationalism

Jonathan Hearn, Marco Antonsich

Nations and Nationalism > 24 > 3 > 594 - 605

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A Systematic View on the Use of History for Current Debates in Sociology, and on the Potential and Problems of a Historical Epistemology of Sociology

Christian Dayé

The American Sociologist > 2018 > 49 > 4 > 520-547

For various reasons, among them changes in the global higher education regime and competitive knowledge claims from other disciplines, the field of the history of sociology (HoS) has experienced an increased pressure to justify its own existence during the last decade. Positing that the best approach to justify the existence of a thing is to show its usefulness, the article discusses four types of...

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Reintegrating Theories, Methods, and Historical Analysis in Teaching Sociology

Roberta Garner, Blackhawk Hancock

The American Sociologist > 2018 > 49 > 3 > 369-391

We discuss ways of bringing theory and methods into conversation with each other within courses and across the sociology curriculum. Theory is often taught completely separately from research methods, which in turn are simplistically divided into quantitative and qualitative. To counter this fragmented approach to the discipline we discuss two major paradigms, a social-forces paradigm often linked...

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Wykluczenie społeczne ludzi starszych – kilka uwag o socjologicznym ujęciu teoretycznychi praktycznych aspektów problematyki

M. Niezabitowski

Zeszyty Naukowe. Organizacja i Zarządzanie / Politechnika Śląska > 2018 > z. 123 > 291--312

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie elementów perspektywy socjologicznej, która zdaniem autora jest konieczna dla adekwatnego zrozumienia charakteru zjawisk wykluczenia osób starszych. Autor prezentując definicje i wymiary wykluczenia akcentuje, wzorując się na innych badaczach, niejednoznaczność przyczyn małego uczestnictwa seniorów w niektórych sferach życia społecznego. Pokazano tu elementy socjologicznego...

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Otwarty marksizm i odrodzenie socjologii: rola Juliana Hochfelda i Zygmunta Baumana

Wiatr, Jerzy

Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa > 2017 > 1(6) > 13-25

In 1956, political liberalization in Poland resulted in the revival of sociology, previously banned from Polish universities. Julian Hochfeld (1911–1966), previously a leading Socialist politician and currently professor of the University of Warsaw, played an important role in this process by (a) initiating the debate on the revision of Marxist social theory in the spirit of „Open Marxism”, and (b)...

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Otwarty marksizm i odrodzenie socjologii: rola Juliana Hochfelda i Zygmunta Baumana

Wiatr, Jerzy

Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa > 2017 > 6(1) > 13-25

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Authenticity: The Sociological Dimensions of a Politically Consequential Concept

Clayton Fordahl

The American Sociologist > 2018 > 49 > 2 > 299-311

In this brief essay, I reflect on the concept of authenticity and its potential convergence with topics of sociological concern. I argue that sociologists should consider the topic of authenticity for two reasons: its problematic role in modern social life and its prominence in contemporary electoral politics. I then provide a brief survey of the concept’s historical development in Western thought...

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W. E. B. Du Bois at the center: from science, civil rights movement, to Black Lives Matter

Aldon Morris

The British Journal of Sociology > 68 > 1 > 3 - 16

I am honoured to present the 2016 British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture at the London School of Economics. My lecture is based on ideas derived from my new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. In this essay I make three arguments. First, W.E.B. Du Bois and his Atlanta School of Sociology pioneered scientific sociology in the United States. Second, Du Bois...

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The right tool for the job: problems and solutions in visualizing sociological theory

Utowarowienie i odtowarowienie w ujęciu socjologicznym: próba (re)konceptualizacji

Polish Sociology in the Face of Social and Political Changes of the 20th Century

Editorial for the special issue “Scopes of the Social Imaginary in Sociology” in the ÖZS

A dynamic and multifunctional account of middle‐range theories[Note 1. I would like to thank Gianluca Pozzoni, Mikko Siponen, ...]

Sociological Theory: the Last Bastion of Sexism in Sociology

Autodivination – Autodeviation – Autokreation. Typologie religiöser Bewegungen von Kollektiven

Empathy as Care: the Model of Palliative Medicine

Moral decisionism and its discontents

The Public and Social Character of Love in the History of Sociological Thought

Cultures of choice: towards a sociology of choice as a cultural phenomenon

A sociological formalization of Searle's social ontology

Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of banal and everyday nationalism

A Systematic View on the Use of History for Current Debates in Sociology, and on the Potential and Problems of a Historical Epistemology of Sociology

Reintegrating Theories, Methods, and Historical Analysis in Teaching Sociology

Wykluczenie społeczne ludzi starszych – kilka uwag o socjologicznym ujęciu teoretycznychi praktycznych aspektów problematyki

Otwarty marksizm i odrodzenie socjologii: rola Juliana Hochfelda i Zygmunta Baumana

Otwarty marksizm i odrodzenie socjologii: rola Juliana Hochfelda i Zygmunta Baumana

Authenticity: The Sociological Dimensions of a Politically Consequential Concept

W. E. B. Du Bois at the center: from science, civil rights movement, to Black Lives Matter

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