The School-Family Relationship in Socially Divided Swedish Lower Secondary Schools by Pär Isling Poromaa

“…Drawing on theory by Reay (2004), this article deploys family and school habitus to analyse two Swedish lower-secondary schools with different social structures. The data consist of interviews and observations. …”
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Social Adaptability in Ecotones: Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change Adaptation in Flushing and the Isles of Scilly, UK by Jan Petzold

“…In this paper, I analyse how place-specific social structures and conflicting influences in ecotones affect adaptability to sea-level rise in coastal areas. …”
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Hannah Arendt’s Action Theory, Aesthetics and Feminist Curatorial Praxis by Neda Mohamadi

“…The feminist theory in this research aims to reveal, show, and transform cultural, historical and social structures. From a broader perspective, living in the neoliberal realities alongside capitalist and patriarchal state structures provides multiple reasons and a rationale for collectively forming a new foundation of resistance. …”
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Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism by Paola Ricaurte, Edgar Gómez-Cruz, Ignacio Siles

“…This commentary delves into the intricate dynamics of algorithmic governmentality in Latin America, shedding light on its multifaceted implications for governance, democracy, and social structures in the region.…”
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Merton, la riflessività e la scienza sociale impossibile by Sandro Landucci

“…Merton’s sociology to self-referential circular processes, a thematic attention that gives his sociological analyses and theoretical constructs a peculiar ironic and paradoxical tone.The characteristics of this thematic attention for self-referential schemes are shown by analysing the self-exemplifying nature of two essays, On the Shoulders of Giants (1965) and Travels and Adventures of Serendipity (Merton e Barber, 2002), that are commonly considered as standing aside in Merton’s production for their entirely paradoxical, humoristic style.It points out the genesis of this self-referential theme in early Merton’s works of the ’30s, showing its close connection with the theme of the unintended consequences of intentional action, considered by Merton as essential for the very existence of sociology as an independent theoretical discipline.It then proceeds to discuss the important role played by self-referential circular scheme — highlighting its connections with Merton’s conception of social science, of the relation between individual intentional action and social, structural conditions, and of sociological reflexivity — throughout his sociological work: from the study of sociological ambivalence to the critique of functionalist postulates, and from the self-fulfilling prophecy to the sociology of science.…”
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Second Language between marginalization and social inclusion. Qualitative survey on SL training services and on the social inclusion needs of migrants, an intercultural and postcol... by Aurora Bulgarelli

“…SL education can reproduce colonial relations, determining forms of subordinate integration based on the social structural asymmetries and that finds one of the regulatory principles in the category of race (Fanon, 1961). …”
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Measuring the Urgency
 of Asymmetric Local Elections (Pilkada) in Papua by Agus Fatoni

“…However, these choices are not final—contemporary decisions in preparing communities' political and social structures. …”
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Classism, Stereotypes, Persecution, and Man’s Inhumanity to Man in by منصور جارالله سرحان

“…After conceptualizing these issues, in this paper, I attempt to study the reasons beyond them which are social structural factors and social psychological factors. …”
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‘The mercurial piece of the puzzle’: Understanding stigma and HIV/AIDS in South Africa by Leah Gilbert

“…Its usefulness – or explanatory potential – is that it attempts to provide a comprehensive framework that offers insights into the individual as well as the social/structural components of HIV-related stigma in a particular context. …”
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Health lifestyles at work by Fleming, W

“…These perspectives both miss that participation in workplace wellness may represent socially structured health lifestyles. Addressing this gap, I extend a theoretical model for bringing together health lifestyles theory and critical wellbeing studies. …”

Benefits and harms from Internet use: A differentiated analysis of Great Britain by Blank, G, Lutz, C

“…We apply structural equation modelling to data from a large Internet survey to compare the social structuration of Internet benefits with harms. We find that highly educated users benefit most from using the web. …”

Contesting Familial Bonds: (Af)filiative Relationships in Pakistani Anglophone Writing by Aroosa Kanwal

“…I argue that, as a result of the changing relationships of migrant parents with their British-born children, either because of a clash between nostalgia for the culture of origin and the host culture, between racial discrimination or the changing social structures of multicultural Britain, familial bonds within Pakistani families in Britain are severely affected. …”
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Conserving the traditional Indonesian performance art “langen tayub” through “waranggana” creativities by Anik Juwariyah, Trisakti Trisakti, Fithriyah Inda Nur Abida

“…The development of langen tayub through waranggana’s creativity provides a vantage point from which to assess two broader currents in traditional and modern Javanese culture; the customs, rituals, and social structures that have been passed down through generations that coexist and interact with contemporary influences. …”
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Surveying Caribbean Cultural Landscapes: Mount Plantation, Barbados, and its global connections by Jonathan Finch, Douglas Armstrong, Edward Blinkhorn, David Barker

“…The first systematic archaeological investigation on Barbados since the 1970s at Mount Plantation, St George, Barbados, has yielded significant material and landscape data relating to world-changing economic and social structures, from the dramatic early 18th-century escalation of slavery to the agro-industrial production in the British Caribbean during the late 19th century. …”
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COMBATING CORRUPTION IN CROATIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES: AN EXAMPLE OF CROATIAN LEGAL DOCUMENTS – THE LAW CODE OF VINODOL (1288) AND STATUTE OF THE ISLAND OF KRK/VRBNIK (1388) by Tomislav Galović

“…The Law Code of Vinodol is in many ways a vital historical source, not only for legal history and linguistics, but also for knowledge of social structures in medieval Vinodol, the organization of the Church, and the ethnographic and cultural heritage. …”
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“Who Are We Writing For?” by Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson

“…These findings are indicating strong social structuring of much ILSA research. …”
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The role of local initiatives and social networks in solving the problem of waste disposal in the cities of Apatity and Kirovsk, Murmansk region: the experience of participant obse... by N. A. Koldobskaya

“…The cases of Apatity and Kirovsk show that the basis for the consolidation of the local community as a socio-territorial community is the place of residence and the use of existing social structures, in this case, localized neighboring communities, Internet communities and their communication channels. …”
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Islamic Fintech, Archaeology of a Discourse by Abderrazak Belabes

“…It is imperative to invest in local startups to innovate solutions that meet both the needs of users and the ambitions of organizations, while taking care not to destroy social structures, and allowing each person to develop its own specific world (milieu, Umwelt, fûdo 風土).…”
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THE NATURAL KITCHEN AS PLACE TO RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE FEMALE BODY by Fabio Lucio Antunes Guedes, Maristela Oliveira de Andrade

“…It is presented a small clipping which aims to account for a modern socially structured culinary context in the figure of the chef who is the central character in the historical process of naturalization of animal protein in the human palate and in the de-substantialization of the female soul. …”
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Semantic Representation of the Intersection of Criminal Law & Civil Tort by Alexandros Z. Spyropoulos, Angelos Kornilakis, Georgios C. Makris, Charalampos Bratsas, Vassilis Tsiantos, Ioannis Antoniou

“…The more complex and globalized social structures become, the greater the need for new ways of exchanging information and knowledge. …”
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