I. KANT, T. PARSONS AND POSTPOSITIVISM IN SOCIAL THEORY by Zenonas Norkus

“… Why does modern sociological theory designate itself with two names ("sociological theory" and "social theory")? …”
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The Day in Court: Legal Education as Sociolegal Research Practice in the Form of an Ethnographic Study by Klaus A Ziegert

“…Instead, the integrity of constructing sociological theory can also be preserved in a legal education environment if the use of sociological theory is practised. …”
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Dalla temporalità dei moderni alle aspettative di futuro nell’Antropocene. Un itinerario teorico attraverso Koselleck, Latour e Beckert by Marco Bontempi

“…The aim of this article is to discuss some fundamental dimensions of the entaglement between the changes in the modern understanding of the temporality of the past and the future, the current transformations of the relations between nature and society, as expressed by Anthropocene concept, and some significant developments in the contemporary sociological theory about agency and the change of capitalism. …”
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I. KANT, T. PARSONS AND POSTPOSITIVISM IN SOCIAL THEORY by Zenonas Norkus

“… Why does modern sociological theory designate itself with two names ("sociological theory" and "social theory")? …”
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Disputes over the concept of social system and the critique of sociological reason by Andrzej Niesporek

“…With the advent of sociological theory, society started to be perceived as a different kind of reality, existing by its own laws as an independently functioning whole. …”
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Către o abordare sociologică a bunăstării subiective by Sergiu Bălţătescu

“…However, a full sociological theory of subjective well-being should not limit to the cognitive dimension. …”
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Bourdieu’s first year by Jordan Sly

“… This column explores the question: Is there a danger in applying sociological theory to student learning when working with first generation students? …”
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Społecznie konstruowane ciała i performatywna magia: Teoria socjologiczna Pierre’a Bourdieu w badaniach performatywnych by Lucyna Kopciewicz

“…In this text the author analyses Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory from the perspective of performance studies: of questions about social agency, understood as constructing the subject within a specific field of power. …”
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Preserving the self with artificial intelligence using VIPCare—a virtual interaction program for dementia caregivers by Linda Francis, Moojan Ghafurian

“…Using Affect Control Theory (ACT), the current project seeks to close that gap with an artificially intelligent application to improve interaction and affect for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). Using sociological theory, it models interactions with persons with ADRD based on self-sentiments, rather than cognitive memory, and informs a cellphone-based assistive tool called VIPCare for supporting caregivers.MethodsStaff focus groups and interviews with family members of persons with ADRD in a long-term residential care facility collected residents’ daily needs and personal histories. …”
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In search of quality and equity: The United Kingdom and Germany in the struggle for PISA scores by Richard Muench, Oliver Wieczorek

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Sociologia contemporanea, teoria critica, teoria sociale: il contributo di Boltanski. Una rilettura critica by Lidia Lo Schiavo

“…In contemporary sociological theory, the work of Boltanski and his research group is viewed as central, for at least two reasons: its contribution to reopening debate in critical social theory and renewing the European sociological tradition. …”
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Axel Honneth e la sociologia contemporanea by Ilenya Camozzi

“…In the final part, the paper highlights some developments in contemporary sociological theory that could limit the sociological reception of Honneth’s work.…”
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Secularism as a Project of Free and Equal Citizenship: Reflections on the Turkish Case by Haldun Gülalp

“…First, secularism as a normative political principle is conceptually distinguished from the discredited sociological theory of secularization and, second, it is treated as a project of free and equal citizenship. …”
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Tipificação, habitus e interdependência: emblemas para um debate sociológico by Eliska Altmann

“…In sociological theory one can enumerate different views that try to explain the social world and its agents or, more specifically, the relation between society and the individual. …”
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Memory. Oblivion by Andrea Marchili

“…The reference context is that of the interpretation of the sociological theory of collective memory into cultural memory. …”
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Geopolitics and Post-Structuralism: Th e Prospects for Integration by A. M. Kuchinov

“…Nowadays geopolitics has retreated from outdated sociological theories such as naturalistic reductionism, but the tendency to employ sociological theories in geopolitics exists. …”
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Audience Participation in the Production of Online News: Towards a Typology by Kammer Aske

“…The article discusses the concept of participation, arguing on the basis of sociological theory that it should be understood as those instances where the audience influences the content of the news through their intentional actions. …”
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The role of sociology in leadership in the church by Tony Tedjo

“…The strong relationship between society and the Church is explained in sociology or sociological theory. We know that society is a group of individuals who give rise to social groups and institutions named the Church. …”
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Choices and Historical Processes: Elisa Reis in Conversation with Luciana de Souza Leão by Luciana de Souza Leão, Elisa P. Reis

“…Specifically, they talk about Reis’ work in political sociology, sociological theory, elite’s perceptions of poverty and inequality, comparative methodologies, and the current politics of knowledge production in the Global South.…”
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Deregulation and Competition in the Financial Industry by Barron, D, West, E, Hannan, M

“…The main contributions of this paper are the application of a general sociological theory of organizational dynamics to understanding deregulation and the development of a general approach to modelling which could lead to new ways to evaluate the organizational consequences of major environmental changes. …”