Sofia Hiltner
Sofia Hiltner
Climate change is increasingly recognized as not only a biophysical and technological problem but also a social one. Nonetheless, sociologists have expressed concern that sociology has paid relatively little attention to climate change. Thi...
Nicola Montagna
Nicola Montagna
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in literature and poetry, extensively depicted in the pictorial arts, sung about in music. Eve...
Hope and Paradox in Contemporary Chinese Society: A Moment for Cultural Transformation? [0.03%]
中国当下的希望与悖论：文化转型的契机？
L I Linyan,Cheng Boqing
L I Linyan
China in the midst of great changes has both changed and remained unchanged. Chinese society is full of hope but also faces many challenges. In particular, there is a paradox about the hope of the Chinese people. On the one hand, most of th...
Words That Bind: Moral Obligation, Textual Epistemology, and Globalizing Legal Power [0.03%]
道德约束：文本知识论与法律权力的全球化
Danielle Lucksted,Nicholas Hoover Wilson
Danielle Lucksted
In this review essay, we probe three main elements of Laura Ford's Intellectual Property of Nations: her discussion of the structure of moral obligation and its materialization via writing and the institutions of the law; reflections on how...
Robert J Antonio
Robert J Antonio
Charles Thorpe argues sociology lacks a "language of society as a whole." He holds that positivist sociologists de-legitimated holistic theories or broad normatively oriented "social theories," leaving the discipline without discursive mean...
David A Rier
David A Rier
Personal responsibility has emerged as an important element in many countries' public health planning, and has attracted substantial debate in public health discourse. Contemporary medical sociology typically resists such "responsibilizatio...
Immigration, Domination, and 'Proportional Patriotism': Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller [0.03%]
移民、霸权和“比例爱国主义”：赫伯特·亚当斯·米勒社会学的复兴
Jan Balon,John Holmwood
Jan Balon
This article addresses the sociological approach and political engagements of the early twentieth century sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). He is now largely forgotten, but he had deep connections within the Chicago milieu o...
Altruistic Relationships, Responsibility, and Sociology: An Attempt at Theoretical Systematization [0.03%]
利他关系，责任与社会学—理论系统化之尝试
Emiliana Mangone
Emiliana Mangone
The book Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism (Mangone in Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Inc., 2020a) raised compelling comments by distinguished scholars. Some of them were, in my opinion, particularly poignant, high...
From Value to Valuation: Pragmatist and Hermeneutic Orientations for Assessing Science on the International Space Station [0.03%]
从价值到估量：评估国际空间站上科学实验的实用主义和诠释学倾向
Paola Castaño
Paola Castaño
Based on a study of the International Space Station (ISS), this paper argues that - as a set of orientations for sociological inquiry - pragmatism and hermeneutics are confluent frameworks to examine valuation as a social process. This conf...
The Forgotten Lives of Sociology of Death: Remembering Du Bois, Martineau and Wells [0.03%]
被遗忘的死亡社会学家生命：杜波伊斯、马坦南和威尔斯不容被忘却
Jyoti Puri
Jyoti Puri
This article seeks to rewrite the genealogy of sociology of death by revisiting the history of sociology, from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. Providing an overview of sociological studies of death that consolidated into a subfiel...