Nikos Kokosalakis
Nikos Kokosalakis
Is death larger than life and does it annihilate life altogether? This is the basic question discussed in this essay, within a philosophical/existential context. The central argument is that the concept of death is problematic and, followin...
The Limitations of the Expert [0.03%]
专家的局限性
Harold J Laski
Harold J Laski
Infectious Hospitality and Communicative Disease in Kleist's "Der Findling": The Disease Inside and Out [0.03%]
克莱斯特的“弃婴”中的感染性好客和交流疾病：内外部的疾病
Rachel MagShamhráin
Rachel MagShamhráin
This article explores contagion alongside and in relation to its ever-attendant metaphors, examining Heinrich von Kleist's short story "The Foundling", and finding here a particularly revealing concatenation of ideas of human contact, trade...
Immortality [0.03%]
永生
John Carroll
John Carroll
This essay is an exercise in what might be called Metaphysical Sociology. It suggests that in the secular modern Western world immortality has become the great question mark. It explores possible responses, drawing on a range of fictional e...
Stockholm City's Elderly Care and Covid19: Interview with Barbro Karlsson [0.03%]
关于斯德哥尔摩市的老人护理和新冠状病毒的采访——对Barbro Karlsson的采访
Charlotta Stern,Daniel B Klein
Charlotta Stern
Upwards of 70% of the Covid19 death toll in Sweden has been people in elderly care services (as of mid-May 2020). We summarize the Covid19 tragedy in elderly care in Sweden, particularly in the City of Stockholm. We explain the institutiona...
Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi
Social distance has been a topic of interest in sociology for more than a century before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas in the past it referred to the distance between groups in more recent times it signifies the space betwe...
Rob Kroes
Rob Kroes
Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see ...
Joseph Yi,Wondong Lee
Joseph Yi
As in much of the world, the Coronovirus pandemic has dominated South Korean politics in 2020. Compared to other countries, Seoul's approach has been highly nationalist and politicized, as the ruling party lauded its pandemic response as th...
Peter Baehr,Daniel Gordon
Peter Baehr
Dislike among European publics for the Islamic full veil and the desire to ban it are often ascribed to nativist "Islamophobia." This article questions that assumption. It argues that, in political terms, the wearing of the burqa and niqab ...
Editorial
Society. 2012;49(5):457-467. DOI:10.1007/s12115-012-9584-2 2012