Yoruba Myths: A Sociologist's Interpretation by P.C. Lloyd

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Reflexividade e agência na teoria sociológica contemporânea by Camila Penna

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Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

“…., Garvía 2007: 644; Casey 2008). Sociologist Emma Casey (2008: 3), who has studied British working-class women’s  xperiences of the National lottery, points out that buying a lottery ticket is a very popular routine purchase with unique mass appeal. …”
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Teorias das práticas na análise do consumo by Marcelo Castañeda

“…The article offers a presentation of the contributions of the British sociologist Alan Warde on theories of practice, emphasizing the analyses that seek to understand the phenomena of consumption in the contemporary societies. …”
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Does Divorce Make People Happy? by Donna Davis

“…In an attempt to further understand the outcomes of divorce, a team of family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite studied whether unhappily married adults who divorced were any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.” …”
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Does Divorce Make People Happy? by Donna Davis

“…In an attempt to further understand the outcomes of divorce, a team of family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite studied whether unhappily married adults who divorced were any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.” …”
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Immigrant Gambling in Finland by Perpetual Crentsil

“… An anthropological study of gambling among immigrant groups in Finland can reveal much about how the society organizes its way of life in categories  elevant for the economist, sociologist, political scientist and the historian. …”
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« Je m’y promenais donc avec Dickens » L’influence des représentations littéraires sur la mémoire collective dans la théorie de Halbwachs by Florence Tilch

“…This paper offers a reading of two works of the French sociologist in order to determine in which ways they still constitute a fertile foundation for a theory on the role of literary representations within a collective memory.…”
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“Nós somos machistas”: entrevistas com escritores/as brasileiros/as by Christian Grünnagel, Doris Wieser

“…These concepts are based on the theory developed by theAustralian sociologist R. W. Connell, who is one of the most distinguishedcontemporary scholars of masculinities and gender relations. …”
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Le sociologue dans l’action collective face au risque by Marc Mormont

“…These systems can be destructive of many original and creative practices. Sociologist can not be confined in analysis of risk perception, he has to be involved in collective action that try to deal with risks by confronting different collectives and by reorganising them while preserving autonomy.…”
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Des savoirs locaux aux experts naturalistes by Myriam Thirot, Pierre Failler, Justin Daniel

“…Semi-directing interviews led face-to-face by a sociologist provided elements of the fishermen empirical knowledge relating to marine ecosystems, the interdependence of their various components, as well as their knowledge on the resilience of marine protected areas ecosystems regarding global changes.According to the anthropology of conservation and in a perspective of integrated resources management, the analysis focuses on local knowledge of fishermen of marine and coastal biodiversity. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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A universidade necessária em Darcy Ribeiro: notas sobre um pensamento utópico by Adelia Miglievich Ribeiro, Glauber Rabelo Matias

“…By doing this, it also suggests affinities between his thought and the one of the Hungarian sociologist, Karl Mannheim, stressing the need to plan society on the basis of the democratization of education itself and of culture in general with a view to overcoming, in the Brazilian case, the backwardness. …”
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O laboratório em rede: fabricando transgênicos, construindo a sociedade by Felipe Vargas, Jalcione Almeida

“…This type of articulation allows the sociologist to apprehend the passages in between the making of GMOs and society. …”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“… This article proposes that the work of the French sociologist of science, Bruno Latour, that conceptualises the political process in a highly pluralist society, can provide a useful starting point for a discussion on the politics of reconciliation. …”
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A conformação dos grupos de pesquisa em biotecnologia da cana de açúcar na região norte-fluminense: a perspectiva do "novo sistemismo" by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro, Fabricio Monteiro Neves

“…Through the Theory of the Social Systems of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, we argue about the scientific, technological, economic, legal and political standing subsystems in the generation of the biotechnology of sugarcane in the North of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. …”
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Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations by Florian Brossette, Claudia Bieling

“…We propose resonance theory by the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa as a fruitful framework to advance social‐ecological thinking. …”
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Uma análise crítica sobre a reconstrução da trajetória histórica da Sociologia na educação básica: investigando o chamado período de exclusão1 by Alexandre Barbosa Fraga

“…This means mobilizing, therefore, different agents and fields involved in the recontextualization ofknowledge, as theorized by the sociologist Basil Bernstein.…”
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Quel rôle pour les scénarios Facteur 4 dans la construction de la décision publique ? by Sandrine Mathy, Meike Fink, Ruben Bibas

“…Therefore, exchanges between modelers, economists, technologists, sociologists and representatives of the civil society are a key factor for these scenario elaboration as their legitimacy stems from social and politic appropriation of scientific results.…”
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As correntes interacionistas e a sua repercussão nas teorias de Anthony Giddens e Bruno Latour by Karine Pereira Goss

“…The article also tries to demonstrate how two contemporary sociologists Anthony Giddens and Bruno Latour who are heirs of different sociological traditions share some of the main precepts of those approaches. …”
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