Concepts of culture of digital society in contemporary sociology by I. P. Saltanovich

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COMMUNITARIAN DIMENSION OF SOCIAL INTEGRITY PROBLEM by Yuliia Yu. Brodetskaya

“…However, modern social theory attempts to overcome the crisis of the rational project by forming a communitarians’ ideology. …”
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Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…Such inclu- sion of “Self-Description” (“shorthand”, “scene description”) in the corpus of social theory, as its integral and equal part with the function of describing the formation, semantics and theoretical resources of the theory of society itself, has become an important theoretical innovation in the field of social theory.…”
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HIV/AIDS & gende by Pieter Fourie

“… This paper addresses the unfortunate fact that social theory – particularly in the human sciences – has been ominously reticent in its intellectual input on the social determinants of HIV in South Africa. …”
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Therapy culture and the production of subjectivity in neoliberalism by Urošević Milan

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MODUS OF SOCIAL INTEGRITY: PRACTICE OF CONSTRUCTING PRODUCTIVE CO-BEING by I. I. Brodetskaya

“…Trends in the conceptual base of modern social theory are focused on the research of social phenomenon, the study of the conditions and mechanisms for the development of sociality. …”
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Editorial by J. Rossouw

“… From text: The first edition of what turned out to be one of the foundational texts of what became known as the intellectual movement of Radical Orthodoxy (RO), John Milbank’s Theology and social theory: Beyond secular reason was published in 1990. …”
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Drama, Creativity, and Critical Pedagogy by Helen Eadon-Sinkinson

“… This article focuses on the work of Paulo Freire and the social theory encapsulated within ‘Pedagogy of The Oppressed’ (1996) as applied to a professional educational context; A Year 11 GCSE drama class in preparation for their final assessment piece which was being moderated by an AQA assessor. …”
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Contemporary digital sociology in search of meaning-making models: the proper and the actual. Review on articles from the research handbook of digital sociology edited by J. Skopek... by E. V. Andrianova, V. A. Davydenko, A. I. Rozmanov

“…The handbook is structured into 5 sections reflecting key areas of digital sociology: social theory and the internet in everyday life, research of digital society, analysis of digital life and online interactions, digital participation and inequality, and consequences of digital technological changes. …”
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Pós-desenvolvimento, indicadores e culturas de auditoria: reflexões críticas sobre governança e desenvolvimento by Guilherme Francisco Waterloo Radomsky

“…As a conclusion, the article rethinks contemporary social theory and related issues from development studies, as agency and auditing, peoples’ desire/ repulsion for development projects and the critique of modernity.…”
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NATURALISTIC DISPERSION OF THE PROBLEM OF SOCIOL COGNITION by Justinas Karosas

“…Although it recognises that the social cognition is engaged, it contemplates that a social theory can avoid this engagement to a certain extent by finding a neutral code with respect to values in the social life. …”
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Temporalização do espaço social: apontamentos para uma sociologia do tempo by Victor Luiz Alves Mourão

“…This article has two objectives: (i) to organize the debate about time within sociology and (ii) to carry out a characterization of social theory that incorporates in a substantive way the temporal discussion through the notion of temporalization of the social space. …”
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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The irrelevance of Jon Elster's "basic paradox of counterfactuals" for the working historian is asserted on the ground that as a matter of fact there is no empirical social theory capable to endogenize all initial conditions in explanatory arguments where it is instrumental for deduction of explanandum. …”
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On the economical politics of invention by De Michele Giustino

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Geographies of Violence and Experiences of Re-Existence. The Case of Buenaventura, Colombia, 2005-2015 by Jefferson Jaramillo Marín, Érika Parrado Pardo, Wooldy Edson Louidor

“…It centers on contemporary critical perspectives of social theory and on the construction of two analytical categories: re-existence and geographies of violence. …”
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Jogos, sociabilidade e conflito no Brasil by Édison Gastaldo, Everardo Rocha, Adriana Braga

“…To him, poetry, law, war, music, religion and everything we regard as serious, sacred and respectful derive at some level from ancient sacred games, and still keep their elementary features. In social theory, the participation in games and competitions usually highlights their symbolic, ritual and communicational aspects, as well as their links to wider sociability networks. …”
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Àsùwàda Principle and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria by Yunusa Kehinde Salami

“… This paper examines the àsùwàdà principle as an indigenous social theory, which is based on alásùwàdà, a body of doctrines according to which the creator of human beings and everything in nature, dá (created) individual human beings as à-sù-wà (beings who can only live successfully as part of a human group with a purpose). …”
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Provocative Methods of Non-Corrupt Consciousness Formation by N. V. Syuzeva

“…The paper is devoted to the necessity of using the provocative methods in pedagogy regarding them as the most effective ones in education focused on fighting the corruption. Both the social theory and human experience demonstrate that we have to change people’s consciousness and start it as early as possible in order to overcome corruption. …”
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Da doutrina do interesse bem compreendido n'A Democracia na América by Roberta K. Soromenho Nicolete

“…Taking this fragile balance between liberty and equality into account, this paper aims the consideration of American customs which allows Tocqueville to postulate a social theory (not a description of this society), the doctrine of interest properly understood, which may link analytically virtue and interest and instruct democratic societies.…”
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