Participatory Culture for Social Justice: Students Deploying New Media as a Call to Action and Social Change by Sarah McCorkle

“… This case study explores the experiences of two university faculty members who guided their students in the development of digital media artifacts in a participatory media space for an authentic audience. A sociology instructor guided her students in the creation of artifacts documenting issues of racial inequality on campus. …”
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KIAI AS AL-QUDWAH AL-KHASANAH: THE ROLE OF KIAI IN SHAPING RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN ISLAMIC EDUCATION INSTITUTION by Ihsan Ihsan, A. Umar

“…They were then analyzed using the theoretical framework of the sociology of knowledge of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman. …”
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White-water rafting guides, leisure behaviour and liminality by Sandro Carnicelli Filho

“…Tourism, leisure studies, sociology and psychology are some of the academic fields that in recent years have included research related to adventure activities. …”
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Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web by Amanda Spink

“…De-industrialization is therefore a growing interdisciplinary area of research within sociology, urban planning and policy, and<B> </b>economics. …”
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A Local Extended Algorithm Combined with Degree and Clustering Coefficient to Optimize Overlapping Community Detection by Jing Liu, Junfang Guo, Qi Li

“…Community structure is one of the most important characteristics of complex networks, which has important applications in sociology, biology, and computer science. The community detection method based on local expansion is one of the most adaptable overlapping community detection algorithms. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…The theory of ecofeminism and the sociology of literature are applied. The study shall make use of relevant orature to support the validity and essentialism of creation and the strengths deposited in the female gender regarding its purpose and values in contents and context, modern diversity, and contemporary views at large on nature. …”
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Safeguarding in Sport: The Performative Compliance of International Sports Federations by Carole Gomez, Lucie Schoch

“…International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 29(3), 287–298. Lang, M., & Hartill, M. (2016). …”
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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“… One of the most significant tendencies in the development of Western historiography and social sciences in the last three decades has been the consolidation of a new multidisciplinary field of inquiry, comparative historical sociology (CHS). Reinhard Bendix, Charles Tilly, and Immanuel Wallerstein can be considered parents/creators of CHS in the U.S.A. …”
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‘I no longer worry about money for transport to the health centre’ - economic empowerment of caregivers of children living with HIV through Village Savings and Loan Associations: e... by Joseph Rujumba, Carmen Roebersen, Susan Namara, Richard Ochen, Sharon Eva Ahumuza, Allen Tushabe, Mathias Akugizibwe, David Bitira, Innocent Mwesigye, Stella Kentusi, Henry Zakumumpa, Japheth Kwiringira, Merian Natukwatsa Musinguzi

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A ética do cuidado como uma gramática da ação: uma análise do consumo crítico em um mercado alternativo by Felipe da Luz Colomé, Ricardo Mayer

“…Through the contributions of the pragmatic sociology of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot (1991), we analyzed the axiological rationality that underlies the actors’ preferences in alternative markets. …”
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Se réconcilier « entre victimes » pour tenir la lutte : la coordination transversale des familles de disparus au Liban et de leurs alliés de la justice transitionnelle by Yves Mirman

“…Supported by human rights and transitional justice organizations, they have been asserting their struggle for 40 years in a dispersed but also united manner. Based on sociology of collective action and without prescriptive approach of the post-conflict, this article describes transversal logics of coordination between militant groups, beyond the role of the leaders. …”
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The Character of the Neolithic ‘Imagery’ in the Upper Euphrates Valley and Konya Plain and Its Role in Discerning Changes in Religiosity by Weronika Stosik

“…These studies have been inspired by a series of innovative research concepts emerging from the fields of history and sociology of religion, coupled with the application of modern methods from the realm of digital humanities. …”
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Privacy virtualisation as an element of the new gender order by A. V. Shvetsova

“…The overview of the most important world studies in virtuality sociology is presented. They have in common is the concern of scholars about the substitution of real interpersonal relationships by virtual ones, the blurring of boundaries between these life layers with the social loneliness growth. …”
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Individual, collective and contextual dimensions of sustainable lifestyle change in daily life contexts: an integrated perspective by Eugenio De Gregorio, Giuseppe Carrus, Christian Andreas Klöckner, Erica Löfström, Lassi Similä, Michael Brenner-Fliesser

“….); (2) Collective level factors (as typically present and discussed in the social psychology and sociology literature; e.g., social capital, social norms, social and place identity, sense of community, place attachment, energy memories &amp; energy cultures); (3) Contextual factors (as typically present and discussed in the environmental science and economic literature; e.g., regulations, technology, infrastructures, economic resources, etc.). …”
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TOWARDS A CONCEPTUALISATION OF RESILIENCE IN SECURITY STUDIES by Zoran Kekovic, Vladimir Ninkovic

“…The use of the term has a long tradition in different scientific disciplines – psychology, sociology, ecology, engineering, management, whereas it entered the scope of security studies at the beginning of 21st century. …”
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The third space professional: cultivating authentic learning experiences through collaborative practice by Kate Murray

“…In this opinion piece, I share my experience as a liaison librarian who is actively working as a third space professional across the subjects of Law, Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology. Discussion is considered as a vital way for third space professionals to gain trust and credibility amongst academics, as well as the positive impact the introduction of hybrid working had in strengthening these alliances. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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Geography and geographical knowledge contribute decisively to all sustainable development goals and targets by Paulo Pereira, Wenwu Zhao

“…., education, demography, sociology) sciences. The spatialisation of information from different sciences allows us to understand distribution patterns and connections between different realities. …”
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The benefits of being between (many) fields: Mapping the high-dimensional space of AI research by Glen Berman, Kate Williams, Eliel Cohen

“…The article draws on the sociology of expertise and studies of research infrastructures to develop the conceptual frame of dimensionality to explain the vertical and horizontal dynamics informing the AI field's development. …”
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The Actual Problems of Modern Spain by N. E. Anikeeva

“…Molina) for the preparation of this article during the scientific trip to Madrid (Complutense University, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology), which was held in the framework of cooperation between the Bank Santander and MGIMO (University). …”
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