The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…The paper hinged on the Marxist Sociology of Literature and Postcolonial approaches, it critically evaluates inept political leadership and corrupt practices. …”
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The Limits and Opportunities of Practising Journalism in the Digital Space: A Gender Perspective by Alexandra Codău, Valentin Vanghelescu

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Introduction: Content, Design and Structure of Major Databases with Historical Longitudinal Population Data by George Alter, Kees Mandemakers, Hélène Vézina

“…These considerable investments of time and money have greatly expanded possibilities for new research in history, demography, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. This special issue describes the content and design of 23 important historical databases. …”
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La Migration Terminologique Interdisciplinaire dans le Langage Politique Contemporain by Angela GRĂDINARU, Svetlana CEBOTARI

“…This phenomenon reflects the interconnectedness of diverse fields such as sociology, economics, and international relations, where terminology evolves and transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. …”
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The use of artificial intelligence in counter-disinformation: a world wide (web) mapping by Federico Pilati, Federico Pilati, Federico Pilati, Tommaso Venturini

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The neoliberal roots of modern vaccine hesitancy by Chris Sanders, Kristin Burnett

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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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Direction des sociétés, modèle de reproduction des élites managériales et financiarisation du capitalisme allemand : Enseignements à partir d’un panel de vingt-cinq sociétés cotées... by Christopher Lantenois

“…Then, we will estimate their effects on the sociology and the nomination process of the presidents by analyzing their school trail, the “in-house career” pattern, and the gap between the presidency of the management board and the presidency of the supervisory board. …”
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Transformations in the governance of French medical laboratories by Antoine Leymarie

“…To do so, we mobilize the Régulation theory “sectoral approach” – which focuses on sectoral idiosyncrasies – enriched by the sociology of the professions. In the first section, we analyse the historical dynamics of the “French medical biology model” and its rise during the 1980s. …”
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Histoire de la réception et histoire du livre by Roger Chartier

“…The analysis then highlights the importance of developments within the field of book history, which branched out into the history of graphic culture with Petrucci and into the sociology of texts with McKenzie. In each case, the very materiality of the text, the form of its inscription and publication, are considered crucial to its mode of reception. …”
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Values in the sphere of marriage and family relations in the context of modern transformations of society by P. A. Balyavina, M. R. Danilova

“…The results of the paper can be used and are helpful to develop recommendations on the formation of family values and strengthening the family institution, to develop educational programmes and courses in sociology, psychology, pedagogy, and other disciplines related to the study of family and family values. …”
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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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Intersectionality and Birth in Latin America: A Research Protocol on Maternal Health of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Women in La Guajira, Colombia by Mariana Anginho Évora

“…Following a decolonial approach and expecting the project to contribute to the field of sociology of birth, in this paper I propose to discuss the mobilized literature, methodologies, and ethical concerns critically and reflectively. …”
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An Analysis of the Social Wellbeing of Youth in Turkey Based on the “2017 Global Youth Wellbeing Index” by Hülya Eker, Esra Burcu

“…This comparison places a sociological emphasis on the urgent need for a general social wellbeing indexing of the youth. …”
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ISLAM AND CAPITALISM: THE DYNAMICS OF RELIGION AND CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN WORK ORIENTATION by Husnul Khitam

“…Therefore, the main aim of the following study is to analyze contemporary Indonesia through the lenses of classical sociology theory, especially to reveal the fundamental question of how capitalist, religious, and work-oriented Indonesian society is? …”
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‘Blood’ Kinship and Kinship in Christ’s Blood: Nomadic Evangelism in the Nenets Tundra by Tatiana Vagramenko

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Knowledge as cause and tool for resistance against large scale mining: heuristic cases in Ecuador by Cristina Espinosa

“…These questions are illuminated using the theoretical contributions provided by approaches such as the sociology of knowledge, Latin American de-colonial thought, and feminist contributions to the study of science, technology and society. …”
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Biens publics : construction économique et registres sociaux by Philippe Boudes, Catherine Darrot

“…These must be differentiated, and sociological works invite us to do so, as they designate a reality by essence, purpose or ontology. …”
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Bildung through social media by Michael Paulsen, Jesper Tække

“…Theoretically we base our argument on educational theory (Kant, Klafki, Biesta), medium theory (Eisenstein and others) and sociology (Luhmann and Goffman).…”
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