A qualitative exploration of the sociology of poststroke visual impairments and the associated health inequalities
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DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1738
Abstract: Inequalities have been found to exist within the visually impaired stroke population on an individual level, in relation to demographic differences, unequal access to vision services, transport, employment, and financial repercussions. The long‐term impact of… read more here.
Keywords: sociology poststroke; visual impairments; qualitative exploration; sociology ... See more keywords
Global Spotlight.
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DOI: 10.1002/etc.4930
Abstract: As director of LIS, an international data archive and research center, Janet Gornick enables researchers to compare socioeconomic outcomes around the world, and to study the institutional factors that shape those outcomes I t has… read more here.
Keywords: research; world; information; gornick ... See more keywords
Students' educational drive and ethnic capital.
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DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23011
Abstract: Class has been central to European sociology and especially to sociology of education. Class origins (through one's parents) do indeed largely determine one's educational attainments and through them, with further support from one's class origins,… read more here.
Keywords: class; community; sociology; capital ... See more keywords
Groups, organizations, families and movements: The sociology of social systems between interaction and society
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DOI: 10.1002/sres.2685
Abstract: In enhancing a proposal by Luhmann, this contribution shows that it is possible to locate different types of systems between ‘face‐to‐face‐interaction’ and ‘society’: groups, organizations, families and protest movements. The common ground of these is… read more here.
Keywords: social systems; interaction society; groups organizations; sociology ... See more keywords
The Scope of Sociolinguistics
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25582-5_2
Abstract: Chomsky’s (1965) work is a decisive step, not only in extending the scope of linguistic theory, but also in redefining the nature of its object. For ‘language’ Chomsky substitutes ‘competence,’ defined as a fluent native… read more here.
Keywords: scope sociolinguistics; linguistics; structural linguistics; sociology ... See more keywords
Challenges in Developing Protein Secretion Assays at a Single-Cell Level.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8567-8_1
Abstract: In addition to direct physical interactions between/among cells, the secretion of humoral factors from living cells is a critical process for cell-cell communications. A well-known extracellular signaling event is mediated by immune cell cytokines/chemokines. Because… read more here.
Keywords: secretion assays; protein secretion; biology; sociology ... See more keywords
Professors and politics: Noam Chomsky’s contested reputation in the United States and Canada
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9293-3
Abstract: There is an extensive literature comparing the politics, sociology and economics of the United States and Canada, but very little work comparing the role that public intellectuals play in the space of public opinion and… read more here.
Keywords: noam chomsky; reputation; states canada; united states ... See more keywords
Culturally meaningful networks: on the transition from military to civilian life in the United Kingdom
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-018-9317-7
Abstract: This article introduces the Culturally Meaningful Networks (CMN) approach. Following a pragmatist perspective of social mechanisms more broadly, it develops and demonstrates an approach to understanding networks that incorporates both structure and meaning and that… read more here.
Keywords: transition; culturally meaningful; civilian life; sociology ... See more keywords
Orlando Patterson, his work, and his legacy: a special issue in celebration of the republication of Slavery and Social Death
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-019-09371-3
Abstract: The reissue of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death provides an opportunity to reflect on developments in studies of slavery, postcolonial sociology, and comparative-historical sociology since the book’s initial release in 1982. In this special… read more here.
Keywords: patterson; social death; slavery social; orlando patterson ... See more keywords
Disruption and the theory of the interaction order
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-020-09384-3
Abstract: Micro-sociological theory has traditionally stressed interactional pressures towards alignment: actors’ attempts to co-construct a shared definition of the situation. We argue that this model provides an insufficient account of the coordination of action and of… read more here.
Keywords: interaction order; disruption; theory; interaction ... See more keywords
Does scientific eminence endure? Making sense of the most cited economists, psychologists and sociologists in textbooks (1970–2010)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2781-z
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of textbook eminence and asks whether this specific form of scholarly recognition is of a temporal rather than enduring nature. Based on an analysis of 30 leading textbooks in economics,… read more here.
Keywords: textbook eminence; eminence; sociology; economics ... See more keywords