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- Azarian, Reza, Docent, 1960-
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Joint Actions, Stories and Symbolic Structures : A Contribution to Herbert Blumer’s Conceptual Framework
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 51:3, s. 685-700
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite its centrality in Blumer’s conceptual framework, the notion of joint action remains theoretically underdeveloped and empirically underutilised. To fill this void, the present article focuses on the dynamics inherent to the formation of joint action, and highlights actors’ deployment of available symbolic rules and resources for constructing the legitimising accounts that normally accompany their lines of action. The construction of such accounts, or stories, is viewed here as the prime means of reducing the intrinsic contingency of joint action and determining its content and terms as well as its direction and prospects. The article concludes by underscoring the importance of the suggested theoretical input for tapping some of the potential of Blumer’s approach, especially the one regarding its capacity to address subtle forms of power.
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- Bhambra, Gurminder K., et al.
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Introduction : Global Challenges for Sociology
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 51:1, s. 3-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the 50th anniversary of the journal, this special issue takes stock of the progress that has been made within sociology to become a more globally oriented discipline and discusses the new challenges for the future that emerge as a consequence. From its inception, classical sociology was primarily concerned with the European origins of processes of modernity that were to become global. There was little discussion of how the global might be understood in terms of structures, processes and social movements not directly identified as European but nonetheless contributing to modernity. The challenge for sociology has been to take into account these other phenomena and to rethink its core categories and concepts in light of newly understood alternative formations of the global and the social movements that bring them about.
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- Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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Postcolonial Reflections on Sociology
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 50:5, s. 960-966
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution addresses the impact of postcolonial critiques on sociology by drawing parallels with the emergence of feminism and queer theory within the academy. These critiques were facilitated by the expansion of public higher education over the last five decades and the article also addresses the implications of the privatisation and marketisation of the university on the processes of knowledge production.
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- Dallyn, Sam, et al.
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The Academic as Public Intellectual : Examining Public Engagement in the Professionalised Academy
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 49:6, s. 1031-1046
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we critically consider the widely held conception that the public intellectual is in decline. We present a more sanguine fate of this figure, arguing that today we observe a flourishing of intellectuals. One such figure is the academic intellectual who has often been looked at with suspicion as a technical specialist. This conception suggests that university intellectuals are diluted versions of the historical conception of the 'true' public intellectual - that is, an 'independent spirit' that fearlessly challenges unjust power. In this article, we contest this view, arguing that this historical conception, idealised as it may be, nevertheless can inform scholastic activities. By resituating the public intellectual as a kind of temperament rather than a title, we examine its pressing - but at the same time uneasy - relevance to contemporary academic life. Counterposing this with contemporary instrumental conceptions of research impact, we suggest that where possible the intellectual academic should aspire to go beyond academic institutional norms and requirements. Hence, the academic public intellectual refers to a temperament, which is in but not of the academic profession.
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- Kerr, Roslyn, et al.
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The Role of Setting in the Field: The Positioning of Older Bodies in the Field of Elite Women’s Gymnastics
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 52:4, s. 727-743
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The last decade has seen an increase in the age of elite women’s gymnasts. This article examines the older gymnastic body within the field of elite women’s gymnastics, and how gymnasts, over the age of 20, and their coaches and judges, reconstruct the field in interview accounts. While participants contested the value of differently aged and sized bodies, they also made distinctions between the capitals that were valuable in different settings such as the competition setting, a gymnast’s usual training setting or a national training camp. In order to account for these differences, we combine the work of Pierre Bourdieu with that of Erving Goffman. We argue that Goffman’s emphasis on setting adds a level of specificity to Bourdieu’s claim that fields always exist as sites of struggle through providing a way to differentiate between different value systems that may co-exist within the same field.
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- Krzyzanowska, Natalia, 1977-, et al.
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"Crisis' and Migration in Poland : Discursive Shifts, Anti-Pluralism and the Politicisation of Exclusion
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 52:3, s. 612-618
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay illustrates the extent to which crisis has had an impact on public perceptions and discourses of contemporary migration in Poland. We focus on the actual moment of the coming together' between crisis- and immigration-related discourses and argue that this connection has arisen as part of the recent political strategies of Poland's right-wing populist government Law and Justice' (PiS) party. The strong anti-immigration and anti-refugee rhetoric orchestrated by PiS across the Polish public sphere has also played a pivotal role in countenancing xenophobic as well as outright racist sentiments in wider Polish public discourse and society.
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- MacKenzie, Robert, Professor, et al.
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Technology, affordances and occupational identity amongst older telecommunications engineers: from living machines to black-boxes
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociology. - London : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 51:4, s. 732-748
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the relationship between technology and occupational identity based on working-life biographical interviews with older telecommunications engineers. In the construction of their own working-life biographical narratives, participants attached great importance to the technology with which they worked. The article contends that workers’ relationship with technology can be more nuanced than either the sociology of technology literature or the sociology of work literature accommodates. Adopting the concept of affordances, it is argued that the physical nature of earlier electromechanical technology afforded engineers the opportunity to ‘fix’ things through the skilled application of tools and act as autonomous custodians of ‘living’ machines: factors that were inherent to their occupational identity. However, the change to digital technology denied the affordances to apply hands-on skill and undermined key elements of the engineering occupational identity. Rather than simply reflecting the nostalgic romanticizing of the past, the biographies captured deterioration in the material realities of work.
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- McLachlan, C. J., et al.
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The Role of the Steelworker Occupational Community in the Internalization of Industrial Restructuring : The ‘Layering Up’ of Collective Proximal and Distal Experiences
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 53:5, s. 916-930
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the relationship between occupational community and restructuring at a UK steelworks. Through historic and contemporary experiences, restructuring has become an internalized feature of the steelworker identity. Zittoun and Gillespie’s framework of proximal and distal experiences is adapted to analyse the internalization process. The article argues that experiential resources associated with restructuring are transmitted via the occupational community, forming a part of a collective memory of workplace change. These experiences relate to the historical precedence of restructuring, the role of trade unions in accepting the inevitability of downsizing and prior personal and vicarious experiences of redundancy. The findings build on debates around the determinants of an occupational community, highlighting the role of ‘marginality’ and how experiences of restructuring bind steelworkers to a broader community of fate.
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- Ruppanner, Leah, et al.
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Does Unequal Housework Lead to Divorce? : Evidence from Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociology. - London, UK : Sage Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 52:1, s. 75-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The lack of couple-level data hinders direct exploration of how inconsistencies in couples' housework reports structure their relationship quality. We address this limitation by applying Swedish data from the 2009 Young Adult Panel Study (N = 1057 couples) matched with Swedish register data (2009-2014) to extend equity theory by estimating mismatch in couples' housework reports on relationship satisfaction and stability. We find women who report performing more housework are less likely to be satisfied with their relationships, and are more likely to consider breaking up. These unions are also more likely to dissolve. Using both partners' housework reports, we document discrediting women's housework contribution, or reporting she does less than she reports, is associated with lower relationship satisfaction. Women in these partnerships also consider breaking up, and the unions are more likely to dissolve. Our results identify the gendered impact of housework inequality on relationship stability.
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- Sandell, Kerstin, et al.
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Functioning Numbness Instead of Feelings as a Direction : Young Adults’ Experiences of Antidepressant Use
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 3:51, s. 543-558
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we explore, through in-depth interviews, young adults’ experiences of depression and antidepressant use in contemporary neoliberal society. We show that medication initially brings relief and an ability to function. However, in the longer perspective the dominating experience of antidepressants is emotional numbness. We suggest that this functioning yet numb subject is well suited to neoliberal demands, where the informants respond to outer demands without challenging them. Inspired by Chantal Mouffe we suggest that depression as a diagnosis is depoliticising, and with Ian Craib, we can see a denial of disappointment that surfaces in how depression is related to contemporary society. As a possible form of resistance we identify the strong positive emphasis on emotions as giving direction, motivating the interviewees to stop medicating. Still, we see a tension between functioning – expected from adults – and emotionality – linked to adolescence as a phase that should pass.
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