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Queer Experience in Turkey Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ezgi Bora, Kürşad Ertuğrul
This study explores the possibility of critical agency of queer subjects in Turkey in terms of challenging and subverting normative structural constraints. These constraints are attested through expansive use of the concept of habitus including class, gender, family, ethnicity and religion. Our field study in which in-depth interviews have been conducted detected two types of habitus in the life experiences
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Making Sense of the Republic in Turkey at Its Centennial: A Jacobinist Route to Modernity? Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Cenk Saraçoğlu
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Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Michael Grothe-Hammer, Héloïse Berkowitz
This article addresses one of the oldest, most fundamental questions: how social order comes about. Many established conceptions of social order either tend to overemphasize one specific form of social order such as institutions or networks thereby losing sight of others, or subscribe to a single binary definition often distinguishing between spontaneous and organized social order. Although we do not
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Book Review: Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents by Patrick R. Brown and Jens O. Zinn Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yongjin Wang
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Book review: Social Security in the Balkans Volume 2: An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro edited by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Domalewska Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Aleksandar Jovanoski
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Turkey’s Road to Capitalism: Issues in Multilinear Historical Sociology Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Charles Post
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Communicative Activity: Social Theoretical Foundations for Critical Materialist Media and Communication Sociology in the Digital Age Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sebastian Sevignani
This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology of media and communication by making use of the cultural–historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance in digital capitalism and the blurring of production and Internet usage. The paper first revisits Habermas’s influential notion of communicative action and agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an
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Mapping the Coercive Turn: Universal Credit, Social Crisis, and the Politics of Welfare in Austerity Britain, 2010–2019 Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Dillon Wamsley
This article examines the politics of welfare in Britain from 2010 to 2019. Drawing on Gramscian literature, the first section outlines an original framework of the ‘divide-and-rule’ politics of welfare during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom. The second section examines the return of welfare restructuring in Britain following the 2008 global financial crisis, focusing on Universal Credit
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Video Game Concerts: Unending Consumption on Video Game Platforms Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 David Arditi
Over the past several decades, video games have gone from single-purpose games to multi-faceted platforms. This article is a case study that develops ‘unending consumption’ to understand the political economy of video game concerts. Unending consumption is the expansion of the means of consumption under a subscription model. By applying unending consumption to the political economy of video games,
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‘Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil’: Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist Movement Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Nicolò Miotto, Julian Droogan
The religious dimensions of the QAnon movement and links with political violence have been noted by researchers. This paper furthers this scholarship by conducting an analysis of 121 religious images taken from QAnon Telegram channels over 18 months. Through adopting semiotic and hermeneutical theory, it is argued that QAnon religious imagery can be categorised into a series of types, all influenced
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Pandemic Stories From the Margins: Migrant Experiences of Social Exclusion During COVID-19 Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alicja Bobek, Lina Sandström
This paper utilises the concepts of social exclusion and precarity to explore the situation of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on European countries, we first demonstrate how migrants were more likely to experience exclusion prior to the crisis and how they were further marginalised due to the public health measures. Second, we show how inadequate government support exacerbated the
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Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Xolani Tshabalala
Over the last century, the South African state has periodically engaged in the practice of ‘exempting’ various migrants from their otherwise irregular immigration statuses. Always backed by official legislation, exemptions represent one way by which dominant capitalist interests have relied on the legitimacy of the state to meet their labour needs by sometimes employing undocumented migrants from the
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Coming from México ‘for a Better Life Here’: Street Gangs, American Violence, and the Spatialized Contours and Historical Continuity of Racial Capitalism Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Brian Cabral
Chicago’s broader notorious reputation of gang and gun violence dominates popular discursive conversations about the city’s safety and stability. Through a critical structural perspective, this article explores the constitutive historical continuity and spatialized contours of racial capitalism in the facilitation of structured violence and organized death in city neighborhoods. These dynamics are
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Spatial Competition and Unevenness in Global Capitalism: Labor, Nature, and the Seesaw of Capital Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Roberto J. Ortiz
Critical studies of globalization seek to unmask how this stage of capitalist history reshapes patterns of uneven development around the world. While globalization can reproduce long-standing patterns of North–South unequal exchange, in this paper, I focus on how capital mobility and competition contribute to uneven development. Drawing primarily on Neil Smith’s theory of uneven development, I offer
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Platform Organizations and Fields: Exploring the Influence of Field Conditions on Platformization Processes Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 David Seibt
This article contributes to the debate on the platformization of society by presenting a theoretical framework that describes the influence of strategic action fields (SAFs) on the emergence of platform architectures. It shifts the focus from already successful platforms to contested processes of platformization, understood as the gradual reorganization of fields around the architectures of digital
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From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Nadia Alahmed
This article explores the transformation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ viewpoint on Israel between the early and mid-20th century. It highlights historical and political forces that compelled him to support t...
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Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 David G. Embrick, Johnny Eric Williams
In this paper, we outline the contours of the history of oppression toward Palestinians to discern how the settler colonial racial capitalist state of Israel generates alienation in Palestinians. T...
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When Feminism Redefines National Liberation: How Tal’at Movement brought Feminism to the Core of the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Federica Stagni
On 8 August 2019, Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian living in Beit Sahour, was brutally beaten by members of her family. Since that moment, protests have erupted throughout historical Palest...
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Men Who Wear Make-up: Young Korean Men’s Masculinity Management in the Neoliberal Korea Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Gowoon Jung
Scholars have debated whether hybrid masculinities perpetuate or challenge male dominance and power. This study advances such dialogue by unveiling the kernel of hybrid masculinities through carefu...
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Profitability and Its Determinants: Operationalizing the ‘Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall’ in the US Economy, 1950–2020 Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Joshua J. Watterton
This analysis seeks to demonstrate the theoretical and empirical salience of the ‘law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall’ in relation to the concrete evolution of the US economy between ...
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From Climate Change to Sustainable and Inclusive Economies: A Policy Agenda Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Alfredo Saad-Filho, Fernanda Feil
Climate change and neoliberalism are threat multipliers: they combine risks, increase instability and penalise disproportionately poor countries and poor people by virtue of their greater vulnerabi...
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Critical Theory and Universal Basic Income Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Neal Harris
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified interest in alternatives to neoliberalism. One proposal that has been increasingly discussed by both academics and activists is the implementation of a Univers...
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Navigating and Countering Everyday Antimuslim Racism: The Case of Muslim Women in Sweden Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Mehek Muftee
In a socio-political context where antimuslim racism has gained momentum, this article aims to understand Muslim women’s everyday life experiences of racialization in Sweden. More importantly, it a...
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Imagining Crises of Neoliberalism: Covid-19 Pandemic and (Im)Possibilities of Change in Turkey’s Labour Regime Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Erdem Damar
This study critically engages with the ‘end of neoliberalism’ debates which have peaked following the globally detrimental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper suggests that crises of the pa...
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‘Knowing’ Palestinian Women: Interrogating Western International Feminist Assumptions, Governance, and Social Science Discourses Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Tanetta Andersson
This paper traces Palestinian women’s political mobilization for social change emphasizing historical and contemporary involvements in national struggles against colonial occupation and patriarchal...
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Capitalism, Class Struggle and/in Academia Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Raju J. Das
Class struggle is a necessary aspect of society. While ordinary people engage in struggles to improve their conditions, economically powerful people engage in struggles to defend their privileges. ...
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Expanding Sanctuary: The City of Sanctuary Movement in London Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Oska Paul
The City of Sanctuary (CoS) in the United Kingdom aims to create a culture of welcome for asylum seekers and refugees. This is a politically limited approach because it overlooks the effects of oth...
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Unfree Wage Labour Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Maja Breznik
The article develops the concept of ‘unfree wage labour’ that refers to a situation in which a worker must (temporarily and conditionally) give away possession of his labour power to a third party ...
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Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Abu Bakarr Bah, Ibrahim Bangura
This article is an ethnographic study that situates the caretaker phenomenon within the wider system of patrimonialism in Sierra Leone. It addresses the ways urban landholding creates a class of lu...
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Global Appeal: Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Neighborhood Branding Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Watoii Rabii
Using content analysis of Buffalo media and 20 semi-structured interviews, I document the use of immigrant entrepreneurialism as a neoliberal urban governance strategy. Racism evasiveness is centra...
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Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Marie Moran, Eoin Flaherty
While the concept of a ‘financial elite’ has become prominent within politics and the social sciences, it is not clear what value it holds for the analysis of inequalities of income, wealth and pow...
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Realist and Historicist Modes of Critique in Critical Sociology Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Mathieu Hikaru Desan
There are two distinct modes of critique operative in Bourdieu’s ‘critical sociology’. Bourdieu sometimes engages in what I call the realist mode of critique. This is premised on the idea that naïv...
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The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Bernard McKenna, Justin P. Brienza, Ali Intezari
This paper builds on Smith and Hanley’s finding that Trump’s supporters were not solely driven by demographics and economic distress, but predominantly by prejudices and preference for an overt aut...
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Race, Labor and Postbellum Capitalism in Du Bois’s ‘The Negro Worker in America’ Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Aaron Major
In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois published an article ‘L’Ouvrier Negre en Amerique’ (‘The Negro Worker in America’) which draws from original survey data and historical analysis to develop a theory of Black...
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Palestinian Erasure and Dehumanization in Introductory Sociology Texts Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Melissa F. Weiner
Settler colonial projects erase Indigenous peoples and their histories to justify expropriation of sovereign land. Educational curriculum plays a central role in settler colonialism by denying both...
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Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Maha Nassar
Nakba denialism – that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a con...
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Jil Oslo Generation Palestinians and the Fight for Human Rights Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Bhoomi K. Thakore
Palestinian-Israeli land conflicts are rooted in the United Nations Resolution of 1948 declaring the statehood of Israel and causing forced displacement of Palestinians from their ancestral homes. ...
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The Palestine Exception, Racialization and Invisibilization: From Israel (Palestine) to North America (Turtle Island) Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Nahla Abdo
This paper contends that the Zionist policies implemented by Israel had and continue to have a grave impact not only on the Palestinians in historic Palestine alone but also follows them in the dia...
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The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates About Race and Racism Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 M. Muhannad Ayyash
This article explores an important feature of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) that is salient in the North American and European academic landscape: the expulsion of the Palestinian critique of Zioni...
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Stratification Among In-Home Care Workers in the United States Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Ruth Milkman
Domestic workers—specifically in-home health care workers, childcare providers, and house cleaners—are generally concentrated at the bottom of the US labor market. Yet, there is also substantial st...
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Institutional and Ideational Forces of Contentious Politics in Chile (2006–2019) Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Shimaa Hatab
The article engages critically with the literature on the relationship between social movements and political parties. It traces the representation crisis in Chile with a dual focus on the meso-ins...
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Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Giorgos Venizelos
Donald Trump’s style is often described as provocative and his administration as catastrophic. Despite this, his popularity remained high throughout his term in office, and in the 2020 US elections...
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Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Amy A. Quark
We explore puzzling outcomes in a Virginia school district: in 2018, the Williamsburg-James City County School Board voted to redraw attendance boundaries to achieve greater racial and socio-econom...
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Suicidal Economy of Turkey in Times of Crisis: 2018 Crisis and Beyond Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Yunus Yücel, Berkay Kabalay
This article aims to explain the political-economic character of the increasing suicides in Turkey since 2018 that stem from indebtedness, poverty, and unemployment. It frames the acts as economy-r...
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Fascism as an Ideological Form: A Critical Theory Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Saladdin Ahmed
This paper argues that fascism is an ideological form rather than an ideological system. An ideology form can best be understood as a set of overall characteristics that distinguish a class of ideo...
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Contradictions of Neoliberal Urbanism: The Case of Paid Domestic Workers in Indian Cities Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Sonal Sharma
This article discusses the contradictions of neoliberal urbanism in the context of Indian cities. Focusing on gated neighborhoods as a quintessential feature of neoliberal urbanism, it unpacks the ...
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New Culture Wars: Tradwives, Bodybuilders and the Neoliberalism of the Far-Right Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Felix del Campo
The renewed interest in unearthing the structural similarities between neoliberalism’s ‘authoritarianism’ and the contemporary far-right has paid little to no attention to another critical overlap ...
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Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Mikael Holmqvist, Ilan Wiesel
‘Elite communities’ are the areas where the wealthy, and even ‘superrich’, live, socialize and raise their children as future economic and financial elites; they are the places where a few lead soc...
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Service Labor, Freedom, and the Technique of Tipping Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Jacqueline Ross, John Welsh
Tipping has been a legally recognized form of labor remuneration in the United States for many decades, but it is experiencing a resurgence outside of its usual confines in the hospitality sector. ...
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Politics of the Debtfare State: Repoliticizing the Czech Debt Enforcement Order and Its Limits Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Daniel Šitera
In Czechia, one of the statistically most equal and least indebted states, almost one-tenth of its (mostly low-income) population is entrapped in debt enforcement proceedings. I foreground such a c...
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'The Catastrophic World': Capitalism, Climate Crisis, COVID-19, and C. Wright Mills. Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Zaheer Baber
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Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Madalitso Zililo Phiri
Forty years have passed since the implementation of the pernicious neoliberal structural reforms on the African continent in 1981. If 2021 marked a 40-year commemoration of a diabolical neocolonial project such as neoliberalism, then the year 2020 signified another 40-year period of rebirth aborted, as the Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 was undermined in favour of the Berg Report of 1981. These two periodizations
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‘Compañerismo’: Care and Power in Affective Labor Relations Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Carol Chan, Rosario Fernández-Ossandón
Many Chilean women employers desire domestic workers who are also ‘partners’ or ‘someone to do life with’. Taking ‘partnership’ or ‘compañerismo’ seriously, this paper draws on an affective labor f...
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Identity, Social Character, and the Clash of Social Movements Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Lauren Langman
At this moment in time, the very future of democracy in America has become a serious question. Many journalists and commentators have raised questions of crisis of White, Christian, male authority that impel an ‘illiberal democracy’, one-party rule, and/or a new civil War. The wave of progressive movements in the 1960s, resurgent in the 21st century, and challenging traditional, essentialist, identities
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Trump’s Charisma Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Ivan Light
Max Weber insisted that followers grant charismatic authority, but he did not address the cultural prerequisites that enable leaders to acquire it from them. Prophecy is the royal road. When a prophetic tradition has taught people to expect saviors in times of crisis, believers are primed to award charismatic authority to someone who resembles their expectation. The case of Donald Trump illustrates
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Travelling Lite, or the History of (Almost) Everything Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Tom Brass
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Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 M. Anwar Hossen
Sociology is one of the major disciplines to foster understanding and protection of the livelihoods of local people. For instance, the discipline can describe the linkage between the environment and people and the effects of environmental change on local groups of people in a Delta country such as Bangladesh. However, the imperial philosophy of modernity that dominates the discipline and which is evident
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Worker Co-Operatives for the 21st Century Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Tim Christiaens
In his 1957 book Mythologies, French philosopher Roland Barthes explains the crucial role of myths in the formation of public opinion. What people consider to be common sense is not rooted in natural facts but is the product of the laborious creation and diffusion of fixed tropes in public discourse. People need these refrains to give consistency and stability to a chaotic and ever-changing world.
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Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy Critical Sociology (IF 1.611) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih
The article examines the effects of the normalization of a new form of precarious work—tied to the gig economy and shaped by the imperatives of neoliberalism—in impeding the formation of solidarity...