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• Introduction: Sociology and coloniality
• The decolonial challenge to sociology
• Beyond intellectual imperialism : indigenous and autonomous sociologies
• Walking while asking questions : towards a 'sociology in conversations'
• Conclusion: Sociology and the decolonial option.

"An action plan for a globally equitable sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling, " and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology.
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In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling, " and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology.
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This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a sociocultural account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. This theory aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, at the workplace, in everyday life, and in society.
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This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a sociocultural account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. This theory aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, at the workplace, in everyday life, and in society.
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• Background and Framework
• Rural Livelihood: Theories and Applications
• Livelihood Choices and Multidimensional Poverty in Impoverished Mountainous Areas
• Classifying Forest Livelihoods in Poor Mountainous Regions based on Forest Resource Utilization
• The Equity, Effectiveness and Efficiency of Ecological Compensation Policies
• An Empirical Study of the Impact of Ecological Compensation Policy on Rural Households in the Western Mountainous Regions
• The Impact of the Grain-for-Green Program on Household Welfare in the Western Mountainous Regions and Fairness Analysis
• Poverty Alleviation Through Population Resettlement and Rural Livelihoods
• Research on Small Watersheds Management and Rural Livelihood
• Future Studies on Rural Livelihoods and Environmental Sustainability

The book considers the challenge of poverty and deterioration of the ecological environment in China, particularly in rural areas. Examining key factors such as the overuse of natural resources and the loss of biodiversity in the face of an expanding population and rapidly developing economy. It focuses on examining the frameworks of rural households in poor mountainous areas in rural China, considering their livelihood choices and decision-making processes. It analyses the relationship between these households' livelihoods and their environment, notably farmers' attitudes and perceptions towards ecological conservation policies, and their use of forest resources. Cutting across the fields of population studies, sociology, economy and environment, this is an important read for scholars and students interested in how China is dealing with the challenges of natural resources exploitation, sustainable development and social welfare. .
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"Does the idea of human rights fail to protect the most vulnerable among humans: children?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter1. How Social Simulation Could Help Social Science Deal With Context.- Chapter2. Agent-Based Modelling With and Without Methodolog-ical Individualism.- Chapter3. Inflation expectations in a small open economy.- Chapter4. Causation in Agent-based Computational Social Science.- Chapter5. Times of Crisis and Labour Market Reforms.- Chapter6. Selecting the Right Game Concept for Social Simulation of Real-World Systems.- Chapter7. Physician, Heal Thyself! The Prospects for Using ABM to Target Interventions in ABM Engagement.- Chapter8. So You Got Two Ologies? The Challenge of Empirically Modelling Medical Prescribing Behaviour and its E ect on Anti-Microbial Resistance as a Case Study.- Chapter9. Ethics-based Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems.- Chapter10. Putting words into action: interdisciplinary collaboration in computational modelling.- Chapter11. Multi-scale validation of an agent-based housing market model.- Chapter12. Towards Agent-based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach.- Chapter13. Fixing sample biases in experimental data using agent-based modelling.- Chapter14. Simulation of behavioural dynamics within urban gardening communities.- Chapter15. Unleashing the Agents: From a Descriptive to an Explanatory Perspective in Agent-based Modelling.- Chapter16. Participatory policy development with agent-based modeling overcoming the building energy-e ciency gap.- Chapter17. Go Big Or Go Home? Simulating the E ect of Publishing Adopter Numbers for Two-Sided Platforms.- Chapter18. Simulations with Values.- Chapter19. To stay or to leave? Arti cial Sociality in GRASP world, an agent-based model.- Chapter20. Simulating a direct energy market: products, performance, and social influence.- Chapter21. Looking into the educational mirror: why computation is hardly being taught in the social sciences, and what to do about it.- Chapter22. E ects of heterogeneous strategy composition on cooperation in the repeated public good game.- Chapter23. A Health Policy Simulation and Gaming Model of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever and Zika Fever.- Chapter24. An Agent Based Model for tertiary educational choices in Italy.- Chapter25. (Ir-)Rationality of Teams: A process-oriented model of team cognition emergence.- Chapter26. Early Holocene Socio-Ecological Dynamics in the Iberian Peninsula: A Network Approach.- Chapter27. Influences of Innovation in Market Value.- Chapter28. Making use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Agent-Based Modeling.- Chapter29. Policy Option Simulation in Socio-Ecological Systems.- Chapter30. An Integrated Model to Assess the Impacts of Dams in Transboundary River Basins.- Chapter31. Norms in social simulation: balancing between realism and scalability.- Chapter32. Collaborating like professionals: integrating NetLogo and GitHub.- Chapter33. Kickstarting cooperation: experience-weighted attraction learning and norm conformity in a step-level public goods game.- Chapter34. Using Agent-Based Simulation to understand the role of values in policy-making.- Chapter35. A Philosophical Framework of Shared Worlds and Cultural Signi cance for Social Simulation.- Chapter36. Students of Religion Studying Social Conflict through Simulation and Modelling - An Exploration.- Chapter37. Using Cognitive Work Analysis to inform agent-based modelling of automated driving.- Chapter38. Modelling the "captain's nose": Exploring the shift towards autonomous shing with social simulation.- Chapter39. Conceptualising Arti cial Anasazi with an Explicit Knowledge Representation and Population Model.- Chapter40. Modeling Radicalization and Violent Extremism.- Chapter41. The Arti cial Society Analytics Platform.- Chapter42. Teaching the Complexity of Urban Systems with Participatory Social Simulation.- Chapter43. Enabling innovation within public research institutes- A modelling approach.- Chapter44. Using Social Simulations in Interdisciplinary Primary Education - an Expert Appraisal.- Chapter45. Switching Costs in Turbulent Task Environments.- Chapter46. Governing the Digital Society. Challenges for Agent-Based Modelling.- Chapter47. Towards modelling interventions in small scale sheries.- Chapter48. Population characteristics and the decision to convert to organic farming.
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This book presents the state-of-the-art in social simulation as presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. It covers the developments in applications and methods of social simulation, addressing societal issues such as socio-ecological systems and policy making. Methodological issues discussed include large-scale empirical calibration, model sharing and interdisciplinary research, as well as decision making models, validation and the use of qualitative data in simulation modeling. Research areas covered include archaeology, cognitive science, economics, organization science, and social simulation education. This collection gives readers insight into the increasing use of social simulation in both its theoretical development and in practical applications such as policy making whereby modelling and the behavior of complex systems is key. The book will appeal to students, researchers and professionals in the various fields. .
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• A Preliminary Note Introduction
• Chapter 1. Marranism and Inscription
• Chapter 2. My Life at Z: A Theoretical Fiction
• Chapter 3. The Fatality of (My) Subalternism
• Chapter 4. May I Kill a Narco?
• Chapter 5. The Turn of Deconstruction
• Chapter 6. We Have Good Reasons for This (and They Keep Coming): Revolutionary Drive and Democratic Desire
• Chapter 7. Time Out of Joint in Antonio Munoz Molina's La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era solido
• Chapter 8. Ethos Daimon: The Improbable Imposture
• Chapter 9. A Conversation Regarding the Notion of Infrapolitics, and a Few Other Things Appendix. Marrano Religion: Javier Marias's Los enamoramientos, and the Literary Secret Notes Works Cited Index.
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In 2015, members of the philosophy department at the University of Madrid conducted an interview with Alberto Moreiras for the university's digital archive. The resulting dialogues and the Spanish edition of this work, Marranismo e inscripcion, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada, are the basis for Against Abstraction, supplemented with an interview conducted for the Chilean journal Papel maquina. In these landmark conversations, Moreiras describes how, though he was initially committed to Latin American literary studies, he eventually transitioned to become an eminent scholar of critical theory, existential philosophy, and ultimately infrapolitics and posthegemony. Blending intellectual autobiography with a survey of Hispanism as practiced in universities in the United States (including the schisms in Latin American subaltern studies that eventually led to Moreiras's departure from Duke University), these narratives read like a picaresque and a polemic on the symbolic power of scholars. Drawing on the concept of marranism (originally a term for Iberian Jews and Muslims forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages) to consider the situations and allegiances he has navigated over the years, Moreiras has produced a multifaceted self-portrait that will surely spark further discourse.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction - This
• chapter introduces and develops the needs and means for obtaining an integrated analysis of information and knowledge about disease processes and their possible risk factors for consequences such as death and morbidity resulting from catastrophic events. The book has an epidemiological causation context but also includes key mechanistic (e.g., biological) aspects of causation as well as other risk factors (e.g., behavioral). It focuses on modeling using heterogeneous data and knowledge to inform policy about consequences that increase risks of toxic and carcinogenic effects from low exposures generated by the combination of natural (e.g., earthquakes) and industrial incidents (e.g., mishaps in chemical and other processes). The focus is causal because causation is essential to science-policy, by combining qualitative and quantitative descriptions that are legally defensible and non-arbitrary. An important aspect of this
• chapter is the use of surveillance data and their contribution to rapid preventive actions in response to catastrophic incidents - if actions were possible - even though this aspect is not central to the core interest of the book.
• Chapter 2: Aggregation of Raw Data: Scales of Measurement, Averages, and Fuzzy Integrals - An important aspect of modeling disease processes requires summarizing data from different sources (their scales of measurement and dimensions) into a single representative number. This chapter exemplifies averaging and other formal means to combine raw information into single numbers-- aggregation is the result of combining through different mathematical operators. These operators include the intersection (the min), various types of compensatory and non-compensatory averages, and the union (the max). This
• chapter includes a discussion and examples of scales of measurement (e.g., nominal, ordinal, and cardinal) as used in public health to describe the levels of risk factors and associated responses as well as the permissible operations using these scales.
• Chapter 3: Probabilistic Causation - The chapter discusses and exemplifies probabilistic causation, in the context of the advantages and main limitations of probabilistic methods. The focus is on the predictive aspects of causation, which is the essential reason for modeling cause-and-effect.
• Chapter 4: Policy and Representations of Incertitude - Policy is informed by judgments, hard numbers, models of various sorts, and vague propositions that are used routinely to describe events and their possible causes. This chapter exemplifies modeling causation through fuzzy controllers and fuzzy operations (e.g., union and intersection) that aggregate membership by using aspects of established causal models of cancer, respiratory conditions, and other diseases. The importance of these to inform policy-science, relative to what might be obtained from probabilistic methods, is discussed and exemplified.
• Chapter 5: Network Analysis - The chapter deals with Boolean, Bayesian, fuzzy (controllers), and other networks as means to develop graphical and mathematical aspects of causation, particularly when the disease process is deconstructed into different and heterogeneous sub-processes. Complex causation, modeled by Bayesian-probabilistic Directed Acyclic Graphs, is exemplified in the context of science-policy choices in public health. Examples from cancer and other multifactorial disease modeling are used to clarify the concepts developed in this chapter. This chapter also includes computing with fuzzy methods such as forward (data-driven search: begin with the data to produce the conclusion), and backward (goal-based search: begin with the conclusion to produce the antecedent) chaining. The advantages and disadvantages of the methods are exemplified and discussed in the context of informing science-policy rather than being extremely rigorous. nonrandom="" influence="" opinion="" dynamics="" can="" also="" be="" modeled, ="" instance, ="" by="" assuming="" equal="" probability="" exposure, ="" media="" attention, ="" selective="" exposures.="" defensive="" avoidance, ="" which="" changes="" assumed="" uniform="" distribution.="" motivated="" reasoning="" modeled="" response="" messages, ="" susceptible="" refractory="" individuals, ="" thus="" will="" linked="" social="" theory="" (chapter="" 9).="" are="" bottom-up="" simulations="" flexible="" identify="" emergent="" behaviors="" mechanisms.="" they="" capture="" different="" evolutionary="" changes, ="" multiple="" levels="" event-producing="" exposures, ="" dynamic="" learning, ="" so="" on.="" contexts, ="" intent="" link="" behavioral="" factors="" biological="" epidemiological="" discussed="" 7.="" although="" cannot="" extensive, ="" it="" illustrates="" key="" aspects="" context="" both="" ex-post="" assessments.
• Chapter 7: Multifactorial Disease Cause-and-Effect - The Evidence - The information developed in Chapters 5 and 6 are used to model the public health consequences of catastrophic events. The focus of the integration is the effects at low levels of exposure and response that are generally different from high exposure and multifactorial outcomes. Causal, disease-specific modeling should formally identify (conditional on the current state-of-knowledge) different aspects of the sets of risk factors. This chapter also discusses the effect of biases that affect epidemiological studies and the reliability of their results and describes how this book will help diminish their effect and result in more reliable knowledge. The chapter concludes with important aspects of epidemiological modeling, namely the specification error, for low exposures. This error is committed not by accounting for disease-specific risk factors and confounding variables, but rather by relying on a much simplified univariate dose-response model.
• Chapter 8: Mechanistic and Probabilistic Modeling of Events Leading to Catastrophic Consequences - The mechanisms resulting in catastrophic incidents and the subsequent analysis of the consequences of rare, large-magnitude events are discussed in terms of their steady state, equilibria, chaotic, and other trajectories. Linkages to probability distributions such as power laws are included to exemplify the differences between non-routine failure of engineered systems and natural catastrophes. The implications of an emergent system, with self-organization as the ability to develop a novel structure wholly different from the observed one (e.g., the structure of bronchi does not allow for the prediction of the whole human being), are also discussed regarding prediction to inform policy. This chapter links the probabilistic aspects of these events to their consequences as distributions with fat tails such as the stretched Pareto distribution and others, as well as discusses the possibility of warnings by observing bubbling or other behaviors prior to the unexpected consequence in the data to which a fat tail distribution is suitable. The linkages between an event and its consequence are developed using the methods discussed in the earlier chapters, because an event - e.g., a magnitude 8.0 earthquake - can generate several possible catastrophic consequences depending on factors such as time of day, state of preparedness, and others. Hence, the ability to rebound after the catastrophe requires predictive modeling of the interactions between actors or agents as well as accounting for local logistics and other states of ex-ante preparedness and the unexpected situations that generally follow the aftermath of a catastrophe.
• Chapter 9: Social Choice Theory - This chapter contains a discussion of voting and ranking of options based on the aggregation of individual expert scientific opinions. This
• chapter includes alternative sets of actors-stakeholders, such as would be found at a public meeting about the choice of alternative solutions to a public health problem. Aspects of decision analysis and game theory are useful to analyze these situations and are discussed, although the focus of the
• chapter is on how the aggregation of opinions and their criteria affect causal models adopted by individual experts and how conflicts in reaching an aggregate choice must be resolved.
• Chapter 10: Integration and Fusion of Information and Knowledge in Public Health Policy-Science - The main objective of this concluding
• chapter is to discuss how modeling should inform public health policy-science options. An important consideration is the assessment of model quality, which can range from statistical considerations of lay individuals' evaluations to models' ex-ante prediction of a catastrophe. This aspect is examined in terms of attributes such as credibility, scientific merit, usefulness, and success stories (if available). For instance, credibility suggests aspects of scientific validity ranging from publication in high-impact journals to an official's ability to explain convincingly her/his findings to a lay audience. This chapter reviews and completes the discussions of the issues raised in the book from the aggregation of raw data to knowledge propagation and fusion.
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Public health policy prospectively and retrospectively addresses the consequences of events ranging from the commonplace to the catastrophic. Informing policymakers and stakeholders by enhancing their understanding of complex causation to justify remedial or precautionary actions is a critical science-policy task. In this book, the key aspects of catastrophes (regardless of their nature) and routine events are identified through a common framework for their analyses, and the analyses of the consequences associated with the potential occurrence of these events also are discussed. The book is not about disaster planning; instead, it is focused on analysis and causation in the context of informing - rather than formulating - public health policy. The author aggregates and fuses scientific information and knowledge in public health policy-science using alternative but complementary methods. The book first focuses on the analysis of catastrophes and commonplace events; the focus then shifts to causal models of multifactorial diseases, particularly at low doses or dose-rates, associated with these events. Topics explored among the chapters include: Policy and Legal Aspects of Precautionary Choices Catastrophes, Disasters, and Calamities: Concepts for Their Assessment Uncertainty: Probabilistic and Statistical Aspects Aggregating Judgments to Inform Precautionary Decision-making The aim of the book is to show that the analyses of events are fundamentally similar, regardless of whether the concern is a global catastrophe or commonplace. Analysis of Catastrophes and Their Public Health Consequences is a text that should engage students, instructors, and researchers in public health, science policy, and preparedness research, as well as serve as a useful resource for policy analysts, practitioners, and risk managers.
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• Introduction. Logique d'un cadre d'analyse
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (1)
• Trois questions d'épistémologie générale
• Le paradigme sociologique
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (2)
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (3)
• Quid de la philosophie ?
• La sociologie comme science
• Après Kant
• Peut-on rester des "bachelardiens" heureux ?
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (4)
• Comment penser la "naissance" de la sociologie ?
• Sociologie historique et épistémologie sociogénétique de la sociologie
• Les sciences humaines et les rêves
• Appendice I. Quelques réflexions sur une controverse
• La naissance d'une conception sociologique du "temps" entre innovation scientifique et luttes académiques (1901-1945)
• La "durée", l'heure conventionnelle et le "temps social"
• Mesure du temps et "être-au-monde"
• Enjeux épistémologiques fondamentaux et rivalités de statut
• Une "conversion de philosophes à l'histoire" ?
• Bloch, Halbwachs, et les fondamentaux de la pensée sociale-historique
• Quel paradoxe ?
• Refonder la "philosophie" et la "science de l'homme" ?
• Un nouveau "point de vue"
• Refonder la "raison" ?
• Sociologie vs criticisme
• Une victoire à la Pyrrhus ?
• Genèses, sanctions et ruptures
• L'antinomie individu/société dans les sciences humaines et sociales
• Sémantique historique de "vrais faux" concepts antonymes
• Un processus d'individualisation ?
• Usages d'une antinomie dans le champ intellectuel français autour de 1900
• Du déterminisme biologique au déterminisme social
• Un régime, des sciences
• Dans l'étau d'une langue scientifique
• Des stratégies "logiques"... et payantes
• Vers un "nettoyage de printemps"
• Appendice II. Le cas de la neuroscience sociale
• Le rêve avorté du baron Tosti
• Le prix à payer pour "devenir un parfait psychologue"
• "Psychologie sociale" et ordre du discours
• Une double ambition : dialectique scientifique et vie de chercheur
• La pensée sociologique de Jean Jaurès
• Appendice III. Sociologie et socialisme
• Appendice IV. Durkheim et la "socialisation"
• Excellence sociologique et "vocation d'hétérodoxie" : Mai 68 et la rupture Aron-Bourdieu
• Le modèle aronien de l'excellence sociologique (1955-1968)
• Excellence sociologique et utopie communautaire
• Etudes éliasiennes
• Dynamique de champ et "événements" (1930-1945)
• La matrice d'un projet intellectuel
• Le défi d'une analyse configurationnelle globale des transformations du "psychique" et du "social"
• Les enjeux d'une réception
• Une occasion manquée
• La "grande oeuvre" méconnue
• Traduction non scientifique et réception-annexion
• Un cas de non réception : Qu'est-ce que la sociologie ? (1981)
• Traduction scientifique et réception académique
• Une sociologie "post-philosophique" ?
• "Trop tard ou trop tôt"...
• Entre auto-distanciation et hantise du classement
• Trois détours philosophiques
• Comment rompre avec la philosophie universitaire ?
• Refonder la sociologie de la connaissance et des sciences
• La théorie sociologique des sciences comme science des sciences

• La vraie nature du "social"
• Un nouvel espace des possibles
• Un sociologue à contretemps ?
• Innovation scientifique et tradition
• Appendice V. La sociologie des sciences selon Elias
• Les êtres humains comme processus
• La langue éliasienne
• Avec Freud, et au-delà
• Processus de civilisation et "bien-être" : la quête de l'équilibre ?
• Un problème personnel
• Vers une sociologie des "troubles d'époque"
• Progrès cognitif et progrès civilisateur.

"Après la philosophie entend clore une vaste enquête destinée à éclairer aussi bien la naissance que le statut épistémologique de la sociologie. Cette enquête vise ainsi à dégager l'existence d'un paradigme sociologique unifié, par-delà la pluralité des manières de faire de la sociologie (statistique, ethnographie, analyse des processus de longue durée, etc.). Émile Durkheim, en prêtant à la sociologie une triple vocation (viser une science sociale intégrée, contribuer à l'élaboration d'une théorie générale de la connaissance et nourrir une image scientifique de l'humanité et du monde), est le véritable fondateur de ce paradigme. Norbert Elias, ensuite, a beaucoup oeuvré pour clarifier le domaine d'étude de la sociologie : à savoir des sociétés en développement constituées d'êtres humains interdépendants par nature et selon des dispositifs de contrainte spécifiques. Avant que Pierre Bourdieu ne parachève le paradigme en plaçant la "réflexivité" au coeur de l'habitus du sociologue. Partant, la sociologie a très largement assumé et redéfini, en lien avec la psychologie et la biologie, les fonctions naguère attribuées à la philosophie par Kant, consacrant ainsi l'ambition théorique et épistémologique d'un au-delà de la philosophie."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : La sociologie, encore (l'époque)
• Rendre la société aux acteurs
• La "société" ne peut plus être l'objet de la sociologie
• Rapports sociaux et configurations sociales
• De la première à la seconde modernité
• De la globalisation des flux à la cosmopolitisation des rapports sociaux
• Changer de paradigme : de la domination au pouvoir
• Paradigme de la domination : une réduction des causes
• La société comme domination nécessaire et fonctionnelle : la sociologie classique
• L'idéologie des dominants comme mystcation : la sociologie critique
• La modernité comme domination : sociologie de la catastrophe
• La résistance marginale à la domination : sociologie des subalternes
• Paradigme du pouvoir : augmentation des acteurs et des réalités
• Les rapports de pouvoir construisent et instituent l'ordinaire de la réalité
• Les rapports de pouvoir sont vulnérables
• Rendre la domination aux acteurs
• Faire ensemble de la sociologie dans le monde
• Comprendre la critique postcoloniale
• La décolonialité du pouvoir comme émancipation de la domination occidentale ?
• Refaire de la sociologie ensemble : sociologies connectées des savoirs situés
• Outils communs et points de vue sociologiques situés
• Conclusion : La sociologie, encore (le monde)
• Références bibliographiques.

"Plus qu'un livre de théorie sociologique, Éric Macé nous propose un manuel de survie. Comment continuer à faire de la sociologie lorsque son objet central, inventé au XIXe siècle - "la société moderne" - est débordé par la mondialisation des interdépendances, la remise en cause des évidences occidentales, la catastrophe environnementale annoncée ? Comment continuer à réduire la réalité du monde en termes de domination et de reproduction sociale alors que dans la modernité et sa crise, c'est plutôt la question des changements, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, qui est au coeur de la vie sociale ? Ce court essai propose, en alternative, une sociologie augmentée" capable de décrire, de comprendre et d'expliquer une réalité beaucoup plus large ce qu'elle pensait au moment de sa fondation."--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A happy childhood "under such circumstances" -Pozna (1925-1932)
• Chapter 2 A pupil like no other - Pozna (1932-1939)
• Chapter 3 The fate of a war refugee (1939 -1944): Poznan - Molodeczna
• Chapter 4 Russian Exodus- 1941-1943 : Gorki and the forest
• Chapter 5 "Holy War"- 1943-1945
• Chapter 6 Officer of the Internal Security Corps, 1945-1953
• Chapter 7 "A man in a socialist society." Warsaw 1947-1953
• Chapter 8 Young Scholar's Life - 1953-1957
• Chapter 9 Years of hope - (1957-1967)
• Chapter 10 Bad romance with the Security Police
• Chapter 11 The "Year 1968"
• Chapter 12 Holy Land
• Chapter 13 British Professor
• Chapter 14 An Intellectual at Work
• Chapter 15
• Global Thinker
• Conclusion Legacy
• Appendix Working on Bauman Notes Bibliography.
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Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eighties, had his finger on the pulse of the youth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman's life and work. Izabela Wagner returns to Bauman's native Poland and recounts his childhood in an assimilated Polish Jewish family and the school experiences shaped by anti-Semitism. Bauman's life trajectory is typical of his generation and social group: the escape from Nazi occupation and Soviet secondary education, communist engagement, enrolment in the Polish Army as a political officer, participation in the WW II and the support for the new political regime in the post-war Poland. Wagner sheds new light on the post-war period and Bauman's activity as a KBW political officer. His eviction in 1953 from the military ranks and his academic career reflect the dynamic context of Poland in 1950s and 1960s. His professional career in Poland was abruptly halted in 1968 by the anti-Semitic purges. Bauman became a refugee again - leaving Poland for Israel, and then settling down in Leeds in the UK in 1971. His work would flourish in Leeds, and after his retirement in 1991 he entered a period of enormous productivity which propelled him onto the international stage as one of the most widely read and influential social thinkers of our time. Wagner's biography brings out the complex connections between Bauman's life experiences and his work, showing how his trajectory as an 'outsider' forced into exile by the anti-Semitic purges in Poland has shaped his thinking over time. Her careful and thorough account will be the standard biography of Bauman's life and work for years to come.
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• 1. Introduction--
• Part 1: Foundations--
• 2. Epistemology: Applied Rationalism and Reflexivity--
• 3. The Human Condition: Misrecognition and Relationalism--
• 4. Human Action: Practice and Habitus-- Part II: Social Structures--
• 5. Fields: The Basics--
• 6. Three Major Spaces: Class, Sex, 'Origins'--
• 7. The Field of Power and Micro-Fields--
• 8. Multiple Field Membership-- Part III: Permanence and Change--
• 9. Historical Sociology: Centralisation, Unification, Differentiation--
• 10. Education and Social Reproduction--
• 11. Global Social Relations--
• 12. Epilogue: Sociology After Bourdieu.
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Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes intense debates long after his death. Novel concepts, innovative applications and countless elaborations spring up every day, bulking out and shaping a distinct, if not always entirely consistent, body of work that might be characterised as a recognisable tradition. For those coming to Bourdieu for the first time, therefore, and interested in using his ideas in their own research, it no longer makes sense to confine oneself to the ideas of the man himself. An overview of the varied ways his concepts and arguments have been deepened and updated to make sense of new times or to fill certain gaps, and how insights on seemingly disconnected topics weave together into a bigger picture, is not just desirable but essential. Bourdieu and After aims to provide exactly this overview. Working closely with Bourdieu's own writings, but also covering a wide range of research and literature inspired by him, it aims to guide the reader through the key principles, the major and minor concepts and the concrete findings of Bourdieusian sociology as clearly and comprehensively as possible. It explains the difficult and often overlooked philosophical foundations, walks through the logic of famous terms like 'field', 'habitus' and 'capital' and demonstrates how they have been or can be used to provide powerful accounts of colonialism, the emergence of nation states and the rise of global social relations. It covers topics that Bourdieu was famous for analysing, like class and educational inequality, yet also traverses subjects on which he said little but that others influenced by him have tackled in depth, such as ethnicity, sexuality and family. Along the way Atkinson seeks to undermine some of the common criticisms levelled at Bourdieu while identifying remaining gaps and limitations. Rather than simply recognising the problems, however, Atkinson proposes possible solutions too - solutions that are facilitated, he argues, by characterising Bourdieusian sociology as what he calls 'relational phenomenology'.
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• List of Illustrations ix Cast of Characters xi Preface xvii Introduction
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• 1. The Fundacion del Caribe in Cordoba
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• 2. Archives and Repertoires
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• 3. Participation
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• 4. Critical Recovery
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• 5. Systematic Devolution
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• 6. Engagement and Reflection
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• 7. Fals Borda's Legacy
• 197 Notes
• 233 References Cited
• 243 Index.
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In the early 1970s, a group of Colombian intellectuals led by the pioneering sociologist Orlando Fals Borda created a research-activist collective called La Rosca de Investigacion y Accion Social (Circle of Research and Social Action). Combining sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements, Fals Borda and his colleagues collaborated with indigenous and peasant organizations throughout Colombia. In Cowards Don't Make History Joanne Rappaport examines the development of participatory action research on the Caribbean coast, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists. Fals Borda and his colleagues inserted themselves as researcher-activists into the activities of the National Association of Peasant Users, coordinated research priorities with its leaders, studied the history of peasant struggles, and, in collaboration with peasant researchers, prepared accessible materials for an organizational readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. Rappaport shows how the fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.
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