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Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars

Wolbring, Gregor - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 75-83

This paper highlights the utility of an expanded ableism concept beyond how it is used in disability studies; expanding the concept of ableism so it connects with all aspects of societies and making ableism applicable to many academic fields. It introduces this expanded form of ableism as a new...

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Debating "the Social": Towards a Critique of Sociological Nostalgia

Elliott, Anthony; Turner, Bryan S. - In: Societies 2 (2012) 1, pp. 14-26

Although sociology can be commonsensically and parsimoniously defined as the study of society, the problems of defining … such terms as ‘society’, ‘the social’, and ‘the social system’ remain an ongoing irritant of sociological theory. In … addition to these traditional conceptual problems, there is currently a strong sense that ‘society’ as an empirical reality and …

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Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)

Ryan, John Charles - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 101-121

Plants have been—and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be—centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plants—including herbs, shrubs, and trees—are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a...

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Paesi Arabi - Islamici

Schivardi, Enrica - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011

The study starts from the idea that the Arab countries are protagonists of a story that involves and shares us about their successes and their defeats. The Arab immigration toward Europe and the last revolutions in North Africa and Middle East show us how close to Arab people Italy is both with...

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Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Latour, Bruno - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 14 (2013) 2, pp. 73-87

The book «Reassembling the Social» presents the fundamental thoughts of a leading social theorist on whata society is …

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Politici imperiale în Estul şi Vestul Spaţiului Românesc

Şipoş, Sorin; Brie, Mircea; Horga, Ioan; Şarov, Igor; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

: issues and historiographies, 2. Politics, administration and society within the Empires from Middle Age, 3. Politics … and western parts in XIVth century; the Moldavian – Russian treaty from 1656; Confession, religion and society under the … of the institution of zemstva in Bessarabian society; Orthodox reaction to the politics of catholicization. Other papers …

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Trust and the welfare state : the twin peaks curve

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2014

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...

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Efficient and inefficient welfare states

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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Cultures and innovation of African poor : common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? ; on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and black diasporas in Latin America

Kohnert, Dirk - 2006

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

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Democratization and Civic Capital in Italy

Guiso, Luigi - 2013

We document a sharp reversal in electoral participation between the North and the South of Italy after the 1912 enfranchisement which extended voting rights from a limited lite to (almost) all adult males. When voting was restricted to the elite, electoral turnout was higher in the South but...

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