Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Modern social sciences arose during a period of classical modernity in which discovering universal rules between distinct phenomena was the most prominent criterion of scientific knowledge. Social phenomena were considered in the form of isolated, determined, standardized, and regulated objects whose knowledge, like that of the natural sciences, de...
This article aims to analyse the emergence and consolidation of a hybrid zone of intellectual legitimacy from the 1940s onwards and the reconfigurations in the very concept of university that the Cold War engendered. This analysis is made taking into consideration the network of liberal intellectuals that grouped around the Mont Pèlerin Society. Th...
Studying long-term processes in human history has over the past decades become a broad and multidisciplinary affair, which draws on various intellectual traditions. The work of sociologist Johan Goudsblom, to whom this special issue is dedicated, was an effort to transgress disciplinary bound-aries and to synthesise different perspectives in this f...
Zgodovina zahodne metafizike je bila v glavnem izrazito naklonjena substanci. Skozi zgodovino filozofije in sociologije se zato pogosto pojavlja konceptualizacija subjekta in objekta kot dveh diskretnih enot / deloma zaradi epistemoloških omejitev, deloma pa zaradi same zgodovine evropske filozofske tradicije. Substancialna ločitev na subjekt in ob...
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Zgodovina zahodne metafizike je bila v glavnem izrazito naklonjena substanci. Skozi zgodovino filozofije in sociologije se zato pogosto pojavlja konceptualizacija subjekta in objekta kot dveh diskretnih enot / deloma zaradi epistemoloških omejitev, deloma pa zaradi same zgodovine evropske filozofske tradicije. Substancialna ločitev na subjekt in ob...
Norbert Elias is an author traditionally absent in communication studies. His relevance for this field has begun to be defended recently, an argumentative line with which this paper is also identified. The article has two interrelated aims. First, present the main dimensions of Norbert Elias’ analysis on human communication. Second, critically exam...
The purpose of this study is to get more knowledge about how the identification process for immigrants’ is going. We want to know how the identification process has developed for them since they moved to Sweden and if they have had any difficulties adapting to Swedish society. Furthermore, the purpose is to find out whether the Swedish society or t...
Abstract: The text analyzes the democraticity of decision-making processes on local level public affairs in Cuba, emphasizing the examination of citizens’ capacities to influence the conditions that sustain decision-making and public debates. The study reveals the mutual dependencies between elements that constitute an autocratic consolidation of p...
Objective: This article analyzes the reception of Norbert Elías’ psychogenetic perspective within Steven Pinker’s so-called evolutionary psychology. It studies how Pinker, unlike other exponents of Eliasian theory, not only finds the German sociologist’s theory relevant in relation to the figurational position, but especially regarding his way of c...
