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I am looking for a specific issue of René Worms' Revue internationale de sociologie somewhen between 1925 and 1927. Do you know of any online archive beyond Gallica?
21 March 2020 2,735 3 View
During the Alliance for Progress, roughly in the 1960s, US-universities engaged systematically in colaborations with Latin American universities. This went beyond simple mobility programs, in many...
16 March 2020 9,506 1 View
There is a wide series of theories of global society (or globalization, global culture, etc.). Besides Luhmann's system's theory and Mayer's institutionalism, what theory can explain the...
13 November 2016 2,844 10 View
At least since the 1980s, most Latin American countries have followed -sometimes only in part and for some time- some kind of politics of decentralization and/or regionalization, imposed or...
19 April 2015 6,532 4 View
Erik Olin Wright has been working on his class analysis for quite some time. I guess, I am somewhat damaged with my European background, but actually his approach reminds me a lot of Bourdieu and...
13 November 2014 7,400 3 View
I have just been to a conference on degrowth (this one: http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/) - and left somewhat confused. On the one hand, degrowth is presented as an academic approach with...
23 September 2014 7,679 20 View
I have been asked this question several times. My answer was (more or less) that there is no real difference concerning the theoretical background - it is more about the geographical place, where...
12 April 2014 436 70 View
I am planning to do a little (maybe not so little) research concerning the influence of academic and non-academic publications (separated, if possible) on policy. In my case, I care about the...
03 September 2013 8,063 4 View
Can it be analyzed with social movements theories, like Resource Mobilization Theory, Political Process Theory, Collective Identity, Framing and so on? At least in the Ecuadorean case, the...
21 January 2013 1,735 22 View
Does anyone know about analysis of the discourse of the Peruvian guerilla Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso? I tried to find out about it but most studies I found seemed to be influenced by the...
05 January 2013 10,023 2 View
For quite a long time I have been thinking about Oscar Lewis' theory of a culture of poverty that determines in part that people stay poor - by providing a set of cultural values that impede them...
04 January 2013 136 49 View
In order to get a grip on the discourse of social movements -lets say public statements, political programs, lists of demands- is it better to use a social movements method like framing or an...
23 December 2012 5,135 10 View
Let's start with the classic question. In my opinion (and research) the indigenous is defined in a double process: on the one hand the process of coloniality -the forced positioning of indigenous...
21 December 2012 4,816 92 View