A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists
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In this paper, there has been an abundance of critically important research on Covid-19 from medical, epidemiological and virological disciplines and there is now an urgent need for so...Abstract:
During the early part of 2020, there has been an abundance of critically important research on Covid-19 from medical, epidemiological and virological disciplines. There is now an urgent need for so...read more
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Trust and Power
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the roots of the problem of credit surveillance in the United States and present a rich and richly documented account of consumer credit, credit surveillance, and financial identity.
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Liquid FearLiquid Fear, by BaumanZygmunt. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2006. 188 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 9780745636801.
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Digital sociologyLuptonDeborah, Digital sociology. Routledge: London and New York, 2015; 236 pp.: ISBN 9781138022775, $51.95 (pbk)
TL;DR: Jackie Greenfield has chosen to shift her career toward popular writing, on topics on which she has not done original research, while trading on her status as a scientist.
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The consequences of modernity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
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Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order
TL;DR: In this paper, three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today, and the three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints.
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Trust and Power
TL;DR: In this article, Niklas Luhmann's Sociological Enlightenment and its realisation in trust and power is discussed, where trust is defined as a reduction of complexity, and trust is viewed as an opportunity and a constraint.