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Neo-classical sociology The prospects of social theory today

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In this paper, a new theoretical synthesis that overcomes the fragmentation, specialization and professionalization within the social sciences is proposed, which is an alternative to utilitarianism and the c...
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This article calls for a new theoretical synthesis that overcomes the fragmentation, specialization and professionalization within the social sciences. As an alternative to utilitarianism and the c...

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Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: a conceptual framework

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptional framework uses the theoretical concepts of imaginaries, practices, and structures to study the possible futures of sustainability, specifically modernization, transformation, and control, as well as possible interdependencies between these developments.
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Amazonian struggles for recognition

TL;DR: In this article, a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth's idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott's late-Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon is presented.
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Sociology as Practical Philosophy and Moral Science

TL;DR: The philosophical assumptions that organize moral sociology as practical philosophy are the outcome of a secular quest to investigate the principles, norms and values behind the constitution of sociascope.
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Modernisierung, Transformation oder Kontrolle?

TL;DR: In this paper, weißen Vertreter einer green economy auf eine okologische Modernisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ab, wahrend zivilgesellchaftliche Bewegungen eine grundlegende sozialokologische Transformation anstreben und Regierungen versuchen, Probleme der Nachhaltigkeit durch eine umfassende Politik der Kontrolle zu losen.
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Essai sur le don

Marcel Mauss
TL;DR: In this article, Mauss synthesizes the anthropological works of his time so as to better lead a reflexion upon the gift and the reasons for the counter-gift.
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Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

TL;DR: In this paper, a relation to the world of concern and its relation to social science is discussed. But the focus is on the ethical dimension of life and not the social science itself.
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Kampf um Anerkennung

Axel Honneth
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Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a political ontology based on post-foundationalism and Contingency for the absence ground of the social. But the ontology is not a political Ontology.
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Kampf um Anerkennung

TL;DR: Gewalt in Partnerschaften wird als Ausdruck beschadigter Selbstliebe verstanden, die sich in Form von narzisstischer Wut am Anderen entladen kann.