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Religion as Opposition: A Gramscian Analysis'
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In this article, Gramsci's approach to the dynamics of hegemony and counter-hegemony is used to develop guidelines for the historical analysis of conditions under which religion promotes eith...Abstract:
Building on Antonio Gramsci's approach to the dynamics of hegemony and counterhegemony, this article develops guidelines for the historical analysis of conditions under which religion promotes eith...read more
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Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States
TL;DR: The authors argues that organized religion thrives in the United States in an open market system, an observation anomalous to the older paradigm's monopoly concept and argues that U.S. religious institutions are constitutively pluralistic, structurally adaptable, and empowering.
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Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism
TL;DR: This article explored the multidimensional aspect of religion and its impact on political action and found that religious beliefs and practices affect different modes of political action like voting and collective action, and how these effects differ between black and white Americans.
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Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions and the structure of solidary groups in the context of local governance in rural China, and proposed a framework for local governance.
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Religion in Sociological Perspective
TL;DR: The sociological approach of as discussed by the authors takes into account a given social structure as the normative field (role-status) of interaction of actors (individuals or groups) in a society.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole as discussed by the authors.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.