Social nothingness: A phenomenological investigation:
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In this article, the authors identify and explore the realm of social nothingness: objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful.Abstract:
This article identifies and explores the realm of ‘social nothingness’: objects, people, events and places that do not empirically exist, yet are experienced as subjectively meaningful. Taking a ph...read more
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Ghostly Encounters : Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Mark Sandy,Stefano Cracolici +1 more
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Do Objects (Re)produce Home among International Migrants?
TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed a framework on the potential of objects for home making and reproduction along four lines: embodying migrants' collective backgrounds and identities; affording migrants to feel at home; encapsulating the memories and symbols of former homes, households, and significant relationships; eliciting connections with settings and events that meant 'home' over their life course.
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Feeling fixes: Mess and emotion in algorithmic audits
Os Keyes,Jeanie Austin +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that auditing processes must attend to the “mess” of engaging with algorithmic systems in practice and enhance the benefits of a form of governance premised entirely on altering future practices.
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Everyday life and the new shapes of identities – The different meanings of ‘things that did not happen’ in the lives of Finnish older persons during the pandemic
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the everyday lives of Finnish older persons during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic when they were required to stay in quarantine-like conditions.
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Un(ac)countable no-bodies: the politics of ignorance in global health policymaking
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyse debates between member states of the World Health Organisation over health inequities experienced by sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) from 2013 through to 2015 and 2016, and the relationship between this decision and the production of ignorance and non-knowledge.
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The Narrative Construction of Reality
TL;DR: For instance, the study of mind has focused principally on how man achieves a "true" knowledge of the world as discussed by the authors, that is, how we get a reliable fix on the world, a world that is assumed to be immutable and, as it were, there to be observed.
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States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the causes of social revolutions in France, Russia and China, and present alternatives to existing theories to explain these social revolutions, including a focus on state building and the emergence of a dictatorship in Russia.
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Chronic illness as biographical disruption
TL;DR: The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients and highlights the resources available to individuals, modes of explanation for pain and suffering, continuities and discontinuities between professional and lay thought, and sources of variation in experience.
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The Interaction Order: American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address
TL;DR: The ASA's policy of publishing each year's ASA address provides the editor with an annual breather as discussed by the authors : once a year the lead space can be allocated to a known name and the editor is quit of responsibility for standards that submissions rarely sustain: originality, logical development, readability, reasonable length.