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The Civil Sphere
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This article is published in Asian Journal of Social Science.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asian studies.read more
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The social fact in Durkheim’s late work: Structural hermeneutics, positive sociology, and causality
TL;DR: In this paper, the focus on representations collectives, social facts that embody sui generis social forces and that direct behaviour in meaningful ways, is revisited, with a focus on representation coll...
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Die polnische Bewegung Solidarnosc aus soziologischer und philosophischer Perspektive
TL;DR: In this article, Tischner et al. erörtern, dass scheinbar widerspruchsfreie Gedanken, wie zum Beispiel the marxistische Idee eines Neuen Menschen, in der Praxis zu ethischen Konsequenzen führen können, die ihre latenten Schwierigkeiten zum Ausdruck bringen.
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Diversity and the Eurosphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the Eurosphere's proper object domain is examined by reflecting on two interrelated questions: (1) what is the European public sphere?; and (2) how does diversity shape the character of the European Public Sphere?
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Challenging the Co-opting of Democracy: Discourse from Civil Society Organizations in Zimbabwe
TL;DR: The role of civil society organizations in the struggle for democratization in Zimbabwe from 1999 to 2009 is discussed in this paper, where civil society discourses challenged and contested ruling party discourses.
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Of War and Peace: A European Technological Tale
TL;DR: In this article, the formation of the European Union as a technological discourse is studied, tracing the technological narrative from the origins of the Community until the current debates around the internet and the future of the Union.
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Envisioning Real Utopias
TL;DR: Wright's "Envisioning Real Utopias" as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory and aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system.
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Forage for thought: Mobilizing codes in the movement for grass-fed meat and dairy products
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s, and show that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.
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From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement
TL;DR: The authors examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of climate change and argues that while this approach may offer short term advantages, it is most likely incapable of developing the large scale mobilization necessary to enact the massive social and economic changes necessary to address global warming.
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Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the broader, overlapping and interpenetrating ways in which media systems and communication networks have complexly conditioned and facilitated these remarkable historical events and communicated them around the world.
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Global Civil Society
TL;DR: In this article, a concrete utopia is a model of practical and institutional arrangements that does not currently exist, but should be politically possible to achieve, and feasible as an alternative way of organizing social practices and relations.