Towards a Sociological Theory of Sport and the Emotions: A Process-Sociological Perspective

Author(s):  
Joe Maguire
2020 ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Tobias Werron

This chapter elaborates how nationalism has long been underestimated in both sociological theory and globalization studies. It mentions sociological theorists who have theorized the role of nationalism in modernity and globalization literature, and who have tended to see globalization and nationalism as being in a zero-sum relationship. It also highlights a historical-sociological perspective on the nationalism–globalization nexus, which allows nationalism to be studied as a global institution. The chapter connects recent insights into inconspicuous 'banal' forms of nationalism to insights from globalization studies. It emphasizes two types of nationalism: 'institutionalized nationalism' and 'scarcity nationalism', showing how they have been reinforced by globalization dynamics and facilitated by the emergence of a global media system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
I. Šulc

This article is a review of the books by the famous Czech sociologist, head of the Historical Sociology Chair of the Faculty for Humanities at the Charles University (Prague), Jiří Šubrt Historical Processes, Social Changes, and Modernization in the Sociological Perspective (Moscow: RUDN; 2017. 248 p.), Antinomies, Dilemmas, and Discussions in the Contemporary Sociological Thought: Essays on Social Theory (Moscow: RUDN; 2018. 280 p.), and Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory (Bingley: Emerald Publishig; 2019. 184 p.). All three works focus on the key sociological dilemma - individualism versus holism, which has been the main scientific interest of J. Šubrt in recent years. The relevance of this dilemma is obvious: individualism declares the subjectivity of the person, while holism insists on the objectivity of the supra-individual social reality, and this contradiction hinders the development of theoretical knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to try to resolve this contradiction, which Šubrt does by critically analyzing the previous attempts to resolve this dilemma and by considering it in the ‘duplex’ perspective that reflects both voluntarist and social principles.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Uhlmann

This doctoral thesis investigates the current challenges posed by data protection from a sociological perspective. It argues that the category of trust is central to reinventing data protection. It proposes a holistic framework for a trust infrastructure that integrates different legal, political, institutional, participatory, professionally ethical and technological elements of data protection. This book will appeal to people who are dealing with the regulatory challenges of data protection and who are interested in furthering interdisciplinary discussions regarding privacy, data protection and trust. The author is a research associate at the department of sociological theory at the University of Kassel.


Author(s):  
D. E. Dobrinskaya

Based on the analysis of various theoretical positions in the framework of modern sociological theory, the article attempts to identify and describe the most important features of modern society. These features result from scientific and technical innovations of the first two decades of the 21st century, which are unprecedented in their scale and speed. The first part of the article discusses the factors that determine peculiarities of the observed social trends and changes. Further, within the Triple Revolution concept, these factors receive a sociological interpretation. It is concluded that modernity can be read through its basic characteristics such as: growing complexity of the social system, mobility, network expansion, increased connectedness and digitalization. These characteristics of modernity demonstrate the onset of the era of digital society.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-423
Author(s):  
Robert Cluley ◽  
Elizabeth Nixon

This article draws on a conceptual vocabulary developed in science and technology studies to advance a sociological theory of objects in marketing. Analysing a single advertising medium, it shows that marketing objects can exist simultaneously in multiple forms as physical artefacts, political decisions, legal entities and economic values. Armed with this understanding, the article explores the ability of actors to manipulate these realities in their favour and investigates how it is possible to turn public space on a city street into an advertising object. Using John Law’s notion of fractional objects, the article proposes an analytic framework to open up new objects for critical intervention and reflection.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Marlina Marlina

The aim of this paper is to describe a novel with the title “Jembatan” that is observed from the sociological perspective. In order to have further understanding, the writer analyzed the aspects that build a novel such as the plot, the actors, the background, then theme and the message. Meanwhile, the social aspect was compared with the condition that happened in the community where the background of the novel was and it placed to the wider system that the macro structure in relation with the social dan cultural facts of the society.This research used qualitative method by applying the structural and sociological theory of literature. Hence, this research was a micro system that a system that existed in literature work. In fact, this novel really described the condition of the community in Siak River when the constructing of Siak Bridge was on progress. This Novel could be one of the media to critize the government, bus inessmen, and parliament members, that there are many people in Riau still live under the poverty line.AbstrakKarya tulis ini memaparkan novel Jembatan ditinjau dari segi perspektif sosiologisnya. Untuk memahami lebih jelas, penulis menganalisis unsur-unsur yang membangun novel Jembatan, diantaranya alur, tokoh, latar, tema, dan amanat. Sementara itu, aspek sosialnya dibandingkan dengan kondisi yang terj adi dalam masyarakat yang ada di latar tempat novel tersebut. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif, dengan menggunakan teori struktural dan sosiologi sastra. Dengan demikian,  penelitian terhadap novel Jembatan tersebut, sebagai suatu sistem mikro yaitu sistem yang ada di dalam sebuah karya sastra, diletakkan dalam sistem yan g lebih luas yaitu struktur makro dalam kaitannya dengan kenyataan sosial budaya masyarakat. Novel Jembatan ternyata memang menggambarkan kondisi masyarakat Siak ketika pembangunan Jembatan Siak sedang berlangsung. Novel Jembatan dapat menjadi media kritik kepada penguasa, pengusaha, dan wakil rakyat, bahwa masih banyak masyarakat Riau yag kehidupannya di bawah garis kemiskinan.


1973 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 298-298
Author(s):  
EDWARD E. JONES

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 595-596
Author(s):  
CAMILLE B. WORTMAN

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 804-804
Author(s):  
Michael J. Donahue

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