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What should Sociologists Know about Big Data?
1st December 2016
The emergence of big data provides both opportunities and challenges to social scientists, and promotes ... Read More
How to Declutter Sociology:
A Manifesto
1st December 2016
This article argues that if being a professional sociologist entails too many unproductive intellectual commitments ... Read More
The Retractability of American Identity from Chinese Americans
A Function of Geopolitical Crises
1st December 2016
My essay critically examines how geopolitical crises can set off sectarian tensions and the punishing ... Read More
Sociology in America or a Sociology of America?
Navigating American Academia as an “International” Scholar
1st December 2016
Over the past six decades, several prominent American sociologists have gone on record to lament ... Read More
Transnational mobility and the changing form and functioning of African family set-ups
1st July 2016
Cities of Africa are now places of transit lifestyles associated with the in-and outflow of ... Read More
Negotiating development at glocalised knowledge interfaces
1st July 2016
The paper takes up recent global debates within what can be called a social and ... Read More
Neoliberal Politics and Moral Riots in Bolivia’s ‘Black February’
Understanding the Transition to Post-Neoliberalism in South America
1st July 2016
Widespread riots and seemingly chaotic uprisings have played a key role in recent processes of ... Read More
Havens in a Heartless City
Urban Churches and Experiencing the Sublime
1st July 2016
Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s seminal essay The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903), the ... Read More
Heterotopic Proliferation and Poly-physiognomy of Contemporary Urban Space
1st July 2016
The modern city, especially the contemporary urban space, is reviewed through the prism of the ... Read More
Do Regional Economic Organisations Suffer from a Democratic Legitimacy Deficit?
Evidence from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
1st March 2016
Many observers of the European Union (EU) argue that economic integration has generated a ‘democratic ... Read More
Vigilantism in South Africa
1st March 2016
This essay provides an analysis of violence in South Africa as it relates to self-help, ... Read More
Four Myths of Fashion
An Ethnographic Research on the Fashion Media Industry in Hong Kong and Mainland China
1st March 2016
Fashion meanings are constantly shifting as they interact with specific sociohistorical, economic and cultural situations, ... Read More
Manufacturing India beyond India
Policies and Politics of Migration in the Andaman Islands
1st March 2016
Popular discourse on the Andaman Islands has been dominated either by exotic notions of insular ... Read More
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