{"title":"Corrigendum: Making Sociologically-Grounded Fictions. A Review of the Sociorama Collection Experience","authors":"J. Berthaut, J. Bidet, Mathias Thura","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"187-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48946741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Well-Behaved Population: The Chilean Scientific Researchers of the XXI Century and the International Regulation","authors":"Claudio Ramos-Zincke","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/10824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/10824","url":null,"abstract":"In Chile, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the State’s scientific and higher education institutions (CONICYT, Fondecyt, National Quality Assurance System) and universities have established criteria and procedures for evaluating the scientific production that have consolidated an orientation of research activities towards the international mainstream, expressed mainly in journals indexed as WoS and Scopus, and also, for the social sciences, in those indexed as SciELO, although with less force. This configuration of national criteria and procedures articulated with international indexations can be considered a device for regulating the conduct of the scientific researchers population in the country. After a couple of decades in operation, the results show significant increases in scientific productivity, measured with such criteria of the global mainstream, which are notoriously superior to other Latin American countries. These data and a study on Chilean researchers, based on a probabilistic survey, show an internationalized population, fundamentally connected with the central countries, of Europe and the U.S.A., and only secondarily with others in the region. This is a population that self-regulates, with increasing effectiveness, its scientific activity according to the orientations of that regulation device: it is a “well behaved” population.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"153-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49429807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth","authors":"Rachel Sherman","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12558","url":null,"abstract":"Rich people are generally represented, both by academics and in popular culture, as desiring always to maximize and legitimate their wealth and social advantages. But some wealthy and class-privileged people have defined themselves as the beneficiaries of illegitimate systems of accumulation, and have reframed their own self-interest to include racial and economic justice. Participating in a range of organizations, they have begun to talk more openly about their wealth and class power and to take action to change the systems that have enabled their wealth, through policy advocacy, moving money to grassroots movements and solidarity economies, and shifting public narratives. But making these changes is harder than we might imagine. Drawing primarily on 90 interviews with people in the field, this paper addresses the affective, cultural, and strategic dimensions of working against accumulation and toward redistribution. I argue that these actions challenge deeply entrenched cultural common sense about accumulation, as both an indicator of good personhood and a goal of financial activity. This common sense is not only a characteristic of individuals but is also rooted in interpersonal relationships and financial institutions.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"117-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41532763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excess Profits, Taxpayer-Subsidized Philanthropy, and the Coronavirus Crisis: Charitable Giving of the Tech Elite in Response to the Pandemic","authors":"J. Torpey, H. Brockmann, Braelyn Hendricks","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12435","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses how the tech elite has benefited financially from the Coronavirus crisis, as well as how they have sought to give back some of their gains in order to help the broader population. We have gathered data on the stock prices, corporate revenues, and profits of the Big Tech firms and on the incomes and wealth of the tech elite, and we compare these winnings with their philanthropic giving during the pandemic year of 2020. We note that tax policies undergird both the explosion of tech profits and the growth of philanthropic giving in response to the crisis. We find that the winners among the tech elite have benefited dramatically from the pandemic without necessarily donating large amounts of money relative to their wealth. We argue that tax reforms are necessary to ensure that more of the social product comes under the democratic control of the public treasury.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"95-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44300295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Super-rich: Origin, Reproduction, and Social Acceptance","authors":"Luca Storti, J. Dagnes","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13546","url":null,"abstract":"What is the sociological understanding of the super-rich? To address this question, we propose and further elaborate three interconnected lines of investigation. After highlighting some plausible criteria for identifying the super-rich, we deal first with the generative and reproductive mechanisms underpinning the huge wealth concentration emerging over the last decades. Second, we dissect the nexus between the super-rich and places, i.e., how the super-rich shape the spaces to implement their housing strategies, consumption patterns, and lifestyle. By doing so, we will also show how the super-rich transform spaces into social arenas in which they stand out through an original form of distinction made up of recognition and invisibility. Third, we will focus on the dynamics and the behaviours that help the super-rich gain social acceptance. This three-step analysis allows us to pinpoint in the conclusions some regressive outcomes in economic, social, and political terms fostered by the increasing concentration of private wealth.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"5-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46958155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ Note. Introduction to the Thematic Issue on “Becoming Wealthy, Staying Wealthy: Social Acceptance of the Super-rich”","authors":"J. Dagnes, Luca Storti","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47225763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lucy Suchman in Conversation with Ana Gross","authors":"Anat Gross, L. Suchman","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"179-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secrecy, Simmel and the New Sociology of Wealth","authors":"B. Harrington","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/13565","url":null,"abstract":"What relevance does an early twentieth century thinker like Simmel have for the contemporary sociology of wealth? This paper suggests that Simmel’s classic work on the secret and secret societies is embedded but largely unacknowledged in twenty-first century wealth research. Thus, the purpose of this discussion is to make these contributions more visible and sketch their implications for new directions in the field.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"143-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41514143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer’s Justification Towards (Un)Sustainable Consumption: Exploring Attitudes Among Urmia Citizens, Iran","authors":"S. Karimzadeh, E. Kasparova","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"Consumer’s Justification Towards (Un)Sustainable Consumption: Exploring Attitudes Among Urmia Citizens, Iran. This study argues that individuals’ consumption patterns should be considered as consequences of the production and reproduction of the public sphere settings that are affected by dominant social, political and cultural structures. Hence, we are aimed to study how a combination of social and individual mechanisms influences (un)sustainable consumption behaviors? The purposive sampling was utilized and data was generated from 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews in Urmia, Iran. Data analyzing revealed 17 subcategories and five main categories including faded trust, deliberate negligence, commoditized human bonding, material self-identification and mental discharge that finally lead to the nuclear category of the study; reflexive consumption. Each main extracted category corresponds to one aspect of consumption. By studying socio-individual reasons for the dominant consumption patterns, this study contributes to obtaining a better understanding of the impacts of social mechanisms in creating (un)sustainable consumption patterns among the target sample. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 203-224) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.7","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"203-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46442425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Durkheim on ‘Primitive’ Religion: A Reappraisal","authors":"Z. Kotzé","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"Durkheim on ‘Primitive’ Religion: A Reappraisal. Durkheim is widely regarded as one of the most prominent scholars of the sociology of religion. While many scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been criticised for racist bias in support of imperial projects by decolonial and postcolonial thinkers in recent years, Durkheim is often celebrated for his rejection of the questionable evolutionist ideas of his time. This paper reconsiders Durkheim’s theory of so-called ‘primitive’ religion in relation to other preeminent theories of religion of his era, such as Edward Burnett Tylor’s theory of religion as animism. Utilising a postcolonial approach, the paper firstly critically examines the use of concepts such as ‘primitive’ in Tylor and Durkheim’s anthropological and sociological theories of religion, respectively. It is demonstrated that, although Durkheim was overtly critical of evolutionist approaches of his day and attempted to break from this dominant paradigm by focusing more on social structures, rather than temporal development, he failed in freeing himself from prevalent racist assumptions. Despite this failing and the fact that his theorising of religion as totemism has long since fallen out of favour, however, his focus on the social nature and function of religion should still be celebrated. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 225-237) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.8","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"224-2134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45350790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}