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{"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}

{"title":"Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explanations of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic","authors":"Ondrej škvarenina, V. Havlík, V. Dostálová","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explanations of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic. Although the Czech Republic has experienced an unprecedented rise of anti-establishment political parties in recent decades, a systematic examination of anti-establishment attitudes among the public is still missing from the scholarly literature. This paper tests different explanations for anti-establishment attitudes among the voting population, working with the concepts of anti-political establishment parties, populism, and taking into account the specific national context. Using original data from the 2017 Czech National Election Study (N = 919), we show that anti-establishment attitudes among the Czech public stem from feelings of low political efficacy, the perceived salience of corruption, and anti-immigration attitudes. These results demonstrate that researchers need to consider contextual specifics, including the nature of diverse antiestablishment actors, when searching for the causes of anti-establishment attitudes in a particular country or region. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 287-308) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.11","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"287-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46951035","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":"Foreign Direct Investments and Labour Force Indicators in Transition Economies: Linear Mixed-Effects Models Impact Analysis","authors":"Milica Peric, S. Filipovic","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign Direct Investments and Labour Force Indicators in Transition Economies: Linear Mixed-Effects Models Impact Analysis. Main objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of foreign direct investments (FDI) on labour force in transition economies, through monitoring and quantification of selected labour force market indicators. This research analyses and discusses the effects of FDI inward flow on labour force indicators in transition economies from the economic and social point of view (i.e. quality of life of labour force). The paper argues that FDI inward flow should have a positive effect on labour force, through the increase of employment growth rate, wages, and reduction of income inequality. Data processing was done by applying Linear Mixed-Effects Models on 17 transition countries during the period 2000 – 2017. The findings show a positive and significant impact of FDI inward flow on employment rate and on wages and salaries, while the impact of FDI inward flow on income inequality is uncertain. Finally, there are policy and future research recommendations. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 238-265) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.9","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"238-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41955937","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 Anti-Communist Resistance in the Făgăraș Mountains (Romania) as a Challenge for Social Memory and an Exercise of Critical Thinking","authors":"D. Sorea, Ana-Maria Bolborici","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"The Anti-Communist Resistance in the Făgăraș Mountains (Romania) as a Challenge for Social Memory and an Exercise of Critical Thinking. Social memory is dynamic, adaptable to the ensemble of group perceptions on the present. In the first decade after WWII there were numerous active anti-communist armed resistance groups in the Romanian mountains. The most powerful resistance groups operated on the southern and northern sides of the Făgăraș Mountains. According to the results of exploratory research conducted in 2020 the representations of the anti-communist resistance in the mountains in Romanian young people’s memories are feeble. Retrieving representations of the resistance is useful as critical exercise in understanding history, as source of identity comfort and as part of the lesson on totalitarianism. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 266-286) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.10","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"266-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44397522","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":"Fertility Postponement between Social Context and Biological Reality: The Case of Serbia","authors":"P. Vasic","doi":"10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/SOCIOLOGIA.2021.53.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"Fertility Postponement between Social Context and Biological Reality: The Case of Serbia. This paper reflects some views on the biological background of fertility tempo and its demographic consequences. Assumptions are tested on Serbian fertility data, based on deductive conclusions and by applying the demographic method. Due to decreasing odds for conception as well as for a live birth pregnancy outcome with a woman’s age, the changing of the age-pattern of fertility in Serbia has led to fewer births, and has revealed the negative influence of a dispersion of births outside of an optimal reproductive age on fertility rates. This article summarizes findings about social context of fertility postponement and agerelated infertility in women and clarifies the biologically driven demographic consequences of childbirth postponement on the total number of births and total fertility rate. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 309-336) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.12","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"53 1","pages":"309-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41597861","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":"Theories of Creativity: The Significance of the Insignificant. Research Note: Methodological Reflections behind the Scenes","authors":"Benjamin Schiemer, Roman Duffner, S. R. Ayers","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11587","url":null,"abstract":"In this research note we describe the development process of the graphic novel The Significance of the Insignificant. We provide insights behind the scenes and show the making of decisions on selected problems and their solutions, which accompanied the process of translating creativity theory into a graphic novel. The decisions include the choice of setting, genre, characters, and their appearance, as well as the entire storyline. We conclude the research note by considering methodological issues associated with translating science into a graphic novel.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"193-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47901712","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":"Seeking Shelter: How Housing and Urban Exclusion Shape Exurban Disaster","authors":"Miriam Greenberg","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11869","url":null,"abstract":"From extreme weather to infectious disease, disasters now arrive in ever more rapid succession, combining with and compounding one another with increasing complexity and potential for crisis. In this context I suggest a particularly important site for analysis and intervention: the chronic lack of affordable housing and broader processes of exclusion now prevalent in cities around the world. These dynamics, I argue, help drive increasing movement to and development in interface zones between urban, rural, and undeveloped areas. In so doing, they also are implicated in a range of “exurban disasters”, including wildfires and infectious disease, and in the broader crises these disasters generate for vulnerable populations. The article develops this relational argument across three moments. First, I posit contemporary dynamics of housing crisis and urban exclusion, which prevent people from finding adequate shelter in cities, as key drivers of displacement and settlement across various framings of urban interface zones — from the Wildlands Urban Interface [WUI] to the peri-urban fringe. I then explore how the increasingly forced settlement in these zones — themselves destabilized by prior processes of settler colonialism, neoliberal land-use planning, and climate change — contribute to both environmental and health related disasters. Here I focus on two contemporary cases: catastrophic wildfire in the WUI of California, and the emergence of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 in peri-urban regions of China. Finally, with a focus on California, I explore how, once health and environmental disasters land and combine within a single location, inadequate housing increases the likelihood of multiple forms of exposure and susceptibility — e.g. to toxic smoke, respiratory ailments, and COVID. In conclusion, I argue for increased focus on the role of housing crises and urban exclusion in both the origins and outcomes of disaster. More scholarly and political work is needed that bridges city and hinterland, linking disaster research to critical approaches in housing studies and urban political ecology, together with wildfire ecology, epidemiology, and environmental stewardship.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"67-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49561738","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":"Social Sciences/Comics: A Commentary on Sociologica's Exploration of Comics","authors":"Ian P. N. Hague","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/12780","url":null,"abstract":"The writings collected in issue 15(1) of Sociologica take diverse approaches to the relationships between social sciences and comics. This commentary identifies several of the themes that bring these pieces together and make some suggestions for how the ideas and approaches sketched out in these pieces might be developed further in the future. The commentary explores how the ideas set forth in the articles overlap with concerns found in the field of Comics Studies and what the lessons learned by Comics Studies might have to offer to the field of social sciences.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"305-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45593211","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":"Beyond Social Vulnerability: COVID-19 as a Disaster of Racial Capitalism","authors":"Fayola Jacobs","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11659","url":null,"abstract":"The hazards and disasters field routinely emphasizes that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. This is a nod to the fact that environmental disasters are caused by the human actions or inactions intersecting with the occurrence of a natural hazard, e.g. hurricane, fire, earthquake. This essay argues that the disaster literature can help us understand the causes and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic but only if we consider the pandemic as a disaster and its profound impacts as outcomes of racial capitalism. Through intersectional systemic forms of oppression that both devalue Black, Indigenous and Latinx people and extract labor from them, racial capitalism has rendered these communities vulnerable.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"15 1","pages":"55-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42268567","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}