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Attributional Lag: Structured Choice and the Conditions of Personal Accountability 归因滞后：结构化选择与个人问责的条件

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-11-04 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70072

Chong-Yu Chen

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Habitus, Reflexivity, and Micro-Hysteresis: An Experimental Dialogue Between Bourdieu's Praxeology and Pragmatist Theories of Action 习惯、反身性与微观滞后：布迪厄行动学与实用主义行动理论的实验对话

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-10-31 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70070

Gabriel Peters

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Embodied Resistance and Epistemic Sovereignty: Rethinking Knowledge Production in Disability Studies 体现抵抗与认知主权：对残疾研究中知识生产的再思考

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70071

Carolina Becerra Sepúlveda

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The Paradoxes of a Pre-reflective Will to Interpret: A Critical Comment on Junghun Oh's Idea of ‘Embodied Moral Reflexivity’ 前反思性解释意志的悖论——吴俊俊“具身道德反思性”思想评析

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-10-28 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70069

Christoforos Bouzanis

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Meaning-in-Action: A Theory of Symbolic Causality 行动中的意义：符号因果关系理论

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70064

Matthew Coetzee

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The Comparative Regime: How Pseudo-Objective Standards Constitute Desire 比较制度：伪客观标准如何构成欲望

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70068

Mohsen Askari

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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan 规范圈与欧盟在阿富汗规范投射的局限性

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-09-27 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70067

Oz Hassan

{"title":"Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan","authors":"Oz Hassan","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them. This article develops Dave Elder-Vass's critical realist norm-circle theory into an account of normative projection, recasting ideational travel as a problem of carrier ecology. Explanation turns on which circles operate in the receiving setting, which of them a sponsor can recruit and whether their endorsement and sanction outlast the sponsor's withdrawal. European liberal state-building in Afghanistan supplies the proof of concept. Retrodicting European engagement from the 1980s to 2021 shows the European Union constituting a distal and imagined circle among governing elites and international audiences while recruiting no proximal circles through which sanction is delivered. Centralising reform had outrun its carriers long before Bonn, from Amanullah in the 1920s to the Soviet-sponsored reforms of the 1970s. Bonn then conferred status functions without securing enforcers. Gender provisions display the asymmetry most sharply, and the collapse of 2021 exposed rather than produced it. Two amendments to the theory follow. Circles can be spatially disarticulated and differentiated by content, with authority held in international institutions and sanction delivered in the district. Carrier withdrawal operates as a mechanism of normative collapse distinct from contestation or rejection. Normative foreign policy succeeds or fails on the social organisation of enforcement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149068480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Moralisation of Stigma: Moral Foundations, Moral Exclusion and Prejudice Towards Marginalised Groups 污名化：道德基础、道德排斥和对边缘群体的偏见

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70066

Cristian Catena-Fernández

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Towards a Materialist Ontology of Consciousness: An Autopoietic Alternative to Wendt's Quantum Consciousness Theory 走向唯物主义的意识本体论：对温特量子意识理论的自创生替代

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70065

Yiyan Jiang

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Editorial Note 编辑注意

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70062

Alex Gillespie

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