Critical Sociology最新文献

New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions 新一轮革命思考

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231225085

Egor D. Fain, Alisa R. Shishkina

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From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood 从劳动过程理论到组织政治经济学：对贝纳西、伊克勒和伍德的回应

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231219209

Matt Vidal

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Platform Organizations and Fields: Exploring the Influence of Field Conditions on Platformization Processes 平台组织与田野：探索实地条件对平台化进程的影响

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231221444

David Seibt

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Disguised Workers: The Transformation of Labour and the Myth of Entrepreneurship in ‘Post-Socialist’ Polish Capitalism 伪装的工人：后社会主义 "波兰资本主义中的劳动力转型和企业家神话

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231218987

Elisabetta Magnani, Gavin Rae

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Contesting Power From the Periphery: The Latin American Sociological Imagination and the Media 来自边缘的权力争夺：拉丁美洲社会学想象与媒体

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231221233

J. Lugo-Ocando, Monica Marchesi

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Reflexive Organization and Radicalized Modernity: Revisiting the Organization–Society Nexus 反思性组织与激进的现代性：重新审视组织与社会的联系

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231217963

Arnold Windeler, Robert Jungmann

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News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination 媒体社会学中的新闻来源：批判性再审视

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Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231217306

Jernej A Prodnik, Igor Vobič

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Placing Mexican Ethnic Enclaves: Toward a Recursive Model of Place Attachment 墨西哥民族聚居区的安置：地方依恋的递归模型

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Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231216429

Jozef Callán Robles, Devon Thacker Thomas

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The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference 吉普赛工人的分散劳动力构成：创业倾向与差异的异质生产

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231216418

Olivia Maury

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Book Reviews: Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Domalewska 书评：巴尔干地区的社会保障--第一卷。克罗地亚、阿尔巴尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、希腊、罗马尼亚和保加利亚的社会政策概览》，Marzena Żakowska 和 Dorota Domalewska 著

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231200950

Simon Grima

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