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Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective 复杂社会中的新旧组织形式:系统理论视角

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231189472

C. Besio, V. Tacke

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Reflections on Climate, Class, and Strategy 对气候、阶级和战略的反思

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231189452

Matthew T. Huber

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Labor Recruitment and Coloniality in the Agricultural Sector: On Plantation Archives, Underclassing, and Postcolonial Masculinities in Switzerland 农业部门的劳工招募与殖民:论瑞士的种植园档案、下层阶级和后殖民男性主义

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231185675

Dina Bolokan

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The Political Economy of Precarious Work in India: A Case of Languishing Social Policy? 印度不稳定工作的政治经济学:一个日渐式微的社会政策?

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-12 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231185270

Pankil Goswami

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Vaccine Hesitancy and Attitudes Toward Elite Knowledge in the United States During COVID-19 COVID-19期间美国人对疫苗的犹豫和对精英知识的态度

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180267

Jeremiah Morelock, Andressa Michelotti, Ly Hoang Minh Uyen

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Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change 重新审视马尔库塞的技术合理性:气候变化时代的核聚变进步

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231181629

D. Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, Brian Petersen

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Colonial Capitalist Heterochronicity: Socio-Ecological Rhythms of the Sugar Plantation and the Formal Subsumption of Historical and Cultural Difference 殖民资本主义的异时性:糖园的社会生态节奏与历史文化差异的形式包容

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231181111

Zahir Kolia

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Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation 不稳定参与者、网络劳动平台与学术生产方式:研究参与的实证研究

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180384

Monique de Jong McKenzie

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From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation 从社会领域到中介协会:公民社会新自由主义转型的批判性分析

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-07 DOI: 10.1177/08969205231180263

Acar Kutay

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Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition 在去增长与生态现代主义之间:绿色转型的理论化