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From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace. 从工业公民到数字公民：重新思考网络空间中的社会权利。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-022-09480-6

Federico Tomasello

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引用次数: 6

Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion. 走向好奇心社会学：对认识论驱动力概念的理论和实证思考。

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-021-09464-y

Ariel Bineth

引用次数: 0

Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City. 水下民主：纽约市的公众参与、技术专长和气候基础设施规划。

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-021-09459-9

Malcolm Araos

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引用次数: 0

Agency as conversion process. 代理作为转换过程。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-022-09487-z

Giacomo Bazzani

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引用次数: 5

The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model. 英国脱欧的起源:一个多领域模型的概述。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-022-09483-3

Will Atkinson

引用次数: 0

Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment. 为无价儿童 2.0 定价：儿童作为人力资本投资。

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-022-09508-x

Nina Bandelj, Michelle Spiegel

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引用次数: 0

Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry 小的歧义：美国犹太人的人口统计和规模叙事

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Theory and Society Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11186-022-09473-5

Michal Kravel-Tovi