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Who counts in poverty research? 谁是贫困问题研究的关键？

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231213233

Daniel Edmiston

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Suicide as slow death: towards a haunted sociology of suicide. 自杀是一种缓慢的死亡：迈向魂不守舍的自杀社会学。

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231212764

Amy Chandler, Sarah Wright

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Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna 选择的多样性:维也纳合作住房的关系实践

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231205427

Andrea Schikowitz, Nina Pohler

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Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss 学术资助被拒的悲伤:研究资助失败和损失的经历

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231207196

Erica Borgstrom, Annelieke Driessen, Marian Krawczyk, Emma Kirby, John MacArtney, Kathryn Almack

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Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement 货币的运动意义:香港民主运动中的货币动员

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231202862

Ming-sho Ho

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Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe 培育文化资本和转变文化领域:对欧洲艺术和残疾组织的研究

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231202879

Ann Leahy, Delia Ferri

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(Re)connecting anti-racisms: Islamophobia and the politics of police/prison abolition in contemporary Britain (再)连接反种族主义:伊斯兰恐惧症和当代英国废除警察/监狱的政治

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231202648

Scarlet Harris

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The caring classes: A socio-demographic and occupational analysis of caring values 关怀班:关怀价值的社会人口与职业分析

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231198325

Lorenzo Velotti, Luca Michele Cigna

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Colonization, appropriation, commensuration: Three modes of translation 殖民、挪用、通约:三种翻译模式

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231201475

Jannik Schritt, Jan-Peter Voß

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The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe 欧盟社会科学合作的“何处”:认知不平等和地缘政治权力不对称如何持续存在于有关欧洲的研究中

2区社会学

Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/00380261231201473

Rachel Fishberg, Anton Grau Larsen, Kristoffer Kropp

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