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Este artigo examina as várias formas com que o termo status tem sido definido na sociologia e identifica algumas das limitações dos conceitos clássicos para a compreensão da desigualdade nas sociedades contemporâne...

Materias / palabras clave: History (General) and history of Europe: History (General): Modern history, 1453-: 1789-: Europe (General); Social Sciences: Sociology (General)

The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity. Two theoretical...

In a democracy, the military organization has a specific set of characteristics. The democratic framework, at the one hand, it provides a series of strengths rooted in legitimacy and resources, and, on the other hand, it...

Pastoralism as an adaptive strategy to utilise natural fodder resources is an extensive form of animal husbandry at the margins of the ecumene. Seasonality characterises pastoral mobility patterns in sub-tropical and ari...

O Estado e o mercado são instituições complementares. O Estado é a instituição principal que coordena as sociedades modernas; é o sistema constitucional e a organização que o garante; é o principal instrumento ...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim Evolutionary principles offer critical insights into pandemic dynamics but have been largely overlooked in contemporary responses to COVID‐19. Relaxed natural selection, increased global mob...

This review essay focuses on Francis Fukuyama’s book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, which was published in 2018. The text emphasises placing Fukuyama’s new publication in the context...

The incidence of metabolic disorders including obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome have seriously increased in the last decades. These diseases - with growing impact in modern societies - constitute major ris...

Multicultural education is a critical issue in increasingly heterogeneous modern societies. Multicultural values must be instilled early to build understanding, appreciation, and positive attitudes towards cultural diver...

The article examines the sociology of genocide as a new and important area of sociological research that emerged in response to numerous challenges related to mass violence, humanitarian crises, hate speech, and their de...

Cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism takes the center stage in the postcolonial studies  which reflects the complexities of identity, cultural hybridity, and globalization. This paper explores how Vikram Seth’s novels...

This paper offers a critique on state formation theories used in the explanation of the rise of the biblical United Monarchy. The last three decades of archaeological and biblical research have shown that there is no fir...

Crisis representation within the field of literary studies increasingly recognizes climate change as a defining global emergency, whose pervasive and multidimensional impact profoundly shapes both the material conditions...

El racismo, como ideología fundante y régimen de poder constitutivo del Mundo Moderno, es una causa crucial de las desigualdades generalizadas en todas las sociedades latinoamericanas. Al igual que ocurre con otros cam...

Abstract This article proposes a re-reading of the problem of gender, or as it has been put, more often than not, ‘the woman problem,’ that resists the reproduction of modern/colonial systems of governance and their ...

This study provides an Islamic political-legal analysis of the misuse of night entertainment licensing in Medan City, with a focus on the failure of regulatory enforcement under Mayor Regulation Number 3 of 2017. Althoug...

This study has explored the historical evolution of citizens' political participation: from direct democracy in ancient city-states to modern digital mechanisms of civic engagement. It has examined the factors that influ...

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Despite the prevalent reliance on traditional bonesetters (TBSs) in Kurdish societies, their role remains underexplored in scholarly research. This study aimed to evaluate patients' perceptio...

This paper analyses the role of violence and war in contemporary political structures and their impact on the relationship between society and the state. It explores power dynamics with reference to stateless Amerindian ...