The last time I saw Ken Plummer was in Lancaster, England 2018. He gently and kindly listening to a younger sociologist talking about trying do sexualities scholarship challenging British university environment.

The oppression that disabled people face is rooted in the economic and social structures of capitalism. Materialist social theory offers disabled people the opportunity to transform their own lives and in so doing to transform the society in which they live into one in which all roles are valued. Oliver, Professor of Disability Studies, University of Greenwich, London, well-known disability rig...

Here are three main tasks of this article: (1) It should be showed the process autobiographical memory as a combination memories experiences, reconstructive imaginations and expectations, (2) present principles selfreflection counter-memory (3) take own professional biography empirical material. will self-analysis rely on (a) primary memorized documentary biographical data writer which not reco...

Leo Laeyendecker was not just a renowned sociologist, he also prominent voice in late-twentieth-century Dutch Catholicism, first as an Augustinian priest and then progressive public intellectual. This article offers biographical sketch of the Catholic Laeyendecker, focuses specifically on his performance roles priest-scientist He became sociologist at behest superiors, who hoped would be able t...

1. Idioms are constructions 1.1 Idioms in the Chomskyan paradigm Croft and Cruse (2004:225) describe the role of idioms in construction grammar as follows: “It is not an exaggeration to say that construction grammar grew out of a concern to find a place for idiomatic expressions in the speaker’s knowledge of a grammar of their language”. The reason for this focus on idioms in early construction...

Oliver Rollins is a sociologist interested in how neuroscience research deals with and informed by racialisation, racism, other social processes of inequality. Here, he discusses (neuro)scientists can engage antiracist practices contribute to an science.

Winner-take-all careers are created through cumulative advantage. Once a player gains a small advantage over other equally skilled players, it snowballs over time. This phenomenon, coined the “Matthew effect” by sociologist Robert Merton, is part of the reason why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Merton first described his findings while demonstrating that the more reputed scienti...

Eva Cox was a founder member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, and has been Convenor of the Women’s Economic Thinktank since 1989. A sociologist, lecturer, and previously Director of the NSW Council of Social Service, she is a frequent commentator on social policy areas, and delivered the 1995 Boyer Lectures. Her book Leading Women (Random House, 1996) further explores issues raised in this paper...