One of the spectacular changes in Catholic Church 1960s was her positive judgement on other religions, as transmitted by texts second Vatican Council (1962–1965). A sociologist is profession interested diverse processes cultural changes, and birth interreligious dialogue therefore a very good case to study. For Catholics involved dialogue, we can observe ideal-typically two attitudes at work th...

In a famously polemical review essay published in 2002, the sociologist Loïc Wacquant admonished urban ethnographers to shift their attention from lives of poor sites where big decisions that shape cities and inhabitants’ are made. Since then, growing number have followed Wacquant’s […]

Journal of Futures Studies, August 2004, 9(1): 45 58 For better or worse, humanity is now becoming a unitary whole in an important and unprecedented way. Many names have been given to this process; and because names create realities, it matters very much which one we use. Some, beginning with the sociologist Harold Innes and his student Marshall McLuhan, see it as a movement toward a global vil...

The sociologist Norbert Elias argued that the ability to take responsibility is part of a ‘civilizing process’. 1 Neoliberal governments appear agree with this, because they have ‘responsibilised’ their citizens in many domains. 2 Pellandini-Simányi and Conte explain concept responsibilisation refers assigning social-cultural factors persuade embrace those responsibilities. 3

The structuration theory originally provided by Anthony Giddens and the advance improvement of the theory has been trying to solve the dilemma came up in the epistemological aspects of the social sciences and humanity. Social scientists apparently have to choose whether they are too sociological or too psychological. Nonetheless, in the works of the classical sociologist, Emile Durkheim, this t...

Part personal autobiography, part intellectual history, this article offers lessons from a long career, reflections on my sociological contributions, and an account of how major social changes shaped trajectory made me the sociologist I am. also offer assessment some central ideas new suggestions about to understand culture.

Dialogue on education in our country mostly takes place in a fractured discourse. On one side of the fracture is the language used by the planner, the economist, and the sociologist of education. On the other side is the language of the psychologist, the pedagogue, and the teacher. Neither of the two languages is capable of capturing the tension that every Indian child must cope with in order t...

january 16, 2010 vol xlv no 3 EPW Economic & Political Weekly 66 Shelley Feldman ([email protected]) is a sociologist associated with both Cornell University and Binghamton University, United States; Stephen Biggs ([email protected]) is at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; and Rajeswari Raina (rajeswari_raina@ yahoo.com) is with the Centre for Policy Research, New...