Neoliberalism is a notoriously contested term, and even among those who principally subscribe to it, which mostly its critics, fierce debates persist over nature, how study it properly—and whether still the appropriate conceptual armament understand contemporary world an arguably emerging “post-neoliberalism” (Davies & Gane, 2021). Not only controversial neoliberalism should be defined—a govern...

In 2021, Bulgaria went through a turbulent political year, followed by an even more first half of 2022. the domestic arena, divisions between established parties serving rent seeking elites (Dimitrova, 2018) and newer movements challenging state capture model in Bulgarian politics became clearly visible course year that contained three parliamentary elections presidential one. arena EU policy m...

Qualitative inquiries normally take pains to make clear that they are not generalizable" (Kilbourn, 2006, p. 534). I disagree that this is or should be the norm for qualitative research in education. In this article, I discuss the kinds of generalization that come from qualitative inquiry. I argue that there are several well-established means of in which warranted generalizations can be produce...

We argue that evolutionary and ecological models of territorial behavior are useful to archaeologists holding varied theoretical positions. First, we explain how evolutionary and ecological approaches complement, rather than conflict with, social agency and historicist approaches. Second, we review and expand upon models from evolutionary ecology and their application to the ethnographic and ar...

Kathy Behrendt ‘A special way of being afraid: fear of death as such’ I am interested in fear of one’s own death taken as fear of non-existence, nothingness, or as it is sometimes called, fear of death as such. This form of fear has been denied or downplayed by some philosophers. Philosophy of the emotions has particular trouble in dealing with it, granting it a status that is simultaneously pa...

In this paper, the authors explore the influences of two major contextual factors—supplier team members’ cultural understanding and trust relationship—on knowledge processes and performance in global sourcing of IT services. The authors discuss a joint investigation conducted by a cross-cultural research team in China. Cultural understanding is measured by individualism with guanxi and mianzi, ...

Scientific knowledge is an essential component of modern society. Consequently, sociologists are interested in its production process and have conducted a broad variety of studies showing how social patterns influence the definition and the boundaries of scientific knowledge. In this paper, I ask how social factors influence the transformation of a ‘normal’ field of knowledge into a ‘scientific...

This paper contributes to the conceptual and empirical understanding of organizational trust. It confirms the importance of “contextual confidence” in institutions for building trust. Moreover, it extends models of trust production to include the effects of purposive action by the truster over and above the contextual prediction of trust emphasized in previous research. Accordingly, “active tru...

The purpose of this paper is to bring together various elements that portray the complex conceptuality of cultural identity within technological society. It engages in a theoretical inquiry into the questions of how the wideranging uses young people are now making of new information and communication technologies and global media may possess the potential to transform their cultural identity an...

This study explores one of the contributors to group composition – the basis on which people choose others with whom they want to work. We use a combined model to explore individual attributes, relational attributes, and previous structural ties as determinants of work partner choice. Four years of data from participants in 33 small project groups were collected, some of which reflects individu...