The article discusses the impact of contemporary culture on the individual's personality. We used the "psychocultural" approach whose key feature is the amalgamation of theories and methods belonging to psychodynamic and psychosocial studies, as well as those used in the field of media and cultural studies. The idea of a potentially therapeutic effect of culture (therapy culture) can already be...

This contribution presents an analysis of the structure and conflictual dynamics contemporary German sociology which has recently separated into two professional societies. Using geometric data analysis, we present empirical construction power/knowledge field, its paradigmatic plurality, various forms sociological practices involved.

This article discusses the significance of social capital in Bourdieu-inspired analyses contemporary South-East European societies. We first recapitulate Bourdieu?s theorization capital, emphasizing that it allows different operationalizations expressly because its rather abstract theoretical character. Following that, we explain what is meant by ?South- East societies? and their inequality-gen...

Abstract Discrimination is a social phenomenon which seems to be widespread across different societies and cultures. Examples of discrimination concerning race, class, gender, sexual orientation are not difficult find in contemporary western societies. In this article, the author focus on ontological ground phenomenon, with particular attention its diffuse institutionalised forms. The defends b...

Sociobiology is the scientific study of the biological bases of social behavior among animals, including humans. The new field of evolutionary sociology is the product of recent efforts by sociologists to integrate sociobiological reasoning into their theoretical thinking and empirical research. Evolutionary sociologists reject the Standard Social Science Model of human nature and human social ...

The literature on marriage norms and aspirations across societies largely sees the institution as static – a tool for the assertion of masculinities and subordination of women. The changing meanings of marriage and conjugality in the contemporary context of globalisation have received scant attention. Based on research in rural Bangladesh, this article questions the usefulness of notions of aut...

The paper attempts to contribute to the largely neglected social and anthropological discussion of technology development on the one hand, and to redirecting the emphasis in anthropology from primitive and exotic societies to problems of high relevance in contemporary era and how technology is used in everyday life. It draws upon multidimensional models of intelligence and ideal type formation....