Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the thought traditions of Asian Buddhism have for many centuries struggled with questions related to the issue of “liberation”—along with its fundamental ontological, epistemological and ethical implications. With the development of Marxist thought in the...

Applied sociology is usually taken to mean the application of sociological theories and findings to issues of social policy. In this paper, we present some examples of a quite different notion of applied sociology: one in which sociological insights are applied to the design of computer software. Sociology’s primary concern as a discipline can be considered to be the study of the interaction of...

Be Careful with Marxism! Notes on the Margins of Tomasz Banach’s Work Catyline and Tabulae Novae. The Problem Universal Indebtedness Utilitas Rei Publicae in Cicero’s Speeches (Warszawa: C.H. Beck, 2022, pp. 87, ISBN 978-83-8291-242-5) In interesting useful monograph promises debt relief (tabulae novae) which Catiline tried to win favour Roman society, reader can find statements author expresse...

The neoliberal period consists of the application a series restructuring policies, including rapid change economy, politics, culture, and social environment. Socialist movements are at forefront opposition to which have been applied in many countries after 1980 almost all over world 2000s. Marxism was marginalized crisis this on counter neoliberalism. Intra-Marxist discussions also led emergenc...

While dealing with the historiography of post-independence African economy, the writer has made attempts to consult sources of different interests. Majority of the sources consulted for this purpose are books written by Marxist scholars. Thence, they reflect the maxims of socialism at continental and state level in Africa. Their explanations rest on the cardinal causes for the underdevelopment ...

This paper suggests that LIS might benefit from critical political economy as a way of theorizing and responding to enclosures of information commons. The autonomist Marxist re-invigoration of ‘primitive accumulation’ offers a register for apprehending contemporary erosions of the commons. Autonomist Marxism also helps conceptualize resistance to enclosures. Résumé:

first, it is argued that the rule of patterns, the natural consequences of matterialization of science,and the deliberate deviation of the western social sciences from theology are singled out as the factors which have led to the total ignorance of such subject as theology and sociology. similar cases happen in philosophy and science. due to the prevailing cultural atmospher in the west, such a...

The political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this article, we examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science. To do so, we develop a framework for sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among political sociology, the socio...