It had all the appearances of a conventional sentencing hearing. The accused sat quietly in the front row of the Middleton Court House with his wife beside him, arm in arm. She gave him one last hug after the judge pronounced sentence: five years in a federal institution. Among the small group attending the hearing were two young teenagers, the daughters of the accused. When the judge handed do...

This article lays out some of the major features of the proposed research on Catholic governance practices in a context of Polish post-communist social change. Firstly, it proposes to examine how market action in Poland was embedded in socio-normative structures infl uenced by Catholic social agency. In such a perspective, it is suggested that the attention should be paid to the role of Catholi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyse the fierce debate regarding children young people’s use digital social media, going on in Denmark (and many other countries) both mass media media. overall question what panic about why public do not listen sociologists than self-appointed experts? Design/methodology/approach Using a systems-theoretical angle, analyses answers followin...