When accounting for changes in the post-socialist era, anthropologists were forced to carefully distinguish between what had remained same, actually changed and was emerging anew on its own terms. As a sub-discipline, anthropology of post-socialism has thereby contributed prominently theories time, change temporal agency. It also shown that present is, if at all, as determined by socialist past...

In recent years, social network sites exploded in popularity and become an important part of the online activities on the web. This success is related to the various services/functionalities provided by each site (ranging from media sharing, tagging, blogging, and mainly to online social networking) pushing users to subscribe to several sites and consequently to create several social networks f...

In nascent markets with relatively immature institutions, do depositors have the capacity to discipline banks with poor fundamentals? If so, what information specifically guides their response? Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we present evidence for quantity-based sanctioning of weaker banks by both firms and households, particularly after the 1998 financial ...

This paper takes issue with previous influential accounts of the evolution and contemporary potency Sociology work (SoW) in UK by challenging mythologies which have grown up around trajectory sub-discipline. is based on a sociological analysis political, organisational social forces shaped sub-discipline comprehensive examination its broad complex canon. enables refutation orthodoxies suggest t...

We are pleased to present this Special Issue onDiscipline-Centered Post-Secondary Science Education Research. For the last 20 years, research into learning at the post-secondary level has grown substantially. We are quite fortunate, for this introduction, that the challenge of reviewing the background of this area has already been carried out and made public, less than a year ago, in the Nation...