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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all

The theories and hypotheses driving economic modeling and policy have real-world, tangible effects on the lives of those implicated. As such, ideologies play a particularly challenging role in economic policymaking, as the decisions made by governing bodies have the potential to alter the lives of many. In this engaging work, Van Lear paints a vivid picture of the social implications of economic thought, creating a careful narrative which stresses the importance behind turning ideas into action within the economic world. This book aims to explain how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society. Often ideas and policies are about promoting certain vested interests. The important role of vested interests is covered-over in the political arena by focus on competing ideas that usually ignore economic interests and efforts to control social norms and conditions. In the context of American history, the manuscript examines the policies and programs of contending interests, and emphasizes the importance of current socio-economic issues emanating from the modern trend of the economy towards quasi-economic stagnation.

Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Note on Sources -- Introduction: The Second Voice: A Manifesto -- Part I. Our Faithfulness to the Past -- 1: Models of Minds and Memory Activities -- 2: Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Values -- 3: Memory, Truth, and the Search for Integrity -- Part II. Memory, Diversity and Solidarity -- 4: Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity -- 5: Memory, Reparation, and Relation: Starting in the Right Places -- 6: Remembering Who We Are: Responsibility and Resistant Identification -- Part III. Remembering for the Future -- 7: Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Canada's Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge

The United States has always fancied itself a nation apart--"Exceptional" in its values, traditions, and way of life. For most of the country's history, ideas about what made America distinctive generally were framed in terms of a liberal idealism rooted in the thought of John Locke and articulated by Jefferson, Madison, and other Founders. While some commentators also observed that the United States was a land of plenty, itwasn't until the mid-twentieth century that material abundance emerged as the principal standard of American "greatness," as measured by a host of new economic indicators.

Reflections are offered on the interdisciplinary conference that gave birth to the papers on the 14 "landmark" studies presented in this volume, highlighting implications for the future of longitudinal research. Differences in disciplinary perspectives, eg, between sociologists & psychologists, that contribute to metadifferences at the theoretical & methodological levels are discussed, & lessons that each side can learn from the other are identified. A historical overview is offered of the growth & development of longitudinal studies, citing the contributions of several key researchers & theorists. The use of autobiography as a narrative method, as participants did in these papers, is discussed. 1 Table, 29 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Ch 1 Introduction – Irish Criminology – the state of the art -- Ch 2 Unbounded Criminology; Prof Shadd Maruna -- Ch 3 Transitional justice, victimisation and activism; A conversation with Dr Cheryl Lawther -- Ch 4 Marginalised voices and criminological research; A conversation with Dr Deirdre Healy -- Ch 5 The metrics and criminology, a critical review; A conversation with Prof Claire Hamilton -- Ch 6 Risk assessment, decision making and parole in Ireland; Dr Diarmuid Griffin -- Ch 7 Doing Criminology, prisons and solitary confinement; Professor Ian O Donnell -- Ch 8 The intersection of theory and practice; Prof Shane Kilcommins -- Ch 9 Institutional silence and testimony authenticity: a narrative psychology approach, in conversation with Jennifer O'Mahoney -- 10 Policing and governance in Ireland; A conversation with Vicky Conway -- Ch 11 The production of praxis through biographical, cultural and participatory research (TBC) Professor Maggie O'Neill -- Ch 12 Looking to the future.

This paper traces the contours of current, practical explanatory problems in stratification theory showing the similarity of issues in apparently diverse approaches, both Marxist and non-Marxist. There are two related purposes. The first is to show the specific nature of the current crisis, locating particular explanatory failures. The second is to illustrate the more general issue of the way in which the central epistemology of self-conscious social science derives from and describes failures in social scientific practice. This is well illustrated in the response to current problems.Both purposes are served by laying bare the procedures by which attempts are made to convert the contradictions inherent in explanatory failures into contradictory features of social experience which could be explained by consistent theories. Contradiction is thus, apparently, removed from its role in specifying the need for theoretical development, to encapsulating the processes by which current social arrangements are reproduced. However, we show that despite initial plausibility such attempts merely displace explanatory contradictions rather than solve them. The attempts are justified by an explicit or implicit action frame of reference which, though it is central to abstract discussions of the nature of social science, is invoked in practical social science only in circumstances of explanatory failure in an unproductive attempt to insulate the theories from the consequences of their failure. Productive social science is the resolution of contradictions in the transformation of theoretical objects and relationships.

"Conventional explanations of the nature of money are weighed down by bad ideas and irrelevant historical evidence. The standard theory of finance is hampered by the lack of both sociological and ethical contextualization, and by sloppy thinking about numbers and time. Money, Finance, Reality, Morality addresses those weaknesses with truly novel models of how the economy, money, and finance actually work. The book analyses the perception of money as an economic tool (as compared to a symbolic and sociological object) as a highly functional quantitative token that assigns numerical values to the inherently unmeasurable economic activities of labour and consumption. It looks at finance as an often inferior solution to economic problems and a tool for helping the poor support the rich. And it explains how the tolerance of greed makes the money-finance system the weakest link in modern economies. Money, Finance, Reality, Morality, written without jargon or maths, will be of interest to students, teachers and practitioners in economics and finance, government and politics, religion, and philosophy and sociology." - Publisher's website

1. Pederasty : an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, cross-cultural, cross-species, and evolutionary perspectives / Bruce Rind -- 2. More speech or less? Censoring social science / Patrick O'Neill and Janice Best -- 3. Intergenerational sexualities : a case study on the colonization of late modern sexual subjects and researcher agendas / Richard Yuill -- 4. Blinded by science : a critique of Rind's views on pederasty / Richard D. McAnulty and Lester W. Wright Jr. -- 5. A critique of the academic process and application of evolutionary theory in pederasty : an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, cross-cultural, cross-species, and evolutionary perspectives by Dr. Bruce Rind / L. Eric Alcorn -- 6. Same sex, different ages : on pederasty in gay history / D.H. Mader and Gert Hekma -- 7. "Here to you, Mr. Robinson" : men who have sexual relations with male minors / David F. Greenberg -- 8. Harming children in the name of "child protection" : how minors who have sex with other minors are abused by the law and therapy / Andrew Heller -- 9. The sex offender system : punishing homo sacer, the new internal enemy / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Blinded by politics and morality : a reply to McAnulty and Wright / Bruce Rind.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction: A Reading of Karl Mannheim -- I: A Review of Georg Lukacs' Theory of the Novel -- II: On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung -- III: The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge -- IV: The Ideological and the Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena -- V: Conservative Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Section I: Modern Rationalism and the Rise of the Conservative Opposition -- 3. Section II: The Meaning of Conservatism -- 4. Section III: The Social Structure of Romantic and Feudalistic Conservatism -- VI: The Problem of Generations -- 1. How the Problem Stands at the Moment -- 2. The Sociological Problem of Generations -- VII: Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon -- VIII: Problems of Sociology in Germany -- IX The Democratization of Culture -- 1. Some Problems of Political Democracy at the Stage of its Full Development -- 2. The Problem of Democratization as a General Cultural Phenomenon -- X: The Crisis of Liberalism and Democracy as seen from the Continental and Anglo-Saxon Points of View -- XI: On the Diagnosis of Our Time -- XII: Education, Sociology and the Problem of Social Awareness -- Index

This article further develops the ideas expressed in our previous publication – On the Attempt to Unlock the Black Boxes of Science (1) – and presents a sociological experiment that aims to break the conventional routine of the research activities of both sociology and life sciences. The article consists of two parts. The first part discusses the concept of "the new scientific spirit," elaborated by French scientist and philosopher G. Bachelard, and introduces H. White's theory of tropes, which provides a novel interpretative framework for "the new scientific spirit." The second part of this article describes a didactic experiment comprised of two discussion groups with PhD students working in the field of life sciences. The first discussion group attempted to realize the principles of the sociology of the social, whereas the second one attempted to break the limits of the sociology of the social and to induce an epistemological rupture in order to realize the principles of the sociology of translation in the second discussion. This article also includes the authors' reflections regarding the formation of their own sociological habitus.

AbstractThis paper provides a review of some of the literature addressing the juncture of disabilities and sexualities and invites sociologists to build on this work and take part in this important intersectional field. First, I discuss the central relevance of an intersectional lens for making sense of the unique experiences of queer people with disabilities who are located at the crossroads of various stratified systems. Then, I discuss some of the many unique challenges that queer disabled people face when exploring their sexuality, establishing relationships, and remaining sexual. The invisibility, marginalization, and discrimination of queer people with disabilities in both queer and disability communities are the focus on the third section. The fourth section speaks to current theoretical dialogues between disability studies and queer theory that have illuminated new pathways for theorizing the intersection of disabilities and sexualities, "cripping" sociological theories, and reimagining disability within sociology. As I demonstrate, this literature is growing; however, myriad exciting opportunities for empirical and theoretical sociological exploration remain and I will conclude with a discussion of possible directions for future research.

»Soziale Nachhaltigkeit« findet sich bislang nicht auf der Agenda der Soziologie, wie generell ein Mangel an soziologischer Befassung mit der Problemstellung Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit auffällt. Zwar hat sich unterdessen eine produktive Umweltsoziologie herausgebildet, eine sozialtheoretische, auch zeitdiagnostische Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit steht noch aus. Der Beitrag hilft diesem Mangel nicht ab, doch deutet zumindest an, warum sich die Soziologie in einer komplexen und verwirrenden Konstellation bislang schwer tat, einen originären Zugang zu Nachhaltigkeit zu gewinnen. Mit der Unterscheidung von drei Konzeptionen Sozialer Nachhaltigkeit (eng, internal und weit) und vier Themendimensionen (faktisch, politisch, organisatorisch und epistemisch) wird das Begriffsfeld erschlossen und soziologischer Optimismus verbreitet. The term »social sustainability« is not found so far on the agenda and in textbooks of sociology as a general lack of sociological referral notice to the problem of ecology and sustainability. Although meanwhile productive environmental sociology has emerged as an area sociology, a social theory, and time diagnostic sociology of sustainability is still pending. This contribution will not really clear off this deficiency, but suggests at least, why sociology used to be cautious indeed in a complex and confusing constellation to win a primary access to sustainability. With the distinction of three concepts of social sustainability (narrow, internal and wide) and four thematic dimensions (factually, political, organizational and epistemic) is opened up the field of concepts and enhanced sociological optimism.

In the modern era, revolutions have been central to the structure and dynamics of international affairs. They have always been international events: international in origin, ideology, process and effect, supercharging the rhythms and logics of any given international system. Yet, within the discipline of International Relations, the study of revolutions has remained something of a secondary subject. Not only have there been relatively few studies theoretically engaging with revolution and international relations, but the dominant theoretical frameworks in International Relations have largely bracketed out revolutions from their conceptions of international politics. Yet, if revolutions have been, in part, international in both cause and effect, thereby transcending the confines of 'second-' and 'third-image' conceptions of international relations, we require theoretical tools capable of capturing the sociological and geopolitical dimensions of these Janus-faced events without reducing one dimension to the other. Drawing on the theory of uneven and combined development, this article provides such a conception, organically uniting both 'sociological' and 'geopolitical' modes of explanation. It does so, in particular, by re-examining two of the key 'classical' bourgeois revolutions of the early-modern epoch: the English and French revolutions.