Over fifty authors from two dozen countries and from across the full spectrum of sociology tackle the pertinent issues of our time.
Continue ReadingAdloff, Costa, Kerner, Vetter: Conviviality
Conviviality sets a concrete utopia against dystopia—an awareness of the possibility of cooperation.
Continue ReadingAndreas Bieler: EU Referendum
What Position for the Labour Movement on the EU Referendum?
Continue ReadingRina Agarwala & Chris Tilly: Informal Workers
Neoliberalism has battered worker rights around the world. How can workers rebuild labor standards and a social safety net across the world?
Continue ReadingLeslie Sklair: The Icon Project
Icons of global capitalism emerge at the meeting point of power, meaning, aesthetics, and taste. What do they disguise, and reveal?
Continue ReadingALAS: Declaration
Final Declaration of the XXX Congress of the Latin American Association of Sociology, San José, Costa Rica, December 2015.
Continue ReadingALAS: Declaración
Declaración Final del XXX Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, Ciudad de San José, Costa Rica, Diciembre de 2015.
Continue ReadingWilliam I. Robinson: Savage Inequalities
Sociologists would do well to take a critical approach to the hype around Piketty and the mainstream discourse on social inequalities that it reflects.
Continue ReadingStephan Lessenich: Externalization Society
With the rise of neoliberalism in the advanced capitalist societies since the 1970s, it has become commonplace for politicians, economists, and employer’s representatives to urge people not to ‘live beyond their means.’ …
Continue ReadingEsteban Castro: Socio-Ecological Futures
Socio-ecological inequality and injustice are among the key obstacles facing the process of substantive, material, not merely rhetorical democratization.
Continue ReadingSaskia Sassen: Expulsions – Beyond Inequality
At some point in the evolution of extreme negative conditions, the familiar explanations fail. Today, the language of more inequality, more poverty, more imprisonment, more environmental destruction, and on, is insufficient to mark the proliferation of …
Continue ReadingGöran Therborn: After Emancipation, What?
Staying True in Hard Times. – Once upon a time most people who wanted a new future knew what they wanted. They wanted to be emancipated and liberated…
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