Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1807247
D. Bideshi
ABSTRACT Three sociological theories are presented (Labeling Theory, Marxist Theory, and Conflict Theory) as a means of contextualizing the effects of residential segregation. Borrowing from the works of two legal-constitutional scholars, John Hart Ely ([1980]. Democracy and distrust: A theory of judicial review. Harvard University Press.) and Ronald Dworkin ([1978]. Taking rights seriously. Harvard University Press.), an attempt is made to integrate sociological and legal theories in explaining the historical antecedents of residential segregation in a democratic society. The basic questions posed are: What role has the legal system played in residential segregation in the United States? How can sociological and legal theories help illuminate the condition? Synthesizing sociological and legal theories that have complementary features may provide deeper insights into the complex nature of residential segregation in contemporary society.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1802858
Robert K. Harmel, Yao‐Yuan Yeh
ABSTRACT Using data from a 2008 nationwide survey in China, this study explores the relationship of perceived local-level corruption to government trust in an established authoritarian regime. With nearly two thirds of respondents considering cadre corruption to be a ‘serious problem,’ the authors find that perceptions of serious corruption are significantly and negatively related to trust in officials at all levels of government, including the central level. Contrary to extant findings that the Center is shielded from blame for well-intended policies that fail, the findings of this study suggest that when it comes to assigning blame for continued corruption, Chinese citizens – and especially urban Chinese – do not let Central officials off scot-free. Pushing further in an attempt to understand why some urban Chinese citizens seemingly hold the central government partly responsible for cadre corruption while others do not, analyses cast the spotlight on the level of education. As anticipated, education level is by itself negatively related to trust in the central government, but there is also unexpected evidence that among urbanites who perceive corruption to be a serious problem, it is actually the most highly educated who are most trusting.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1853003
Meredian Alam
ABSTRACT Using in-depth interviews with six educated fathers whose wives were pregnant at the time of the study, the present research aims to interrogate how their preferences in pregnancy services have been developed and avidly exercised using their sets of cultural capital. Following the presented research analysis, the theorizing of education as cultural capital by Pierre Bourdieu allows the author to further explore the complexity of the relationship between medical service preferences and facilities with the respondents’ social status as educated middle class actors. Moreover, access to and enjoyment in using the medical facilities and services of this private hospital is a social symbol desired by the respondents in order to reinforce and reinvigorate their social status. In addition, hospitals as providers of medical facilities and services play a role in accommodating the process of cultural capital activities of these highly educated expectant fathers. The inclusion of private hospitals in this study should also be considered as a symbol of social inequality in the provision of health services in Indonesia. The respondents place themselves within everyday social interactions, that relate naturally to the world, and represent the preoccupied active presence through which the world imposes its presence.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1853005
Y. Sohn
ABSTRACT The current study presents the longitudinal overview of 40 years of Luhmannian research in the Anglophone academic community by employing a quantitative content analysis. As the first study of this kind, this paper aims to explore the current topography of Luhmannian research. For the purpose, a total of 1,231 journal articles published in English were analyzed in terms of the number of articles in relation to several variables such as publication year, region, discipline, methodology, and the purpose of utilizing Luhmann. In summary, the key findings include: first, decreasing Anglo-American authors' contributions to the Luhmannian research in the English-language academic publications, as opposed to growing outputs of authors from continental Europe and other regions; second, the difference in the maturity of Luhmannian scholarship by region; third, the demonstration of the breadth and versatility of Luhmann's theory of systems; fourth, the capability of Luhmann's theory accommodating empirical research and its potential as a framework to lead fruitful research streams. This study is expected to provide a useful reference for Luhmannian researchers, as well as for authors from other research strands.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1807862
S. Das Gupta
ABSTRACT This paper aims to unravel the changing forms of violence encountered by the ‘tribal’ or Adivasi communities of eastern India from the nineteenth century till the present times. The very identification of particular communities as ‘tribes’ and the imposition of attributes of tribalism, such as primitivity, and childlike innocence, by British colonial writers constituted an epistemic violence, the psychological impact of which persists to this day. The resultant infantilizing of Adivasis divested them of their own agency and effectively transformed their representation from perpetrators to victims of violence, oppression and displacement. After Independence, this notion of victimhood was appropriated both by the post-colonial state which reserved for itself the role of the redeemer/ provider, as well as by Adivasi communities who thus sought to reshape their community identity in their fight for indigenous rights. However, Adivasis continue to suffer from an easy misrepresentation of their role and status, figuring very often as dangerous insurgents who threaten national security or as backward minorities whose survival hinders development. This paper demonstrates the increasing exposure of Adivasi communities to ‘slow violence’ and to ‘everyday forms of violence’ whereby they are progressively dispossessed of their livelihood and cultural heritage.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1776919
Leon Moosavi
ABSTRACT In recent years, ‘intellectual decolonisation’ has become so popular in the Global North that we can now speak of there being a ‘decolonial bandwagon’. This article identifies some of the common limitations that can be found in this growing field of intellectual decolonisation. First and foremost, it is suggested that intellectual decolonisation in the Global North may be characterised by Northerncentrism due to the way in which decolonial scholarship may ignore decolonial scholars from the Global South. In order to address this ‘decolonisation without decolonising’, this article offers an alternative genealogy of intellectual decolonisation by discussing some of the most important yet neglected decolonial theory from the Global South. Thereafter, five other common limitations which may appear in discussions about intellectual decolonisation are identified, which are: reducing intellectual decolonisation to a simple task; essentialising and appropriating the Global South; overlooking the multifaceted nature of marginalisation in academia; nativism; and tokenism. The objective of this article is to highlight common limitations which may be present in discussions about intellectual decolonisation so as to provide a warning that some manifestations of intellectual decolonisation may not only be inadequate but may even reinscribe coloniality.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1807868
M. Wieviorka
PRÉAMBULE Le processus de sortie de la violence sociale ou politique ne doit pas être confondu avec la fin de la violence en elle–même. Ilpeut s'agir d'un cheminement long et chaotique, d'autant plus complexe que, dans de nombreuses expériences contemporaines, il est impossible de séparer le crimeorganisé de la violence sociale oupolitique. L'analyse de la violenceest un vaste domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, danslequel presque tous leurs paradigmes sont mobilisés. Il n'en est pas de même pour la sortie de la violence: cela devrait encourager à en faire un nouveau domaine, et clarifier les perspectives. Nous ouvrons cesréflexions par des précisions conceptuelles relatives aux significations de la violence et au changement de perspectivequ'impose le contexte global qui fait qu'elle ne s'enferme pas dans leseul espace de l'État. Nous distinguons différents niveaux analytiques nécessaires pour penser la sortie de la violence:l'individu; le groupe ou la communauté; la société, la nation oul'État; l'internationalisation et la mondialisation. Il faut distinguer ces niveaux, il faut aussi concevoir leur complémentarité, et considérerles modalités possibles de leur synthèse.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1807869
J. Wunenburger
RÉSUMÉ Les formes contemporaines du terrorisme de l’Islam radical relèvent d’une religion politique pratiquant une violence, justifiée théologiquement. Ne faut-il pas surtout les rattacher aux imaginaires millénaristes qui traversent périodiquement les trois monothéismes mais qui se trouvent revus et amplifiés par les techniques de manipulation propres aux nouveaux medias? Dans ce cas, la contre-offensive inspirée par une rationalité politique laïque risque fort d’être inefficace voire contre-productive. Ne convient-il pas plutôt de réinvestir l’herméneutique des textes, la pédagogie des médias et même l’imaginaire du politique?
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1784505
Odaci luiz Coradini
ABSTRACT This article examines trends in the relationship between income amount and quantity of formal education, with a focus on indicators of social position such as occupational classifications and school titling. The starting point is an earlier work circumscribed to Brazil, which found that the weight of schooling had declined relative to the amount of income in recent decades, especially for groups with intermediate levels of education. In the present article, we analyze the trends for a set of six countries, central and peripheral. The main finding is that the trend of a decline in the weight of schooling, especially for groups with intermediate levels of education, is seen in all the countries.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2020.1807865
Pier Luca Marzo
ABSTRACT There is a dimension of violence internal to the functioning logic of technical systems and within the transparency of the instrumental vision of technology. Yet it is one of the centres of rotation of the mobile geography of global violence. This article aims to highlight this centre of mobilization of contemporary violence by identifying the neutral character of technical violence. Technical neutrality, being an instrumental field of operation, qualifies only on the basis of the qualities of meaning that move the action of violent subjects, be they individual or collective. In fact, each violent subject uses technologies to enhance the act of violation in order to impose a sense of his order of reality in the victim's sphere of life. However, it is precisely by serving the various ends that qualify the omnipotence of the violent subject that the technique systematically becomes their master. This reversal of the means-ends relationship is one of the accelerating factors of the innovation cycles of the forms of technical violence towards increasingly sophisticated and pervasive degrees. Moving in this problematic context, the article aims to understand how the technical metamorphoses of violence reconfigure the contemporary social bond as well as human identity.
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