Pub Date : 2023-05-20DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09576-1
Rhys H. Williams
{"title":"Bellah, American Civil Religion, and the Dynamics of Public Meanings","authors":"Rhys H. Williams","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09576-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09576-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53302475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09573-4
Federico Brandmayr
{"title":"A Stranger in His Own Field? Bellah’s Radical Critique of Science","authors":"Federico Brandmayr","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09573-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09573-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49661108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09574-3
Sean P. Hier
{"title":"Moral Panic Studies, Normative Reductionism, and the Problem of Paradigmatic Rigidity","authors":"Sean P. Hier","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09574-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09574-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49642865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09572-5
Nicola Montagna
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in literature and poetry, extensively depicted in the pictorial arts, sung about in music. Even philosophy, from its very beginnings, has devoted beautiful and intense pages to this theme. For reasons difficult to understand, the founding fathers of our discipline have been reluctant to enter the analytical realm of love. They touched this theme, but only marginally. It is only relatively recently that more insightful and focused discussions have come from some key figures of contemporary sociology in works by Niklas Luhmann, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Zygmunt Bauman and, more recently, Eva Illouz that demonstrate the profoundly social nature of our most intimate feelings and convey how the transformation of love and intimacy is related to wider social changes. In this sense, this collection edited by Silvia Cataldi and Gennaro Iorio aims to fill a major gap, while fuelling the debate on social love and its implications as a transformative force in an era characterised by multiple crises. By bringing together scholars from across several countries, not only it collates the fruit of years of research, but it also launches new developments in the debate on social love and set a new research agenda.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09571-6
Adrian Scribano
{"title":"Towards a Sociology of Vestiges","authors":"Adrian Scribano","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09571-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09571-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48506457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09570-7
K. Steinmüller
{"title":"The Rise and Decline of Prognostics. Futures Studies, Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge in the German Democratic Republic","authors":"K. Steinmüller","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09570-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09570-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43577087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09565-4
J. Maia, Diana Rebelo Rodriguez
{"title":"A ‘Yankee Savage in Radical Clothing’: The Contribution of Latin American Intellectuals to Irving Horowitz’s Critical Sociology","authors":"J. Maia, Diana Rebelo Rodriguez","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09565-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09565-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43232864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1007/s12108-023-09567-2
Lukas Griessl
{"title":"The Power of Secret Knowledge: The RAND Corporation, Ignorance Studies and Sociology","authors":"Lukas Griessl","doi":"10.1007/s12108-023-09567-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-023-09567-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46678,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48309736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}