Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158881a
J. Foster
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158856d
Q. Song
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158856e
M. E. Rocha
Qi Song is a Lecturer in the College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D degree from School of Journalism & Communication, Peking University. His research interests include political sociology and Internet politics, particularly about China. With the concern of civic engagement under authoritarian politics, he is working on a project on digital philanthropy in China. Email: qisong@hust.edu.cn
{"title":"Maria Eduarda da Mota (ed.), Bourdieu à Brasileira [Brazilian Bourdieu]","authors":"M. E. Rocha","doi":"10.1177/02685809231158856e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809231158856e","url":null,"abstract":"Qi Song is a Lecturer in the College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D degree from School of Journalism & Communication, Peking University. His research interests include political sociology and Internet politics, particularly about China. With the concern of civic engagement under authoritarian politics, he is working on a project on digital philanthropy in China. Email: qisong@hust.edu.cn","PeriodicalId":47662,"journal":{"name":"International Sociology","volume":"38 1","pages":"225 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42907590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158885a
Atsuko Kawakami
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158884a
Hao Wu
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158870b
N. E. Işık
Dustin S Stoltz is assistant professor of sociology and cognitive science at Lehigh University. He works at the intersection of cultural and economic sociology, with a particular focus on the social, material, and cognitive foundations of ideas and evaluations. His work appears in Sociological Theory, Sociological Science, Poetics, Socius, Socio-Economic Review, among other outlets. More about his research is available at www.dustinstoltz.com. Email: dss219@lehigh.edu
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158881
Gerard Delanty
Trade and Nation is a major work in historical sociology on the rise of modern economic thought. Erikson offers a thoroughly researched account of the transition from medieval economic thought to the emergence of modern thought in England in the seventeenth century. But it is more than an historical account, she also offers a sociological explanation. Medieval ideas of the economy were part of a religious view of the world and were also deeply moral. But in the seventeenth century, people began to frame economic issues very differently from the preceding centuries when scholastic discourse dominated. Instead of notions of fair exchange and individual morality, it was the ideas of growth, the balance of trade, and the prosperity of the nation that took precedence. The transition, between 1580 and 1720, had huge implications for the modern economy in that it made possible a new discourse, one that was the basis of the modern science of economics. It also laid the foundations for economic nationalism. The needs of the state – crown and nation – were given predominance over social concerns, such as the welfare of the poor. The new economic discourse took place within the context of the nationstate, which was in need of new ideas for economic growth. The seventeenth century saw the rise of a vast body of writings on commerce and trade. In this period, there was also some major debates on the economy, though the notion of the economy as such was not widely used to frame debates. One of the most consequential debates for the new era of mercantilism was the argument, advanced by Thomas Mun, for the over-riding importance of the balance of trade, which began to be seen as operating on its own dynamics and not something that could be easily controlled by governments. In this period, the basic tenets of liberal economic theory were taking place. Erikson provides an explanation of why this take-off occurred and why it did so in England, and not elsewhere as, for example, in the Dutch Republic where the 1158881 ISS0010.1177/02685809231158881International SociologyReviews: Economic Sociology review-article2023
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158856c
Ying Chen
had done up to that moment and, at the same time, something incomparable to anything he had ever published’ (pp. 335–336). Remarkably, though not surprisingly, Religion was just a part of what Bellah had envisioned. Dropped from an early outline of the book were chapters on modernity in which he could incorporate his understanding of Japanese exceptionalism as a modern society with no axial breakthrough and his long-developing interpretation of the United States as the product of the Protestant Reformation gone bad. Had all gone as planned, Bellah would have folded this latter idea into The Modern Project in Light of Human Evolution (p. 352), in which he would grapple with whether tradition could save modernity from itself. Of course, Bellah’s life did not always go as planned and this project, like modernity itself, was left unfinished when he died at age 86 in 2013. In a November 2011 panel on Religion, Bellah noted, ‘Recently somebody asked me: Why are you writing this book about religion when you should write your autobiography? I said: I am writing my autobiography, it’s the autobiography of the human race!’ (p. xii). Here again, Bellah was exaggerating only slightly. Bortolini notes the distinctive character of Religion as a text in which ‘the creative process had the same importance as the final outcome’. The text was performative, with ‘oscillations between truth claims and “the grounds for thinking them true”. . . . Bob was everywhere. . . . To put it another way, Bob was the book and the book was Bob’ (pp. 335–337). This, too, makes sense when we consider that a favorite passage of Bellah’s by poet William Butler Yeats reads, ‘Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it’. The truth Robert N. Bellah embodied was intellectual curiosity. I experienced this myself in 1989 when, as an undergraduate in his famous Sociology of Religion course, I visited him during office hours almost weekly. I would pepper him with juvenile questions he no doubt had heard before. Still, he listened to me in perfect silence, chin in hand, as if he had never heard the questions before, patiently answering each. As Matteo Bortolini’s beautiful biography shows over and over, the importance of intellectual curiosity is the ultimate lesson of Bellah’s life and work.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158844
Larry Au
Sociologists have much to learn from recent anthropological accounts of expertise in global health. This review surveys three recent ethnographies from Fearnley (2020), Keck (2020), and Porter (2019) to examine how global pushes for biosecurity and zoonotic disease surveillance are unfolding in the global periphery. Collectively, these accounts of global health programs in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam show how global forms of expertise are translated into local contexts, running up against resistance and creating new alternate networks of expertise to overcome these barriers. While this focus on translation examines how practices of biosecurity originating from the Global North are implemented elsewhere and are transformed in the process, in preparation for future pandemics, global health experts should also consider how to collect, assemble, and translate local expertise so that it is legible to global science and policymakers faraway.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809231158870a
Dustin S. Stoltz
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