Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221133055
A. Loconto, N. Arnold
Standards are strongly intertwined with values in economic contexts, which goes far beyond economic value. Standards’ diversity is expressed in local spaces where standards are made, put into action, circulate and commensurate. In these mutually linked and globally distributed spaces, we can analyze the ways in which standards and value(s) encounter each other and what consequences this brings for individuals, organizations, communities, and societies. Examining different settings of food production and organization brings new insights into the sociological explanations and understandings of how standards are guided by values and create value(s). These insights highlight new tensions between global and local social dynamics and offer two ways forward for the sociology of standards. First, is the importance of intermediation between the values of the standards and the governance effects of these same standards. Second, is the relevance of valuelessness, where the prioritization of some values devalues others or loses them completely.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1177/02685809221115960
Carmen Mozo, Juana Moreno Nieto, Alicia Reigada
This article examines how health is constructed as an emerging value of quality standards in intensive agriculture in the province of Huelva (Spain) with a specific focus on the health and welfare of female seasonal migrant workers. Based on an ethnographic approach, the research draws on two sources: an analysis of Global G.A.P. quality standards documentation and qualitative in-depth interviews with four key social actors, including local producers, social and professional organisations, healthcare professionals and migrant women working on seasonal contracts. Drawing on theoretical contributions from convention theory and the socio-anthropological approach of political economy, the study identified imbalances between the meanings and practices around health and safety. Principally, the study concludes that norms established by quality standards focus almost exclusively on consumers’ health while neglecting the health costs and inequalities experienced by female agricultural workers.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1177/02685809221119289
M. Renard
The ‘sustainable’ coffee industry has experienced steady expansion in recent decades, due to the emerging demand and values of consumers. Coffee corporations have invested in this market segment, participating in multi-stakeholder initiatives through which they seek to control the definitions of sustainability and to secure the supply chain. After highlighting the ambiguity of the concept of sustainability, the article analyzes the impacts of the 4C code of conduct adopted by Nestlé, in the context of Mexico’s growing coffee crisis. It highlights the existing dissonance between the sustainability proclaimed by the code of conduct and the reality in the coffee producing regions of Mexico where Nestlé sources 4C certified coffee. It concludes that the application of this code is far from adhering to the values of economic, social, and environmental sustainability that it claims to defend.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138018
D. Pathak
Reading public sociology with Burawoy amounts to an engagement with the process of being and becoming a sociologist. The blending of text and context offers a hermeneutics in which theory and theorist are political actors striving for dialectic of utopia and anti-utopia. In such a scheme this article turns inward to the context of sociology and anthropology in South Asia to adjudge the limits and possibility of public sociology.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138462d
J. Subrt
political impact, but stresses that Mi Meng had to shut down her business because of concerns by officials. The chapter offers a nuanced discussion of the interplay between political and economic concerns of an important Internet user that supports the network of visibility approach of Shaohua Guo’s book with many details. The book’s strength lies in the collection of large amounts of data into representative snapshots of specific developments of the Internet in China. In particular, the sections on Furong Jiejie, Mu Zimei, Han Han and Mi Meng are worth reading for the breadth and depth of materials presented. The book is let down, though, by the many mistakes and omissions it contains. User statistics are quoted without dates, historical developments are presented with mixed up timelines, the text contains numerous factual errors, ultimately rendering it unreliable as a source of knowledge about the general evolution of the Internet in China.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138137
Muyuan Luo, Tan Li, Junpeng Shi
This review provides a critical exploration of four key books in sociology of homosexuality published in mainland China since 2000, namely Wei Wei’s Going Public (2012), Queering Chinese Society (2015), Xiaoxing Fu’s Space, Culture and Performance (2012), and Qingfeng Wang’s Homosexuality Studies (2017). We identify three important themes from the books: space, family, and identity. Based on this, we demonstrate two characteristics of the sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China, with its focus on the theoretical potentials of the Chinese case and its combination of sociological perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138462b
Wade P. Smith
interviews that are very intelligently included in each chapter of the book according to the topic under consideration. In these interviews, Ezzatyar opens up very interesting dimensions for the reader with the questions he raises. The third point is that this book in spite of a lot of academic information, is very suitable for non-academic readers too, and even at the beginning of the book, all the words that may be unfamiliar to the reader are explained in the glossary section, and the interviews that given an attractive dimension to the book, making it attractive for non-academic readers too and even regarding the pictures and graphs of the book, it should be said that the few pictures and diagrams given in the book are very appropriate and help a lot to the reader’s visual understanding and provide statistical information about migration. The number of graphs is not so large as to confuse the reader by providing too much statistical information but is only used in parts that convey the necessary statistical information more easily. Since a large population of Jews in Israel is made up of Iranian Jews, and however, due to the wide-ranging political problems that the two governments of Iran and Israel have with each other, the identity crisis among this immigrant group can be studied and discussed, which the writer shortly mentions in some parts of the book, but it creates questions for further studies in the minds of the readers. In fact, this book can be a stepping stone to extensive sociological, political, ideological, and religious research on the Iranian diaspora in Israel. It can be said that this book for all those who are interested in studying migrations, diasporas, the Middle East, and social and political subjects, can be recognized as a valuable resource.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138200
M. Reed
This review article analyses six texts within the sociology of organizations published in the early decades of the twenty-first century with a view to exploring what they tell us about the key issues and developmental trajectories the former will follow as this century unfolds. It suggests that the sociology of organizations is in good intellectual shape and continues to speak to issues which are central to our lives today and tomorrow. However, it also indicates that intellectual rejuvenation through contestation must be sustained within the field – particularly in the face of pressures towards intellectual closure and conformity – if it is to retain its relevance at a time when instability and uncertainty seem to be pervasive.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138462c
David Kurt Herold
informative, and accessible book with insights relevant for academics working in various disciplines – namely, history, political science, and sociology – as well as for politicians, practitioners, activists, veterans, veterans’ organizations, and the public. While the politics of veteran benefits of the twenty-first century may markedly differ from those of the twentieth century, the empirical and theoretical insights presented in this book will be informative and insightful for those who wish to understand or affect them.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02685809221138462a
Maryam Ghasemnejad
The author maintains a strict attention by adhering to and reproducing the subject(s) in the book’s title. A dialogue between internationalization and indigenization leads the author to determine three interrelated ecological systems in the development of Tsinghua’s sociology: departmental, institutional, and national. While these systems inform Tsinghua’s ‘national’ mission and endeavor, they are not dislodged from global trends and remain responsive to global factors. Therefore, Tsinghua’s effort to achieve a ‘Sociology with Chinese Characteristics’ is oppressed by challenges chief of which is that the university, the sociology department and its scholars are all forces for internationalization. Xie describes such situation as ‘double shackles’ in which scholars have encountered institutional and cultural dilemmas in their struggles to balance global and national/local demands while constructing their discipline and international influence. Previous research has focused upon internationalization at the university level without going further to investigate a particular academic discipline, which makes this book significant. The details provided are too extensive to exhaustively embrace in this review. Immense effort, accurate analysis and substantial referencing makes this book an outstanding read overall.
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