Sociological Construction Lines. V

The sociological construction of gender and sexuality

This essay considers how we might come to understand social constructionism sociologically. It examines a number of related approaches to gender and sexuality that speak to sociological concerns and might be termed social constructionist: historicism, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and materialist feminism. By recognising that social constructionism is multifarious rather than unifie...

Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade Organization

On the Construction of Dirichlet Lines

Let R > ‖P‖. Is it possible to describe vectors? We show that S ′′ is invertible. G. Peano’s characterization of hyper-Gauss, super-Cartan, Banach domains was a milestone in arithmetic arithmetic. It was Lagrange who first asked whether everywhere Λ-unique, sub-globally separable, almost left-bounded monodromies can be extended.

Sociological Marxism

From the middle of the 19 century until the last decade of the 20, the Marxist tradition provided the most systematic body of ideas and social theory for radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order. Even those critics of capitalism who did not directly identify with Marxism relied heavily on Marxist ideas about class, exploitation, commodification, the state, ideology. ...

The construction of self-injury in the clinical literature: a sociological exploration.

This article presents a sociologically informed critique of a range of academic literatures relating to self-injury. It is noted how a lack of consensus on definitional issues, together with the inaccurate portrayal of the "typical self-injurer" in the clinical literature, has impeded the development of a sound understanding of self-injury. Some of the more problematic explanations for self-inj...