Houses are at once built shelters; collections of relations, affects, and moralities; nodes within neighborhoods, communities, larger political-economic environmental regimes. This Colloquy proposes oikography as an ethnographic approach that deconstructs technocratic assumptions about the house traces plasticity dwelling across multiple space-times, with a focus on action house-ing. Inspired b...

To the Editor. In early January 2012, a shocking news for the pharmacists and a sad report for the nation struck Malaysia. Two pharmacists were found involved in transferring psychotropic medications out of hospitals and smuggling them into the black market. Subsequently, the ministry of health decided to table “The Pharmacy Bill 2012” in the parliament to empower the ministry to take stiffer p...

The purpose of this paper is to present an understanding of business ethics based on a theory of intemal social criticism. Internal social criticism focuses on how members of a business organization debate the meanings of their shared traditions for the purpose of locating and correcting hypocrisy. Organizations have thick moral cultures that allow them to be self-governing moral communities. B...

This article explores and extends the field of historical rural sociology using the idea of respectability via a biographical study of 20 older adults from North Wales (UK) for whom the performance of respectability represented a form of social, symbolic or cultural capital. It entailed the active negotiation and management of barriers between differing constituencies of opinion, generations an...

Major books like Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (AGP)1 start from and develop a single (although complex) idea. This idea has been present in Habermas's work for some time. It can be traced back to the core project of Frankfurt School, tradition Horkheimer Adorno's Dialectic Enlightenment Horkheimer's Critique Instrumental Reason, reconstructing genesis criticizing one-sided forms rationa...

The purpose of this article is to outline some of the religious implications of Western personality theories. It begins with broad comments about the general theoretical tradition of the West, especially for secular disciplines such as psychology. Next, it sketches briefly the religious implications of many aspects of the three forces of psychology, i.e., psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humani...

Inspired by concepts from the Participatory Design discourse such as the idea of design process as Things (Ehn 2008 and Binder et al 2011) and the concept of agonistic democracy (Bjorgvinsson et al, 2010), we have engaged a community of over 7000 retired academics who are actively ageing on their university campus in China through a variety of methods since 2011. We call this a reflexive ethnog...