My thesis in sociology takes place in a big research program studying contaminated storm water in urban areas in order to develop new processes to cope with pollution. Most of the researchers of the program are biologists, chemists, hydrologists. The study also conveys sociology insisting on the importance of a multidisciplinary approach. Why would a sociologist be needed to help understand a t...

Among race theorists, the view that race is a social construction is widespread. While the term ‘social construction’ is sometimes intended tomeanmerely that race does not (as once believed) constitute a robust, biological natural kind, it often labels the stronger position that race is real, but not a biological kind. For example, Charles Mills (1998) writes that, ‘‘the task of those working o...

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

The aim of this special issue is to present empirical research outcomes and theoretical works that use the concept legal culture characterize approach sociology law. papers presented were called for at Oñati Workshop on Legal Culture research, originally planned May 2020, but actually held in 2021, initiative International Institute Sociology Law, Law Section Italian Sociological Association. A...

Drawing on research from digital media studies, political theory and rhetoric, this article explores online radical conservative reactionary ‘ideological entrepreneurs’. It argues that are uniting an family’ around concepts of natural inequality hostility to those who deny them. Placing phenomenon in context, the shows how culture reinvigorates well-established discourses opposition bureaucrats...

The history of the Social Security Amendments 1967 illuminates contours fiscal citizenship. This watershed law created both work requirements for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients and new policy instruments, including federal child support enforcement, compel poor men fulfill their financial obligations families. Welfare reformers claimed that such changes were necessary...

"With reference to treatment, it will be noticed that ot the 83 cases, two absconded from the hospital, so that, practically, we have to deal with 81 instances of tetanus, and of these 13 are stated as having been " relieved" when discharged from hospital; this is doubtless a very unsatisfactory way of accounting for cases of tetanus, but it is unavoidable in this country ; the friends of the p...

Humans feel uncertain. They know when they do not know. These feelings and the responses to them ground the research literature on metacognition. It is a natural question whether animals share this cognitive capacity, and thus animal metacognition has become an influential research area within comparative psychology. Researchers have explored this question by testing many species using percepti...

PNAS papers by Linus Pauling, Robert Corey, and Herman Branson in the spring of 1951 proposed the !-helix and the "-sheet, now known to form the backbones of tens of thousands of proteins. They deduced these fundamental building blocks from properties of small molecules, known both from crystal structures and from Pauling’s resonance theory of chemical bonding that predicted planar peptide grou...