Sociology has shown that innovations can generate both positive and negative social impacts. However, in mainstream institutional discourse we often found an acritical generically optimistic take on the role of innovation for socio-economic development. In this paper argue shifting paradigm around concept - taking into account its implications public policy – is a fruitful approach sociology en...

This study sought to examine barriers learning for blind students at a rural based South African University. Premised on the qualitative design, data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews with 5 students, two academic support staff and four lecturers who identified purposive sampling. Emerging themes from content analysis of verbatim responses. The found that reasonable a...

As a designated field of inquiry, economic sociology is not much more than a century old, even though its intellectual roots are identifiable in older traditions of philosophical and social thought. During the past quarter-century it has experienced an explosive growth, and now stands as one of the most conspicuous and vital subfields of its parent discipline. In this introduction we first defi...

Noting that Benhabib’s ethical theory has seldom been engaged with by sociologists of morality, this article introduces and interrogates from a sociological perspective. It is argued critiques Enlightenment conceptions morality complement theories morality. Her concepts the ‘concrete’ ‘generalized’ other ‘interactive universalism’ can potentially inform recurrent debates in sociology about exte...

In this study, it is argued that the main failure of mainstream economics its inability to establish a social ontology and Thorstein Veblen, founder Institutional Economics school, has an important role in establishing ontology. Considering economic reality as closed system, which presupposes analysis, reason behind produce solutions real world problems. The necessity open system common issue f...