Given the prominence and centrality of concepts such as international system or international society in the writings of classical ‘English School’-thinkers like for example Hedley Bull and Martin Wight, their strong interest in the history and evolution of international systems/ societies and their occupation with patterns of order in an anarchical international realm, the total lack of percep...

Much sociological research is now focused on demonstrating how culture both motivates individuals to act and provides them with justifications for their actions (Vaisey, 2009). However, I argue that this sociological work relies on a model of action that sees culture itself as driving action beyond individuals’ reflexive use of culture. I argue that it does so by conceptualizing the internaliza...

STRONG [1936] and Strong & Francis [1937] have described a fall in the haemoglobin content of the blood of female mice of strains which are liable to the development of spontaneous mammary carcinoma. The experiments of Parsons and her collaborators have shown that general irradiation of mice or rats with sub-lethal doses of X-rays increases and accelerates tumour production on subsequent treatm...