On May 12, 2015, two Newark, NJ police officers rang our doorbell. The officers came to tell us that our 25-year-old son Alex had died. “Heroin,” they said, “probably yesterday morning.” We had many ...

This text concludes the Special Issue on “New Directions for Foreign Policy Analysis” that aims at exploring some recent research avenues in the critical and interpretivist tradition in International ...

A course that deals with contemporary social phenomena and the processes of change that distinguish them. Students learn that sociology rests particularly on the attention giving to the methodological ...

Ravi Ranjan occupies an important position in contemporary Hindi criticism as a scholar whose work combines poetic sensitivity, analytical sharpness and a distinctive sociological approach to ...

The past decade has witnessed a rapid growth in the use of online social networks, such as Twitter, by individuals as well as communities for fast dissemination of information. However, as useful as ...

The lectures and seminars deal with classical sociological approaches and concepts for the observation and interpretation of social action, social structures and social conditions as well as with ...

The University College London (UCL) Social Research Institute’s motto, “Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education,” encapsulates its commitment to ...

O n November 19, New College of Florida adopted a new core curriculum that dramatically reduced the number of courses in the faculty-recommended general-education curriculum. In the humanities, this ...

Rapid globalisation has brought diverse cultures into closer contact, though this has also sparked new tensions. Even as educational opportunities expand around the world, a child’s future is still ...

This study proposes a theoretical and methodological approach for research based on the work of Bernard Lahire, with a focus on the structure and composition of sociological portraits. The study also ...

International Political Sociology (IPS) stands as an interdisciplinary field at the crossroads of international relations (IR), sociology, and political theory. Rooted in the critique of traditional ...