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LIST OF REVIEWERS FOR SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY, VOLUME 91

Sociological InquiryVolume 91, Issue 4 p. 989-991 List of Reviewers LIST OF REVIEWERS FOR SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY, VOLUME 91 First published: 22 October 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12464Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume91, Issue4November 2021Pages 989-991 RelatedInformation

Security as a need and a human right

Security is a concept defined by various aspects. It depends on the terminology applied in a particular science field. It is differently specified in terms of science branches related with psychology, philosophy or sociology. Security is also defined in another way in the security science. It is specified, inter alia, as a state, a process, a good, a need or a value. However, the aim of this paper is to define security as a need and a human right. That is why below we make an attempt to answer the following questions: Can security be defined as a need and a human right? If so, who is their guarantor?

English Sociological Terminology Based On Functional Equivalence Theory

Objectives: In the practice of translating English, there are often situations that may lead to missing words. In this case, a computer technology is needed to improve the translation studies of sociological terms in English. This time, based on the characteristics of Internet network data, intelligent robot information is extracted. Methods: According to the knowledge ontology constructed this time, based on the functional equivalence theory, a method based on the automatic construction of the ontology library in the party building domain is proposed. Results: In order to verify the proposed method algorithm, the example study of some sociological terms conceptual terms above the interactive encyclopedia is studied by the ontology created by encyclopedia resources, such as father/sub-relationship, class and instance relationship and attribute relationship, and a total of 72474 relationships are obtained through the final statistical study. Conclusion: From the overall analysis, it can be seen that the sociological terminology research of English computer network based on functional equivalence theory can achieve a good classification effect.

Have Schemas Been Good To Think With?*

Schemas are one of the most popular explanatory concepts in cultural sociology and are increasingly used in sociology more broadly. In this article, we ask the question: have schemas been good to think with? We answer this question by analyzing the ontological, epistemic, and methodological bases of schemas, including the conceptualizations, claims, assumptions, and methods that underpin the use of schemas in sociological inquiry. We show that sociologists have developed two distinct, contradictory, and often conflated perspectives on schemas, what we refer to as culturalist and cognitivist perspectives. We suggest that schemas have acquired a polysemic character in sociology, and that they have become a (more narrow and consequently more scientifically legitimate) proxy for Culture, and that these features have (paradoxically) facilitated the popularity of schemas within the discipline. Sociologists have recently begun to make the necessary advancements to turn schemas into a more useful explanatory concept, through both analytical improvements (by distinguishing schemas from both public culture and other forms of nondeclarative personal culture), and methodological innovations (for better deriving schemas from survey data, texts, and experiments). Yet, some challenges remain, and the analytical value of schemas remains promissory. We conclude by offering some guidelines for making more specific and measured claims about schemas in sociological research.

A genealogy of what nurses know about 'the good death': A socio-materialist perspective.

In this article, we report the outcome of a sociological inquiry into nursing knowledge of death and dying, specifically 'the good death'. A genealogical approach informed by actor-network theory and appreciative inquiry were used to compose a broad socio-material account of how nurses concern themselves with the care of the dying and end-of-life care. Our enquiry revealed similarly to other studies, that there was no shared or overarching model of care. Key themes derived from nurses' translations of 'the good death' were re-presented pictorially as six pillars and two processes to comprise a new diagram of The Personalised Ideal Death.

Penolakan Omnibus Law Menurut Paradigma Sosiologi Hukum dan Teori Konflik

The Omnibus Law, which has been valid and has become a regulation in the constitution in Indonesia, has experienced many new things in the process and has not opened up the flow of democracy from the people. There were several articles that were changed, especially regarding employment which eventually got rejected in society. Workers as subjects who are bound by the Omnibus Law are also involved in demonstrations and expect a change to the law. In terms of legal sociology, social revolution, as the answer desired by modern society today, will never occur because it is hampered by social mobility through the decomposition of the new labor force and middle class. Articles that have the potential to become a legality tool for suppressing human rights and discriminating against workers against employees must be further guarded by academics so that practices of abuse of the rules in the Omnibus Law will not occur.

Reppin’ and Rice: How Asian and Pacific Islander American Hip Hop Fans Negotiate Their Racial Identities and Make Meaning of Their Experiences in the US Hip Hop Community

The US hip hop fan community maintains stereotypical representations of Asian American and Pacific Islander American (AAPI) communities that were created from the Yellow Peril and Model Minority discourses (2017, Sociological Inquiry 87(4):634). AAPI rap and hip hop fans present an image that is in opposition to the stereotypes of what fans learned and believe about AAPI communities (2017, Sociological Inquiry 87(4):634). My experiences have inspired me to seek answers to the pressing research questions: (1) how do Asian American and Pacific Islander American hip hop fans negotiate their racial identities in the hip hop community when it is an artform and culture that is historically and socially tied to Black and Brown communities? and (2) how do AAPI hip hop fans make meaning of their experiences in the multi‐racial U.S. hip hop community?

Review: Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? by Candy Gunther Brown

Review: <i>Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?</i> by Candy Gunther Brown

Political Leadership Policy and Education in PSIAFIL Perspective at Pasim National University

This study is to determine the political policy of educational leadership at the National University of Pasim in terms of Psychology, Sociology, Religion and Philosophy (PSIAFIL). the research used was quantitative with a descriptive approach. The data used is primary data through the distribution of questionnaires. The research population is structural officials, lecturers and education staff at the National University of Pasim, while the sample used is 60 respondents (Slovin Formula). The sampling used is probability sampling with the type of Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling. The instrument test uses validity and reliability tests. The data analysis technique used descriptive statistical analysis through frequency distribution (SPSS). The results of the study stated that the political conditions, policies and educational leadership at the National University of Pasim were in the good category. However, there are aspects that need further attention, namely in terms of decision control, aspects of participation and in terms of coordination. From a psychological point of view, leadership that occurs is more inclined to leaders with phlegmatic personality types. Then from a sociological point of view, leadership today has a high level of concern and can keep up with the times. Likewise, from a religious point of view, the current leader is more wise, and sympathetic, both in politics and in every policy. In the point of view of the current leadership philosophy is more wise and fair.

Case Studies of School Desegregation and Resegregation: How Can We Pursue External Validity?

Case studies form a vital part of sociological inquiry. Despite their important strengths, they often fail to pursue issues of external validity or replication, an important direction for social science generally. In this article, I begin with the premise that at least some case studies can and should contribute to a growing body of research within sociology aimed at replication and promoting external validity. I first discuss how qualitative case studies have handled issues of external validity in the past. Then I outline three dimensions of external validity that are particularly relevant for sociological research: the degree to which qualitative case study findings generalize or replicate to: (1) a larger population, (2) across social contexts, and (3) over time. I set my overall arguments within the larger literature of case studies in sociology but focus specifically on case studies dealing with school desegregation and resegregation. I show the current challenges in pursuing external validity using a set of case studies investigating school desegregation and resegregation in the United States. I argue that quantitative methods can assist in providing evidence regarding the generalizability of individual case studies. I conclude by noting the limitations to such an approach, which signal some of the challenges our discipline faces when pursuing the external validity of case studies.

The place of traditional medicine in the Pinyin society: Examining challenges from conventional medicine as an existential threat

Studies on traditional healing have received a lot of attention from several academic disciplines, including; anthropology, sociology, religion, and medicine. The study of use, practice, organisation, measurement and social distribution of traditional medicine has, over the years, been a case of sociological inquiry. On the other hand, anthropological studies are engrossed in the confluence of traditional healing with witchcraft practices. Whereas the world of medicine academia has been preoccupied with analysing the medicinal values of herbs and their efficacy in the treatment of infections; religious and theological scholars have discussed traditional healing as an extension of spirituality beliefs. None has ventured to analyse the relationship that exist between traditional healing and society organisation since traditional healing practices are society specific. My major proposition is that unlike biomedicine that operates on universal principles, traditional healing practices differ from one society to another, and they are a reflection of the location, beliefs, socio-cultural, economic and political organisation of those societies. There exists an inextricable relationship between a society's healing traditions and its socio-cultural, political, economic, religious beliefs, and everyday life. Using Busoga society of Uganda as a case study, this article analyses the interconnectedness between healing and society organisation. It attempts to show how healing traditions proceed from the way societies think and organise themselves. Healing practices are then presented as not only a form of medicine to treat biological infections but an 'institution' upon which society's everyday activities are based.

Bodily Changes: Castration as Cultural and Social Practice in the Space of the Forbidden City

This article examines the Chinese imperial body as “simultaneously part of nature and part of culture” and considers the interactions between the cultural body and physical body in sociological terms. The examination elaborates on the physical body as the manifestation of the demands of society mediated by cultural meanings. Bodily changes, such as castration, which Peng Liu argue is a trade between the physical body and cultural body in meeting the demands of Imperial Chinese society, affect the cultural embodiment of the body. This article examines the bodily actions of head eunuchs and how they interact with the emperor in the space of the Forbidden City during Imperial China. Eunuchs have undertaken an invasive physical operation to not only survive but thrive in imperial society. This reflects the constraints, struggles, and disciplining of the physically castrated and culturally embodied being.

An Introduction to Reading the Past Critically

An Introduction to Reading the Past Critically

SOCIAL WORK AS A TOOL FOR ANOMIE CORRECTION ON SECOND STAGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL

Anomie is a sociological term that expresses the state that we can describe as a condition without law or rules. In the school environment, the condition is manifested by the failure to comply with the rules, and broken relationships between students as well as in relation to teachers and authorities in general. A state of anomie in the school environment reduces the effectiveness of the teaching process and creates an environment for the emergence of pathological phenomena that can affect the development of students and cause long-term negative consequences. In the pilot study, we selected the specific school environment that manifested the signs of anomie. Subsequently, we carried out research on the chosen environment with specific attention to the manifestations but also the perceptions of an anomic state in the school environment. We decided for our own research method, because the available methods from social sciences were developed for the needs of other target groups and are not suitable for the school environment. The study results show specific manifestations of anomie in the behavior and thinking of students and teachers. It was confirmed that teachers and poor emphasis on the validity of the existing rules have a great impact on the emergence of anomie. The tendencies to develop pathological phenomena in the anomic environment were also confirmed. The study results in the specific findings that should be part of a holistic preventive programme.

코로나19 이후 20대 여성 자살률 증가에 대한 사회적 요인과 목회신학적 성찰

COVID-19 has exposed many of the problems facing our society. COVID-19 has clearly revealed the contradictions and absurdities of modern society, including the climate crisis, ecosystem issues, the debate between communitarianism and individualism, the gap between rich and poor, and the anti-Asian racism. Among them, the researcher’s interest is the suicide rate of women in their 20s, which has increased sharply in our society since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Why does a woman in her 20s choose to die in times of social upheaval? With this question in mind, researchers attempt a religious and sociological approach to understanding increasing suicide rates among women in their 20s during the COVID-19 era. This study has the following structure. First of all, we will closely analyze the phenomenology of suicide among women in their twenties that occurred following the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Then, based on Durkheim’s Suicide Theory in religious and sociological terms, it will be revealed that the surge in suicide rates among women in their 20s is not an individual problem, but a response to a number of social factors. Moving on to the theological aspect, we will emphasize human responsibility by introducing criticism of theological theory, which can be called the theological answer to pain, as well as a suggestion of something to replace it.

Spooks, goons, ‘intellectuals’: The military–catholic network in the Cold War diplomacy of Suharto’s Indonesia

ABSTRACT This article foregrounds a case of informal diplomacy with far reaching consequences for the international politics of postcolonial Indonesia and capitalist Southeast Asia during the Cold War. The case is Suharto’s New Order Indonesia (1966–1998), where the Republic’s diplomacy was dominated not by the foreign ministry but by a small elite network (jaringan) of sectarian activists of Catholic faith allied with military officers of an intelligence background against Communism and Islam. Operating under the patronage of intelligence czar Ali Murtopo, this jaringan emerged as a powerful and conservative channel of influence on the early New Order and steered some of its major diplomatic initiatives: from the covert diplomacy that ended Konfrontasi, and the founding and elaboration of ASEAN’s diplomacy, to planning and justifying the annexation of East Timor in 1975. The article moves in three steps. One, it situates the New Order’s informal diplomats in the long arc of diplomacy in postcolonial Indonesia. Two, it atomizes this network in sociological terms and probes how the habitus of its members shaped the substance and style of their diplomatic practices. Three, it examines the main foreign policy initiatives of this network. This Indonesian case brings to the study of informal diplomacy an appreciation of how partisan networks embedded in domestic and international circuits – rather than standalone individuals – shore up a strongman. It also offers insight into the tortured fightback by actors of ‘formal’ diplomacy as they come under the assault of informal diplomats and their patrons.

Problems of Conceptualizing and Studying Everyday Life As An Object of Sociological Inquiry

Gündelik hayat son yıllarda kendisine sosyolojik ilginin arttığı bir alan hâline gelmiş olup bu konuda yapılan yayınların çoğu kuramsal, bir kısmı da ampirik nitelikteki çalışmalardan oluşmaktadır. Ancak, dikkatli bir şekilde incelendiğinde, gündelik hayat hakkındaki kuramsal tartışmalarda bazı önemli kavramsallaştırma sorunları mevcuttur. Bu sorunlar esas olarak onun vasfı, kapsamı ve nasıl üretildiği olmak üzere üç temel mesele etrafında toplanmakta ve sonuç olarak da gündelik hayatın hem sıradan olana karşılık gelen bir şey, hem de faillerden ve onların anlayış ve eylemlerinden bağımsız bir bilgi nesnesi olarak konumlandırıldığı görülmektedir. Bu bağlamda gündelik hayatın kavramsallaştırılması sorunu nasıl üretildiği hususuyla paralel olarak emek, çalışma ve toplumsal yeniden üretim tartışmalarını da gündeme almayı gerekli kılmaktadır. Bu nedenle muhtemel anlam atıf sorunlarının bertaraf edilebilmesi ve ampirik bir araştırma sürecinin makul şekilde inşa edilebilmesi için mevcut kavramların tartışmaya açılması elzemdir. Çalışmada kendilerine işaret edilen bu kavramsallaştırma sorunlarının neler oldukları, nasıl ortaya çıktıklarının eleştirel bir değerlendirmesi yapılmakta ve ardından da ampirik araştırma sürecine kılavuzluk edebilecek şekilde gündelik hayatın kavramsallaştırılması sorununa nasıl yaklaşılması gerektiği ve bu amaca yönelik olarak cevaplanması gereken başlangıç düzeyindeki soruların neler oldukları ifade edilmektedir. Bu sorular gündelik olan ve gündelik olmayan ayrımına bağlı olarak gündelik hayatın failler için ne ifade ettiği, hangi işler için emek sarf edilmesinin gerekli görüldüğü, nelerin çalışmadan sayılırken hangi etkinliklerin boş zamana yerleştirildiği ve bu etkinliklerin gündelik hayat bütçesinde başlama, süre gitme, kesintiye uğrama ve sona erme bakımından nasıl konumlandırıldığıdır. Böylece Realist sosyal bilim metodolojisi temelinde gündelik hayatın arızî vasıflarının gerekli vasıflarından ve aslî ilişkilerinin biçimsel ilişkilerinden ayırt edilmesinin sağlanacağı öngörülmektedir. Bu soruların yanıtlanabilmesi için ampirik araştırma sürecinin, vasıfların ne derece yaygınlık arz ettiğinin değil ne olduğunun tespit edilmesi amaçlandığı için niteliksel olması, araştırma kümesine ise amaçlı örnekleme tekniği ile ulaşılması gerekmektedir.

The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building

AbstractThis article reviews the literature on the reproductive justice social movement and provides an overview of its main theorical and empirical foundations and contributions. It begins by tracing the emergence of reproductive justice, grounding it in longstanding histories of resistance and Black feminist theorizing. It highlights intersectionality as a social movement strategy and tactic embraced by reproductive justice activists, and highlights reproductive justice organizing and scholarship that contributes to our theoretical understandings of the racial politics of reproduction and abolition. In so doing, this piece makes two interrelated contributions. First, it argues reproductive justice generates material and theoretical contributions beyond the scope of what is possible for reproductive health and rights frameworks. Second, it demonstrates that bringing reproductive justice into the focus of sociological inquiry is important for advancing social science scholarship.

Sociology from the Global South and the Global North: Systematising Characteristics and Relations

The article defines characteristics and relations between sociology from the Global South and the Global North, depicted in the literature. Despite the variety of research on the topic, studies of Northern and Southern sociology lack definite description of regional sociologies and their (unequal) relations as well as clear indicators used to assign countries to either region in terms of sociology that still uses classical geopolitical division. On the basis of research of knowledge production and academic relations between Southern and Northern sociology, the author defines main issues of discussion and specific characteristics of these regional sociologies and systematises them under one model. The model reflects four main areas of confrontation between sociology from the North and the South: origin and historical development; research orientation and capabilities; recognition and influence on the global scale; research cooperation and flow of knowledge. In addition, the article presents the alternative model for the recently emerged resistant Southern sociology. In the further research the model can be used to define understudied issues, (re)assign countries concerning sociology and investigate the actual characteristics of Southern and Northern sociology in comparison to the ones presented in the research.

Moving Beyond Underdog Sociology and Toward Critical Interactionism

Moving Beyond Underdog Sociology and Toward Critical Interactionism