As an attempt to ensure national security, there has been an increased use of biometric technologies in recent years. These involve a wide range of technologically mediated practices which format and digitalize bodily ...

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This paper deals with the usefulness of the concept of collective identity and some associated theoretical developments for sociological research. Drawing from the combination of the classic thought of Herbert Mead and ...

¿Cuál es la identidad de los intelectuales? ¿Cuáles son los elementos que la definen? En este trabajo queremos responder a estas preguntas desde la perspectiva de una figura relevante pero parcialmente olvidada de la teoría ...

Although the term “middle class” is often invoked, almost never is the concept defined or theorized in any systematic, coherent manner. What is a middle class or middle-classness? Is there one middle class or many? How are ...

An undeniable causal relationship for social scientists is that the exponential increase in evictions during the Spanish housing market crisis at the turn of the century was inextricably linked to the Great Recession of ...

This article analyzes the political dynamics of middle class claims of representativeness of the public interest in contemporary India. Drawing on research in the post-liberalization period, the article examines the ways ...

This text presents the dossier Middle classes: recent historical and ethnographic contributions. The aim of this dossier is to present the renewed path taken by studies on the middle class carried out in the last twenty-five ...

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Based on some problems and dilemmas linked to the work with the archive of the Italian Argentine sociologist Gino Germani (1911-1979), recently repatriated to the University of Buenos Aires, the paper focuses on the ...