Sociology of everyday life 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Everyday life has inspired much sociological theory and is now a recognized branch of the discipline. Here we trace evidence of the salience of everyday life in general sociological theory, look criti...

Social conflict 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Numerous approaches in the social sciences either refuse to consider or minimize the importance of conflict in community or else replace it with a Spencerian vision of the social struggle. Between the...

Editorial: At the start of a new initiative 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Dissonant alignments: The ethics and politics of researching state institutions 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

This article explores the ethical challenges of conducting fieldwork in state institutions. It critically engages with the chain of competing claims and multiple loyalties that confront social researc...

Illegitimate affairs: The sex of politics and the politics of sex in French contemporary politics 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Is it necessary to draw on details from a person’s ‘private life’ to describe his (or her) ‘public life’? During fieldwork conducted on the politics of a medium-sized French city, the authors garnered...

The virtues of improvisation: Ethnography without an ethics protocol 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Research relationships in the social sciences are becoming increasingly codified through formal procedures set by ethics committees. This article addresses the virtues of improvisation based on two fi...

Defining the conversation about Shari'a: Representations in Australian newspapers 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Debates about Shari’a law and legal pluralism have come to the fore of political discourse in many western multicultural societies including Australia. The mass media, in particular newspapers, have b...

Contextualizing 'networked individualism': The interplay of social categories, role relationships and tasks 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Seemingly, we live in a world where people are free to decide which network members to activate for what sorts of tasks. This is the principle of ‘networked individualism’, where personal autonomy is ...

Crowd theory and the management of crowds: A controversial relationship 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

Sociologists of policing and collective protest have made a plea for eradicating from police literature and training programmes which aim to provide guidelines for crowd management any references to c...

Governing Turkey's information society 19 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm

This article analyses the information society developments in Turkey. Utilizing analytical insights of Foucault’s governmentality to move beyond state-centric approaches and to focus on the practical,...