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The social organisation of epistemology in macroeconomic policy work: the case of the IMF

Harper, Richard H. R. - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 3 (2009) 1, pp. 5-24

This paper reports an ethnographic study of work practices in the IMF, and IMF mission activity in particular. It will show how this work combines arithmetic, econometric and meeting skills with the adroit management of social processes that transform ‘incomplete’ or ‘ambiguous numbers’...

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Música e identidad sociocultural. Aproximación antropológica

Güemes, Alfonso Muñoz - In: Tecsistecatl (2013) 15

Entre los grupos étnicos de origen mesoamericano, como entre todos los grupos sociales, la música, la danza y las tradiciones populares, forman partes de los procesos de re elaboración de la identidad colectiva. En el caso de la Huasteca potosina, esta construcción simbólica genera una...

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Religion, group threat and sacred values

Sheikh, Hammad; Ginges, Jeremy; Coman, Alin; Atran, Scott - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 2, pp. 110-118

another to hold a sacred value. We present evidence that participation in religious ritual and perceived threat to the group … out with Americans and Palestinians show: (a) that the more people participate in religious ritual the more likely they … reminded of religious ritual (Study 2); and (c) that the effect of religious ritual on the likelihood of holding a sacred value …

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Physical Religious Spaces in the Lives of Rajasthani Village Women: Ethnographic Study and Practice of Religion in Development

Bradley, Tamsin - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 10 (2009) 1, pp. 43-61

voiced. An example is given of a group of Hindu women who shared stories of domestic violence within a ritual space they … created for this purpose. A faith-based development organization offered the women a secure environment to perform this ritual …

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Memory, Trauma and Genocidal Nationalism

Ray, Larry - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 2

Nationalism poses several analytical problems for sociology, since it stands at the intersection of familiar binary conceptual contrasts. It further has the capacity to appear alternatively democratic and violent. This paper examines the conditions for violent nationalism, with particular...

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A televised mythological ‚arch’: the princess, the beatification, the death

MITARCĂ, Monica - In: Revista Romana de Jurnalism si Comunicare - Romanian … (2012) 3-4, pp. 14-26

From April, 29 to May the First, 2011, world witnessed, via television (and not only) a string of events with solid symbolic charge. In a world lacking strong ceremonials, where everything is sized down and fragmented, once broadcasted, with the multiplicity of voices broadcasting, recording,...

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SACRAL AND CEREMONIAL STRUCTURES IN EVENTS DEDICATED TO THE "BRÂNCOVEANU YEAR"

IUHAŞ, Florica - In: Management Intercultural (2014) 31, pp. 175-181

and ritual charge. Depending on the context of a certain era, the cult of heroes or martyrs - original and ancestral …

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Language co-evolved with the rule of law

Knight, Chris - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 7 (2008) 1, pp. 109-128

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Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal

Sarkar, Tanika - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 49 (2012) 3, pp. 295-320

development that neither the state nor its Brahman ritual specialists had actually intended. …

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Goffman Goes to Church: Face-Saving and the Maintenance of Collective Order in Religious Services

Donnelly, Christopher M.; Wright, Bradley R.E. - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 1, pp. 18-18

This article explores behavioural norms and consequences of their transgression during Mainline Protestant and Catholic church services in the Northeastern United States. We utilize Erving Goffman's essay \"On Face-Work\" as our primary theoretical orientation. Based on fieldwork conducted at...

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