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Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South

Bezuidenhout, Andries, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt. (Eds). 2022. Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the G...

Sonwabile Mnwana Sonwabile Mnwana

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Intimacy in postmodern times: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman

Beilharz, Peter. 2020. Intimacy in postmodern times: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman. Manchester University Press. https://www.manchesterhi...

Peter Beilharz Peter Beilharz

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Book Review: Xiaoying Qi, Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory

Beilharz, Peter. 2016. Book Review: Xiaoying Qi, Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory. Journal of Sociology 52(1):134–35. ht...

Peter Beilharz Peter Beilharz

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Symbolic Classification

The project enquires into the role of symbolic classification in the construction and reproduction of inequality.

Boike Rehbein Boike Rehbein
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