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Seit den 1980er Jahren praktizieren tamilische Geflu?chtete aus Sri Lanka und ihre Nachkommen Hindu-Traditionen in Diaspora-Ländern wie der Schweiz. Auf Basis einer ethnographischen Untersuchung an...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist die Zahl der Personen, die aus gesundheitlichen Gru?nden als nicht erwerbsfähig klassifiziert werden, angewachsen. Vor diesem Hintergrund entstanden neue betriebliche...

The Swiss Journal of Sociology is a generalist journal with the aim to advance academic discussions and scientific knowledge in sociology. It was established in 1975 on the initiative of the Swiss ...

This book aims to explore counting as an often-overlooked research tool for qualitative projects. Building off of a research method invented by the author in 1986 called counting schedules, this vo...

This volume ambitiously applies sociological theory to create an understanding of aspects of survey methodology. It focuses on the interplay between sociology and survey methodology: what sociologi...

This book offers a critique of the present status of the concept of causality in the social sciences. "The Causality Syndrome" consists of a belief in causal studies as more important than other st...

Previously published in  Volume 35, issue 1, March 2021 Chapters "Annotating Argument Schemes" and "The Study of Metaphor in Argumentation Theory" are available open access under a Creative Commons...

This edited collection seeks to enrich the dialogue about the expansive possibilities of visual sociological research facilitation. Although facilitating ethical research has long been identified w...

A Social and Medical History

IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise

A Guide to Breadth-and-Depth Analysis

Family Caregiving With Hospice Patients

This book, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian West Bank from 1995 to 1996, aims to provide an honest, authentic, and accurate accounting of the nitty-gritty, day-to-day...

This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of...

This SpringerBriefs presents a case study and theoretical analysis of an artistic enclave that emerged within Lawrenceville Pittsburgh. It briefly describes the history of greater Pittsburgh, and L...