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Alexander, Jeffrey C. Action and its environments: Toward a new synthesis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

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Meaning in action: Constructions, narratives, and representations. [Tokyo?]: Springer, 2008.

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A, McClelland Kent, and Fararo Thomas J, eds. Purpose, meaning, and action: Control systems theories in sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Peter, Marris, ed. Meaning and action: Community planning and conceptions of change. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

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Klein, Mike. Teaching A peace of my mind: Exploring the meaning of peace one story at a time. United States]: [publisher not identified], 2014.

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Reed, Isaac Ariail. Cultural Sociology as Research Program: Post-Positivism, Meaning, and Causality. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald N. Jacobs, and Philip Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.2.

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This article examines cultural sociology as a research program from an epistemological standpoint within the larger context of “post-positivist” social science. It first outlines an understanding of what sociological knowledge is and does before discussing the problematic status of cultural interpretations, with particular emphasis on the distinction between minimal and maximal interpretations. A minimal interpretation is a report upon some social actions that happened, whereas a maximal interpretation is a synthesis of abstract theoretical terms with one or more minimal interpretations. The article proceeds with an analysis of post-positivism and the debate over maximal interpretations and concludes by exploring three presuppositions that describe how the cultural sociologist is able to make explanatory knowledge claims about social life: reasons are causes; cultural theory is nominalist; and the sociohistorical world is metaphysically pluralist.
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Alexander, Jeffrey C. Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis. Columbia University Press, 1990.

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Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Springer, 2010.

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Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations. Springer, 2008.

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Social Action Systems: Foundation and Synthesis in Sociological Theory. Praeger Publishers, 2001.

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N, Bray John, ed. Collaborative inquiry in practice: Action, reflection, and making meaning. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2000.

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Yorks, Lyle, John Bray, Joyce A. Lee, and Linda L. Smith. Collaborative Inquiry in Practice : Action, Reflection, and Making Meaning. Sage Publications, Inc, 2000.

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Yorks, Lyle, John Bray, Joyce A. Lee, and Smith Linda L. Collaborative Inquiry in Practice: Action, Reflection, and Making Meaning. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2012.

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Yorks, Lyle, John Bray, Joyce A. Lee, and Linda L. Smith. Collaborative Inquiry in Practice: Action, Reflection, and Making Meaning. Sage Publications, Inc, 2000.

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The Meaning of gardens: Idea, place and action. Cambridge, Ma: M.I.T. Press, 1992.

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1950-, Francis Mark, and Hester Randolph T, eds. The meaning of gardens: Idea, place, and action. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1990.

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(Editor), Kent A. McClelland, and Thomas J. Fararo (Editor), eds. Purpose, Meaning, and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Cooper, Nancy Elizabeth. The meaning of social activism for members of a women's social action community. 1995.

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Brandell, Jerrold R. Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Brandell, Jerrold R. Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Brandell, Jerrold R. Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Brandell, Jerrold R. Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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R, Brandell Jerrold, ed. Narration and therapeutic action: The construction of meaning in psychoanalytic social work. New York: Haworth Press, 1996.

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Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Haworth Press, 1996.

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Brandell, Jerrold R. Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Meaning and Action: Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Routledge, 2022.

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Marris, Peter. Meaning and Action: Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Marris, Peter. Meaning and Action: Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Marris, Peter. Meaning and Action: Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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(Editor), Sally Engle Merry, and Neil Milner (Editor), eds. The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States (Law, Meaning, and Violence). University of Michigan Press, 1994.

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Emer, Killean, and Institute for Research on Public Policy, eds. Equality in the economy: A synthesis of the proceedings of a workshop. Montreal: The Institute, 1986.

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Lorino, Philippe. Trans-action. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753216.003.0005.

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What makes action or meaning social or organizational? How is the social dimension maintained through changing situations? In trying to answer such questions, much of the organization literature oscillates between individualism and holism, or tries to relate two so-called “levels”—the “micro” level of local action and the “macro” level of social structures. The pragmatists reject such dualist deadlocks. They propose a view of sociality as an ongoing process rather than a state. Actors, far from being individuals engaging in socialization processes, are continuously constructing themselves in the very movement of addressing others. This chapter presents the static view of sociality as shared mental or artificial representations. In light of a few examples, it stresses the limits of sharedness approaches and presents the dialogical view of sociality developed by the pragmatist authors, leading to the theory of trans-action, a situated and mediated framework, referring to a relational ontology that fuses temporality and sociality.
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Kriesi, Hanspeter. 16. Social movements. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198737421.003.0018.

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This chapter focuses on social movements, specific forms of collective behaviour having action repertoires of their own that distinguish them from established political actors. Social movements include movements of the extreme right and anti-racist movements, transnational peace movements, and movements aimed against powerful financial interests and orchestrated through social media. The chapter first explains the meaning of social movements and presents a conceptualization of key terms before comparing social movements with organizations. It then considers how social movements attract the attention and gain the support of the public through a combination of protest politics and information politics. It also discusses the role of social movements in political processes and describes three theoretical approaches to social movements: the classical model, the resource mobilization model, and the political process model. The chapter concludes by analysing the emergence, the level of mobilization, and the success of social movements.
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Bhatia, Sunil. Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era. Edited by Phillip L. Hammack. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199938735.013.17.

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This chapter discusses the implications for creating a social psychology that is rooted in social justice issues within contexts of migration and globalization. In particular, it examines how the political events surrounding 9/11 have reframed the meaning of citizenship in the South Asian diaspora. It further analyzes how the US state–sponsored immigration, naturalization, and citizenship laws were historically based on racist ideologies and the role they played in shaping and defining the experiences of many “Third World,” non-European immigrants. The chapter specifically uses examples from the American-Sikh community to show how 9/11 portrayed them as illegitimate American citizens, nonpatriotic, and as belonging to the enemy camp. I discuss how Sikh Americans have employed the discourses of distancing and empowering discrimination to navigate their model minority identities. It concludes by arguing for a reconceptualization of social psychology as a transformative discipline that is anchored in social action and social justice.
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Akin, Heather. A Recap. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.19.

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This synthesis chapter recaps the key themes found in Part III of the handbook, which presents several case studies of singular instances of science communication about contentious (or potentially contentious) topics. While the cases are diverse, there are several recurring themes that are summarized in this synthesis. One theme is that public response to science issues is highly dependent on social and political factors and contexts, meaning any issue is not predestined for controversy. A second is that communication about science by authorities or key actors should honor scientific complexity but avoid false assurances. The third theme summarized in this synthesis is how the chapters in this section note the value in accounting for and validating public viewpoints. This summary concludes with suggestions for future research and public engagement activities that constructively capture and analyze public responses to science controversies and debates.
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Timmers, Renee, Freya Bailes, and Helena Daffern, eds. Together in Music. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860761.001.0001.

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Together in music develops insight into the musical ensemble as an intense form of teamwork, as finely coordinated joint action, and as an emotionally and socially rewarding experience that enables positive outcomes for wellbeing and development. By investigating processes related to group music-making at meso-, micro-, and macro-level, it offers a platform for synthesis across disciplinary and methodological approaches, and the definition of a new level of understanding that is holistic and considers interrelationships between levels of analysis. The book combines review chapters that summarize the state of the art with case studies that present research outcomes. While most chapters focus on Western classical or contemporary music, the themes that run through the book have broad relevance, which include the role of embodiment and emergence, relationships between the social and the musical, multi-dimensionality of experiences, and technologies to investigate and support collaboration and interaction in ensembles.
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Kottman, Paul A. Self-Uncertainty as Self-Realization. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698515.003.0005.

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A central issue in Hamlet is Hamlet’s attempt to live his life as his—his efforts at discerning a course of action that amounts to “leading” a life, rather than just suffering it. Shakespeare’s play addresses Hamlet’s difficulty in doing this, from two sides. First, Hamlet is framed by the breakdown of the social bonds on which the protagonists depend for the meaning and worth of their lives together. The play shows these bonds to be dissolvable. Second, Hamlet’s predicament does not leave us with a desperate nihilism. On the contrary, the play shows how the meaning of a life as individually lived is best gauged by the way it “bears up” under the collapse of traditional, inherited ways of life. Hamlet is what the testing of a new, radically uncertain practical identity looks like. He cultivates an abiding uncertainty about who he might become, as a mode of self-realization.
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Mitchell, Peter. Horse Nations. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198703839.001.0001.

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The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains. Horse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the horse on the Indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its introduction as a result of European contact post-1492. Drawing on sources in a variety of languages and on the evidence of archaeology, anthropology, and history, the volume outlines the transformations that the acquisition of the horse wrought on a diverse range of groups within these four continents. It explores key topics such as changes in subsistence, technology, and belief systems, the horse's role in facilitating the emergence of more hierarchical social formations, and the interplay between ecology, climate, and human action in adopting the horse, as well as considering how far equestrian lifestyles were ultimately unsustainable.
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Levine, Peter. What Should We Do? Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197570494.001.0001.

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Active and responsible citizens form or join and sustain functional groups in which they ask the fundamental civic question: What should we do? In these groups, they characteristically face problems of collective action (such as free-riding), of discourse (e.g., propaganda and ideology), and of exclusion. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of political economy demonstrate that collective-action problems can be solved and suggest “design principles” that increase the odds of success. Jürgen Habermas argues that people can deliberate; experiments with deliberative democracy offer insights about what makes these conversations go well. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. offer models of nonviolent social movements that indicate how to address problems of exclusion. Good civic action requires insights from these three traditions of theory and practice. This book concludes with a synthesis of the three traditions that also addresses the challenge of scale: how to preserve intentional, ethical, collective action when millions or billions of people are involved. The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956 and the current Black Lives Matter movement provide detailed examples. This book also proposes an alternative approach to political theory that focuses on individuals in voluntary groups rather than governments or whole societies.
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Kilde, Jeanne Halgren, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190874988.001.0001.

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How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women’s studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These chapters are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region, rather than tradition, to emphasize the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience; that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning and experience.
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Elfring, Tom, Kim Klyver, and Elco van Burg. Entrepreneurship as Networking. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190076887.001.0001.

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This book presents entrepreneurship as networking as a perspective. Persistent problems around the dominant “individual-opportunity” approach in the entrepreneurship field motivated the authors to focus on the social-interactive aspects and action orientation of entrepreneurship. The work promises to address the challenge of providing a more integrated account in which the entrepreneur’s agency is combined with a greater emphasis on the social environment. The importance of social relations and the associated interactions between entrepreneurs and their environment give insight into key entrepreneurial processes. The authors address the guiding questions of what a viable network is for (nascent) entrepreneurs and how networking activities affect their entrepreneurial endeavors. Therefore, they first create a synthesis of key network mechanisms and networking dynamics. This allows them (a) to shed new light on the origins of opportunities and improve understanding of how entrepreneurs access resources and subsequently mobilize and deploy them, and (b) to explain how entrepreneurs build legitimacy, facilitating them to act on perceived new combinations and thereby exploit their potential. Thus, this book highlights how networking is a central constitutive force in entrepreneurship. Previous work showed how networks can or will lead to entrepreneurial action as a facilitator. Going one step further, the authors posit that networking is entrepreneurial action, and entrepreneurial action is networking, thereby opening an entirely new research agenda.
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Thagard, Paul. Brain-Mind. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678715.001.0001.

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Minds enable people to perceive, imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create, and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Brain–Mind presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Unification comes from systematic application of Chris Eliasmith’s powerful new Semantic Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. The book shows the relevance of semantic pointers to a full range of important kinds of mental representations, from sensations and imagery to concepts, rules, analogies, and emotions. Neural mechanisms are used to explain many phenomena concerning consciousness, action, intention, language, creativity, and the self. This book belongs to a trio that includes Mind–Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.
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Thompson, Paul B., and Patricia E. Norris. Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190883249.001.0001.

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This book presents a systems thinking approach to sustainability by answering questions on the meaning of sustainability in business, ecology, environmental quality, and economic development. Systems approaches to social injustice are developed. The sustainability of governance processes and achieving larger sustainability goals requires integrating the activities of NGOs, businesses, citizen groups, and standard setting and monitoring activities with more conventional actions of governments. The book includes a discussion of how practices in the sciences, education, religion, and the arts are changing in response to the need for improving sustainability. It ends with an exploration of the roles that individuals can play both as consumers and through partnering with others in social and political action.
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Garner, Robert. 5. Traditional Ideologies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198704386.003.0006.

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This chapter examines a range of traditional ideologies associated with the Enlightenment, including liberalism, socialism, nationalism, anarchism, conservatism, and fascism. It first explains what an ideology is and what their general characteristics are before discussing liberalism, socialism, conservatism, nationalism, fascism, and anarchism. In the case of fascism, the chapter describes it as anti-democratic, anti-liberal, and totalitarian. Fascists reject abstract intellectualizing in favour of action and focus on the state's role in creating meaning for individuals. The chapter suggests that each ideology must be understood within the economic, social, and political environment in which it emerged. It also emphasizes the impact of these ideologies on the development of world politics in the last two centuries.
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Pilecki, Brian, Megan Olden, Melissa Peskin, Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, and JoAnn Difede. The Use of Yoga-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0011.

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This chapter discusses the use of yoga-based interventions for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It will first provide an overview of the empirical research on yoga and other mindfulness-based interventions for individuals with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Potential mechanisms of action in yoga interventions will be discussed, including mindfulness, breathing, positive emotions and social cohesion, meaning-making, spirituality, and cognitive restructuring. Although effective evidence-based interventions for PTSD such as exposure-based therapies are available, some individuals are reticent to engage in exposure therapy, have limited access to health care, or continue to experience symptoms after receiving treatment. Thus, yoga-based interventions have potential as an affordable, easily accessible alternative or complement to existing treatments. Although there is preliminary evidence supporting the use of yoga-based interventions, further research with sufficient sample sizes and rigorous research designs is needed.
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Marin, Mara. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498627.003.0007.

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The conclusion reminds the reader of the significance of taking a social structural point of view to the issue of individual responsibility for social injustice. It underscores the advantages of the notion of commitment for making this point of view intuitively available. It points to the fact that calls for justice are calls for social change, which requires change of material structures and of interlocking structures of meaning. It reiterates the transformative potential of open-ended action, action that embraces its lack of control, invites the responses of others, and has a time dimension. It discusses the relevance of the book’s claim that the oppressive character of social relations is intrinsically connected to their social character. It suggests that this claim can be interpreted pessimistically, as showing that social relations always contain the possibility of oppression, or optimistically, as showing that the transformation of our social world is within our power.
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Chodat, Robert. Sociology to the Scientists. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682156.003.0004.

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Unlike Percy and Robinson, Ellison shows minimal interest in religious questions, and in this sense can be seen as part of a larger anticlerical project among some twentieth-century African-American writers. Unlike many other secular black intellectuals, however, he scorns the social sciences. His nonfiction repeatedly distinguishes meaning from matter, purposeful action from bodily motion, and continually highlights both “improvisation” and “black and white fraternity”—concepts that align him both with the pragmatism of his mentor Kenneth Burke and place him in a longstanding tradition of republican sociopolitical thought. His fiction, however, repeatedly emphasizes just how vexed such terms are in the context of modern American life. Invisible Man portrays a world governed unrelentingly by determinism and social–scientific theorizing, and his second novel went unfinished in part because he struggles to portray the mutual recognition that his essays insist is needed between black and white culture.
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Mann, Bonnie, and Martina Ferrari, eds. On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608811.001.0001.

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This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir’s “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient,” finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Two entangled controversies emerge in the life of this sentence: a controversy over the practice of translation and a controversy over the nature and status of sexual difference. Variously translated into English as “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” (Parshley, 1953), “one is not born but rather becomes woman” (Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, 2010), and “women are made, not born” (in popular parlance), the conflict over the translation crystallizes the feminist debate over the possibilities and limitations of social construction as a theory of sexual difference. Tensions over the English translation open the way to asking bigger questions about philosophical meaning and translational practice across a number of language contexts.
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