‘It feels as if time has come to a standstill’: Institutionalised everyday lives among youth with a mental illness

This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. We also show how digital technologies play a central part in these institutionalised everyday lives by creating connections as well as disruptions between different time-spaces. Centrally, we point to the positive and negative consequences this has for the young peoples’ sense of self. Empirically, the paper is based on a four-month ethnographic fieldwork at the housing facility in 2014.     

Prototypes for modern living: planning,sociology and the model village in inter-war Romania

This article reassesses the concept of the ‘model village’ in the context of inter-war debates about rural development in Romania and in Europe more widely through the story of Dioti, a small locality in south-western Romania that was reconstructed as a model village after a great fire in 1938. Imagined by Dimitrie Gusti, the founding father of Romanian sociology, and realized under the auspices of the authoritarian King Carol II, Dio?ti was the outcome of a longer process of imagining a model of rural modernization for Romania that was tightly connected to and influenced by international agendas of reforming and improving rural living conditions. This project offers an opportunity to examine the interplay between the local, national and international levels of rural modernization as they were shaped by the disciplines of architecture, rural planning and sociology. Finally, the article also engages with the concept of the model itself, asking how and why models of rural living were used to produce or manage social change.     

Beyond Being on Call: Time,Contingency, and Unpredictability Among Family Caregivers for the Elderly

This article explores contingency as a central yet underappreciated feature of care work. It does so by focusing on family elder care and the complex temporal interactions between caregiver, care receiver, and healthcare institutions in the U.S. context. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 19 family caregivers for an elderly relative, I show that their experience of time is, paradoxically, systematically unpredictable. It is shaped by three dimensions: uncertain futures (not knowing how long, or how much, they will have to care), conflicting rhythms (mediating between the temporalities of institutions and that of the elderly relative), and flooded time (ongoing expectations of interruption). Focusing on caregivers’ experiences of unpredictability highlights their exclusion from broader social temporalities and the obstruction of their possibilities to craft their own futures. I therefore suggest that the experience and management of contingency may constitute its own form of inequality and is a fruitful site for exploring the temporal relations between paid and unpaid labor. Also, sociological theories of time and labor may benefit from foregrounding care work to advance understandings of the complex and hierarchical interactions between multiple temporal orders in post‐Fordist economies.     

Doing It in Public: Dilemmas of Images,Voice, and Constructing Publics in Public Sociology on Sex Work

This study describes the use of traditional public sociology as a method of recruitment for organic public sociology research with sex workers. Drawing on their grounded research experience, the authors discuss the issues of representation and framing of the research that arise when engaging in public research with multiple stakeholder publics. Specifically, professional publics may act as gatekeepers to subaltern groups and publicly engaged research risks reproducing existing power inequities and marginalization. However, traditional public sociology can be a tool to engage with subaltern groups and to construct a public where one did not exist; here we examine the complexities, the possibilities, and pitfalls of constructing publics.     

Why American Sociology Needs Biographical Sociology—European Style

Life story methods in Europe commonly belong to the field of biographical sociology. This paper points out that biographical sociology is missing from American sociology and describes in‐depth two well‐known methods in this field in Europe, the narrative interview and objective hermeneutics. The absence of biographical sociology from U.S. sociology should be remedied, it is argued, for the following reasons: First, an analysis of biographical patterns could counteract the heavy emphasis on social structure in American sociology and enrich certain subfields within it. For example, some of the concepts used in European biographical sociology, such as the concept of the “trajectory” can be related to conceptions of agency set forth by American and British sociologists and thus enrich sociology overall. Second, biographical sociology can help counteract the heavy orientation towards quantitative research in American sociology without falling into the pitfalls of purely interpretive methodologies. And third, biographical sociology can significantly enrich the still missing link between culture and cognition.     

Contested socialisms: the conflict between critical sociology and reform economics in communist Hungary, 1967–71

This article explores the relationship between economics and sociology in communist Hungary in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The discussion is grounded in the two fields’ respective history from the 1940s through to the conservative political backlash between 1968 and 1975. The Brezhnevite assault brought havoc to Hungarian sociology and social theory but left economic research basically intact and unscathed. My curiosity is in the contrasting fortunes and differing experiences of the two disciplines. We have to ask why these two segments of social thought and intellectual life fared so differently in the storms that reached the shores of reform communist Hungary following the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The answers to these questions are to be found in the historically contingent cultures of the two fields; in their differing identities and professional ethos; in their understanding of their place and role in society; in their internal politics; and in their relationship with the wider structures of political power and policymaking.     

舟山市体育城市品牌“海洋体育之都”构建研究

以文献研究为主要方法,阐述了＂海洋体育＂的概念和舟山市体育城市品牌的构建意义,分析＂海洋体育之都＂体育城市品牌确定依据,提出构建＂海洋体育之都＂体育城市品牌框架体系及可持续发展的对策。     

疫情影响下的农业安全与乡村振兴——第四届中国农业社会学论坛观点综述

突如其来的新冠疫情将粮食安全及相关农业问题之于现代社会的整体性意义再一次凸显在公众视野之中。2020年中国社会学年会第四届农业社会学论坛以“疫情影响下的农业安全与乡村振兴”为主题,设置多个相关议题,旨在不断丰富农业社会学研究内容,拓宽学科视野,为理解“三农”问题、助力乡村振兴提供新的视角和解释路径。论坛还对农业社会学学科发展进行了研讨。     

中国本土管理研究的几个关键问题——对黄光国、罗家德的访谈

本土学术应立足于东西文明的结合。用西方的分析性思维方式去解读中国文化传统会在社会科学的不同领域产生涵盖文化的理论,它不仅对中国有很大的影响,对西方的社会科学理论也是一种挑战。就本土社会研究而言,西方最优秀的学者建构的社会网络的、结构性的、关系主义的思维方式,给予中国本土研究非常有价值的启发。中国本身的崛起与西方理论的发展,会使得我们今天称之为本土管理的研究,明天成为世界的管理理论。