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AREAS OF ACTIVITY - Social Change and Social Thought
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action
- Ethnographic and Action Research Methodologies
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analysis
- Analysis of women at work and organizational fairness
- Civilizational analysis
- Comparative institutional analysis
- History of economic analysis
- Theory of modernity and the analysis of modern society
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anthropology
- Anthropology of Knowledge
- Anthropology of public health
- Anthropology of science and technology
- Anthropology of work
- Economic anthropology
- Economic anthropology,
- Educational anthropology and ethnography
- Historical / archive-based studies in anthropology
- History and theory of anthropology
- History of anthropology
- Mediterranean anthropology
- Political and moral anthropology
- Social (socio-cultural) anthropology
- Social (socio-cultural) anthropology
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social anthropology
- Social anthropology
- Urban anthropology
- Urban anthropology, built environment
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approach
- Capabilities Approach
- Governance and expertise: critical approaches to knowledge relations
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art
- Historical sociology of knowledge and science, art and culture, and markets and economic institutions
- Sociology of arts and culture
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british
- British Idealism
- British Politics
- Melanesian and British ethnography
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change
- Changes in research cultures
- Changes in value orientations of young people
- Civilization changes
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate change vulnerability and adaptation
- Cultural change in Europe
- Gender, political formations and change
- Global social change
- Human dimensions of climate change
- Law and legal thought and social change
- Quantum social change
- Social and cultural changes in postcommunist societies
- Sociology of social change
- Theories of institutional change
- Theory of social change: modernization and globalization
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chinese
- Chinese and global social theory
- Chinese intellectual history
- Chinese literature
- Rise of modern Chinese thought
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citizenship
- Citizenship
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civil
- Civil society and the public space
- Comparative civil wars
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Out-group derogation: public opposition to grant civil rights to migrants
- Political and philosophical communitarianism and civil society
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climate
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate change vulnerability and adaptation
- Human dimensions of climate change
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collective
- Collective identity
- Patterns of collective memory
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comparative
- Comparative and world history and literature
- Comparative Historical Sociology
- Comparative civil wars
- Comparative historical sociology
- Comparative institutional analysis
- Comparative macro-historical research
- Comparative politics
- Comparative politics - especially UK and Italy
- Comparative sociology
- Comparative welfare state research
- Higher education in comparative perspective,
- Turkish politics in a comparative perspective
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contemporary
- Contemporary political theories and the history of the right to truth
- Fiscal crisis of the state in contemporary capitalism
- Sociology of contemporary Western societies
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context
- Class, race and sexuality in colonial context
- Impact of context and rules on behaviour.
- Links between representations, context and behaviour
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cultural
- Cultural change in Europe
- Cultural fundamentalism in Europe
- Cultural sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social and cultural changes in postcommunist societies
- Translations, international exchange and cultural globalization
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democracy
- Industrial democracy
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demography
- Economic demography
- Historical demography
- Social demography
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development
- Conflict and development
- European integration and regional development
- Long-term development of welfare state societies
- Security and development
- Temporal aspects of scientific and technological developments
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economic
- Economic and political elites
- Economic anthropology
- Economic anthropology,
- Economic demography
- Economic globalization and its social and environmental impacts
- Economic history
- Economic history
- Economic methodology and philosophy of economics
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Economic policy
- Economic sociology
- Economic sociology
- Historical sociology of knowledge and science, art and culture, and markets and economic institutions
- History of economic analysis
- History of economic and social thought
- Social and economic history
- Structural economic dynamics
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education
- Education
- Higher education
- Higher education in comparative perspective,
- Social mobility, especially the role of education
- Sociology of youth, time and education
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environment
- Augmented environments
- Environment and sustainability
- Risk, environment, sustainability
- Urban anthropology, built environment
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epistemology
- Epistemology
- Epistemology and methodology of global knowledge
- Epistemology and social organisation of social sciences and humanities
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ethic
- Ethics and moral philosophy
- Forms of life, ethics and politics of life
- Global ethics
- Public ethics
- Responsibility, ethics and integrity in research
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ethnicity
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Ethnicity, Nation-States and Nationalisms
- Politics of ethnicity
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ethnography
- Digital ethnography
- Educational anthropology and ethnography
- Ethnography of Southern Africa
- Fieldwork based ethnography
- Melanesian and British ethnography
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european
- East and Central European cultures and politics
- European integration and regional development
- European integration theory
- European literature and history
- European social structure
- European studies
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gender
- Gender
- Gender and work relations
- Gender, political formations and change
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global
- Chinese and global social theory
- Epistemology and methodology of global knowledge
- Global Justice
- Global and transnational sociology
- Global constitutionalism
- Global ethics
- Global history
- Global social change
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governance
- Future imagainaries and anticipatory governance
- Governance and expertise: critical approaches to knowledge relations
- Multi-level governance
- University governance
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history
- Agricultural and industrial history
- Anthropometric history
- Chinese intellectual history
- Cold and post-cold war history
- Comparative and world history and literature
- Contemporary political theories and the history of the right to truth
- Economic history
- Economic history
- English literature and history
- European literature and history
- Global history
- History and sociology of human rights
- History and theory of anthropology
- History of anthropology
- History of economic analysis
- History of economic and social thought
- History of political thought
- History of science and philosophy
- History of social and human sciences
- History of sociology
- History of universities
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Intellectual history
- Population history
- Quantitative history
- Social and economic history
- Twentieth-century China in world history
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holocaust
- Holocaust
- Practice of reparations for Holocaust survivors in Israel and Germany
- Psychological care for young Holocaust survivors in the immediate aftermath of World War II
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human
- History and sociology of human rights
- History of social and human sciences
- Human dimensions of climate change
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identity
- Collective identity
- Interplay of self and group identity
- Origins, motivation, management, and consequences of social identities
- Self-categorization and social identity
- Work, identity and emotion
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innovation
- Innovation and technology (approaches from STS and the anthropology of the modern state)
- Innovation studies
- Role of social sciences in innovation
- Science, technology and innovation policy
- Sociology of technology and innovation
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institutional
- Comparative institutional analysis
- Theories of institutional change
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integration
- European integration and regional development
- European integration theory
- Integration of sociological research and theory
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intellectual
- Chinese intellectual history
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Intellectual history
- Social and intellectual developement of the social sciences
- Sociology of philosophy and of intellectuals
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international
- Historical international relations
- International finance
- International law
- International migration
- International orders
- International organizations
- International relations
- International relations
- International relations (IR) theory
- International relations theory
- International relations with special interest in international organisations
- Translations, international exchange and cultural globalization
- UN and international security
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justice
- Criminal law & justice
- Global Justice
- Police, justice, prison and punishment
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knowledge
- Anthropology of Knowledge
- Epistemology and methodology of global knowledge
- Governance and expertise: critical approaches to knowledge relations
- Historical sociology of knowledge and science, art and culture, and markets and economic institutions
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labor
- Social conditions and consequences of flexible labor markets
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law
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal law & justice
- International law
- Law & literature
- Law and Public Policy
- Law and legal thought and social change
- Sociology of law
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legal
- Feminist legal theory
- Law and legal thought and social change
- Legal and constitutional theory
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literature
- Chinese literature
- Comparative and world history and literature
- English literature and history
- European literature and history
- Law & literature
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memory
- Memory
- Memory politics
- Patterns of collective memory
- Politics of memory
- Social memory in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
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methodology
- Economic methodology and philosophy of economics
- Epistemology and methodology of global knowledge
- Ethnographic and Action Research Methodologies
- Methodology of surveys, observations, experiments, and neuroscience
- Social research methodology
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mobility
- Mobility
- Nonhuman animal mobilities
- Social mobility, especially the role of education
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modern
- Material and social relations of modern statecraft
- Religion in Europe, the US and the modern world
- Religion in modern Britain
- Rise of modern Chinese thought
- Theory of modernity and the analysis of modern society
- Violence in modern societies
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nationalism
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Ethnicity, Nation-States and Nationalisms
- Nationalism
- Nationalism
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organization
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- International organizations
- Sociology of Work and Organizations
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pattern
- Fundamental uncertainty, similarity patterns and cognition
- Patterns of collective memory
- Production networks and patterns of productive interdependence
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philosophy
- Economic methodology and philosophy of economics
- Ethics and moral philosophy
- History of science and philosophy
- Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
- Philosophy of the social sciences
- Political Philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Political theory and political philosophy
- Social and political philosophy
- Social philosophy
- Sociology of philosophy and of intellectuals
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policy
- Economic policy
- Environmental policy
- Evidence-based policy advice
- Law and Public Policy
- Politics and public policy
- Public policy formulation for diversity and inclusion
- Science, technology and innovation policy
- Structural liquidity and credit policy
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political
- Concept of political liberty and the character of the State
- Contemporary political theories and the history of the right to truth
- Economic and political elites
- Gender, political formations and change
- History of political thought
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Political and moral anthropology
- Political and philosophical communitarianism and civil society
- Political culture in postcommunist societies
- Political economy
- Political economy
- Political mobilization
- Political philosophy
- Political science
- Political sociology
- Political sociology
- Political theory
- Political theory and political philosophy
- Social and political philosophy
- Social and political theory
- Social and political theory
- Social, historical and political thought
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practice
- Feminist theory and practice
- Inter- and transdisciplinary research: culture and practice
- Practice of reparations for Holocaust survivors in Israel and Germany
- Social science and the practice of politics
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public
- Anthropology of public health
- Civil society and the public space
- Law and Public Policy
- Nuclear decommissioning, and the social foundations of public trust
- Out-group derogation: public opposition to grant civil rights to migrants
- Politics and public policy
- Public engagement and participation in science and technology related issues
- Public ethics
- Public policy formulation for diversity and inclusion
- Public social sciences
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relation
- East-West relations
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Ethnic relations
- Gender and work relations
- Governance and expertise: critical approaches to knowledge relations
- Historical international relations
- International relations
- International relations
- International relations (IR) theory
- International relations theory
- International relations with special interest in international organisations
- Material and social relations of modern statecraft
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religion
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Historical-comparative sociology of religion
- Religion and welfare
- Religion in Europe, the US and the modern world
- Religion in modern Britain
- Religions and social progress
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of religion
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research
- Changes in research cultures
- Comparative macro-historical research
- Comparative welfare state research
- Conflict and peace research
- Ethnographic and Action Research Methodologies
- Integration of sociological research and theory
- Inter- and transdisciplinary research: culture and practice
- Norms research
- Qualitative research
- Research methods
- Responsibility, ethics and integrity in research
- Social research methodology
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right
- Contemporary political theories and the history of the right to truth
- History and sociology of human rights
- Out-group derogation: public opposition to grant civil rights to migrants
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science
- Anthropology of science and technology
- Epistemology and social organisation of social sciences and humanities
- Historical social science
- Historical sociology of knowledge and science, art and culture, and markets and economic institutions
- History of science and philosophy
- History of social and human sciences
- Philosophy of the social sciences
- Political science
- Public engagement and participation in science and technology related issues
- Public social sciences
- Role of social sciences in innovation
- Science and society
- Science and technology in society
- Science and technology studies
- Science communication
- Science, technology and innovation policy
- Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
- Social and intellectual developement of the social sciences
- Social science and the practice of politics
- Sociology of science
- Sociology of the sciences
- Sociology of the social sciences
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social
- Chinese and global social theory
- Economic globalization and its social and environmental impacts
- Epistemology and social organisation of social sciences and humanities
- European social structure
- German social thought at the turn of 19th and 20th century
- Global social change
- Historical social science
- History of economic and social thought
- History of social and human sciences
- Humanitarianism, trauma and social suffering
- Law and legal thought and social change
- Material and social relations of modern statecraft
- Normative and empirical foundations of critical social theory
- Nuclear decommissioning, and the social foundations of public trust
- Origins, motivation, management, and consequences of social identities
- Philosophy of the social sciences
- Public social sciences
- Quantum social change
- Religions and social progress
- Role of social sciences in innovation
- Self-categorization and social identity
- Social (socio-cultural) anthropology
- Social (socio-cultural) anthropology
- Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social and cultural changes in postcommunist societies
- Social and economic history
- Social and intellectual developement of the social sciences
- Social and political philosophy
- Social and political theory
- Social and political theory
- Social anthropology
- Social anthropology
- Social conditions and consequences of flexible labor markets
- Social demography
- Social memory in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
- Social mobility, especially the role of education
- Social philosophy
- Social psychology
- Social research methodology
- Social science and the practice of politics
- Social stratification
- Social theory
- Social theory
- Social time
- Social transformations
- Social trauma
- Social, historical and political thought
- Sociology of social change
- Sociology of the social sciences
- Sociology of time and social acceleration
- Theory of social change: modernization and globalization
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society
- American society
- Civil society and the public space
- Co-evolution of technology and society
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Health, biomedicine and society
- Long-term development of welfare state societies
- Media in democratic and totalitarian society
- Political and philosophical communitarianism and civil society
- Political culture in postcommunist societies
- Science and society
- Science and technology in society
- Social and cultural changes in postcommunist societies
- Sociology of contemporary Western societies
- Theory of modernity and the analysis of modern society
- Violence in modern societies
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sociology
- American sociology
- Comparative Historical Sociology
- Comparative historical sociology
- Comparative sociology
- Comparative-historical sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Economic sociology
- Economic sociology
- Figurational sociology
- Global and transnational sociology
- Historical sociology
- Historical sociology
- Historical sociology of knowledge and science, art and culture, and markets and economic institutions
- Historical-comparative sociology of religion
- History and sociology of human rights
- History of sociology
- Political sociology
- Political sociology
- Sociology
- Sociology of War and Violence
- Sociology of Work and Organizations
- Sociology of arts and culture
- Sociology of contemporary Western societies
- Sociology of culture
- Sociology of food
- Sociology of gift-relationships
- Sociology of law
- Sociology of modernity
- Sociology of music
- Sociology of philanthropy
- Sociology of philosophy and of intellectuals
- Sociology of quantification and measurement
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of science
- Sociology of social change
- Sociology of technology
- Sociology of technology and innovation
- Sociology of the sciences
- Sociology of the social sciences
- Sociology of the subject and of identity-formation
- Sociology of time and social acceleration
- Sociology of youth, time and education
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state
- Comparative welfare state research
- Concept of political liberty and the character of the State
- Fiscal crisis of the state in contemporary capitalism
- Long-term development of welfare state societies
- Reforms under state socialism
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stratification
- Social stratification
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study
- EU studies
- Ethnic minorities studies
- European studies
- Field studies of large-scale infrastructures, notably roads (Peru) and big data (UK)
- Historical / archive-based studies in anthropology
- Innovation studies
- Italian studies
- Kinship studies
- Media studies
- Science and technology studies
- Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
- Strategic studies
- Studies of war and violence
- Studies of working life
- Study of mercantilism
- Transition studies
- Value studies
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sustainability
- Environment and sustainability
- Risk, environment, sustainability
- Socio-technical transitions to sustainability
- Transformations to sustainability
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technology
- Anthropology of science and technology
- Co-evolution of technology and society
- Innovation and technology (approaches from STS and the anthropology of the modern state)
- Public engagement and participation in science and technology related issues
- Science and technology in society
- Science and technology studies
- Science, technology and innovation policy
- Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
- Sociology of technology
- Sociology of technology and innovation
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theory
- Anthropological theory
- Chinese and global social theory
- Contemporary political theories and the history of the right to truth
- Contestation theory
- Democratic theory
- European integration theory
- Feminist legal theory
- Feminist theory and practice
- History and theory of anthropology
- Integration of sociological research and theory
- International relations (IR) theory
- International relations theory
- Legal and constitutional theory
- Normative and empirical foundations of critical social theory
- Political theory
- Political theory and political philosophy
- Social and political theory
- Social and political theory
- Social theory
- Social theory
- Sociological theory
- Sociological theory
- Task-process theory of production processes
- Theories of Ideology
- Theories of institutional change
- Theories of modernity and modernization
- Theory and methods
- Theory of modernity and the analysis of modern society
- Theory of social change: modernization and globalization
- Theory of structuration
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thought
- German social thought at the turn of 19th and 20th century
- History of economic and social thought
- History of political thought
- Law and legal thought and social change
- Rise of modern Chinese thought
- Social, historical and political thought
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time
- Social time
- Sociology of time and social acceleration
- Sociology of youth, time and education
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transformation
- Postsocialist transformation
- Social transformations
- Transformations to sustainability
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trauma
- Humanitarianism, trauma and social suffering
- Politics of trauma discourse and psychoanalysis as well as psychological explanations of National Socialism
- Social trauma
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uk
- Comparative politics - especially UK and Italy
- Ethnographic field work in Spain, Peru and the UK
- UK Labour Party
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urban
- Urban anthropology
- Urban anthropology, built environment
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violence
- Sociology of War and Violence
- Studies of war and violence
- Violence in modern societies
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war
- Cold and post-cold war history
- Comparative civil wars
- Psychological care for young Holocaust survivors in the immediate aftermath of World War II
- Sociology of War and Violence
- Studies of war and violence
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welfare
- Comparative welfare state research
- Long-term development of welfare state societies
- Religion and welfare
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work
- Analysis of women at work and organizational fairness
- Anthropology of work
- Digitization of work
- Ethnographic field work in Spain, Peru and the UK
- Gender and work relations
- Sociology of Work and Organizations
- Studies of working life
- Work of Norbert Elias
- Work, identity and emotion
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world
- Comparative and world history and literature
- Psychological care for young Holocaust survivors in the immediate aftermath of World War II
- Religion in Europe, the US and the modern world
- Twentieth-century China in world history
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other
- Addiction and substance use
- Agro-food (beef, milk, bread)
- Arctic region
- Autonomy, privacy
- Banking and financial stability
- Biography
- Biotechnology affecting family and kinship
- Borders, location
- Caribbean and Latin America: Cuba, Brazil
- Civilising and decivilising processes
- Commonalities of capitalism
- Constructivism in IR
- Democratic backsliding
- Discrimination and racialization
- Domesticity
- Eastern Christianity
- Economics of manufacturing
- Efficacy of Organizational interventions and educational initiatives
- Empire and Imperialism
- Empire and colonies
- Energy (coal, electricity, renewables, district heating)
- Europe
- Evolutionary economics
- Family and educational choices
- Financialization of the economy, increasing shareholder power and growing unequalities
- Globalization
- Grand societal challenges (including climate change)
- Hegel
- Heritage
- Houses
- Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Xinjiang
- Immigration
- Immigration, asylum and exile
- In-group solidarity
- Inequality and exclusion
- Karl Polanyi
- Large scale statistical instruments and data bases
- Macroeconomics
- Macrofinance
- Macrofinance
- Malaysia
- Marriage
- Museums
- Nature of interpretation and historical explanation
- Poetry and poetics
- Post-Communism
- Postsocialism/postcolonialism
- Pragmatism and hermeneutics
- Primary resources (forest, water, reindeer husbandry)
- Race discourses
- Racism
- Rawls
- Reflexivity and reflexive modernisation
- Resonance-theory
- Rhetorical culture of the Renaissance
- Shakespeare and theatre
- Socialism and postsocialism
- South Eastern Europe
- Southeast Asia
- Sovereignty
- Strategic reorientation of existing industries
- Teaching profession in Italian schools
- Text mining
- Third way politics
- Transport (cars, aviation, shipping)
- United Nations
- Voting for far right-wing parties aiming to exclude ethnic minorities
- Zoonotic disease
