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Our ability to understand conspiracy theories is not an obscure art — there are entire fields devoted to it. The work done in these fields is key to undoing the damage of things like QAnon.

In the third part, we will deal with European sociological theory and feminist theory. The last part will center on "theories in the making", focusing on the cases of cultural theory and postmode ...

Humans prefer stable relationships and avoid social tensions. Sociology so far uses two concepts to describe this preference for social stability, namely, (Social) Balance Theory and the theory of ...

Pound P, Campbell R. Exploring the feasibility of theory synthesis: a worked example in the field of health related risk-taking. Social Science and Medicine 2015; 124: 57-65.

The relations between Conversation Analysis (CA), sociology and social theory are complex, often ambiguous, and have sometimes been rather fraught. While there might be some relatively high levels of ...