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• A radical sociological look at Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy era

• Research spanning the Ottoman Empire to Brazil, Taiwan to Kyrgyzstan

This rich new issue brings together 13 articles from across the globe.

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The article reframes the discipline’s origins by showing that key methods of today’s Global Historical Sociology were already developed by these thinkers. A sharp contribution to sociological history. Read the Open Access article :

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#HistoricalSociology

Meghji traces how their work connected race, empire, migration and capitalism across borders, using historical depth and ethnographic insight to challenge narrow, nation-bound sociology.

Using media archives, past published interviews and cultural analysis, the study shows how value-driven choices shaped the album’s long, uncertain journey. A sharp look at music, risk and creative persistence.

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#Sociology #RockHistory

The paper shows how Guns N’ Roses turned the chaotic, 14-year making of Chinese Democracy into a form of collective edgework—managing risk, control, breakdown and reinvention while trying to rebuild one of rock’s biggest names.

By integrating film analysis with the sociology of emotions, the article reframes Parasite as a case of mutual dependence, emotional strategy, and negotiated hierarchy.
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#Sociology #FilmStudies #Inequality #Emotions

The paper argues that fear is not only an effect of inequality but a relational force that reshapes power between classes. Through key scenes of precarity, deception, and revenge, Heo develops the idea of “vigilant symbiosis,” where fear sustains subtle boundaries.

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#Sociology #Moliêre #SociologyLens

By reading The Misanthrope sociologically, the authors show how praise, politeness and duplicity organise modern social life.
A sharp, elegant piece on aesthetics, ethics and social critique.

The article draws on Aristophanes, Plato and classical social theory to argue that flattery is not a minor vice but a structural condition of sociality.
Alceste’s refusal to flatter becomes a lens for understanding ethics, normativity and dissent in contemporary societies.

See our the first special virtual issue collection named "Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media" here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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