This paper examines the relationship between conceptual and embodied reasoning in
engineering work. In the last decade across multiple research projects on pipeline …

Zusammenfassung Wenn sich Religionswissenschaftler oder Soziologen mit buddhistischer
Praxis beschäftigen, kommt es oft vor, dass alles Mögliche entdeckt und erforscht wird–etwa …

Sociology has increasingly drawn on concepts from the cognitive sciences to better theorize
and measure culture, particularly nondeclarative personal culture beneath the level of …

Theories of meditation predict systematic changes or alterations of consciousness that go
along with increased practice. This paper first summarizes the predictions of three …

When studying cultural goods, sociologists have tended to focus on the production of those
goods, and on the social patterning of tastes. To date, little work has considered the …

Despite being a central topic, current theories of motivation in sociology remain
underdeveloped. This paper supplements existing sociological theories on motivation with …

We explore how people experience the sacred in their everyday lives using a recently
developed research technique—smartphone‐based experience sampling method (S‐ESM) …

Despite its ubiquity, the term 'spiritual capital'continues to lack a sufficient level of empirical
scrutiny to merit categorical independence from its religious variant. To remedy this gap, this …

Researchers with experiential disability knowledge increasingly engage in socio-medical
research. In this paper the author discusses her experiences with employing her own lived …

With a diverse set of contributors from different parts of the world, this engaging collection
provides a unique examination of social values through cross-cultural research. It …