Trust is key to understanding the dynamics of social relations, to the extent that it is often
viewed as the glue that holds society together. We review the mounting sociological …

The study of culture is on the rise; still, this popularity comes with the cost of increasing
fragmentation, as definitions and conceptualizations proliferate. The objectives of this review …

Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight,
there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo …

En esta obra clásica aparecida en 1912, Durkheim intenta demostrar el origen religioso de
las prácticas y pensamientos que se han constituido como elementos básicos del …

This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of
valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in …

Sociology was once integral to the scientific study of morality, but its explicit focus has
waned over the past half-century. This article calls for greater sociological engagement in …

Although values were once the central focus of institutional scholarship, they occupy a
marginal position in the contemporary literature. Viewing this situation as both a significant …

Most leading crime theories and crime‐control policies are based on the assumption that
people are self‐interested. But recent work in a variety of fields has challenged this …

This paper examines the moral and legal underpinnings of corporate tax avoidance. Cast in
terms of a totemic symbol that brand tax avoidance as within the purview of the law, the …

The duty to render assistance at sea appears to be a well-established humanitarian norm;
nonetheless, in 2011 alone more than 1500 people drowned in the Mediterranean …