Introduced in the early 2000s, the concept of carbon “lock-in” has been widely adopted by
think tanks, academics, and civil society trying to break away from the consequences of …

The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including
organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has …

Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all
countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

This paper proposes a conceptualization of the life course as a set of behavioral processes
characterized by interdependencies that cross time, life domains, and levels of analysis. We …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030
represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable …

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a
future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that …

Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social
change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing …

“A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward
theorizing in qualitative research.”—Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis …

This paper engages with climate mitigation debates on positive tipping points, which attract
increasing attention but remain divided between technological and social tipping point …