Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued position as global leader ethical AI regulation explicit contrast to US laissez-faire and Chinese state surveillance approaches. This article asks how the seemingly heterogeneous approaches market making are woven together at deeper level EU regulation. Combining quantitative analysis all official documents with...

An important philosopher and anthropologist of science, Bruno Latour has recently outlined an ambitious programme for a new sociological empiricism, in continuation his actor-network-theory (ANT). Interrogating issues description, explanation theoretical interpretation this ‘sociology associations’, we argue that certain internal tensions are manifest. While Latour's philosophy social science demands absolute abandonment theory all its forms, proposing instead to simply ‘go on describing’,...

Ordoliberalism is widely considered to be the dominant ideology of German political elite today and consequently responsible at least in part for its hard ‘austerity’ line during recent Eurozone crisis. This article presents a genealogy main concerns, concepts problems around which early ordoliberalism was formed structured as economic ideology. Early shown rooted an interwar Germanophone Lutheran Evangelical tradition anti-humanist ‘political ethics’. Its specific conceptions market, state,...

This article argues that there is a double problem in international research cultural capital and educational attainment: an empirical problem, since few new insights have been gained within recent years; theoretical seen as simple hypothesis about certain isolated individual resources, disregarding the structural vision important related concepts such field Bourdieu's sociology. We (re-)emphasize role of theory education, taking into consideration current concerns quantitative research.

This article analyzes recent developments in Danish alcohol policy, culture, and industry. It reveals cross-sector dynamics complexities that are often downplayed existing literature. traces how a stable “structural configuration” emerged the 1960s-1980s between three domains, based on liberalization. A particular adolescent culture of intoxication, however, 1990s, raising public awareness calls for policy intervention. Contrary to what may have been expected, this did not represent break...

Ongoing European financial market integration relies on the creation of harmonized and centralized infrastructures: little-known institutions systems that settle transactions across borders. Since constitutional conception within EU entails creating 'a level playing field' for competition, a fundamental problem emerges how to provide centralization harmonization without violating core principles an open economy either through private monopolization or public privatization. The paper presents...

Local urban greenspaces connect issues close to everyday life, such as recreational value, attachment place and civic engagements, with broader questions of city planning, economy, climate change social class. Responding recent warnings against reductionism in critical studies cities’ new claims sustainability, the article mobilizes ‘moral turn’ Bourdieusian literature on classed politics explore these interlacing layers themes green relate them sociological about morality politics. Based a...

Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within intellectual field its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ simply ‘history’. Foucault contributed to ‘history systems thought’ in France around 1960 by broadening scope from study scientific philosophical into ‘knowledge’ a wider sense. For Foucault, term provided response new methodological questions arising this initiative. Archaeological had already...

Financial market integration processes in the European Union (EU) are characterised by an epistemic problem of economic theory. This encompasses what 'the market' is, how it is to be 'integrated', and nature role 'money' as infrastructure fully integrated market. The EU's legal framework has imported this along with competitive conception described theory – a 'level playing field' for private exchange, under free, fair ideally unrestrained competition. It manifests itself financial...

Methodological inspiration from the discipline of archaeology can spur new developments logic inquiry in social research beyond contemporary debates among empiricist, rationalist, and pragmatist positions with their corresponding modes inference: induction, deduction, abduction. Archaeological methodology pursues comparison not terms similarities differences cases but through juxtaposition heterogeneous yet coexisting finds. On this basis, it inferences by what I call ‘conduction’ about...

Since the 2008 crisis, liquidity of collateral has become a serious concern for financial market institutions and regulators due to its increased importance in risk cash flow management. Surprisingly, participants mobilize old-fashioned economic theory, such as Irving Fisher’s quantity theory money their discussions how deal with new problems liquidity. Today, ‘collateral is cash’, one sector report claims, marking shift from collateral. Liquidity, I argue, poses not only practical...

Artiklen kortlægger ved korrespondanceanalyse karriereveje for 122 topembedsmænd i centraladministrationen. har tre anliggender: 1) at opdatere og nuancere billedet af den bureaukratiske elite Danmark, som det kendes fra tidligere politologiske studier; 2) positionere analysen et europæisk perspektiv forhold til en anden dansk elite, topdirektører; 3) eksemplificere visse teoretiske metodiske fordele felt- korrespondanceanalyser uden så nær anknytning Bourdieus sociologi, almindeligvist ses...

Med afsæt i den pragmatiske sociolog Laurent Thévenots begreb om »familiært engagement« præsenterer artiklen tre forskellige metodologiske tilgangetil bynatur som konkrete steder for det, vi kalder »fælleshed«. Hvor begrebet familiært engagement sig selv kan minde »stedstilknytning« if.eks. psykologisk og geografisk litteratur, har teorien sådan fordel, at kobler individuelle engagementer med et relateret socialkoordinering form af »fællesheder«. Dermed giver mulighed udpege det familiære...