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    The animal challenge to sociology.Nickie Charles & Bob Carter - 2018 - European Journal of Social Theory 21 (1):79-97.
    In this article, we ask why is it that sociology has been slow to take up the animal challenge, and ask what would happen if it did. We argue that sociology’s fraught relationship with biology, its assumptions about human exceptionalism and its emergence in the context of industrialization and urbanization are key to understanding its lack of attention to animals and contribute to a limited conceptualization of society. This can be remedied by viewing non-human animals as involuntarily embedded in social (...)
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    Animals, Agency and Resistance.Bob Carter & Nickie Charles - 2013 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 43 (3):322-340.
    In this paper we develop a relational approach to the question of animal agency. We distinguish between agency and action and, using three examples of non-human animal behaviour, explore how human-other animal interactions might be understood in terms of action, agency and resistance. In order to do this we draw on the distinction between primary and corporate agency found in the work of Margaret Archer, arguing that, while non-human animals are able to act and to exercise primary agency, they are (...)
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    Response to Elder‐Vass: “Seven Ways to be A Realist about Language”.Alison Sealey & Bob Carter - 2014 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 44 (3):268-281.
    Given that explicitly realist perspectives are currently quite unfashionable in applied linguistics, we very much welcome your thorough and careful discussion of the various forms they might take. We find the various categories you identify quite persuasive, and we find much to agree with in your characterisation of several of the positions you outline, particularly in the earlier part of the paper. However, we do take issue with aspects of your characterisation of both “social” and “linguistic systems” realism, and with (...)
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    Rom Harré on Social Structure and Social Change: People Power Harré and the Myth of Social Structure.Bob Carter - 2002 - European Journal of Social Theory 5 (1):134-142.
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    ‘Dangerous Phrases’: Realism, ‘Race’ and Social Science.Bob Carter - 2003 - Journal of Critical Realism 1 (2):5-8.
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    Not Thinking Ethnicity: A Critique of the Ethnicity Paradigm in an Over‐Ethnicised Sociology.Bob Carter & Steve Fenton - 2010 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40 (1):1-18.
    The many critical approaches to an ‘ethnicity framework’ have fallen short of a very possible conclusion—that the language of ethnicity provides, for the most part, a poor paradigm with which to work. In the present paper we seek not only to re-state some key weaknesses of this paradigm but also to suggest that these weaknesses are more general in an over-ethnicised sociology. There are numerous critiques of particular models or elements of ethnicity thinking, including critiques of primordialist approaches , of (...)
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    Marxism and Social Theory. By Jonathan Joseph. [REVIEW]Bob Carter - 2007 - Journal of Critical Realism 6 (2):316-318.