Charalambos Tsekeris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 356272 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charalambos Tsekeris |
| NOMBRES | Charalambos |
| APELLIDO | Tsekeris |
| FIRMA | TSEKERIS C |
| AFILIACIONES | Panteion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3304-5331 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Imagining techno-political alternatives
In our paper, we begin by examining the foundations of tech oligarchic power through the lens of Andrew Feenberg’s philosophy of technology – particularly his concept of ‘operational autonomy’. We then introduce the philosophical principles underpinning the digital commons, aiming to demonstrate their potential to challenge tech oligarchies on organizational, ethical, technological, and economic fronts. Finally, we illustrate our argument with sp…
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the intern…
Inclusion of People in Decision-Making
Reflecting on the May 2019 European Parliament elections, the EU democratic institutions are in need of efficiently responding to the discrepancies between public agendas and policy-making (as shown in the Macedonia naming dispute), and the threatening dynamics of authoritarian populism, as well as to unpredictable reactions from diverse groups and citizens, especially from the neglected, excluded and marginal ones. These citizens cannot handle c…
The coronavirus crisis as a world-historic event in the digital era
The world-historic event of the COVID-19 pandemic has once more confirmed that we live in a hyperconnected world society and that, nowadays, epidemics do not count as merely natural phenomena anymore. In such context, the present paper aims to interpret the complex relationship between the society and COVID-19, with emphasis on the role played by different forces in the field of information policy and public perceptions in general. For this reaso…
Reflections on networks, human behaviour, and social dynamics in the digital age
Revisiting the Self
Apophatic Reflexivity
Apophatic reflexivity, a term coined within sociological theory by the leading Greek sociologist and prolific writer Nicos Mouzelis, signifies a wholly different, less rational, and more spiritual way of theorizing the complex processes of self‐awareness, self‐experience, and self‐identity in the contemporary context of “late,” or “high,” modernity. More generally, it refers to the ways in which spirituality might substantially contribute to curr…
Youngsters and adolescents in troubled contexts
A brief overview is presented of perspectives on current thinking on youth to contextualise the themed issue of Contemporary Social Science entitled ‘Investigating Youth in Challenging and Troubled Contexts’. This provides an overview of up-to-date interdisciplinary, international research that investigates the complex dynamics of youth in contemporary society, especially in troubled and crisis-ridden contexts. The studies are brought together fr…
Virtual Communities
Following the dramatic loss or decline of real human communities, the highly contentious sociological conception of virtual communities signifies a decisive historic break with material human geography and the subsequent emergence of dynamic net‐based “social aggregations,” electronically grounded, complex networks of interactive social and cultural relations. The advent and rapid growth of Internet bulletin boards, electronic mailing lists, chat…
Dialogical Self
The social‐psychological and epistemological concept of the dialogical self, as originally conceived by Hermans, Kempen, and van Loon, refers to a dynamic multiplicity of I‐positions within both internal and external interchanges. It draws from US theorists of the self, such as the pragmatist William James and the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, as well as from the Russian dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin's innov…
Reflections on a Critical Sociology of Networks
Nowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes “networks” and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination. It hence outlines a set of current theoretical and methodological issues for approaching the wide and diverse field of the sociology of networks in a critical manner, beginning from the analytical dist…
Weak Social Theory
Weak social theory, as originally conceived by the Dutch sociologist Dick Pels (2003), is directly opposed to both the systematic reinforcement of the hegemonic grand conception of sociology's role (see Hammersley, 1999) and the methodical concealment of the essential epistemological circularity of sociological accounts, which isolate us from the ethics and aesthetics of “imperfection” and scientific modesty. Hence, social theoretical knowledge i…
Contextualising the self in contemporary social science
This special issue of Contemporary Social Science provides a variety of perspectives on current thinking on the nature of the self within a sociocultural context. These viewpoints show the self to be, paradoxically, both autonomous and interdependent. It is reflexively open, socially embedded and interactively created. This leads to the proposal that the self is a relational not a metaphysical or essential entity. The present paper, therefore, su…
The Real of the Virtual
Social media, as the heart of Web 2.0, is a relatively novel theoretical notion and social phenomenon, pertaining to a long series of academic subjects, such as digital culture, virtual communication, e-democracy, technological convergence, and online interactivity. Arguably, one of the most useful tools to adequately interpret and analyze this phenomenon is Critical Theory. The present article aims to comprehensively discuss and reflexively elab…
Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science The self in contemporary social science
Special Issue of Contemporary Social ScienceThe self in contemporary social science." Contemporary Social Science, 9(1), p. 135
Towards a Fourth Cosmology of Doctor-Patient Relationship
The aim of this paper is the study of an online patient community (Patientslikeme) and, specifically, of the impact of virtuality in the shaping of the patient-doctor relationship. Drawing from Kozinets’s research paradigm, known as ethnography of the Internet (Netnography), we investigate the patients’ attitudes toward the medical profession. Examining relevant data from the ALS forum, we set up three main axes of analysis: (a) the energetic ver…
Complexity, Relatedness and Uncertainty in Contemporary Social Science
This concise preliminary reflection seeks to offer a fresh transdisciplinary lens to comprehensively discern and evaluate the various interlinks and overlaps between theory and methodology in current social scientific thought. A brief elaboration on the metatheoretical issues of complexity, relatedness and uncertainty encourages a suitable and sustainable analytic framework for generating, developing and cultivating a more open, dialogical and cr…
Norbert Elias on Relations
The central argument of this chapter is that Norbert Elias's figurational theory adds significant sharpness, rigor, and interdisciplinary impetus to relational sociology by carefully focusing on both the ontological and epistemological aspects of the concept of "relations." Interestingly, Elias's broad interdisciplinary concern with the long-term processes of the historical development of human society and the human condition substantially helps …
Electronic Banking
The term electronic banking (e‐banking, virtual banking, or online banking) usually refers to all forms of banking services and transactions performed through electronic means. These innovative forms suddenly emerged in the early 1980s as an effective delivery channel for traditional banking products when Nottingham Building Society and four New York banks (Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical, and Manufacturers Hanover) provided home banking serv…
Social Science and Life on the Move
Sociology and society are undoubtedly on the move. The present concise reflection seeks to comprehensively elaborate on both the social science and the social life within the contemporary dynamical world environment. In this context, brief elaborations are formulated on the complicated issue of technoscientific knowledge and its implications, as well as on a sustainable analytic framework for generating and developing further critical sociologica…
Reconsidering Social Dynamics
We live in a ceaselessly changing and inescapably dynamic social world. Given the inherent unpredictability of human complex systems, this brief article seeks to show that agent-based social simulations can possibly approach the ideal of a fundamental law of social dynamics, including all forms or processes of social dynamics, articulated with everyday life and action, individual or collective. This ultimately tends to recover the explanatory pot…
Web 2.0, complex networks and social dynamics
With the aim of contextualising this special issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief overview of the relationship between the Web 2.0 and social dynamics is presented. It is argued that the Web tends to destabilise the social structure, radically re-organising human culture, identities, and socialising. It also calls for reflexive reconsideration for many of the dual oppositions that have traditionally been worked with, such as public/priva…
Demand Forecasting in Transport
The main purpose of this paper is to comprehensively explore and productively overview the growing research field of demand forecasting in transport. In this analytic context, it seeks to describe, critically discuss and fruitfully elaborate on relevant mechanisms and models of demand forecasting, as well as on the particular development and implementation of systematic (or system-wide) approaches. The overview of various theoretical and methodol…
The role of the father in the development of psychosis
In psychoanalysis, fathering has not received much analytical at?tention and only little is known about the actual impact of paternity on the development of certain psychopathology. This paper seeks to carefully examine and critically discuss the impact of fathering on psychotic individuals. It elaborates on the importance of the father in the healthy development of the children, as well as on the consequences that his absence entails for their p…
The micro-macro dilemma in sociology
The micro-macro or agency-structure question is indisputably one of the most important theoretical issues within the human and social sciences. The main purpose of this paper is to carefully explore, fruitfully overview and comprehensively critique the contemporary sociological literature on micro (agency) and macro (structure), from a reflexive-dialectical standpoint. This particular standpoint strategically emphasizes both the circularity and t…
Web 2.0, complex networks and social dynamics
With the aim of contextualising this special issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief overview of the relationship between the Web 2.0 and social dynamics is presented. It is argued that the Web tends to destabilise the social structure, radically re-organising human culture, identities, and socialising. It also calls for reflexive reconsideration for many of the dual oppositions that have traditionally been worked with, such as public/priva…
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the intern…
Contextualising the self in contemporary social science
This special issue of Contemporary Social Science provides a variety of perspectives on current thinking on the nature of the self within a sociocultural context. These viewpoints show the self to be, paradoxically, both autonomous and interdependent. It is reflexively open, socially embedded and interactively created. This leads to the proposal that the self is a relational not a metaphysical or essential entity. The present paper, therefore, su…
The micro-macro dilemma in sociology
The micro-macro or agency-structure question is indisputably one of the most important theoretical issues within the human and social sciences. The main purpose of this paper is to carefully explore, fruitfully overview and comprehensively critique the contemporary sociological literature on micro (agency) and macro (structure), from a reflexive-dialectical standpoint. This particular standpoint strategically emphasizes both the circularity and t…
Technopolitics
Increasingly, technopolitics enters the complex political terrain of the twenty‐first century as an agonistic intersection of politics and technology, or as a conscious “strategic practice of designing or using technology to constitute, embody, or enact political goals” (Hecht 1998: 15
Technopolitics
Increasingly, technopolitics enters the complex political terrain of the twenty‐first century as an agonistic intersection of politics and technology, or as a conscious “strategic practice of designing or using technology to constitute, embody, or enact political goals” (Hecht 1998: 15
Knowledge Politics
Casting aside all classical dualisms and calls for transcendental justification or transcontextual rationalistic foundations, the idea of “knowledge politics,” or “truth power,” originally anticipated by Carl Schmitt's “polemical precision” of political and social scientific concepts, exemplifies the “natural proximity of facts and values” and the intrinsic impurity of any epistemological project (Pels 2003
Performativity
Through the 1990s, many scholars, following the epistemological path paved by the “crisis of representation” and the “linguistic turn,” have been led to a “praxis‐oriented” or “performative” turn of knowledge (Ellis 2004). This amounts to a radical move from the Cartesian split of mind/body/spirit to a relational epistemology of co‐emergence, from “representation” to “participation”, from the rational to the embodied. In such a viewpoint, knowled…
Weak social theory
Weak social theory, as originally conceived by the Dutch sociologist Dick Pels (2003), is directly opposed to both the systematic reinforcement of the hegemonic “grand conception of sociology's role” (see Hammersley 1999) and the methodical concealment of the essential “epistemological circularity” of sociological accounts, which isolate us from the ethics/aesthetics of “imperfection” and scientific modesty. Hence, social theoretical knowledge is…
Transport and virtual technologies
The rapidly growing traffic congestion, as well as the increasing complexity of trip making in contemporary metropolitan areas, has encouraged the systematic adoption of advanced virtual technologies for transmitting (real‐time) geospatial travel information to transport network users
A “Weak” Reflection on Unpredictability and Social Theory
This concise reflection seeks to comprehensively interconnect the well-established theoretical and methodological logic of self-organization with a new reflexive ethos and aesthetic of epistemic modesty and humility. A brief elaboration on the issue of unpredictability further encourages a suitable and sustainable analytic framework for generating, developing and cultivating a radical ethics/aesthetics of epistemological weakness, as well as a se…
Anarchism and Urban Planning
In general terms, anarchism has been very influential on urban planning. Its most significant influence is particularly associated with the non‐violent and reformist process of social transformation suggested within the theories of Kropotkin and Proudhon. On the one hand, the “Garden City” movement and the plans for metropolitan decentralization are strongly related to Kropotkin's innovative ideas about completely autonomous (self‐governed) and s…
Committed Social Psychology
In principle, the emerging conception of committed social psychology (CSP) implies that it is not easy to draw clear boundaries between social psychology and ideology, and more generally between social science and social action, facts and values, rational arguments and political beliefs, or “pure” and “applied” social research. Social psychology must not be regarded as “biased” just because it involves value presuppositions or ethical non‐neutral…
Chaosas ir nenuspėjamumas socialinėje teorijoje
This paper attempts to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of the crucial role played by chaos and unpredictability within contemporary social thought. It briefly highlights the relevant theoretical and methodological contributions and developments, as well as the largely useful perspectives emerging from the systematic study of chaos. It is argued that chaos and unpredictability should be responsibly acknowledged, embraced and celebrated…
Demand Forecasting in Transport
The main purpose of this paper is to comprehensively explore and productively overview the growing research field of demand forecasting in transport. In this analytic context, it seeks to describe, critically discuss and fruitfully elaborate on relevant mechanisms and models of demand forecasting, as well as on the particular development and implementation of systematic (or system-wide) approaches. The overview of various theoretical and methodol…
The role of the father in the development of psychosis
In psychoanalysis, fathering has not received much analytical at?tention and only little is known about the actual impact of paternity on the development of certain psychopathology. This paper seeks to carefully examine and critically discuss the impact of fathering on psychotic individuals. It elaborates on the importance of the father in the healthy development of the children, as well as on the consequences that his absence entails for their p…
The micro-macro dilemma in sociology
The micro-macro or agency-structure question is indisputably one of the most important theoretical issues within the human and social sciences. The main purpose of this paper is to carefully explore, fruitfully overview and comprehensively critique the contemporary sociological literature on micro (agency) and macro (structure), from a reflexive-dialectical standpoint. This particular standpoint strategically emphasizes both the circularity and t…
Relationalism
In epistemology, the relationalist mode of thinking often implies that “the scientific concepts no longer appear as imitations of thing‐like existences, but as symbols representing orders and functional links within reality” (Cassirer 1971: 3). In sociology, relationalism usually defines social human practices as ceaselessly reconstituted, reshaped, and reorganized by the ongoing flow of the very structure of their reciprocal relations, and not m…
Nostalgia
The term “nostalgia” is Greek in origin and composed of two words: Nostos , return to the native land; and Algos , which signifies a painful condition (sorrow, suffering, mourning, or grief). So it is indeed possible “from the force of the sound Nostalgia to define the sad mood originating from the desire to return to one's native land” (Hofer 1934: 380–1). However, nostalgia is not a singular or fixed condition (Koselleck 1985). The work of many…
Electronic Banking
The term electronic banking (e‐banking, virtual banking, or online banking) usually refers to all forms of banking services and transactions performed through electronic means. These innovative forms suddenly emerged in the early 1980s as an effective delivery channel for traditional banking products when Nottingham Building Society and four New York banks (Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical, and Manufacturers Hanover) provided home banking serv…
Social Science and Life on the Move
Sociology and society are undoubtedly on the move. The present concise reflection seeks to comprehensively elaborate on both the social science and the social life within the contemporary dynamical world environment. In this context, brief elaborations are formulated on the complicated issue of technoscientific knowledge and its implications, as well as on a sustainable analytic framework for generating and developing further critical sociologica…
Reconsidering Social Dynamics
We live in a ceaselessly changing and inescapably dynamic social world. Given the inherent unpredictability of human complex systems, this brief article seeks to show that agent-based social simulations can possibly approach the ideal of a fundamental law of social dynamics, including all forms or processes of social dynamics, articulated with everyday life and action, individual or collective. This ultimately tends to recover the explanatory pot…
Web 2.0, complex networks and social dynamics
With the aim of contextualising this special issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief overview of the relationship between the Web 2.0 and social dynamics is presented. It is argued that the Web tends to destabilise the social structure, radically re-organising human culture, identities, and socialising. It also calls for reflexive reconsideration for many of the dual oppositions that have traditionally been worked with, such as public/priva…
Towards a Fourth Cosmology of Doctor-Patient Relationship
The aim of this paper is the study of an online patient community (Patientslikeme) and, specifically, of the impact of virtuality in the shaping of the patient-doctor relationship. Drawing from Kozinets’s research paradigm, known as ethnography of the Internet (Netnography), we investigate the patients’ attitudes toward the medical profession. Examining relevant data from the ALS forum, we set up three main axes of analysis: (a) the energetic ver…
Complexity, Relatedness and Uncertainty in Contemporary Social Science
This concise preliminary reflection seeks to offer a fresh transdisciplinary lens to comprehensively discern and evaluate the various interlinks and overlaps between theory and methodology in current social scientific thought. A brief elaboration on the metatheoretical issues of complexity, relatedness and uncertainty encourages a suitable and sustainable analytic framework for generating, developing and cultivating a more open, dialogical and cr…
Norbert Elias on Relations
The central argument of this chapter is that Norbert Elias's figurational theory adds significant sharpness, rigor, and interdisciplinary impetus to relational sociology by carefully focusing on both the ontological and epistemological aspects of the concept of "relations." Interestingly, Elias's broad interdisciplinary concern with the long-term processes of the historical development of human society and the human condition substantially helps …
The Real of the Virtual
Social media, as the heart of Web 2.0, is a relatively novel theoretical notion and social phenomenon, pertaining to a long series of academic subjects, such as digital culture, virtual communication, e-democracy, technological convergence, and online interactivity. Arguably, one of the most useful tools to adequately interpret and analyze this phenomenon is Critical Theory. The present article aims to comprehensively discuss and reflexively elab…
Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science The self in contemporary social science
Special Issue of Contemporary Social ScienceThe self in contemporary social science." Contemporary Social Science, 9(1), p. 135
Weak Social Theory
Weak social theory, as originally conceived by the Dutch sociologist Dick Pels (2003), is directly opposed to both the systematic reinforcement of the hegemonic grand conception of sociology's role (see Hammersley, 1999) and the methodical concealment of the essential epistemological circularity of sociological accounts, which isolate us from the ethics and aesthetics of “imperfection” and scientific modesty. Hence, social theoretical knowledge i…
Contextualising the self in contemporary social science
This special issue of Contemporary Social Science provides a variety of perspectives on current thinking on the nature of the self within a sociocultural context. These viewpoints show the self to be, paradoxically, both autonomous and interdependent. It is reflexively open, socially embedded and interactively created. This leads to the proposal that the self is a relational not a metaphysical or essential entity. The present paper, therefore, su…
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