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Social Disorder as a Social Good [PDF]
, 2010 In complex systems, disorder and order are interrelated, so that disorder can be an inevitable consequence of ordering. Often this disorder can be disruptive, but sometimes it can be beneficial.
Marshall, J
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From Doubt to its Social Articulation: Pragmatist Insights [PDF]
, 2013 In addition to providing a rebuttal of the “paper-doubts” of the would-be skeptic, pragmatists have also been quite responsive to the social dimensions of doubt. This is true concerning the causes of doubt.
Girel, Mathias
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Metaphor. The good argument in science communication [PDF]
, 2016 The relation between metaphor and argumentation in science communication is becoming a crucial tool for critical metaphor studies. In this article, by means of a crossed analysis (epistemological, cognitive and linguistic), I focus especially on a ...
Frezza, Giulia
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A sociological checklist for assessing environmental health risks [PDF]
, 2014 The contribution of social sciences to risk assessment has often been confined to dimensions of risk perception and communication. This article relates an effort to promote knowledge from the social sciences that addresses other dimensions of risk issues.
Benamouzig, Daniel +3 more
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The changing media representation of T. E. Lawrence and celebrity culture in Britain, 1919-1935 [PDF]
, 2015 This article presents a new analysis of representations of T. E. Lawrence to explore how the media created celebrity identities in interwar Britain. Examining his appearance in seventeen national newspapers and in newsreels between 1919 and 1935, it ...
Owens, Edward
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POLITICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGNOTOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTED IGNORANCE
, 2023 Agnotology is the study of culturally and socially constructed ignorance. This paper seeks to marry the emerging field of agnotology with the institutions and mechanisms of politics by providing analyses of political ignorance focusing on a theoretical framework built on agnotological practices.
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Guilt, Innocence, Post-Guilt: Memory Communities and their Discontents in Germany
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y SocialesThe article examines the intricate dynamics of memory politics and cultural discontent in Germany, focusing on Jewish and Palestinian communities post-1945.
Dani Kranz
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Un précédent manqué : le Distilbène® et les perturbateurs endocriniens. Contribution à une sociologie de l'ignorance [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceDiethylstilbestrol (D.E.S.) has been identified in the early 1990s as the first endocrine disruptor, from which the long-term effects of many chemicals on human reproductive capacity can be expected. Yet, the D.E.S French history is
Fillion, Emmanuelle, Torny, Didier
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Quand l’ignorance présente un intérêt
Cahiers Droit, Sciences & TechnologiesWhile ignorance is commonly equated with an absence of knowledge, it can also be the object of production. The idea is to create controversy with the aim of weakening an inconvenient scientific result.
Simon Hutin
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