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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

What is social science if not critical?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Subjective Representationalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Representationalism is, roughly, the view that experiencing is to be analyzed wholly in terms of representing. But what sorts of properties are represented in experience?
Mehta, Neil
core   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

The Electoral Class Gap: Working‐Class Non‐Voting on the Rise in Twenty‐First Century Norway

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing working‐class disengagement from politics witnessed in Western democracies in recent decades poses a serious threat to democratic legitimacy. Crucial in meeting this challenge is scrutinising arenas that connect disadvantaged groups of the electorate to politics.
Vebjørn Nordhagen
wiley   +1 more source

The social transmission of linguistic alignment: The role of observational reinforcement learning

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract People align their linguistic use in conversations, and it has been proposed that such linguistic alignment facilitates mutual understanding and social rapport. However, the mechanisms through which perspective alignment is socially transmitted across individuals remain unclear.
Yichi Zhang, Zhenguang G. Cai
wiley   +1 more source

A Real‐Time Multi‐Scale Neural Representation for Complex Surface Reflectance

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent machine learning methods have significantly advanced the state of the art in the classic problem of representing surface appearance over angle, space, and scale. The models tend, however, to be relatively heavy compared to traditional fixed‐function representations, making real‐time application challenging.
Heikki Timonen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Coping with reality”: the Limits of Absolutizing the Pragmatic Approach in Epistemology

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
In twentieth-century pragmatist thought, a conflict emerged between two epistemological orientations, expressed through the metaphors of coping with (interaction) and copy (representation).
Boris S. Solozhenkin
doaj   +1 more source

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