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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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Communicative Competencies and the Structuration of Expectations: The creative tension between Habermas' critical theory and Luhmann's social systems theory [PDF]
, 2010 I elaborate on the tension between Luhmann's social systems theory and Habermas' theory of communicative action, and argue that this tension can be resolved by focusing on language as the interhuman medium of the communication which enables us to develop
Leydesdorff, Loet
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Measuring Complexity in an Aquatic Ecosystem
, 2013 We apply formal measures of emergence, self-organization, homeostasis, autopoiesis and complexity to an aquatic ecosystem; in particular to the physiochemical component of an Arctic lake. These measures are based on information theory.
A. Ramírez +5 more
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Novum, 2013 Este documento pretende hacer un análisis de la noción de sujeto Autopoiético y de algunas características que priman en su construcción individual, la autorregulación, el autocontrol y el autoconocimiento, partiendo del concepto de ...
Sandra Liliana Daza Cuartas
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Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field.
Miguel Segundo‐Ortin +3 more
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Farm enterprises as self-organizing systems: A new transdisciplinary framework for studying farm enterprises? [PDF]
, 2003 The growing attention to sustainable food production and multifunctional agriculture calls for a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research and development perspective on farming, which is able to grasp the environmental, social, technical, and ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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Reconnecting law, economy and society in JLS and beyond
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S76-S87, September 2025.Abstract This contribution discusses the continued relevance but changing appearance of research connecting law, economy and society in the socio‐legal field. It uses the perspective of the Journal of Law and Society (JLS), which indeed seems to be a good place to start, as it kept the economy on the agenda throughout five decades of scholarly ...
SABINE FRERICHS
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Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S48-S61, September 2025.Abstract This contribution celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication in this journal of an era‐defining debate between Roger Cotterrell and David Nelken. It reads the debate as the product of the communicative turn in legal theory, the absorbing and productive nature of which many of us – including the present author – are in danger of ...
ISOBEL ROELE
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Mind-life continuity: a qualitative study of conscious experience [PDF]
, 2017 There are two fundamental models to understanding the phenomenon of natural life. One is thecomputational model, which is based on the symbolic thinking paradigm. The other is the biologicalorganism model.
Hipólito, Inês, Martins, J.
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