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Explicación, mecanismo y simulación: otra manera de hacer sociología

EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2014
Although Sociology was born with scientific vocation, its current status asa scientific discipline seems not to enjoy good health. Departing from this idea,the purpose of the paper is threefold: first, several arguments for explanations of social ...
José Ignacio García-Valdecasas Medina
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Landscape in the Economy of Conspicuous Consumptions \ud [PDF]

, 2010
Psychological states side by side with the bounded rational expectations among social agents contributes to the pattern of consumptions in economic system.
Situngkir, Hokky
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Methodology for cognition of digital society

Цифровая социология, 2020
Digital sociology is a computational social science that uses modern information systems and technologies, has already formed. But the conflict with traditional sociology and its research methods has not yet been resolved.
N. N. Meshcheryakova
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Vertex importance extension of betweenness centrality algorithm [PDF]

, 2019
Variety of real-life structures can be simplified by a graph. Such simplification emphasizes the structure represented by vertices connected via edges.
A Clifton, A Piggins, CF Daganzo, DJ Klein, EW Dijkstra, H Kawamoto, J Xia, LC Freeman, M Li, M Szell, MG Everett, P Hagmann, P Shang, PX Zhao, R Vandenberghe, S Wasserman, WC Hong, Y Wang   +17 more
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Social prediction: a new research paradigm based on machine learning

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2021
Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction.
Yunsong Chen, Xiaogang Wu, Anning Hu, Guangye He, Guodong Ju   +4 more
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Religion and the Android

Zygon
Future developments in artificial intelligence may take the form of androids, humanlike robots that people accept as persons and equals in society.
William Frederick Clocksin
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How Are Urban Green Spaces and Residential Development Related? A Synopsis of Multi-Perspective Analyses for Leipzig, Germany

Land, 2021
The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is complex: UGS have positive and negative immediate impacts on residents’ well-being, residential location choice, housing, and land markets.
Nina Schwarz, Annegret Haase, Dagmar Haase, Nadja Kabisch, Sigrun Kabisch, Veronika Liebelt, Dieter Rink, Michael W. Strohbach, Juliane Welz, Manuel Wolff   +9 more
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Scraping the Social? Issues in live social research [PDF]

, 2013
What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research? This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a ‘medium-specific’ technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically
Back L., Becker H., Bollier D., Bowker G. C., Danowski J. A., Duhem P. M. M., Esther Weltevrede, Haraway D., Knorr-Cetina K., Latour B., Latour B., Latour B., Marres N., Marres N., Moens M. F., Noortje Marres, Rheinberger H. J., Rogers R., Rogers R., Woolgar S.   +19 more
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline

Sociological Science
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its poten- tial utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on computational tools.
AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor   +3 more
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Reason-based explanations and analytical sociology. A rejoinder to Boudon

Papers, 2014
The paper discusses Raymond Boudon’s theory of ordinary rationality as well as his assessment of the so-called “analytical sociology”. On the first point, the paper argues that, in order to combine the realism of an unconstrained conception of ...
Gianluca Manzo
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