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Il cosplay e le culture giovanili: interazione sociale, emozioni mediali e performance identitarie [PDF]

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2018
The cosplay, as a subculture, is a complex and stratified media and socio-cultural phenomenon. The approach chosen in the study of some dimensions of the cosplay is that of the sociology of youth cultures.
Alfonso Amendola, Mario Tirino
doaj   +2 more sources

Reproductions, cultural capital and museums: aspects of the culture of copies

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2004
The concept of cultural capital is well known in museum studies from pioneering visitor research conducted and reported by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1960s.
Gordon Fyfe
doaj  

TRANSMITTING ISLAM THROUGH STORIES: The Sociology of Production and Consumption of Islam in Novel Literature

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2017
Islamic novel literature has become a new commodity in Indonesia. This paper examines the Islamic creative and cultural industry in recent development in Indonesia, exploring the Islamic publication through its exploitation of storytelling method as a ...
Akh. Muzakki
doaj   +1 more source

Växjö interpretation-2003: realism of contexts [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2004
We present a new variant of the V\"axj\"o interpretation: contextualistic statistical realistic. Basic ideas of the V\"axj\"o interpretation-2001 are essentially clarified.
arxiv  

How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental governance research (EGR) has been criticized for not being cumulative, despite the importance of cumulative knowledge for evidence‐informed decision‐making in addressing global sustainability problems. However, defining, measuring, and assessing knowledge cumulation in EGR remain challenging.
Jens Newig, Michael Rose
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders

open access: yesJournal of International Development, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 3-20, January 2023., 2023
Abstract To address intensifying social and environmental challenges, development policy must learn from inclusions and exclusions of past discourses. We analyse Kenya's post‐colonial agricultural policy discourse. Our analysis reveals a near‐exclusive focus on the promotion of agricultural modernisation based on industrial farm inputs, a bureaucratic ...
Fredrick Ajwang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding sustainable outcomes in international development: Towards a realist evaluation framework

open access: yesJournal of International Development, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 21-42, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Billions of dollars continue to be provided in foreign aid each year. However, few scholarly studies have examined whether the outcomes from foreign aid interventions are sustained after donor funding has ceased. This paper examines current approaches to assessing this issue before arguing that a realist evaluation approach is ideally suited ...
Simon Feeny   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, European Journal of Social Theory 10(3), 375-388, 2007, 2009
The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties, and disciplines.
arxiv  

Effects of perampanel on bone health in adult patients with epilepsy

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The objective was to assess the effects of perampanel (PER) on bone metabolism and bone mineral density (BMD) in adult patients with epilepsy. Methods This retrospective study included consecutive patients admitted to the Epilepsy Center of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital from January 2023 to June 2024.
Mingxing Yu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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