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International Journal of the Commons, 2009 The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with ...
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin
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Analysis of SIR epidemic models with sociological phenomenon [PDF]
Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, (2022) Vol. 8, 38-55, 2022 We propose two SIR models which incorporate sociological behavior of groups of individuals. It is these differences in behaviors which impose different infection rates on the individual susceptible populations, rather than biological differences. We compute the basic reproduction number for each model, as well as analyze the sensitivity of $R_0$ to ...
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La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2018 Questions raised here include how sociologists analyse consumption; which methods, tools and concepts they use to account for social practice; how they envision the low cost model; and what linkages they suggest between the sociology of consumption vs ...
Franck Cochoy +3 more
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Social relations and challenges to consuming less in a mass consumption society
Sociologisk Forskning, 2022 Increasing numbers of people in welfare societies express worries about their ecological footprint. Some make efforts to significantly reduce their consumption.
Magnus Boström
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]
, 2007 During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A. +60 more
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Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India [PDF]
Physica A 442 (2016) 169-181, 2015 We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of inequality are fairly diversified across states, the consumption distributions show near identical statistics, once properly normalized.
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Toward an Anthropocentric Approach for Hybrid Control Architectures: Case of a Furniture Factory [PDF]
Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing,
SOHOMA'18, Jun 2018, Bergamo, Italy, 2018 Typology of goods and services' consumption has changed. In order to adapt to this change, it is relevant for a company to turn toward new ways of production and management. Slowly, the concept of industry 4.0 starts to set up in manufacturing companies.
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Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives
Cambio, 2020 In recent decades, the visibility of halal food has become a highly emotive and controversial social practice, with halal meat in particular being seen as an indicator of the growing presence of Islam and what are seen to be ‘barbaric’ Muslim food ...
John Lever
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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 The transition to a resource-efficient and effective circular economy (CE) requires the active engagement of all societal and economic actors, including business, civic society, and political actors.
Leonidas Milios
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Beyond capitalism and liberal democracy: on the relevance of GDH Cole’s sociological critique and alternative [PDF]
, 2015 This article argues for a return to the social thought of the often ignored early 20th-century English thinker GDH Cole. The authors contend that Cole combined a sociological critique of capitalism and liberal democracy with a well-developed alternative ...
Alperovitz G +42 more
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