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Seven Properties of Self-Organization in the Human Brain [PDF]
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2020 The principle of self-organization has acquired a fundamental significance in the newly emerging field of computational philosophy. Self-organizing systems have been described in various domains in science and philosophy including physics, neuroscience ...
Birgitta Dresp-Langley
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Analysis, Prediction, and Control of Epidemics: A Survey from Scalar to Dynamic Network Models [PDF]
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 4-23,
Fourthquarter 2021, 2021 During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models of epidemic spreading have emerged as powerful tools to produce valuable predictions of the evolution of the pandemic, helping public health authorities decide which intervention policies should be implemented.
Lorenzo Zino, M. Cao
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A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control
The Journal of Legal Studies, 1987 How is it that people manage to live side by side without incessant "warre of every man against every man"?' Thomas Hobbes, who won fame for posing this question, concluded that the legal system-the rules and might of Leviathan-is the wellspring of social order.
Robert C. Ellickson
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Sociology as theory of social control [PDF]
Socioloski godisnjak, 2012 Starting from the discontinuity in the historical development of sociology, work analysis of naturalistic, sociologistic and symbolic habitus sociology, and shows how the idea of a healthy society is the fundamental spirit of the sociology of science.
Nemanja Đukić
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A Critique of the Mainstream Management Control Theory and the Way Forward
SAGE Open, 2012 This article critiques the mainstream management control theory with a view to highlighting its gaps and to suggesting a direction for its future development. Management control theory has undergone lopsided development due to the dominance of accounting-
Chandana Rathnasiri Hewege
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Theorizing Surveillance in the UK Crime Control Field [PDF]
Media and Communication, 2015 Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a ...
Michael McCahill
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Factors influencing the data sharing behavior of researchers in sociology and political science [PDF]
J. Documentation, 2018 Purpose: Open data and data sharing should improve transparency of research. This article investigates how different institutional and individual factors affect the data sharing behavior of authors of research articles in sociology and political science.
Akdeniz, Esra +4 more
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Deviation and Social Control. The History and Theory of Sociology of Deviation
Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2000 The aim of the article is to discuss the concepts of deviation and social control which are relatively new in the Lithuanian discourse of sociology. The author takes his point of departure in an attempt to understand the limits of the concepts and starts his discussion from the suggestion of Colin Sumner that the attempts to define what is deviant ...
Arnas Zdanevičius
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I. KANT, T. PARSONS AND POSTPOSITIVISM IN SOCIAL THEORY
Problemos, 1997 Why does modern sociological theory designate itself with two names ("sociological theory" and "social theory")? These synonyms are interpreted in the article as a semantic symptom of the traditionally peculiar relations of sociology with other social ...
Zenonas Norkus
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Self-control of states: bridging social psychology to international relations discourses [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyWhy do states respond non-coercively in the face of crisis? Existing scholarship within international relations has stagnated in its conclusions regarding understanding this occurrence.
Bama Andika Putra, Bama Andika Putra
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