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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces

open access: yes, 1998
Beat Sociology: Ethnographic Journeys in Event Spaces proposes a new theory and methodology for Sociology to better investigate and describe the social experiences of individuals.
Wynn, Jonathan R
core  

Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum mechanics as a sociology of matter [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2003
Analogies between quantum mechanics and sociology lead to the hypothesis that quantum objects are complex products of evolution. Like biological objects they are able to receive, to work on, and to spread semantic information. In general meaning we can name it "consciousness". The important ability of consciousness is ability to predict future.
arxiv  

Maritime Design: A CSCW Territory? [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
This paper focuses on remote-control and autonomous vessels from a sociological perspective. We report that if CSCW research aims to shed light on other disciplines, researchers should be reflexive insider that first position themselves in such disciplines.
arxiv  

Whose Needs Does Service Serve? Complicating the Citizen Soldier Narrative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The growth of conscript militaries was integral to the creation of civil rights in European nation-states, which established militaries as a key site of claims-making.
Domenica Manicacci (3246036)   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There has been a proliferation of qualitative approaches to researching education. While this has resulted in the construction of a rich tapestry of knowledge about education, it has also resulted in disparate research ideas, processes and practices, and created tensions relating to what constitutes rigorous qualitative research in education ...
Anthony J. Maher
wiley   +1 more source

Chemistry teaching in different social contexts

open access: yesAmazônia, 2017
This article presents the development of a research program on the teaching of chemistry guided by a theoretical framework of the Sociology of Education, and discusses its main results.
Bruno Ferreira dos Santos
doaj   +1 more source

The Biological Metaphor of a Second-Order Observer and the Sociological Discourse [PDF]

open access: yesKybernetes 35 (3/4) (2006), 531-546, 2009
Purpose: In the tradition of Spencer Brown's (1969) Laws of Form, observation was defined in Luhmann's (1984) social systems theory as the designation of a distinction. In the sociological design, however, the designation specifies only a category for the observation.
arxiv  

Making up for lost time: University students' quest to reclaim missed opportunities while adjusting to post‐Covid life in higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract A small‐scale qualitative case study of students at a post‐1992 university in England sought to understand the nuanced experiences of returning to face‐to‐face study following the pandemic. Whilst much has been written about the effects of studying online, much less is known about how students adapted once they returned to campus‐based ...
Jesse Potter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Non-linear Dynamics of Sociological Reflections [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Sociology, 12, (1997), 25-45, 2010
Actors are embedded in networks of communication: the relations of the actors can be represented as the rows of a matrix, while the column vectors represent their communications. The two systems are structurally coupled in the co-variation: each action can be considered as a communication with reference to the network.
arxiv  

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