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Navigating Unmeasured Confounding in Quantitative Sociology: A Sensitivity Framework [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Unmeasured confounding remains a critical challenge in causal inference for the social sciences. This paper proposes a sensitivity analysis framework to systematically evaluate how unmeasured confounders influence statistical inference in sociology. Given these sensitivity analysis methods, we introduce a five-step workflow that integrates sensitivity ...
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Luhmann's Communication-Theoretical Specification of the 'Genomena' of Husserl's Phenomenology [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 From the perspective of cultural studies and critical theory, Luhmann's communication-theoretical approach in sociology can still be read as a meta-biology: while biologists take the development of life as a given, Luhmann tends to treat the development of meaning as a cultural given. Meaning is no longer considered as constructed in communication, but
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Interactive Sensing and Decision Making in Social Networks [PDF]
, 2014 The proliferation of social media such as real time microblogging and online reputation systems facilitate real time sensing of social patterns and behavior. In the last decade, sensing and decision making in social networks have witnessed significant progress in the electrical engineering, computer science, economics, finance, and sociology research ...
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Access control oriented quantified trust degree representation model for distributed systems
Tongxin xuebao, 2010 Based on the research fruit of social trust in sociology,the semantics,properties and elements of trust in the context of access control of distributed systems were defined.By combining fuzzy set theory with probability theory,a mathematical definition ...
LANG Bo
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The concept "altruism" for sociological research: from conceptualization to operationalization [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 This article addresses the question of the relevant conceptualization of {\guillemotleft}altruism{\guillemotright} in Russian from the perspective sociological research operationalization. It investigates the spheres of social application of the word {\guillemotleft}altruism{\guillemotright}, include Russian equivalent {\guillemotleft}vzaimopomoshh ...
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Taming the Volcano: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Masculinities in the Middle Ages
Masculinities and Social Change, 2019 Relying to Norbert Elias' process sociology and the Bourdieusian theory of practice, this article intends to outline the beginnings of the long-term transformation of Western masculine habituses.
Miklos Hadas
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Quaderni di Sociologia, 2019 Given the lines of connection sociology draws between actions and norms, it is not surprising that, with few exceptions, improvisation – the ability to cope with the unforeseen – has not been part of the sociological lexicon.
Davide Sparti
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Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge [PDF]
Scientific 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.
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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: The Robustness of Cultural Homophily [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 Recent extensions of the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination (Klemm et al 2003) showed that global diversity is extremely fragile with small amounts of cultural mutation. This seemed to undermine the original Axelrod theory that homophily preserves diversity. We show that cultural diversity is surprisingly robust if we increase the tendency towards
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, 1996 Actor-network theory is a form of relational materialism that codifies a body of ideas developed in the sociology and history of technology. At its centre is a non-dualistic account of the relation between ‘society’ and ‘technology’. In this view society
A. Prout
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