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Shifting the focus? Moral panics as civilizing and decivilizing processes [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 London ...
Rohloff, A
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The sociology of Theodor Adorno [PDF]
, 2011 Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking ...
Benzer, Matthias
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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, 2015 In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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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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Playing with tension:national charisma and disgrace at Euro 2012 [PDF]
, 2013 By the time of Euro 2012, deepening tensions of nationalism and internal social struggles were developing across Europe in worsening conditions of systemic crisis.
Law, Alex
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Chronic illness represents a transition for both patients and their family members although transitions and information behavior changes have largely been explored from an individual perspective. Illness‐related transitions may be undertaken individually or collectively, but little is known about how family information networks change in the ...
Lindsay K. Brown, Tiffany C. Veinot
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