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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces
, 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
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Towards a General Theory of Financial Control for Organisations [PDF]
In this paper, a theory of accounting, control and accounting-related areas is outlined.It is based on a number of previous research-oriented books published over several decades and the author´s specific own experiences from internal and external ...
Östman, Lars
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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society [PDF]
, 2005 Economists have used cross-national regression analysis to argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence liberal economic policies.
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Sociological Inequality and the Second Law [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 There are two fair ways to distribute particles in boxes. The first way is to divide the particles equally between the boxes. The second way, which is calculated here, is to score fairly the particles between the boxes. The obtained power law distribution function yields an uneven distribution of particles in boxes.
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Organizational Institutionalism and Sociology: A Reflection [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] In 1991, DiMaggio and Powell observed: Institutional theory presents a paradox. Institutional analysis is as old as Emile Durkheim\u27s exhortation to study \u27social facts as things\u27, yet sufficiently novel to be preceded by new in much of
Tolbert, Pamela S
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The Need for a Different Approach to Financial Reporting and Standard-setting [PDF]
International Financial Reporting Standards are questioned. Possibly, there is a need for a different kind of standards and a different procedure for developing them.
Östman, Lars
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Bourdieu’s Five Lessons for Criminology [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on a close reading of Pierre Bourdieu’s works, I offer five lessons for a science of crime and punishment: always historicize; dissect symbolic categories; produce embodied accounts; avoid state thought; and embrace commitment.
Shammas, Victor
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Some comparisons between the Variational rationality, Habitual domain, and DMCS approaches [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The "Habitual domain" (HD) approach and the "Variational rationality" (VR) approach belong to the same strongly interdisciplinary and very dispersed area of research: human stability and change dynamics (see Soubeyran, 2009, 2010, for an extended survey), including physiological, physical, psychological and strategic aspects, in Psychology, Economics ...
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Contextual Assessment of Women Empowerment and Its Determinants: Evidence from Pakistan [PDF]
The main objective of this study is to evaluate women empowerment in different contexts of family planning and economic decision making within the household.
Awan, Rabia, Khan, Safdar Ullah
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The Theory behind Controllable Expressive Speech Synthesis: a Cross-disciplinary Approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 As part of the Human-Computer Interaction field, Expressive speech synthesis is a very rich domain as it requires knowledge in areas such as machine learning, signal processing, sociology, psychology. In this Chapter, we will focus mostly on the technical side. From the recording of expressive speech to its modeling, the reader will have an overview of
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