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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 ...
arxiv
Shifting the focus? Moral panics as civilizing and decivilizing processes [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 London ...
Rohloff, A
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Evolving stories of self: Informational transitions and tattoos
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Throughout history, tattoos have served as a means of expressing identity, culture, and preserving information. Beyond their visual appeal, tattoos continue to be used in the modern world as a way for individuals to showcase their identity, honor and remember others, and mark significant events. In this paper, we explore the connection between
Maja Krtalić +2 more
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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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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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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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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
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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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