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Maritime Design: A CSCW Territory? [PDF]
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.
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Subject: Psychology and Sociology [PDF]
Compiled by Susan LaCette.PsychologyandSociology.pdf: 3180 downloads, before Oct.
LaCette, Susan
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Quantum mechanics as a sociology of matter [PDF]
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.
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The New ‘Hidden Abode’: Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy [PDF]
In a pivotal section of Capital, volume 1, Marx (1976: 279) notes that, in order to understand the capitalist production of value, we must descend into the ‘hidden abode of production’: the site of the labour process conducted within an employment ...
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The Biological Metaphor of a Second-Order Observer and the Sociological Discourse [PDF]
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.
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Shifting the focus? Moral panics as civilizing and decivilizing processes [PDF]
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Rohloff, A
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The Non-linear Dynamics of Sociological Reflections [PDF]
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.
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The calculative reproduction of social structures : The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka [PDF]
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Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya
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Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of the civil sphere between philosophy and sociology of law [PDF]
Alexander’s theory of the civil sphere can be placed in the context of development of sociology of law. However, Alexander draws not so much on sociological theories but rather on the approaches of philosophy of law, particularly the ideas of Fuller ...
Maslovskaya, Elena
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Online Control in Population Dynamics [PDF]
The study of population dynamics originated with early sociological works but has since extended into many fields, including biology, epidemiology, evolutionary game theory, and economics. Most studies on population dynamics focus on the problem of prediction rather than control. Existing mathematical models for control in population dynamics are often
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