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Socio-Affective Agents as Models of Human Behaviour in the Networked Prisoner's Dilemma [PDF]
Affect Control Theory (ACT) is a powerful and general sociological model of human affective interaction. ACT provides an empirically derived mathematical model of culturally shared sentiments as heuristic guides for human decision making. BayesACT, a variant on classical ACT, combines affective reasoning with cognitive (denotative or logical) reasoning
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The Theory of Relational Cohesion: Review of a Research Program [PDF]
In this paper we analyze and review the theory of relational cohesion and attendant program of research. Since the early 1990s, the theory has evolved to answer a number of basic questions regarding cohesion and commitment in social exchange relations ...
Lawler, Edward J+2 more
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Optimal Nonparametric Inference on Network Effects with Dependent Edges [PDF]
Testing network effects in weighted directed networks is a foundational problem in econometrics, sociology, and psychology. Yet, the prevalent edge dependency poses a significant methodological challenge. Most existing methods are model-based and come with stringent assumptions, limiting their applicability.
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Kaos teorisi ve sosyolojisi:Toplumların denetlenmesinde yeni bir adım
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The sociology of Theodor Adorno [PDF]
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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Reflections on Method in Interwar American Sociology [PDF]
The article provides a historical contextualization of the debates on theory and method within interwar American sociology. This period is often portrayed as the “golden” age of empirical inquiry resulting in proliferation of methodological orientations.
Balon, Jan
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Nanopore DNA Sequencing Technology: A Sociological Perspective [PDF]
Nanopore sequencing, a next-generation sequencing technology, holds the potential to revolutionize multiple facets of life sciences, forensics, and healthcare. While previous research has focused on its technical intricacies and biomedical applications, this paper offers a unique perspective by scrutinizing the societal dimensions (ethical, legal, and ...
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The Wreaths of KHAN: Uniform Graph Feature Selection with False Discovery Rate Control [PDF]
Graphical models find numerous applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, neuroscience, etc. While substantial progress has been made in graph estimation, it remains largely unexplored how to select significant graph signals with uncertainty assessment, especially those graph features related to topological structures including cycles (i.e ...
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Sociology is one of the sciences of human behavior that has grown out of Enlightenment thought. In its present method and theory there is substantially nothing that was not anticipated by gifted seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century thinkers ...
Bloom, Robert L.+6 more
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