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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 The "new political sociology of science" calls for an analysis of scientific ignorance that focuses on the institutional conditions of its production. Based on the study of the difficulties encountered by an epidemiological surveillance project on the ...
Jean-Noël Jouzel, Jérôme Pélisse
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Social Sciences, 2021 Past research shows that crises reveal the sensitive spots of established ideologies and practices, thereby providing opportunities for social change. We investigated immigration control amid the pandemic crisis, focusing on potential openings for both ...
Wenjie Liao +3 more
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Blinding to circumvent human biases: Deliberate ignorance in humans, institutions, and machines
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 Inequalities and injustices are thorny issues in liberal societies, manifesting in forms such as the gender pay gap; sentencing discrepancies among Black, Hispanic, and White defendants; and unequal medical resource distribution across ethnicities. One cause of these inequalities is implicit social bias: unconsciously formed associations between social
Ralph Hertwig +2 more
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Cognitio, 2022 In Switzerland, institutions through which legal knowledge and education are produced have systemi-cally enabled epistemic injustice through forms of silencing and the cultivation of active ignorance along individual and institutional dimensions. As such,
Sofia Balzaretti, Stephanie Deig
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Deliberate ignorance in project risk management [PDF]
, 2010 The management of project risk is considered a key discipline by most organisations involved in projects. Best practice project risk management processes are claimed to be self-evidently correct.
Mark Hall +5 more
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Institutional shareholding and corporate social responsibility reporting: evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose – This study aims to examine the influence of institutional shareholding on a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in Bangladesh.
Rashid, Afzalur
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Beyond ‘ignorance’: using the cultural stereotypes of Americans studying in the UK as a resource for learning and teaching about British culture [PDF]
, 2011 A course introducing British culture is a standard component of many study abroad programmes running in this country that are aimed at international students who will be spending a limited amount of time in the United Kingdom.
Janes, Dominic, Dominic Janes
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The civilizational basis of the beingness of an institutional person [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. ПедагогикаIntroduction. Atheistic literature insists that religious faith owes its origin to human ignorance. In its turn, this ‘ignorance’ of a person is closely connected with the ontological foundations of an institutional person determining the ...
Artyomov, Vladimir Nikolaevich
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Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–2021
Parliamentary History, 2022 AbstractWithin the vast seam of scholarship on parliamentary history the evolution and role of select committees in the house of lords, particularly in relation to investigatory or policy‐focused committees, has been almost completely overlooked. They have been ‘institutions ignored’.
Connolly, J. +4 more
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A test for the rational ignorance hypothesis: Evidence from a natural experiment in Brazil [PDF]
, 2014 This paper tests the rational ignorance hypothesis by Downs (1957). This theory predicts that people do not acquire costly information to educate their votes. We provide new estimates for the effect of voting participation by exploring the Brazilian dual
Rizzi, Renata +2 more
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