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Technological Determinism and Permissionless Innovation as Technocratic Governing Mentalities: Psychocultural Barriers to the Democratization of Technology

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2015
Despite no shortage of thoughtful analysis concerning how to more democratically develop and assess new technologies, practical progress toward democratized innovation has been paltry.
Taylor Dotson
doaj   +5 more sources

Psychocultural meanings of urinary incontinence in women: a review Significados psico-culturales para la incontinencia urinaria femenina: una revisión Significados psicoculturais da incontinência urinária feminina: uma revisão [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to identify and analyze studies in health literature about the psychocultural meanings reported by women who experience urinary incontinence (UI).
Rosângela Higa   +2 more
doaj   +8 more sources

Power, Ideology, and Technological Determinism

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2015
A Commentary on Taylor Dotson’s “Technological Determinism and Permissionless Innovation as Technocratic Governing Mentalities: Psychocultural Barriers to the Democratization of Technology”
David J. Hess
doaj   +4 more sources

The Practices of Making Innovation Public

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2015
A Commentary on Taylor Dotson’s “Technological Determinism and Permissionless Innovation as Technocratic Governing Mentalities: Psychocultural Barriers to the Democratization of Technology”
Sujatha Raman
doaj   +4 more sources

Cruel (im)mobilities and the nearly utopian intimacies of Italian migrants’ personal relationships

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 188-202, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Most research on visits focuses on (semi)successful connections that equate valued intimacy to adaptation to transnational life and ethno‐national kin obligations. In contrast, we highlight important migrant relationships where adaptation is minimal and contact diminishes, yet they also take on heightened affective intensity.
Michael Humbracht   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Hispanic English Language Learners in Special Education

open access: yesEducation Research International, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Overrepresentation of English language learners (ELLs) in special education is a current problem. Urban school professionals indicated that inappropriate placement is linked to a multiplicity of factors. Scarce data exist regarding the relationship between school professional efficacy beliefs, the availability of bilingual programs and personnel for ...
Gail I. Becker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The landscapes of lives I: An action landscape approach to practices and the interface of individual and society

open access: yesEthos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 149-165, June 2024.
Abstract Practices occupy the intersection of human behavior with its personal and societal dimensions, operating in social theory as bridges between high‐order cultural features and on‐the‐ground dynamics that reciprocally shape the conditions of everyday life and animate human experience. Yet precisely how this bridging occurs remains underspecified.
Carol M. Worthman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The landscapes of lives II: How social actors navigate dynamic action landscapes

open access: yesEthos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 166-185, June 2024.
Abstract Our previous companion article situated practices in a socio‐ecological framework to propose action landscapes as person‐specific fields of possible practices that are place‐ and time‐contingent. Here we expand this approach to social actors as they navigate complex, fluid social worlds to pursue meaningful lives.
Carol M. Worthman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

open access: yesEthos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
wiley   +1 more source

Thousands of Women's Lives Depend on the Improvement of Poland's Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention Education as Well as Better Networking Strategies Amongst Cervical Cancer Facilities. [PDF]

open access: yesDiagnostics (Basel), 2022
Śniadecki M   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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