Wombs for rent: Exploring the motivations behind Ghanaian Women's decisions to become surrogate mothers. [PDF]
PLoS OneBoafo IM +3 more
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Lived experiences of type 2 diabetes self-management in Jordan: A qualitative study of sociocultural, religious, and healthcare influences. [PDF]
PLoS OneHasan A +3 more
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Editorial: Navigating equality: addressing stigma and discrimination against sexual and gender minorities in access to gender-affirming healthcare. [PDF]
Front SociolFradelos EC, Tzavella F.
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Seeing Heritage Management through Systems Science
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Heritage is influenced by a range of multifaceted factors, such as global issues, power dynamics, entangled legal frameworks and multilayered needs. The interplay of these elements creates a challenging environment for heritage managers, who must navigate a web of stakeholders with diverse interests and values. This paper suggests that systems
Omid Shakerian +2 more
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Beyond Cure: Psychosocial Care and the Quality of Life of Filipino Children With Cancer. [PDF]
Cancer ControlAlibudbud R.
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Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
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Risk and resilience on learning outcomes in diverse Muslim youth. [PDF]
PLOS Ment HealthShahzad MY, Rodriguez TM, Wu R.
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Illuhmannating Technological Innovation Systems: Towards a Systems Perspective
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Technological Innovation Systems framework operates from an economic perspective, investigating the generation, diffusion and utilization of a specific technology within a particular institutional infrastructure. Emerging from innovation sciences, the TIS framework inherited methodological individualism as the micro‐level approach to ...
Richard Pretorius +3 more
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