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Towards a social ontology of market systems [PDF]
, 2009 Academic analyses of market systems are deeply divided. While economists tend to neglect the personal and sociological factors that shape the behaviour of market actors, sociologists tend to discount the possibility of a systematic analysis of the ...
Elder-Vass, Dave
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Missing women in colonial India
The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 997-1038, November 2025.Abstract We construct novel data on female population shares by age, district, and religion in South Asia from 1881 to 1931. Sex ratios skew male in Northern India and are more balanced in Southern and Eastern India, including Burma. Male‐biased sex ratios emerge most visibly after age 10, and this is not specific to any one region, religion, or time ...
James Fenske +2 more
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Initial Conditions and the ‘Open Systems’ Argument against Laws of Nature [PDF]
, 2008 This article attacks “open systems” arguments that because constant conjunctions are not generally observed in the real world of open systems we should be highly skeptical that universal laws exist.
Ballinger, Clint
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Sequence to Sequence Learning for Query Expansion
, 2018 Using sequence to sequence algorithms for query expansion has not been explored yet in Information Retrieval literature nor in Question-Answering's. We tried to fill this gap in the literature with a custom Query Expansion engine trained and tested on ...
Sadat, Fatiha, Zaiem, Salah
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Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT Explanations of the causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian war tend to drift towards one of two lines of argument. These are the ‘NATO expansion’ argument, chiefly focusing on the structure of the international system and the possibility of the acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and the ‘Putin's war’ argument, which attempts to place the bulk of blame ...
Gabriel A. Pierzynski, Jonathan Joseph
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 14, 28 July 2025.Abstract In 1962 the Koyna dam was completed 220 km southeast of Mumbai (India). Since then, the area has experienced recurrent seismicity, including one of the largest human‐induced earthquakes so far (1967, Mw 6.3). An extensive deep drilling project was carried out to understand this seismicity.
R. Gomila +6 more
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 This paper is a reply to the discussions of Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little, and Petri Ylikoski of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013): Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge).
Kaidesoja Tuukka
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Roy Bhaskar’s Core Critical Realism and the Philosophy of Nancy Cartwright: Common Ground
, 2020 This paper compares Roy Bhaskar’s core critical realism with the philosophy of science of Nancy Cartwright. It argues for either profound similarity or exact correspondence between the two on a number of key elements: strong realism, depth ontology, closed and open systems, intransitive and transitive dimensions of science, philosophical method ...
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Individualism versus Holism: An Attempt to Overcome Theoretical Dualism
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2013 The article deals with one of the key theoretical dilemmas of contemporary sociology: the dualism of the individualistic and holistic approaches. One of the most famous attempts to overcome this dualism is Anthony Giddens’ structuring theory, alongside ...
J Šubrt
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Revista Latinoamericana de Metodologia de la Investigacion Social, 2011 El presente trabajo es un paso más, seguramente no el definitivo, hacia la comprensión y sustentación de lo que hemos dado en llamar Unidades de Experienciación (UE).
Adrián Scribano
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