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Towards a social ontology of market systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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empathi: An ontology for Emergency Managing and Planning about Hazard Crisis

open access: yes, 2018
In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and integrating information from sources such as satellite images, local sensors and social media content ...
Gaur, Manas   +3 more
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What really matters? The elusive quality of the material in feminist thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social.
Rahman, Momin, Witz, A.
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Materialising social ontology [PDF]

open access: yesCambridge Journal of Economics, 2017
Social theorists increasingly recognise that material things often play vital roles in the causation of social events. However there is substantial disagreement on how to theorise these roles. Several members of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group have made important contributions in the form of their work on the ontology of technological objects. This
openaire   +1 more source

The Concept of Gender Crossing in the Deirdre McCloskey’s Theory [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2018
This article explores the concept of gender identity of the famous American economist Deirdre McCloskey. The concept has three key elements: Firstly, gender identity does not directly refer to sexual orientation.
Khitruk Ekaterina
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Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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Ontology Merging as Social Choice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The problem of merging several ontologies has important applications in the Semantic Web, medical ontology engineering and other domains where information from several distinct sources needs to be integrated in a coherent manner.We propose
Endriss, Ulle, Porello, Daniele
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A Holistic Social Constructionist perspective to Enterprise Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose – Drawing on the Gestalt approach this article proposes a holistic framework for enterprise education (EE) research based on Social Constructionism, illustrating how the latter supports research into experiential learning in EE in 7 UK Higher ...
Deema Refai   +3 more
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The Beliefs-Rules-Equilibrium Account of Institutions: A Contribution to a Naturalistic Social Ontology

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2021
This paper pursues a naturalist endeavor in social ontology by arguing that the Beliefs-Rules-Equilibrium account of institutions can help to advance the debate over the nature of social kinds.
Hédoin Cyril
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Ontology Building of Manufacturing Quality Knowledge for Design Decision Support [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 70472066, 70771091), the project of Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, China (No. Z142008A001), the NPU Foundation for Humanities, Social Science, and
EYNARD, Benoit   +4 more
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