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Ibn Khaldun in early German-language sociological theory
Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2022 In the course of recent debates, Ibn Khaldun has been (re-)claimed not as a precursor, but as one of the “founding fathers” of sociology. This entails the suspicion that Ibn Khaldun’s legacy, especially his Muqaddima as an important reference in the ...
Wiebke Keim
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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Axel Honneth e la sociologia contemporanea
Quaderni di Sociologia, 2012 The paper aims to investigate the impact of Axel Honneth’s work – in particular his theory of recognition – within sociology. After indicating the sociological elements of his theoretical proposal and comparing some current discussions, the paper ...
Ilenya Camozzi
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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The Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases for Shift Workers in the Prospective Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Shift work can disrupt circadian rhythms and is postulated to play a role in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In the German prospective population‐based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, we analyzed longitudinal associations between shift work and night‐shift work with CVD.
Katharina Wichert +7 more
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Agentenbasierte Modellierung und Simulation
TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2017 Der Beitrag führt in die Thematik ein und gibt einen Überblick über die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der agentenbasierten Modellierung und Simulation (ABMS). Er stellt die Potenziale der neuen Methode dar und begründet, warum TA und ABMS von
Johannes Weyer, Michael Roos
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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L’aggressione e l'incontro: risonanza e critica della modernità in Hartmut Rosa
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2023 Hartmut Rosa has grown to international celebrity thanks to his theory of social acceleration as a new interpretation of modernity, linked with the imperative of growth and the idea of alienation.
Andrea M. Maccarini
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