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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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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Stroje, texty, sítě a jiné obrazy: metaforický rozměr sociologie

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2016
Main objective of the article is to explore the sociological implications of the conceptual metaphor theory, which is based on the idea that metaphors are not only discursive ornaments, but rather the basic principle of human thought as such. The article
Jakub Mlynář
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Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Sociological theory and social reality

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2014
This paper pretends to demonstrate the complementary relations between three relatively recent sociological theories, each one of which explains a different aspect of the same social object: the origin, diffusion and change of social and cultural values,
J Díez Nicolás
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Sociological Theory and Knowledge Society

Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội, 2010
Toàn cầu hóa và sản phẩm của nó là xã hội tri thức đang đưa đến một sự biến đổi to lớn trong toàn bộ hệ thống xã hội và đến lượt nó, sự thay đổi ấy cũng đang gây ra những sự đứt đoạn trong trật tự xã hội tại nhiều khu vực trên thế giới.
NAYAR P. K. B., Lê Minh Tiến
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