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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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Causality and Statistical Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 We review some approaches and philosophies of causal inference coming from sociology, economics, computer science, cognitive science, and ...
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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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The concept "altruism" for sociological research: from conceptualization to operationalization [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 This article addresses the question of the relevant conceptualization of {\guillemotleft}altruism{\guillemotright} in Russian from the perspective sociological research operationalization. It investigates the spheres of social application of the word {\guillemotleft}altruism{\guillemotright}, include Russian equivalent {\guillemotleft}vzaimopomoshh ...
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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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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Sociedade e Estado, 2005 Este artigo expõe o sistema conceitual elaborado na França, em torno do conceito de relação social de sexo. Mostra as ligações teóricas entre, de um lado, as modalidades de ação ou as atividades dessa relação social, isto é, a divisão sexual do trabalho,
Anne-Marie Devreux
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Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge [PDF]
Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social
Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, European Journal of
Social Theory 10(3), 375-388, 2007, 2009 The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties, and disciplines.
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Evolving stories of self: Informational transitions and tattoos
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Throughout history, tattoos have served as a means of expressing identity, culture, and preserving information. Beyond their visual appeal, tattoos continue to be used in the modern world as a way for individuals to showcase their identity, honor and remember others, and mark significant events. In this paper, we explore the connection between
Maja Krtalić +2 more
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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: The Robustness of Cultural Homophily [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 Recent extensions of the Axelrod model of cultural dissemination (Klemm et al 2003) showed that global diversity is extremely fragile with small amounts of cultural mutation. This seemed to undermine the original Axelrod theory that homophily preserves diversity. We show that cultural diversity is surprisingly robust if we increase the tendency towards
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