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The Application of Abductive and Retroductive Inference for the Design and Analysis of Theory-Driven Sociological Research

, 2013
Abductive and retroductive inference are innovative tools of analysis which enable researchers to refine and redevelop social theory. This paper describes and demonstrates how to apply these tools to strengthen sociological theory-driven empirical ...
S. Meyer, Belinda Lunnay
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Sociological Inequality and the Second Law [PDF]

arXiv, 2008
There are two fair ways to distribute particles in boxes. The first way is to divide the particles equally between the boxes. The second way, which is calculated here, is to score fairly the particles between the boxes. The obtained power law distribution function yields an uneven distribution of particles in boxes.
arxiv  

Dark matter in Actor-Network Theory context (La materia oscura en el contexto de la teoría del actor-red) [PDF]

REDES - Revista de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnolog\'ia (ISSN 0328-3186 / eISSN 1851-7072). 2016, 22(42), 153-165, 2021
The aim of this work is to use some categories of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) developed by Bruno Latour in the book Reassembling the Social -- An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory to analyze a current controversy that occurs in the area of cosmology: the dark matter existence and its characteristics.
arxiv  

Individual and collective transitions: Changes in family information networks over time in life with chronic illness

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic illness represents a transition for both patients and their family members although transitions and information behavior changes have largely been explored from an individual perspective. Illness‐related transitions may be undertaken individually or collectively, but little is known about how family information networks change in the ...
Lindsay K. Brown, Tiffany C. Veinot
wiley   +1 more source

Review: Martin Endress (2002). "Vertrauen" ["Trust"]

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2004
The book introduces the theoretical and empirical sociological debate on trust. ENDRESS examines the topic in a historical as well as a systematic perspective, surveying current literature on trust and concluding with his own systematic remarks.
Mike Steffen Schäfer
doaj  

Quantum mechanics as a sociology of matter [PDF]

arXiv, 2003
Analogies between quantum mechanics and sociology lead to the hypothesis that quantum objects are complex products of evolution. Like biological objects they are able to receive, to work on, and to spread semantic information. In general meaning we can name it "consciousness". The important ability of consciousness is ability to predict future.
arxiv  

Toward information resilience: Applying intersectionality to the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
wiley   +1 more source

The Biological Metaphor of a Second-Order Observer and the Sociological Discourse [PDF]

Kybernetes 35 (3/4) (2006), 531-546, 2009
Purpose: In the tradition of Spencer Brown's (1969) Laws of Form, observation was defined in Luhmann's (1984) social systems theory as the designation of a distinction. In the sociological design, however, the designation specifies only a category for the observation.
arxiv  

FEMINIST THEORIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION. [PDF]

Research Result. SERIES «SOCIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT», 2014
Sociology could not be bypassed by the impact of feminist theories. Women’s population in religions. The increase of interest in women’s religiousness on areas of ex Yugoslavia. Why have women been ignored and marginalised by the society and the Church? What are feminist theories? Two kinds of feminist theories. Anthropocentrism.
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