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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
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How Far Can We Go Through Social System? [PDF]
The paper elaborates an endeavor on applying the algorithmic information-theoretic computational complexity to meta-social-sciences. It is motivated by the effort on seeking the impact of the well-known incompleteness theorem to the scientific ...
Hokky Situngkir
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Generational research: between historical and sociological imaginations [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reflects on Julia Brannen’s contribution to the development of theory and methods for intergenerational research. The discussion is contextualised within a contemporary ‘turn to time’ within sociology, involving tensions and synergies between ...
Abbott A. +17 more
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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
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Reasoning with Partial Knowledge [PDF]
We investigate how sociological argumentation differs from the classical first-order logic. We focus on theories about age dependence of organizational mortality.
Hannan, M.T., Polos, L.
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The Ribbon of Love: Fuzzy-Ruled Agents in Artificial Societies [PDF]
, 2007 The paper brings two motivations to the theoretical explorations of social analysis. The first is to enrich the agent based computational sociology by incorporating the fuzzy set theory in to the computational modeling.
Situngkir, Hokky
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract In today's digital age, misinformation propagates rapidly through digital channels, blurring the lines between truth and fiction, and challenging the foundations of trust in information sources. Although affecting all spheres of life, misinformation poses a significant threat to workers highlighting a critical intersection between ...
Ashwani Malhotra +4 more
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The Practical Use of Awareness Theory
Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2015 In this chapter we shall discuss how our substantive sociological theory has been developed in order to facilitate applying it in daily situations of terminal care by sociologists, by doctors and nurses, and by family members and dying patients.
Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss
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The Abandonment of evolutionary Social Theory in America: The impact of Academic Professionalization upon American sociological theory, 1890-1920 [PDF]
, 1971 The Abandonment of evolutionary Social Theory in America: The impact of Academic Professionalization upon American sociological theory, 1890 ...
Cravens, Hamilton
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