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ON DETERMINISM OF TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2017 The article demonstrates the place of the technical and technological factors in the sociological knowledge: in paradigms and metaparadigms of theoretical sociology, in general scientific approaches and certain conceptions of social sciences.
Yuliya Igorevna Zorkina
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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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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
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Symbolic Interactionism in Poland. Inspirations and Development
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2020 In the paper, we present the development of symbolic interactionism (SI) in Poland by tracing and discussing its beginnings, as well as the influence the Chicago School had on the reception of SI in Polish sociology. Furthermore, we differentiate between
Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna Kacperczyk
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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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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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Sociology and the diagnosis of the times or: the reflexivity of modernity [PDF]
, 2007 The present essay is the revised version of a talk given at the meeting of the German Sociological Association (DGS) on 'Social Theory and Social Practice', which was held on 16-18 February 1989 in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the ...
Lichtblau, Klaus
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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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Moral panic and social theory: Beyond the heuristic [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright @ 2011 by International Sociological Association.Critcher has recently conceptualized moral panic as a heuristic device, or 'ideal type'. While he argues that one still has to look beyond the heuristic, despite a few exceptional studies there ...
Amanda Rohloff +27 more
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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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