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XML content warehousing: Improving sociological studies of mailing lists and web data [PDF]

Bulletin de M\'ethodologie Sociologique (BMS) (2011) 27p, 2011
In this paper, we present the guidelines for an XML-based approach for the sociological study of Web data such as the analysis of mailing lists or databases available online. The use of an XML warehouse is a flexible solution for storing and processing this kind of data.
arxiv  

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, Jennifer Campbell‐Meier, Niloofar Solhjoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Responsibility of Museum Education. Research Directions

Seminare, 2021
The noticeable changes which take place in museums, regardless of the character of the collected and displayed artefacts, allow to draw attention to a definite turn towards the audience.
Marianna Otmianowska
doaj  

Syringe sociology [PDF]

The British Journal of Sociology, 2015
AbstractIn this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry.
openaire   +3 more sources

“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

Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2017
Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently,
Bosomitu Ștefan
doaj   +1 more source

The promise of public sociology [PDF]

, 2005
extraordinary event. There was a buzz of excitement, the culmination of a week of high energy discussions of ‘public sociology’, and the product also of a year in which Burawoy had criss-crossed the USA speaking to dozens of groups and urging those who ...
Calhoun, Craig
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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

How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 546-559, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Halieutic resources and small‐scale fisheries are globally under stress due to global changes. This phenomenon has very strong impacts on the socioeconomic situation of vast coastal areas worldwide and of the communities living there, whose economies rely on the ocean.
Marco Alberio, Marina Soubirou
wiley   +1 more source

Clarifying the Association between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Suicidal Behavior

The Owl, 2012
Despite the high prevalence of suicide attempts amongst individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the relationship between OCD and suicidality is under researched and studies have reported contradictory results.
Amanda Moskowitz
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