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For Public Sociology

open access: yes, 2005
Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways.
M. Burawoy
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although autism is a childhood‐onset neurodevelopmental disorder, its features change across the life course due to a combination of individual and contextual influences. However, the influence of contextual factors on development during childhood and beyond is less frequently studied than individual factors such as genetic variants that ...
Marsha Mailick   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welcome LSE Sociology freshers! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As it is Welcome Week at LSE, current students and alumni from all cohorts give welcome and advice to new students to LSE’s Sociology ...
LSE, Researching Sociology
core  

But Is It Sociology?

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2016
This essay explores issues of trandisciplinarity through an autobiographical lens. Specifically, the essay attends to tensions between the discipline of sociology and interdisciplinary science, knowledge, and technology studies, with an emphasis on differing epistemic cultures in each.
openaire   +4 more sources

Measuring Vogue in American Sociology (2011-2020) [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
This study investigates the social dynamics of knowledge production in American sociology. Departing from traditional approaches focused on citations, co-authorship, and faculty hiring, we introduce a method capturing the dynamics of networks inferred from text to explore which ideas gain traction (a.k.a vogue).
arxiv  

Quantum mechanics as a sociology of matter [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 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  

Neighborhood Chance and Neighborhood Change [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2008
WITHDRAWAL NOTICE This paper has been withdrawn by the authors as required by the American Journal of Sociology, which has accepted the paper for publication. AJS will not publish papers if the preprint remains posted on arXiv.
arxiv  

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