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From age-sets to friendship networks in contemporary sociology : The continuity of soda among the Boorana of East Africa [PDF]

, 2011
This paper re-assesses a comparative sociology of kinship and friendship in East Africa with a particular focus on the Boorana Oromo of Kenya. It argues that the study of kinship dominated the developments of a comparative sociology during colonial times
Aguilar, Mario I
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Criminal Sociology [PDF]

The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1896
xlv, 577 p.
Enrico Ferri
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Self-supervised Hypergraph Representation Learning for Sociological Analysis [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Modern sociology has profoundly uncovered many convincing social criteria for behavioural analysis. Unfortunately, many of them are too subjective to be measured and presented in online social networks. On the other hand, data mining techniques can better find data patterns but many of them leave behind unnatural understanding.
arxiv  

Why I became a sociologist

Papers, 2014
In this autobiographic work, Raymond Boudon reviews his trajectory from his beginning as a student at the École Normale Supérieure to the last stages of his career.
Raymond Boudon
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Ability as legitimation of tracking: Teachers' representations of students in vocational and academic tracks

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1049-1064, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The division of educational systems into different tracks—academic and vocational—represents one of the key elements in explaining social stratification and inequalities. Previous research identifies teachers' expectations as a critical factor to understand the relationship between tracking and social inequality.
Aina Tarabini, Marta Curran, Alba Castejón   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discussions around the spatial dimension in the social sciences. A contribution from Geography and Sociology

Geografares, 2022
This research aims to reflect the difficulties that Geography and Sociology have presented to incorporate and integrate the social and spatial dimensions within their respective theoretical paradigms.
Carlos Hugo Soria Caceres
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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: From Interpersonal to Social Influence [PDF]

2011. Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.6: 968 - 993, 2008
Axelrod (1997) showed how local convergence in cultural influence can preserve cultural diversity. We argue that central implications of Axelrod's model may change profoundly, if his model is integrated with the assumption of social influence as assumed by an earlier generation of modelers.
arxiv   +1 more source

Exploring cumulative disadvantage in early school leaving and planned post‐school pathways among those identified with special educational needs in Irish primary schools

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1065-1082, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Reflecting the neglect of childhood disability in social stratification research, there is a notable dearth of research on the mechanisms underpinning disability differentials in educational outcomes. Drawing on rich longitudinal data collected at 9, 13 and 17 years as part of Ireland's ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ study, we look at the impact of ...
Eamonn Carroll, Selina McCoy, Georgiana Mihut   +2 more
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Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet

Journal of Public and Professional Sociology
Public sociology is neither public nor sociology. Public sociology does not and cannot have an epistemology. Speaking only for and to itself, public sociology has no public. There is no debate with public sociology.
Mathieu Deflem
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The American Journal of Sociology

, 2017
Marriage increased in the United States from I920 to I930 even when age, nativity, and urban-rural composition are held constant. Early marriage is not increasing. Urban-rural differences and sex differences are less. There are fewer widowed.
William Graham Sumner
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