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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
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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PERCEPTION OF WHEELCHAIR USERS BY YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOCIETY: THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY IN KHABAROVSK

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2016
The article is devoted to the problem of lifestyle of such socially unprotected group like wheelchair users. The work contains the results of research, which was conducted in order to study perception of wheelchair users in society by youth ...
Mariya Victorovna Shimolina
doaj   +1 more source

Sustaining the “frozen footprints” of scholarly communication through open citations: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review examines the role of open citations in fostering transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility in scholarly communication. Through a critical synthesis of diverse sources—articles, proceedings, presentations, datasets, and blog posts—it explores the motivations behind citing, the evolving meanings of citations, and key ...
Zehra Taşkın
wiley   +1 more source

Suppressed Subjectivity and Truncated Tradition: A Reply to Pablo Schyfter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Author's response to: Pablo Schyfter, 'Inaccurate Ambitions and Missing Methodologies: Thoughts on Jeff Kochan and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,' Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 8-14.
Kochan, Jeff
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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Introduction to the Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

open access: yesSociation Today, 2005
W.E.B. Du Bois was the founder of the Atlanta School of sociology, writing more than a dozen books in almost as many years. One of his significant contributions to modern sociology was his pioneering work in the use of empirical data which include ...
Robert Wortham
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Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology [PDF]

open access: yes
Proclamations of \'current crisis\' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in British and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived \'current crisis\'. It then discusses some of
Liz Stanley, Robert Hollands
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EMERGING THE EMERGENCE SOCIOLOGY: The Philosophical Framework of Agent-Based Social Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The structuration theory originally provided by Anthony Giddens and the advance improvement of the theory has been trying to solve the dilemma came up in the epistemological aspects of the social sciences and humanity.
Situngkir, Hokky
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal 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

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