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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 of Modern Cosmology [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Certain results of observational cosmology cast critical doubt on the foundations of standard cosmology but leave most cosmologists untroubled. Alternative cosmological models that differ from the Big Bang have been published and defended by heterodox scientists; however, most cosmologists do not heed these.
arxiv
Economics in Relation to Sociology: Dualisms and Vilfredo Pareto's Pluralistic Methodology [PDF]
Many economists remember the masters of Lausanne for their important contributions to general equilibrium and welfare economics, but Leon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto both pursued much broader social research agendas.
Michael McLure
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
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Grandes momentos del cine en San Fernando
Periférica, 2017 La historia del cine en España, sobre todo la de los primeros tiempos, debe tener en cuenta, además de la producción y la distribución de las películas, la industria de la exhibición y la sociología de los espectadores.
Rafael Garófano Sánchez
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"Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 The development of discursive knowledge presumes the communication of meaning as analytically different from the communication of information. Knowledge can then be considered as a meaning which makes a difference. Whereas the communication of information is studied in the information sciences and scientometrics, the communication of meaning has been ...
arxiv
Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco +4 more
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Kinetic Exchange Models in Economics and Sociology [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 In this article, we briefly review the different aspects and applications of kinetic exchange models in economics and sociology. Our main aim is to show in what manner the kinetic exchange models for closed economic systems were inspired by the kinetic theory of gas molecules. The simple yet powerful framework of kinetic theory, first proposed in 1738,
arxiv
Organizational Institutionalism and Sociology: A Reflection [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] In 1991, DiMaggio and Powell observed: Institutional theory presents a paradox. Institutional analysis is as old as Emile Durkheim\u27s exhortation to study \u27social facts as things\u27, yet sufficiently novel to be preceded by new in much of
Tolbert, Pamela S
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Perspectives on Multi-Level Dynamics [PDF]
, 2016 As Physics did in previous centuries, there is currently a common dream of extracting generic laws of nature in economics, sociology, neuroscience, by focalising the description of phenomena to a minimal set of variables and parameters, linked together ...
Bruno Cessac +5 more
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