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Que peut apporter la sociologie pragmatique à la théorie sociale ?
SociologiesThis article introduces pragmatic sociology by presenting three main gestures that illustrate the changes brought to social theory by a new general “attitude” in sociology.
Diogo Silva Corrêa
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Introduction to Pareto’s sociology
PSL Quarterly Review, 2014 The essay by the well-known philosopher Bobbio, reviews the Treaty of General Sociology by Pareto, recently republished in Italy. Bobbio describes and comments on Pareto’s Treaty, which he considers both as a prodigy and an unusual piece of work, and as ...
N. BOBBIO
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“An ethnographic seduction”: how qualitative research and Agent-based models can benefit each other [PDF]
, 2010 We provide a general analytical framework for empirically informed agent-based simulations. This methodology provides present-day agent-based models with a sound and proper insight as to the behavior of social agents — an insight that statistical data ...
Agar MH +21 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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INTRODUCTIONTOTHESOCIOLOGYOFKNOWLEDGEONFOODSECURITY
Trakia Journal of SciencesPURPOSE: This study aims to articulate a conceptual framework for a new scientific field: the sociologyofknowledgeonfoodsecurity,examinedbeyondmerefoodproductionandconsumption.
E. Sachev
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The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology [PDF]
, 2014 This 1894 article by a physician discusses the relationshp between the medical profession and the general field of ...
McIntire, Charles
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot +10 more
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Reflections on Method in Interwar American Sociology [PDF]
, 2010 The article provides a historical contextualization of the debates on theory and method within interwar American sociology. This period is often portrayed as the “golden” age of empirical inquiry resulting in proliferation of methodological orientations.
Balon, Jan
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Sociologisk Forskning, 2020 What can a theory of chess learn from sociology? And what can sociology learn from chess? This article examines the contribution of Scandinavian sociologists Dag Østerberg and Johan Asplund on chess and sociology in order to better understand chess and,
Sverre Wide
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(Mis)understanding underachievement: a response to Connolly [PDF]
, 2008 In British Journal of Sociology of Education Volume 29 number 3, 2008, Connolly presented what he termed a 'critical review' of some of our previous work on the relative attainment of male and female students in UK schools.
Gorard, Stephen, Smith, Emma
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