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Doing Post-Western sociology in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the Great Change: some epistemological questions

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020
Analyzing the sociology in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the Great Change in 1989, the article aims to present the main epistemological questions that Post-Western sociology raises for the discipline of sociology as a whole.
Svetla Koleva
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Sustaining the “frozen footprints” of scholarly communication through open citations: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal 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
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The Sociological Perspective Revisited

Journal of Public and Professional Sociology, 2015
In the 1950s, sociology was committed to the development of a set of basic concepts for advancing the discipline. Heavily influenced by structure-functionalism, sociology focused on general and mid-range theories in seeking to understand and explain ...
Rodger A. Bates
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Funzioni e responsabilità delle scienze sociali: note su alcune vicende nello sviluppo della società italiana

Cambio
This article examines some important moments of the social research and the debate on its public function in Italy. The illustration starts from the last phase of the nineteenth century and ends with the current situation of Italian sociology, which ...
Paolo Montesperelli
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Theory of Imagery in Studies of the Change Process [PDF]

BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2007
This article aims to demonstrate the analytical power of the imagery concept for an organizational analysis. The gaps in organizational studies justify building new reference pictures in the organizational culture, with imagery as a starting point ...
Denize Grzybovski, Cristhiane Oliveira da Graça Amâncio, Elcemir Paço-Cunha   +2 more
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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal 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, Pranay Nangia, Hugh Samson, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Michael Olsson   +4 more
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal 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
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Individual and collective transitions: Changes in family information networks over time in life with chronic illness

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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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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The issues caused by misinformation—How workers and organizations deal with it: A systematic literature review

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract In today's digital age, misinformation propagates rapidly through digital channels, blurring the lines between truth and fiction, and challenging the foundations of trust in information sources. Although affecting all spheres of life, misinformation poses a significant threat to workers highlighting a critical intersection between ...
Ashwani Malhotra, Nina Evans, Jing Gao, Jia Tina Du, Connie Zheng   +4 more
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