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Regional, Ideological and Inheritable Characteristics of Knowledge: A Survey of Three Compilations of Buddhist Encyclopedias in China from 1950s to 2000s

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Three official compilations of Buddhist encyclopedias were undertaken in China between the 1950s and 2000s. A sociological examination of these compilations reveals notable characteristics of the Buddhist knowledge system.
Wenli Fan
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disciplinary History and the Situation of History Teachers

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2012
A growing consensus in the history education community supports the idea that the discipline of history provides the best opportunity for moving beyond a “nation-building” or “skills-based” approach to teaching about the past.
Michael Fordham
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

Disciplinary Practices As Social Manoeuvers: A Field Theory Alternative To Michael Burawoy’s Typology Of Knowledge

open access: yes, 2015
In his call for more public sociology, Michael Burawoy presents a generic framework to describe disciplinary structures in the social sciences. This model is based on a fourfold typology of knowledge which has been criticized by many.
Landry, Julien
core   +1 more source

Powerful or disempowering knowledge? The teaching of Sociology in English schools and colleges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
While studying sociology can be empowering and transformative, fostering criticality and reflexivity, this capacity is not being sufficiently harnessed in school/college-based delivery in England.
Cant, Sarah, Chatterjee, Anwesa
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Everything has to be done in the Polish way”: creativity barriers experienced by innovators in a post-Soviet society

open access: yesCreativity Studies
Innovators from post-Soviet transition societies experience barriers to creativity different from those experienced by inventors in developed countries.
Agnieszka Karpinska
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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