Change – social and personal: Thomas and Znaniecki’s The Polish Peasant for the study of present-day change in global higher education [PDF]
, 2019 The present work represents an extrapolation of W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, on behalf of the development of sociological theory. The article focuses on careers and institutions in higher education.
Joseph C. Hermanowicz
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Becoming dislocated: On Bauman's subjective culture [PDF]
, 2013 Three of Zygmunt Bauman’s recent books are assessed to present insights into the recent development of his thought and the challenges it poses to the social sciences, humanities and the wider public.
Till, C
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: Environmental governance and illegibility in the American West [PDF]
, 2020 In The Odyssey, Odysseus and his crew must navigate the Strait of Messina between two great hazards: the six-headed monster Scylla on one side, and the whirlpool Charybdis on the other.
Martin, Jeff V
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Quantitative methods and gender inequalities [PDF]
, 2010 This paper argues that concerns that the feminist agenda is better served by qualitative not quantitative methodology were based on a rather narrow definition of feminism and a somewhat misleading portrayal of quantitative research.
Scott, Jacqueline
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The Sociology of Quantification – Perspectives on an Emerging Field in the Social Sciences
, 2016 The introductory article to this HSR Special Issue presents the emerging field of sociology of quantification, which can be regarded as a transdisciplinary approach to the analysis of processes of quantification. Processes of categorization and classification are included because they can result in processes of generating figures and numbers also.
Diaz-Bone, Rainer, Didier, Emmanuel
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SociologicaThe rise of quantitative research evaluation has changed not only the way knowledge is rated and ranked, but the way scientific knowledge is produced. This Focus discusses the outcomes of Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra’s research on the transformation of the ...
Riccardo Emilio Chesta
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Study on the Root Causes and Solutions of Misunderstandings in Cross-cultural Communication [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesThe field that investigates subjects connected to cross-cultural communication, such as diverse cultural origins, linguistic habits, and behavioral patterns, is typically referred to as “cross-cultural communication” from here on out. As a catch-all word
Xu Huibo
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Origins of Modern Data Analysis Linked to the Beginnings and Early Development of Computer Science and Information Engineering [PDF]
, 2008 The history of data analysis that is addressed here is underpinned by two themes, -- those of tabular data analysis, and the analysis of collected heterogeneous data.
Murtagh, Fionn
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Sports review: A content analysis of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociology of Sport Journal across 25 years [PDF]
, 2014 The International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and Sociology of Sport Journal have individually and collectively been subject to a systematic content analysis.
Bishop R +16 more
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The power of indirect social ties [PDF]
, 2014 While direct social ties have been intensely studied in the context of computer-mediated social networks, indirect ties (e.g., friends of friends) have seen little attention.
Blackburn, Jeremy +4 more
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