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Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate

open access: yes, 1992
From the beginning of the Second World War to the ending of the Cold War no problematic so deeply shaped the academic history and sociology of science than that inscribed in talk of 'internalism' and 'externalism'.
S. Shapin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immersive virtual reality as a teaching tool in neuroanatomy: A scoping review

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Basic core courses in various undergraduate programs, such as neuroanatomy, pose a challenge for students due to the large volume and complexity of the content. In this context, educational technologies such as immersive virtual reality (IVR), which allow students to actively interact with learning materials, offer a complementary pedagogical ...
Nathálya Gardênia de Holanda Marinho Nogueira   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet

open access: yesJournal of Public and Professional Sociology
Public sociology is neither public nor sociology. Public sociology does not and cannot have an epistemology. Speaking only for and to itself, public sociology has no public. There is no debate with public sociology.
Mathieu Deflem
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemological Tensions in Bourdieu's Conception of Social Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The main purpose of this paper is to explore Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of social science. To this end, the paper sheds light on the main epistemological presuppositions that undergird Bourdieu’s defence of reflexive sociology as a scientific endeavour.
Susen, S.
core  

Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brazilian Sociology: contemporary epistemological-theoretical and institutional trends

open access: yesSociologias, 2006
In the first moment, the article revises themes pertaining to the themes of Sociology of Knowledge and Sociology of Science, both relevant for the study of Sociology of Sociology.
Enno Dagoberto Liedke Filho   +1 more
doaj  

Basic concepts in social sciences III [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In this paper the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology is completed.
Hoede, C.
core   +2 more sources

The Wild Borderlands of Science and Technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A review of recent scholarship in the sociology of fringe and counterculture ...
Moore, Kelly
core   +1 more source

Information retrieval or document retrieval? Terminological confusions and unrealistic goals in information science, exemplified in relation to generative artificial intelligence

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract ChatGPT and related technologies have revived an old issue in information science (IS) concerning information retrieval (IR) versus document retrieval. Since 1950, the term IR has primarily been used as a misnomer for document retrieval. This problematic terminology reflects a desire to go beyond documents and provide, in response to user ...
Birger Hjørland
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology of science

open access: yes
Abstract If the cognitive abilities of children at birth a few hundred or even thousand years ago and today are likely not very different, what can explain the large differences in their theories of the world as adults? While our mind’s methodological abilities to observe, solve problems and experiment are a precondition of science and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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