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Medical Sociology and Technology: Critical Engagements [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health and Social Behavior, 2010
In this selective review of the literature on medical sociology’s engagement with technology, we outline the concurrent developments of the American Sociological Association section on medicine and advances in medical treatment. We then describe theoretical and epistemological issues with scholars’ treatment of technology in medicine.
Monica J, Casper, Daniel R, Morrison
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Sociological approaches to translation technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
While translation studies has become increasingly sociological in its methodological and conceptual focus, translation technology is only rarely at the forefront of such studies. This essay looks beyond Bourdieusian approaches to translation in fields of literary production to draw conceptual inspiration from the sociology of technology. By introducing
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The Withering Away of the Physician in Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Biomedicalization, and Pharmaceuticalization

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi, 2023
Sociological research on medicine was initially conducted by locating physicians as the key decision-makers on health-related issues. This approach, which was furnished by the assumptions of the postwar sociology of professions, has led to a medical ...
Anıl Mühürdaroğlu
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A Preparation for Constructing Technology on Islamic Theology [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2015
In the modern world, on the one hand, technology has brought comfort to people and on the other hand had has raised many concerns toward the future.
AmirHossain Rahbar, AliAkbar Velayati
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How to explain technological accidents? The “Human Factor”, Social Constructivism, and the Ontological Turn in Exploring the Uncertainties of Autonomous Vehicles

open access: yesСоциология власти
Public discourse about technological accidents is dominated by the popular explanation through the "human factor". It makes the essential assertion that a human, by definition, is prone to error, but a machine is not. In the field of autonomous vehicles,
Andrey G. Kuznetsov, Nikolay I. Rudenko
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Critical Review of the Book Social Studies of Technology; Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Reflection [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the book titled “Social Studies of Technology: Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Reflection” by Reza Samim.
Leila Namdarian, Alireza Seghatol Eslami
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Technological discourse in the Russian media: Main strategies for representing artificial intelligence

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology
Public perception of artificial intelligence may not coincide with its actual capabilities, but it plays the key role in how algorithms are developed, implemented, used and regulated.
Zh. V. Puzanova   +2 more
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Analysis of some training theories applied to the generativity concept

open access: yesINFAD, 2022
We found exciting to study how generativity has evolved since Erikson (1950) outside the Psychology and Sociology disciplines, and had permeated into the fields of Ecology, Grammar and Syntax, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), without ...
Ma Silvia López Alonso
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WHITHER TECHNOLOGY AND WORK: THEORY, WAREHOUSE STUDY, JOB QUALITY AND DISCOURSES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AUTOMATION

open access: yes, 2023
The objective of the dissertation is to examine the relationship between technology and work and automation of work. The first empirical study (chapter 1) describes the socio-technical experience impacting present workers.
Liu, Liam-Ching Larry
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Edmodo use in ESP writing: The perceptions and barriers of sociology students

open access: yesEnglish Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
The teachers are expected to integrate technology into the classroom because today is the world of a computer. Edmodo is one of the educational websites that can facilitate the specific needs of Sociology students in writing.
Fu'ad Sholikhi
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