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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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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

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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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
wiley   +1 more source

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