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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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What’s Sex (Composition) Got to Do with It? The Importance of Sex Composition of Gangs for Female and Male Members’ Offending and Victimization [PDF]

, 2018
Sex composition of groups has been theorized in organizational sociology and found in prior work to structure female and male members’ behaviors and experiences.
Dana Peterson, Dena C. Carson, Eric Fowler, Anderson E., Berg M. T., Blalock H. M., Blau P. M., Bowker L. H., Campbell A., Connell R. W., Durán R., Eggleston E. J., Esbensen F. A., Fagan J., Fishman L. T., Fleisher M. S., Fleury E., Gutek B. A., Hagedorn J. M., Hagedorn J. M., Heinonen P., Joe-Laidler K. A., Klein M. W., Klein M. W., Konrad A. M., Lauderback D., Lauritsen J. L., Miller J., Moore J., Panfil V. R., Peterson D., Shaffer J. N., Sheley J. F., Short J. F., Ward T. W., Webster D. W., Zhang A.   +36 more
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco, Mirco Musolesi, Jason O'Sullivan, Rosie Prior, Ioanna Manolopoulou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menuju Sosiologi Profetik [PDF]

, 2015
Modern social sciences, including sociology, believe that religion is outside the world of science. The growth of the sciences is characterized by their secular perspectives.
Muttaqin, H. (Husnul)
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The sexuality assemblage: Desire, affect, anti-humanism [PDF]

, 2013
Two theoretical moves are required to resist the ‘humanist enticements’ associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally-specific sexual knowledgeabilities.
Alldred, P, Fox, NJ
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
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INTRODUCTION IN SOCIOLOGY, THE FIRST PART OF A COMPLETE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY, SIGNED BY TRAIAN BRĂILEANU [PDF]

Revista Română de Sociologie, 2013
This study describes the structure of Traian Brăileanu’s work, Introducere în sociologie (Introduction in Sociology), but also the ideas that the Romanian sociologist put forward in this work.
ALEXANDRU-OVIDIU VINTILĂ
doaj  

Sociology of Political Sociology: Why There Is a Need for Sociological Study of Political Sociology [PDF]

, 1979
Five basic areas in the sociology of political sociology are described in the paper. The sociology of political sociology is aimed at study of the social and particularly political conditions necessary for the optimal development of political sociology ...
Miroslav Radovanović
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“An ethnographic seduction”: how qualitative research and Agent-based models can benefit each other [PDF]

, 2010
We provide a general analytical framework for empirically informed agent-based simulations. This methodology provides present-day agent-based models with a sound and proper insight as to the behavior of social agents — an insight that statistical data ...
Agar MH, Allan G., Aquino P., Axelrod R., Axtell R., Bankes SC, Burawoy M., Gilbert N., Gilbert N., Gilbert N., Glaser BG, Hassan S., Headland T., Kelle U, Phan D, Rouchier J., Schelling T., Small C., Wilensky U., Wilensky U., Yin R., Zeigler BP   +21 more
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source