De-Signing the Object of Sociology: Toward an ‘Idiotic’ Methodology

Toward the Ideal Signing Avatar

The paper discusses ongoing research on the effects of a signing avatar's modeling/rendering features on the perception of sign language animation. It reports a recent study that aimed to determine whether a character's visual style has an effect on how signing animated characters are perceived by viewers. The stimuli of the study were two polygonal characters presenting two different visual st...

Toward an Historical Sociology of Business Culture

Andrew Carnegie had the good fortune to possess contacts among the rich and famous on both sides of the Atlantic, wealth enough to buy the good favor of reporters, and media savvy. But he also had the ill fortune in the 1890s to need all these resources, for in that decade both his public image and his business philosophy were under challenge. At the beginning of the decade bad news kept coming...

the foreign policy of russia toward caucasus 2000-2008

after the soviet union dissolution, a chaotic period was begun in the russia. russia lost its glory and felt disgrace. the first group of elites came to power under yeltsin; they tried to re-define russia’s identity as a european country and build a foreign policy on this baseline. therefore russia tried to become closer with the west especially with the u.s. according to their view the sovie...

" Three Temporalities : Toward a Sociology of the

Toward a Sociology of the Network Society

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