Future Anticipation in Sociology

The Future of Urban Sociology

Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships

In this article, I discuss the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary scholarship between sociolinguists and sociologists. After detailing some of the broader history of collaboration between sociolinguists and sociologists, I examine two sub-areas of scholarship: the variationist tradition from sociolinguistics and the social stratification tradition from sociology. I contend that, giv...

Prediction of Disk Arm Movements in Anticipation of Future Requests

Algorithms for performing predictive movements of the disk arm in anticipation of future requests, aimed at reducing the disk access time, are described in this paper. The prediction is based on the past history of the requested disk tracks . A continuum of optimization algorithms have been derived, featuring di erent prediction performance and, hence, di erent complexities. Trace driven simula...

Running Head: ANOMALOUS ANTICIPATION OF RANDOM FUTURE EVENTS 1 Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events

In 2011, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a report of nine experiments purporting to demonstrate that an individual’s cognitive and affective responses can be influenced by randomly selected stimulus events that do not occur until after his or her responses have already been made and recorded, a generalized variant of the phenomenon traditionally denoted by the term pr...

The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future.

Medical screening raises fundamental issues for sociological inquiry, but at present a well-developed sociology of medical screening is lacking. This special issue on the sociology of screening brings together an exciting collection of new work that tackles medical screening from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. In this opening paper, we begin by explaining what we mean b...