Social Organization and Power: A Sociological Perspective

A sociological, psychological and educational perspective on social robots

From a socio-political perspective the key issues to understand robotics are; first, whether the largescale adoption of robots in manufacturing, services work and in domestic settings will increase, decrease or main maintain social inequality; second, how these developments are politically regulated and steered and what are their effects locally and globally. Recent Pew Research (2014) report A...

Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective

est of the reader, he or she should consult the outside texts provided at the end of each chapter for more detailed information. With the arrival of the third edition comes the addition of current issues facing gender equality activists. The reader may find many of these fiercely debated topics familiar, thus establishing a connection between current events and the underlying theory discussed i...

A Social Organization Perspective on Software Architectures

This paper proposes a set of concepts for describing a software architecture as a social organization. This social structure consists of actors who have goals to fulfil and social dependencies describing their obligations. The framework is an adaptation of i* [17] proposed as a modeling language for early requirements. Based on this framework, the paper advocates architectural styles for softwa...

Aith and Learning: a Sociological Perspective

Globalization and culture: A sociological perspective

The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. This is in spite of the fact that various ethnographic studies of culture consumption continue to produce evidence that shows that the predictions derived from this approach are not consistent with what is observed. In‐ stead of homogeneity of consumption, we find diversity of interpretat...