Sociocultural dynamics of nutrition practicies

Microemancipatory practicies in information system development

The paper revisits the notion of emancipation in Information System Development (ISD) that seems to have lost a battle against functionalist and managerialist approaches dominant in information system (IS) research and practice. Unlike functionalist and managerialist views, the emancipatory view of ISD, informed by Critical Theory, considers ISD as a site of organizational innovation, self-refl...

Sociocultural Linguistics

sociocultural theories of mental disorders

appearing a new field of psychiatry called social psychiatry and its applied field , community psychiatry , the attentions have been drawn toward socio- cultural factors in determining different pathologies and even some theories have been stated. psychiatric symptoms are considered as deviation from social norms and being mental patient is viewed as a social role. severe mental disorders are e...

OntoSOC: Sociocultural Knowledge Ontology

This paper presents a sociocultural knowledge ontology (OntoSOC) modeling approach. OntoSOC modeling approach is based on Engeström‟s Human Activity Theory (HAT). That Theory allowed us to identify fundamental concepts and relationships between them. The top-down precess has been used to define differents sub-concepts. The modeled vocabulary permits us to organise data, to facilitate informatio...

Sociocultural Learning with Groupware