Sociology: Tension between Science and Militant Activism?

UbiqUitoUs sUstainability: Citizen sCienCe & aCtivism Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up community participation. Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower ind...

Critique: the Relation between Religion and Sociology

The aim of this article is to re-inspect the possibility or repudiation of Sociology of Religion. This idea is done by researching the previous critiques of this branch of sociology and the criticism of these challenges. In the following discussion about each of aspects, it is tried to answer the extant uncertainties according to one of the most important expositors (H. A. Tanhaee).

Merton's Sociology of Science: The First and the Last Sociology of Science?

Merton the founder of the sociology of science Even his enemies admit that Merton is the founder of the sociology of science. When he published his classic Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Centiiry England in 1938. the sociology of science was not a recognized field. Fifty years later, an abundance of programs of instruction and centers of research in social studies of science an...

Sociology as a Population Science.

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more securely placed w...

Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace