The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...

Information superiority is a condition that many businesses attempt to attain without truly understanding what it is, or how to get there. This paper presents an overview to help businesspeople recognize the road to information superiority, and some of the essential strategies to implement along the way. Information operations is a concept described to enable information superiority, when used ...

In this article, we apply concepts from symbolic interactionism a well-established tradition of interpretivist sociology to investigate the social and political processes involved in a sociotechnical intervention. The intervention was designed to elicit operator involvement in an experimental trial of an advanced manufacturing system at an industrial site in Australia. The interactionist concep...

Marcellus M. Caldas, Matthew R. Sanderson, Martha Mather, Melinda D. Daniels, Jason S. Bergtold, Joseph Aistrup, Jessica L. Heier Stamm, David Haukos, Kyle Douglas-Mankin, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, and David Lopez-Carr Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; US Geolog...

The hypothesis that family size limitation by parents enhances the upward mobility chances of their children in (post)industrial populations has a long-standing record in many disciplines, including sociology and economics, as well as evolutionary anthropology and social biology. Yet the empirical record supporting or contradicting the theory is surprisingly limited. The aim of this contributio...

Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement Mikaela J. Dufur a,∗, Toby L. Parcel b, Kelly P. Troutman c a Department of Sociology, 2008 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Campus Box 8107, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27603, United States c Departmen...

The current use of Artificial Intelligence methods as tools for theory construction in sociology is reviewed. The main use seems to be the modelling of cognitive models processes of individual actors. Other approaches to simulation in sociology uses very simple models of individual actors, especially cellular automata. The theoretical importance of this kind of model for sociology is neglectabl...

This paper examines the changing nature of knowledge-based innovation systems in light of the dynamic interconnections between the university, industry and government. Industries have to assess in what way and to what extent they decide to internalize R&D functions. Universities position themselves in markets, both regionally and globally. Governments make informed trade-offs between investment...

by the Group a recognizable pattern of the pre-industrial western European family can be detected. Mr. Laslett's classic paper on the villages ofClayworth and Cogenhoe, where this was first revealed, is here, as is one on long-term trends in bastardy. There are others on parental deprivation, the history of aging and the aged, age of sexual maturity in Europe since the Middle Ages, and the hous...

and illegitimate babies and, in some countries, to serious overpopulation. Susser and Watson's book deals with many of these problems and contrasts the health experiences of peasant and industrial populations and in different social classes. The second edition has been enlarged by about one third due to the addition of material from the American experience of the authors and by the addition of ...