Abstract Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and corresponding causal explanation, process, result. A explanation should be foundation prediction. For many years, due to data computing power constraints, quantitative research in has primarily focused on statistical tests analyze correlations causality, leaving predictions largely ignored. B...

Historically, France is home to a number of concepts and practices for the creation welfare state (État providence). The social policy organically woven into economic mechanism this country and, it seemed, its integral part. purpose article identify main directions revision French paradigm. generalization bibliography, historical statistical analysis made possible factors such revision, includi...

Failure to curb water pollution in China brings to the fore the issue of environmental values and attitudes among Chinese farmers. Applying the New Ecological Paradigm Scale this study finds that the pro-environmental value of New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Worldview has a stronger standing among the studied Chinese farmers than the Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP) Worldview.

This paper heralds a paradigm that serves as a reference model for organizations of networked agents. This paradigm suggests modular components that can be combined to form a network organization. For network centricity in this paradigm, I am introducing synergy and social capital as specific network effects that enhance performance at various levels of an organization and overall productivity.

Nearly any social network application is based on the client-server paradigm. This has several serious drawback (data security, costs). This paper introduces the concept of Distributed Context Space which is a concept for loosely coupled (mobile) P2P semantic systems. Shark is a reference implementation of DCS and iSphere is a social network application based on Shark. This paper shows how Sema...