Presented contribution deals with legality and legitimacy in the field of political science sociology a narrower focus on mechanisms legitimization trust, issue acquisition loss legitimacy. The concepts "legitimacy" "legality" are directly linked to exercise official authority. Both terms have common basis, based law, what is line law. clarification premise that legitimate must be legal (legal)...

This article explores the limits of social constructionism and criticizes the ‘demiurgic conception of society’ associated with it. It contemplates the possibility of sociological realism by investigating the intrinsic and objective properties of action, cognition and morality. The incorporation of intrinsic meanings and intentions in social actions, the objective information supporting cogniti...

There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. Our work focuses on modeling the social capital existing within these networks. The area spans multiple disciplines including sociology, political science, and computer science. This research area overview covers the most pert...

In France, in the private sector as in the public sector, performance-based management tends to become a norm. Performance-based management is supposed to improve service quality, productivity and efficiency, transparency of allotted means and achieved results, and to better focus the activity of employees and of the whole organization. This text reports a study conducted for the French Ministr...

five library and information science core journals had published 679 papers during io-year period(1373-1382 h.), which contain 7234 citations. the purpose of this study is to identify the tran disciplinary relation models of this journal articles during the ten years, also try to explore the most cited sources, the prominent language of citations and to compare the number of cited translated so...

In this article we revisit Alvin Gouldner’s The Corning Crisis o,f Wvstern Sociology ( I 970). I n part, this article is an attempt to apply Gouldner’s own lessons about the sociology of knowledge to his own work, situating it with respcct to the dominant epistemological unconscious of late 1960s American sociology as well as thc broader historical context of a still-vibrant Fordist inode of so...