this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...

In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's remark in the context of a discussion on history and its possible end, famously initiated by Alexandre Kojève in a lecture on 4 December 1937 at the College of Sociology in Paris;...

This paper attempts to highlight the role of bibliometrics in studying the dynamics of science and technology. Tools and techniques available in bibliometrics to address and understand the complexities of scientific fields are explored. The paper concludes that for wider acceptance among academicians and policy makers, bibliometric approach should ingrain itself within sociology and philosophy ...

A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modelling (also written modeling). Mathematical models are used not only in the natural sciences (such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology) and engineering disciplines (e.g. computer science, artificial intelligence), but also in the so...

* Freshwater Fisheries Research Division, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Ueda, Japan Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan § Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Graduate School of Scie...

H Wallach began this fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the department as part of UMass Amherst’s interdisciplinary research initiative in computational social science (see related article). Within this new initiative, she is collaborating with new faculty in the departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Mathematics & Statistics. “Computational social science is an emerging re...

Juan Ignacio Perotti,1 Hang-Hyun Jo,1, 2, ∗ Petter Holme,3, 4, 5 and Jari Saramäki1 1BECS, School of Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076, Finland 2BK21plus Physics Division and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea 3Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, 440-746 Suwon, Republic of Korea 4Department o...