This paper argues that in an age of knowing capitalism, sociologists have not adequately thought about the challenges posed to their expertise by the proliferation of ‘social’ transactional data which are now routinely collected, processed and analysed by a wide variety of private and public institutions. Drawing on British examples, we argue that whereas over the past 40 years sociologists cha...

This study explores woman’s agency in Alameddine’s fiction, An Unnecessary Woman (2013) concerning the normative state of a communal structure that controls women’s behaviors and wishes set by suppression. The current uses deconstruction theory French post-structuralists Jacques Derrida Hélène Cixous, taken from feminist perspective, which undermines gender dichotomies interrupts “the unquestio...

National data on several socio-economic indicators are being collected and disseminated by various agencies including World Bank and United Nations. These indicators are typically visualized using well-known bivariate techniques including geographic maps, line graphs, bar graphs, and scatter plots, with some notable exceptions such as the visualization of four variables on a scatter plot by add...

“malakoot” story (literally celestial kingdom), the only novel written by bahram sadeghi, is one of the memorial work that has been witten under the influence of “boof-e-koor” story (literally blind owl) written by sadegh hedayat by a distinctive style and during a specific period of time. aside from unique content of this story, form and structure of this work are also remarkable and marvelous...

When, if ever, are clinical sociologists justified in accepting the directives of employers and management sponsors as setting the parameters within which they proceed with their work? In particular, is it ever permissible for clinical sociologists to accept an employer's or a manager-sponsor's definition of a problem to be studied, even though they may not view it as the more fundamental probl...

The articles in this special section focus on leading research addressing COVID-19 Consumer technology solutions. technologies need to be developed for health and wellbeing during pandemic, that are closely tied the ground realities, with interdisciplinary expertise of academicians industry professionals including scientists, engineers, medical professionals, sociologists, front-line workers. W...