Privatized punishment—in which nonstate actors carry out state-mandated criminal punishments—has developed into a common practice since its rise in the 1980s. Many disciplines, including criminology, political science, public administration, and economics, have examined use over past four decades. However, privatized punishment has not garnered much attention sociology. This is surprising, as t...

In this paper the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology is completed. The set of 55 basic concepts in the first two papers on basic concepts was mainly determined by considering concepts in relation to social atoms. The concepts that play a role in n-networks form the majority of the concepts added in ...

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...

In this paper the results are given of an investigation into concepts from Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The goal of this investigation was to find out whether there is a set of concepts that may be considered to be basic to all these five social sciences. The set of concepts found will be modeled in terms of automata, thus providing a way of unify...

zeinab fatemi amin phd student (economic sociology and development) majid fouladiyan phd student (theoretical cultural sociology) the main issue in this paper is two-way causal relationship between educational efficiency in any country and the development in society; it means while education in any society is affected by different levels of development, also as a independent variable influences...

In the process of transition from old institutionalism to new institutionalism, theoretical foundation of old institutionalism was gradually enlarged and more research approaches were integrated. Firstly, rational aspects of behavioristic politics as borrowed. Then, its epistemology, its research target and research level are expanded. Finally, relevant theories of economics, sociology and hist...

edited by Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present by Elisabeth S. Clemens; Doug Guthrie Review by: Nina Eliasoph American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 2 (September 2012), pp. 504-506 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666598 . Acce...

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