Dorothy Sayers's analogy between cows and facts hides both a philosophical and a methodological point. Since both will guide us. throughout this essay, I will begin by discussing each at some length. The· philosophical point is that facts are not something we can take for granted or think of as the solid rock upon which knowledge h built. Their nature is problematic so much so that confrontatio...

We are developing an ontology of microsocial concepts for use in an instructional system for teaching cross-cultural communication. We report here on that part of the ontology relating to interpersonal relationships. We first explicate the key concepts of commitment, shared plans, and good will. Then in terms of these we present a formal account of simple exchanges, the host-guest relationship,...

The aim of this paper is to substitute sociologically more pertinent explanations for the popular sociology notions of "interaction" and "hybrid society". The scope and implications of these notions are discussed from a perspective of microsociology as applied to distributed artifical intelligence. The authors argue that only a precise use of the terms in specific disciplinary contexts is condu...

Abstract The development of artificial agents for social interaction pushes to enrich robots with skills and knowledge about (local) norms. One possibility is distinguish the expressive functional orders during a human-robot interaction. overarching aim this work set framework make agent socially-competent beyond dyadic – in varying multi-party situations individual-based user personalization, ...

Human behaviour is context-dependent—based on predictions and influenced by the environment and other people. We live in a dynamic world where both the social stimuli and their context are constantly changing. Similar dynamic, natural stimuli should, in the future, be increasingly used to study social brain functions, with parallel development of appropriate signal-analysis methods. Understandi...

The main purpose of this article – is the systematization of stages and trends of the sociology of education development in Ukraine. The article solves problems of separating the stages of development of this branch of sociology in Ukraine, the personification of their frameworks and the analysis of the research methodology used. The results of the research were obtained from use of the histori...

Human behaviour is context-dependent-based on predictions and influenced by the environment and other people. We live in a dynamic world where both the social stimuli and their context are constantly changing. Similar dynamic, natural stimuli should, in the future, be increasingly used to study social brain functions, with parallel development of appropriate signal-analysis methods. Understandi...