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The Structure of Social Knowledge
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On social knowledge, ideology and the nuclear power debate
… of reasoning in the guidance of the process of social and technological development are encapsulated in the debate about nuclear energy. This thesis takes that debate as a context for analysing the rationality of scientific knowledge of society and the role and influence of such knowledge in …
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Social knowledge of food: How and why people talk about foods
Social knowledge about food was investigated from a social contingency perspective (Guerin, 1994, 1998, 2004), a functional linguistic approach that considers language use having functions both to establish 'facts' in order to control listeners, and to maintain social relationships with words. In …
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Social Knowledge and Sociometric Status: Children's Goals and Strategies for Peer Interaction
Previous interview studies using hypothetical social situations have shown that the social knowledge of low-status children differs from that of high-status children in subtle but significant ways. Low-status children's ideas are inappropriately negative, and appear less likely to build and …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
<p>Social identity has the ability to permeate a multitude of domains in everyday life. Therefore, the science of social psychology—influential due to its impact in education, social and public policy, and the law—rightfully foregrounds the presence of social identity categories in the theorizing …
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An exploration of the innovation process in small digital marketing agencies in the UK : understanding the social, knowledge and structural capital implications
… inter-organisational relationships and sharing knowledge. In service innovation one key characteristic of the service innovation process is the involvement of parties from the external environment of organisations, such as clients, among others, who provide beneficial resources, particularly to …
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Exploiting available domain knowledge to improve the retrieval and recommendation of Digital Cultural Heritage materials
… materials, because they usually have no domain knowledge and also lack the experience of which precise keyword terms to use to search and discover new information. As an attempt to mitigate the issues explained above, recommender systems and visual search interfaces have been used by millions of …
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Social Cognition with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Peer Relationships
… with Autism Spectrum Disorders have deficits in social cognition, and as a result, face many social communication barriers especially with their peers. The purpose of this study was to determine whether social knowledge could be improved for students with high functioning Autism Spectrum …
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The Impact of Citizens' Knowledge On Public Administration: Exploring the Links in Three Social Movements
… develops a conceptual framework linking social knowledge and public administration. Social knowledge is understood broadly as the knowledge used by people in various roles, including experts, ordinary citizens, and public officials, to solve social problems. Social movement knowledge is …
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New knowledge and hopeful spaces : the significance of the frontier in martian history.
… to transition from Aristotelian endoxa to social knowledge and consensus in specific ways.
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How Does Social Media Impact the Postpartum Depression Experience
<p>This study explores the impact Social media has on the postpartum depression experience. To date, no work has examined the association between social media and postpartum depression. This research is an exploration into the use and impact of social media on individuals with postpartum …
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Emerging visualization techniques to support public participation in urban mass transit planning context
… and interpretative way which could augment the social knowledge about those issues. Furthermore, the same framework could easily be expanded to encompass other technical elements. This tool prefigures one of the multiple ways by which information technologies will impact the planning practice. …
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Genetic epistemology and the sociology of knowledge
… in certain shortcomings in the sociology of knowledge and in sociological theory generally. Among such shortcomings are: an unnecessarily restricted conception of knowledge, the neglect of contemporary findings in biology and psychology, and the oversocialized conception of humankind and …
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Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century
… - and are constituted by - "legitimate" social bodies. By foregrounding the internal complexity and empirical immersion of "real" individuals negotiating "realistic" social encounters, eighteenth-century novelists engage in a sustained critique of emerging concepts of "legitimate" …
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The philosophic soul of reform : Herbert Croly's ideal of progressivism
… characterized nineteenth century thought. This social thought, stressing the limits of the rational and defining itself in opposition to metaphysics, a priori reasoning, and absolute truth, defined the ideology of the progressive era. Herbert Croly (1869-1930) is commonly referred to as one of …
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A model for the utilisation of networks and leveraging of the economic benefits of migration capital in emerging markets
… “desirable difficulties” within the context of social, economic and migration capital. The research was inspired by the work of Elizabeth and Robert Bjork (1996 and 2015) and extends the concept of desirable disabilities into the realm of societal “disabilities” that have been overcome by …
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In Search of Homo Sociologicus
… system that is able to show the spreading of knowledge and beliefs in a social network that contains multiple subgroups. Epistemic logic is the study of logical systems that express mathematical properties of knowledge and belief. In recent years, there have been increasing number of new …
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Murals
… today is largely lost as a collective social knowledge, intersects with murals in that plants also provide us with pigments. A mural for an abortion clinic holds the ambition of elevating this historic narrative of reproductive care and agency by encoding knowledge in pigments, a lost …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
This thesis addresses multiple social and psychological implications found within three types of theatre and their communities and audiences. In particular it embraces the theory that people can benefit from the group-healing effect found when one becomes part of the theatre audience or a member of …
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