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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Sociology, Theory and Methods"”.
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De l'État et autres associations humaines
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Toward a Cultural History in the Korean Present: Locating the Cultural Politics of the Everyday
"The aim of this thesis is to explore the complex and messy terrain of Korean cultural studies by working through and articulating a number of explanatory frameworks and problematics---in particular, the cultural politics of theory, the national-popular culture, the urban place/space, and the …
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Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior
… network characteristics, innovation attributes, and adopter demographics/use patterns. Discontinuance, the post-adoption rejection of an innovation, is among the least frequently investigated aspects of diffusion of innovations theory (Parthasarathy & Bhattacherjee, 1998; Rogers, 1995). The …
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Street Kids in Search of Humanization: Expanding Dominant Narratives Through Critical Ethnography and Stories of Lived Experience
… study draws on social theories such as critical theory and poststructuralism to deconstruct the current dominant narratives about street kids in large urban centers in Brazil, as well as to ground the method of this study: critical ethnography. The writing genre I chose to represent the street …
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Emotions and Leisure Experience Evaluations: Investigating Relationships From a Temporal Perspective
… were used. Data were collected from one hundred and fifty hikers in a popular Midwest state park. Emotions were assessed before, periodically during (at 20-minute interval), and after the hike. Satisfaction judgments were assessed periodically during (at 20-minute interval) and after the hike. In …
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Brand Community
… applies one of the most essential notions in sociology, community, to branding in order to guide an exploration of the socially situated nature of brands. Data were collected in two distinct spheres: face-to-face (FtF), and Computer Mediated Environments (CMEs). The findings of this …
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Risk, Reputation, and Interdependence in the Market for Initial Public Offerings: Embedded Networks and the Construction of Organization Value
… increasingly interested in the study of markets and have provided insights regarding how distinctly social phenomena such as reputation and embedded networks of relationships among the transacting parties affect market behaviors and outcomes. These theorists have not, however, examined the role …
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Scope and Scale Economies for Multi-Product Firms: Microeconometric Evidence From Firm-Level Panel Data
… significant firm differences in output mixes and production efficiency. Finn-specific effects are found to be positive and significant. That is, technology of a firm that produces corn, soybeans and wheat can be different than one that produce only corn, or corn and soybeans. Even though this …
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A Composite Theory and Practical Model of Forced Displacement
"The second contribution is that composite theory and computational model will inform us on a key theoretical weaknesses in existing displacement literature. As the ultimate goal of the computational model is forecasting, the theory of forced displacement represents an improvement on existing …
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Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements
… of the regime process encountered, identity and claim formulations used, and the shifts in the scale and scope of a movement. Movements having such a broad impact are termed struggles for recognition and culminate from the combined impact of interactions and discourses in the form of …
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The Development of a Sociometric Model for Selecting Contact Farmers
Descriptive statistics, correlational, and stepwise regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that opinion leaders were more likely to use a wider range of sources of information that contact farmers. Opinion leaders were predominantly male household heads. Both male and …
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Towards a Hermeneutic of Meaningful Social Action
… a "philosophical" investigation of meaning and understanding and a discussion of the sociological methods which follow from, and preserve integrity of, a correct view of the nature of meaningful social action. My analysis is inspired by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Following …
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Max Weber's Object of Knowledge
… Kant's, both directly from his reading of Kant and indirectly through his NeoKantian order of discourse. But Weber's conception of the object of knowledge of his social science--sense and meaning--could not be made to "rhyme" with this Kantian concept of knowledge. This dissertation traces …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
Recent debates in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) literature center on (i) the alleged distinction between the (sociological) context of inquiry and the (epistemological) context of justification, (ii) the relativist--rationalist controversy regarding questions of cognitive warrant, …
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Re-Reading Mead: The Mind-Body Dilemma and Sociology
… Mead on the development of modern sociological theory, sociologists limit their reading of Mead to only a few of his many writings. Not only has this neglect led to a shallow interpretation of Mead, but it has also led to misunderstandings concerning Mead's broader interests and has divorced his …
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Dimensions of Time and Social Togetherness
… book he declares that "the present implies past and future, and to these we (Mead) deny existence." This leads to the basic proposition that time exists in the present only, and that past and future are hunks of recalled or anticipated space which are imported as "then" into people's "now." It …
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The Pragmatic Foundation of Symbolic Interactionism
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A Comparative Analysis of the Symbolic Interaction and Parsonian Theoretical Orientations
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At the Edge: A Social Psychology of the Alienated Self
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Essai de philosophie sociale bantoue
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