Not Just a Formula Creating compensation strategies is based not only on science but includes political, economic and sociological factors, observes compensation consultant James F. Reda, managing director of James F. Reda Associates, LLC in New York City. "It...
This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will offer the participants an introduction into the most important classical sociological readings between the 18th and 20th century. Highly influential social science scholars, such as Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emi
In 1895, he published The Rules of Sociological Method and set up the first European department of sociology, becoming France's first professor of sociology. In 1898, he established the journal L'Année Sociologique. Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide (1897), a study of suicide rates in ...
Evolutionary studies of cooperation in traditional human societies suggest that helping family and responding in kind when helped are the primary mechanisms for informally distributing resources vital to day-to-day survival (e.g., food, knowledge, money, childcare). However, these studies generally re...
Davis, James A. and Samuel Leinhardt. 1972. “The Structure of Positive Interpersonal Relations in Small Groups.” In Sociological Theories in Progress, vol. 2, eds. Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch, and Bo Anderson (pp. 218-251).
Recent work in psychology indicates that people sometimes violate that rule by attending to explanatory factors. Results from computational modeling suggest that such violations may actually be rational. Use of current explanations in multicausal abductive reasoning - Cognitive Science, 2001. [All ...
For example, the Czech national list of plant communities (Moravec et al., 1983) classified phytosociological associations to the categories (1) extinct, (2) immediately endangered by human activities and threatened by extinction, (3) declining due to human activities, and (4) not endangered by...
of this doctrine ofpapal primacyis the place of St.Peterin theNew Testament(in which there are variousmetaphorsexpressing his prerogatives) and the place of the Roman church in history. The understanding of papal primacy developed as the church developed, two notable factors being the role of...
particular sociological theories that generalize and reflect various categories of sociological research. These particular sociological theories dealing with communities at different levels, for example the sociology of labor, of the family, of science, and of law, serve as intermediate steps between overa...
Some trends and risks of pastoral occupation and agricultural consequences for the Romanian mountain village - the results and conclusions from a sociologi... p class=p1During the sociological research and in the elaboration of this paper, the authors were challenged by a number of threats to th...