ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF VALUES: PATTERNS OF RESEARCHFirst page of articledoi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.1972.tb00210.xJohn H. BarnsleyJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Sociological Review
Culture is one of the most important concepts within sociology because sociologists recognize that it plays a crucial role in our social lives. It is important for shaping social relationships, maintaining and challenging social order, determining how we make sense of the world and our place in it...
Citizen science evolved through multiple disciplinary manifestations into a new field of study and a participatory method of enquiry. While most citizen science projects take place within problem-focused natural sciences, social sciences and humanities help understanding the human dimension and open a broa...
One of the methods to measure predictability is a data challenge, where several teams compete to predict a particular outcome using the same dataset and evaluation criteria. Data challenges have led to major progress in different disciplines [39,40,41], but rarely have been used in the social ...
Almost all architects today have abandoned making prescriptions for how people should live. They have learned from the mistakes of Modernism, when architects sought to construct the ideal home for the family. The now nearly universal judgment is that the
OpenFlow has become the most important architecture for managing large scale complex networks and has, therefore, become the major bet for SDN. This is a specification that need be applied in matured systems through implementations. Hu et al. [69] provide a survey of the target applications, ...
anthropology of art, sociology of art and geography of art have all deepened the understanding of the relationship between art, culture, society and geographical environment, and the new perspective has been further developed. In the field of art and technology, creative studies of AI art, digital...
a large number of journals local to Africa are excluded from all of the major international indexes (AU-NEPAD,2010). Finally, while the quality of many publications is poor, there are in fact some very good journals that are not listed in any of the well-known indexes. As AU-NEPAD (201...
In a nutshell, the concept of culture has two major definitions. On the one hand, culture is an integrated set of values, norms and behaviors acquired by human beings as members of a society. As such, culture constitutes an element of identification within a given group of indiv...
Race and gender differences in how sense of belonging influences decisions to major in STEM Explore related subjects Introduction Women continue to be underrepresented in certain STEM fields, where they also experience lower levels of equity and inclusion despite progress made toward increasing women’s...