Theory is often discussed in relation to research. However, despite its frequent reference, there is a lack of consensus on what theory is. This article briefly discusses some views of theory within sociology and the lack of consensus over what constitutes theory. This lack of consensus makes it...
Is a world (objects and subjects) created by technical means, transmitted to a person through his sensations: sight, hearing, smell, touch, etc. Virtual reality imitates both impact and responses to exposure. Published in Chapter: Electronic Government Aizhan Baimukhamedova (Gazi University, ...
Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result. This could be a single organism, any organization ...
Braithwaite (2022) has argued that both crime and justice can be experienced as forms of domination. He sets out a theory of justice that is based on freedom as foundational in the fight against domination. This concept of freedom here is located within a republican conception that is respectfu...
First, the knowledge of social science to understand the world is “softer” than that of natural science. Social science has no such knowledge as Newtonian mechanics or Einstein’s theory of relativity, and a crisis of repeatable validation in the field of research also occurred recently. Howeve...
and certainly not as Literature.Perhaps literature is definable not according to whether it is fictional or 'imaginative', but becauseit uses language in peculiar ways.On this theory, literature is a kind of writing which, in the words of the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, represents an 'organi...
The centrality of power to social relationships and, thus, as an explanatory category, to sociological theory, is one of the dominant themes of contemporary sociology. 1 This sensibility is of relatively recent origin, deriving from criticisms, in the 1960s and since, of what was held to be ...
What have you seen there in terms of the game theory of interaction and defection?Joe: So lots of humans everywhere have always been concerned about being observed by third parties. One of the key things about humans is that we’re concerned with social norms. If you violate a social norm...
There is no consensus among academicians and practitioners as to the definition or scope of media psychology. This is because the field must be representative of not only the work currently being done, but also the work that needs to be done. This is a field that changes every time iTunes...
“While access to health care is important to people’s health in broad terms,” says Hall, “we think that the health of the population turns less on the quality of the health care, or on the amount of spending that goes into health care, and more heavily on the quality of everyday...