Wikio - Sociology

do online journals hamper science? (orgtheory.net)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:20:19 GMT

James Evans (U of Chicago, Sociology) has a nice piece in the recent issue of the journal Science about how access to online journals has shaped and narrowed and perhaps hampered the way scientific knowledge is created. A very interesting piece — here’s the abstract. Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences [...]

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science, online journals and the diffusion of knowledge (orgtheory.net)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:08:12 GMT

James Evans (U of Chicago, Sociology) has a nice piece in the recent issue of the journal Science about how access to online journals has shaped and structured and narrowed the way knowledge diffuses and progresses. A very interesting piece — here’s the abstract. Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and [...]

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Ibn Azam (Blog Catalog Blog Directory)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:17:19 GMT

An eclectic blog, mostly concerned with philosophy, theoretical science, sociology, etc.

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Poverty and Welfare State (Thinking made Easy)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:22:31 GMT

INTRODUCTION This essay discusses about sociology and poverty as to how it is measured. Sociology when defined is a field of social science that involves the study of the people’s lives, groups and societies in a social context. Moreover, it has been considered to be a study of social aggregations...

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[NEWS] SOCIOLOGY: Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online (Science Mag)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:42:32 GMT

A sociologist argues on page 395 of this week's issue of Science that making scholarly articles available online has narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before--the opposite of what most people expected. Author: Jennifer Couzin

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ScienceWatch Citation Briefs (Resource Shelf)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:01:02 GMT

+ Journal Rankings in Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1997-2007 + Science in Italy, 2003-07 + Law: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2003-07 + Science in Medicine + Institution Rankings in Engineering 1997-2007 + Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology + Plant Science: High-Impact U.S. Institutions, 2003-07 + Hot Paper in [...]

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Cargo cult science: sociology of science (The Reference Frame)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT

... but they are worse, he says. Spencer Weart, a hard core global warming alarmist and a historian of science who believes that we live in an unprecedented era of a catastrophic warming (see his book about the "discovery" of global warming ), is quoted as saying that we also live in the "slowest period" of physics in 200 years. Note that the two pieces of nonsense he likes to say are very similar....

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Fluffy Links - Monday July 14th 2008 (Damien Mulley)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:11:14 GMT

Don’t forget the Facebook competition I’m running. Via Riemann’s Cut - JazzClub er Cork Jazz Festival blog. An Authors@Google video: Farhad Manjoo wrote “True Enough” a book where he presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief over fact. 9/11 for a start. The Irish [...]

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Elementary Particles (Kieran Healy's Weblog)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:43:59 GMT

I am all in favor of further work at the intersection of sociology and emerging work in biology, cognitive science and neuroscience. There is surely much to be learned. But, let’s face it, this seems needlessly limiting. Particle physics has been in the doldrums a bit lately, so they could do with some interdisciplinary reinvigoration. [...]

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"The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs" (Newmark's Door)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:35:00 GMT

Divided into the following categories: art, economics, education, English, history, math, media/technology, music, philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, and theology. The economics section would be particularly strong even if it didn't include The Door. I thank Ms. Fiona Lewis for...

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Free Sociology Thesis Ideas (Dissertation Editing)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:39:44 GMT

Sociology is a science that allows understanding a lot of problems of the society we live in. That is why it will always be popular. Writing a thesis in sociology will make you a real expert in this sphere. It gives you a lot of career opportunities and chances. In this article we are not going [...]

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'Earth not flat', say academics (Prodicus)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:09:00 GMT

Academics at the University of Durham say that high A level grades in the physical sciences and maths are more difficult to attain than in media studies and sociology. Professor V Important of Durham's Department of the Bleeding Obvious said: 'After extensive research, we are pretty confident that our results provide fairly convincing evidence that it may take a few more little grey cells...

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We Let the Social Sciences Die At Our Academic Peril (All Africa)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:45:17 GMT

There is a corpus of academic disciplines which are collectively called social sciences. This collection includes subjects such as literature, music, religion, history, sociology, geography and languages.

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Rwanda: Policy Research Institution Opens (All Africa)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:00:51 GMT

The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research - Rwanda (IPAR-Rwanda), a body tasked to promote research in economics, sociology, political science, and law has been launched.

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The Core Business of Social Science (Gruntled Center)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:24:00 GMT

C. Wright Mills, in his classic introduction to sociology, The Sociological Imagination , makes this fascinating aside: The social science movement was born in the mid-19th century to “turn the troubles of lower-class people into issues for middle-class publics” (84). Social science was invented by middle class reformers as a tool to convince other middle class people of the need...

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One Third of Bulgarians Think Corruption Increased after EU Accession (Sofia News Agency)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:01:13 GMT

More than one third of the Bulgarians, or 37,2% believe that the corruption in the country increased after it joined the EU on January 1, 2007. This is a finding of a recent public opinion poll carried out by the Sociology Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the National Center for...

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Liberal quackology at its worst (Ranting Stan)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:26:00 GMT

Anyone who has read this blog for some time will know that I am not a fan of the "social sciences" such as sociology and psychology. At their best they are entertaining folly, but at their worst they are dangerous ideological principles which far too many seem to take seriously. I class this in the latter category. The author of When Good People Have Affairs, published this week, argues...

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Female lawyers less likely to make partner: Study (Thaindian News)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:45:18 GMT

Washington, June 1 (ANI): A new study from University of Iowa has revealed that female lawyers are more likely to practice in firm, but are less likely to make a partner. The study led by Mary Noonan, associate professor of sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has found that women who practiced [...]

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Newsmaker: Nancy Jaquette (Red Orbit )

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:26 GMT

By Rick Stouffer Residence: Robinson Age: 56 Family: Single Occupation: Compliance officer, Beaver County Behavioral Health Education: Master's degree in social work, University of Pittsburgh; bachelor's degree in history, sociology and political science, Wittenberg University Background: Previously worked in the state Department of Public Welfare's Office of Mental Health and Substance...

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Podcasts on video, sociology and economics (Intute: Social Sciences Blog)

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:44:17 GMT

About 18 months ago, Intute: Social Sciences ran a podcast pilot of 12 episodes presenting some Social Science information news, new resources from Intute and interviews with the Social Science community. While checking through our web stats, I was pleasantly surprised to see that some of these episodes are still being regularly downloaded. Episode 9 featuring an [...]

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