Rumor communities, social media, and forthcoming innovations: the shaping of technological frames in product market evolution by Seidel, VP, Hannigan, TR, Phillips, N

“…Integrating insights from the sociology of rumor and the affordances of social media, we propose a model of how online product rumor communities shape technological frames in a way not accounted for by prior models of innovation and product market evolution. …”

Institutionalizing inequality: field conditions, institutional belonging, and the distribution of identities by von Jacobi, N, Nicholls, A

“…Much theory has emerged within organizational studies and economic sociology, and within intersectionality research. However, there has, as yet been only limited work on the micro-processes by which institutions create and perpetuate inequality at the individual level. …”

Applying activity theory in multiagency settings by Daniels, H

“…The purpose is to show how Bernstein provides a language of description which allows Vygotsky’s account of social formation of mind to be extended and enhanced through an understanding of the sociological processes which form specific modalities of pedagogic practice and their specialized scientific concepts. …”

Trans-professional diplomacy by Constantinou, C, Cornago, N, Mcconnell, F

“…Secondly, using the lens of the sociology of professions, the development of diplomacy as a distinctive profession is examined, including its importance for the consolidation of the power of modern nation-states. …”

Trouble with the boys: equity concerns about working class boys' behaviour in secondary education by Morton, S

“…Furthermore, the findings highlight potential areas for future scholarship centred on integrating existing literature with sociological action-theories. </p>…”

Thinking about Class by Dorling, D

“…The BBC class survey (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973) and the article published simultaneously in Sociology (Savage et al., 2013) have generated considerable public discussion in the media but that debate is still largely parochially British. …”

What’s in a name? Probabilistic inference of religious community from South Asian names by Susewind, R

“…It potentially enables more detailed analyses in economics, development studies, and political science as well as better sampling procedures in sociology and anthropology. This article describes the algorithm, evaluates its accuracy, reflects on ethical implications, and introduces a sample data set; the software itself is available in an online sup- plement to this article.…”

Understanding women's sleep management: beyond medicalization-healthicization? by Hislop, J, Arber, S

“…This paper addresses sleep, which to date has been a neglected area within the sociology of health and illness. We explore the extent to which the concepts of medicalization and healthicization provide appropriate models for understanding the management of women's sleep disruption. …”

Constitutional courts in hybrid regimes by Yam, J

“…While normative theoretical in substance, the thesis is informed by comparative insights and empirical studies, and draws heavily on a wide range of disciplines including law, political theory and science, sociology and psychology. The thesis hopes to illuminate and inspire judges who are operating in politically challenging environments. …”

Multislice modularity optimization in community detection and image segmentation by Hu, H, Van Gennip, Y, Hunter, B, Bertozzi, A, Porter, M

“…Because networks can be used to represent many complex systems, they have attracted considerable attention in physics, computer science, sociology, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network science is the algorithmic detection of cohesive groups (i.e., "communities") of nodes. …”

Utility Maximisation: Non-concave utility and non linear expectation by Cheung, H

“…Deviations between models and market observations have generated a recent field of study, behavioural finance, which incorporates psychology, sociology and finance together to resolve observed phenomenon like bubbles which conventional finance cannot explain. …”

Explaining explanations in AI by Mittelstadt, BD, Russell, C, Wachter, S

“…We focus on the distinction between these models and explanations in philosophy and sociology. These models can be understood as a "do it yourself kit" for explanations, allowing a practitioner to directly answer "what if questions" or generate contrastive explanations without external assistance. …”

Experienced teachers talking about their mathematics teaching with linguistically disadvantaged learners by Ingram, J, Abbott, A, Smith, K, Planas, N, Erath, K

“…While much has been researched on linguistically disadvantaged learners in the fields of sociology and general pedagogy, little is known about the classroom teaching of mathematical content in language-responsive ways for all learners in school. …”

Models of decision making and residential energy use by Wilson, C, Dowlatabadi, H

“…Four diverse perspectives are reviewed here: conventional and behavioral economics, technology adoption theory and attitude-based decision making, social and environmental psychology, and sociology. The individual decision models in these traditions differ axiomatically. …”

The civic-minded instructional designers framework: an alternative approach to contemporary instructional designers’ education in higher education by Yusop, F.D., Correia, A-P.

“…Drawing from literature in the fields of sociology and educational technology, this paper synthesises discourses on civic professionalism in instructional design and technology, and proposes a conceptual framework that highlights the roles and qualities of a civic-minded instructional designer. …”
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Evaluating the motives of child labourers in the informal economy by Aamar Ilyas, Muhammad Shehryar Shahid, Ramraini Ali Hassan

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Robust bootstrap approach to estimate bias and RMSE of indirect effects in mediation analysis by Fitrianto, Anwar, Midi, Habshah

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A Qualitative Study On The Decoupling Of Environmental And Social Issues From Management Control Systems In A Petroleum Company: An Institutionalist Approach by Abdalla, Yousif Abdelbagi

“…The findings of this study are informed by the New Institutional Sociology theory, which emphasizes that MCS configurations are driven not only by economic or functional factors, but also by institutional factors. …”
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A practical framework for resolving ethical dilemmas in e-learning by Ei, Sun Oh, Chai, Madeline, Ei, Fun Oh

“…E-learning encourages ideas to be exchanged, knowledge transferred and intellectual ideals pursued.On the other hand, e-learning also poses new challenges to traditional notions of education.Almost inevitably, moral dilemmas arise out of the activities of all e-learning participants.These dilemmas range from issues in learning assessment to the ethical implications of using technology for education.The present paper first enumerates and explains a number of ethical principles distilled from an extensive research of literature in philosophy, law, history,sociology, and political science.Examples of how these ethical principles may be applied in resolving real-life moral dilemmas in e-learning will be illustrated. …”
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Management control system and governance practices in NGOs by Ibrahim, Suraiya, Md Shabudin, Amirul Shah, Soo, Jin Cheah

“…This paper forms part of a major research into the development of the management control system and governance practices in a Malaysian non-government organization (NGO).Since NGOs play an important role in the Malaysian community, they are expected to be effective and efficient in management control system and governance in order to achieve targeted goals.Using the new institutional sociology as the theoretical underpinning, this study seeks to understand why and how management control systems and governance practices emerge in the way they do within the Malaysian environment.This paper is the result of a preliminary literature review on management control systems and governance practices commonly undertaken in both for-profit as well as not-for-profit organizations in general.…”
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