Double Contingency of Communications in Bayesian Learning by Atsuhide Mori

“…In this paper, inspired by the notion of modified double contingency of communications from sociologist Niklas Luhmann, we take two manifolds in equal parts and a potential function on their product to set up mutual Bayesian learning. …”
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Quels appuis pour qui veut contribuer à l’histoire du travail social ? by Michel Chauvière

“…Having established why and how, he, a sociologist of “social work in action” has sometimes become a historian, or more exactly a social historian, the author presents to us the ins and outs of two research programmes conducted in contrasting and methodological conditions. …”
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The Kung Fu Family: A metaphor of belonging across time and place by Veronika Partikova, George Jennings

“… Kung Fu associations are often understood as ‘families’ forming broader ‘family trees’ or lineages operating across centuries of history as well as transcultural associations. …”
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Activity, structures and connections: a framework for researching teaching practices in international HE by Tange, H

“…At the centre of this theory-building is the single actor, whose particular teaching practices shape and are shaping the macro-level changes commonly associated with the globalisation of higher education and research. …”

Virtualization of Religious Communities as a Key Tool to Understanding the Evolution of Sociological Concepts of Religiosity by S. D. Lebedev

“…The third stage should probably be associated with the emerging virtual reference approach, when a social subject is engaged in the reflexive construction of one’s religious identity, and a sociologist, on the contrary, shifts the research optics to identify the boundless diversity of its manifestations. …”
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Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich by Ahad Mehrvand, Naser Karmatfar

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Socio-political Perfectionism: A Cross-cultural Study by Yadola Zargar, Fatemeh Sarami

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What Does Developing a Ranking of Leading Contemporary Art Galleries Unveil about the Importance of the National Factor? An Analysis of Art Basel Art Fair by Alain Quemin

“…Since the French sociologist Raymonde Moulin developed her pioneering research in the 1960s, the art market has been continuously studied by social scientists. …”
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Ibn Khaldun and Historical Sociology by Majid Kafi

“…This article tries to give a brief description of Ibn Khaldun as a historical sociologist. Since the Ibn Khaldun’s analysis in respect to the history and government’s rule by law is the result of his this social studies before that of his philosophy and historical studies ( Ibn Khaldun’s analysis on governance , social cohesion ( nervousness ) , the classes , the rise and fall of states and governments , society from primitive to modern , social change and social events is the result of his detailed study) , as a result of he is not a philosopher of history and themes such as Ibn Khaldun's attitude to society and social phenomena as the objectives, sociological analysis of social and historical phenomena that are beyond the analysis relates to the philosophy of history , emphasis on the term umran (construction) and associating it with the term civil society and its human aspects, use of the experimental method in proof of claims are evidences that Ibn Khaldun's modern science is detailed historical sociology nor philosophy of history.…”
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Vem är egentligen expert? by Johan Söderman

“…The theoretical framework stems from sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, including his work within cultural fields and capital forms. …”
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'He's got a life sentence, but I have a life sentence to cope with as well': the experiences of long-term prisoners' partners by Kotova, A

“…It has shown that these families experience numerous pains and deprivations associated with imprisonment, ranging from financial hardship to social (stigma) and emotional issues (grief-like emotions). …”

Manuel Сastells’ concept of the power of communication in the scientific discourse of digital sociology by M. V. Kibakin, M. M. Kryukova

“…The article describes the methodological, methodic and socio-project aspects of the views of the modern sociologist and political scientist M. Castells in the framework of a discursive analysis of the possibilities of their use in the further institutionalization of digital sociology, as a relatively autonomous set of scientific data of sociology. …”
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Introduction by D. Sudha Rani, Rachel Irdaya Raj

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Desestabilización del principio de equivalencia como crisis intelectual en el pensamiento de Jean Baudrillard / Destabilization of the principle of equivalence as an intellectual c... by Luis Alberto López Soto

“…A review is made of the way in which Baudrillard reads these three authors with the aim of associating his body of work with the idea of postmodernity as a crisis of the intellect.…”
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A Foucauldian Reading of Fathia al-Assal's The Women's Prison by Mahmoud El Bagoury, Galal Mohamed Naguib

“…Significantly, the Foucauldian thought takes an oppositional stance to dismantle the diacritics associated with power and punishment through delving deeply into the disciplines which constitute them. …”
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Social Trauma Field and Trauma Habitus with an Emphasis on Bourdieu’s Theory by Esmaeil Nouroozi, Fatemeh Golabi, Tavakkol Aghayari Hir, Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam

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The Study of Relationship Between Cultural Reproduction and Social Class with an Emphasis on Fatalism (The Heads of Households in Isfahan) by Ahmad Moazzeni, Ali Beheshti Doust

“…Introduction: In general, the recognition and measurement of the social class concept has been considered both in the classical and later sociologist's views. The social class, in its general sense, refers to the diverse and unequal access of people to social advanteges. …”
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Biomedical research in france and brazil: an analysis of significant differences and ethical issues by Hervé Moizan

“…The excess of some investigators associated with the pressure from clinical trials leaders led those “body hunters” to get established in developing markets, losing the perspective of the final objective of any biomedical research, which is supposed to be the improvement of the conditions of life for the whole human community. …”
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