scholarly journals Autonomous automobilities: The social impacts of driverless vehicles

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bissell ◽  
Thomas Birtchnell ◽  
Anthony Elliott ◽  
Eric L Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Or Efficiency ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Social Scientific

Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article argues that what is therefore largely missing from current debates is a sensitivity to the broader social implications of autonomous vehicles. The article aims to remedy this absence. Through a speculative mode, it is shown how a mobilities approach provides an ideal conceptual lens through which the broader social impacts of autonomous vehicles might be identified and evaluated. The argument is organized across four dimensions: transformations to experiences, inequalities, labour and systems. The article develops an agenda for critical sociological work on automated vehicles; and it calls on sociologists to contribute much-needed critical voices to the institutional and public debates on the development of autonomous vehicles.

The Social Geography of Prostitution1

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Settle
Keyword(s):  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Police Records ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Historical Agency

This chapter uses court and police records alongside other contemporaries’ writings on prostitution to gain a fuller understanding of how prostitution was organised and to explore the wider social implications attached to this use of space. By chronologically mapping the changing location of prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow, it is possible to track how emerging technologies and the development of new entertainment venues influenced the location of prostitution and shaped women’s opportunities for successful solicitation. The first half of the chapter focuses on the geography of prostitution in Edinburgh, beginning with street solicitation and moving on to look at the location of brothels. The second half examines the location of prostitution in Glasgow, following a similar pattern. Whilst the previous chapter stressed the role that the state played in shaping the organisation of prostitution, this chapter will show that the women’s utilisation of new commercial and technological developments was at least equally important in that process, thus demonstrating women’s ability to cross boundaries of gender, class and respectable femininity, highlighting these women’s historical agency.

Ubiquitous tools, connected things and intelligent agents: Disentangling the terminology and revealing underlying theoretical dimensions

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Etzrodt ◽  
Sven Engesser
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Key Questions

Research on the social implications of technological developments is highly relevant. However, a broader comprehension of current innovations and their underlying theoretical frameworks is limited by their rapid evolution, as well as a plethora of different terms and definitions. The terminology used to describe current innovations varies significantly among disciplines, such as social sciences and computer sciences. This article contributes to systematic and cross-disciplinary research on current technological applications in everyday life by identifying the most relevant concepts (i.e., Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, Smart Objects and Environments, Ambient Environments and Artificial Intelligence) and relating them to each other. Key questions, core aspects, similarities and differences are identified. Theoretically disentangling terminology results in four distinct analytical dimensions (connectivity, invisibility, awareness, and agency) that facilitate and address social implications. This article provides a basis for a deeper understanding, precise operationalisations, and an increased anticipation of impending developments.

scholarly journals Culturalizare în uniformă. Articole și documente privind Legea Serviciului Social 1938-1939. Antologie de Zoltán Rostás și Dragoș Sdrobiș. Prefață de Zoltán Rostás, postfață de Dragoș Sdrobiș. Editura Paideia, București, 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 244-251
Author(s):  
Maria Larionescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Young Student ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Public Debates

The volume includes an anthology of studies, laws, documents, investigations, and discourses concerning “social engineering” and the young student population, aiming to clarify multiple misunderstandings and myths concerning the Social Service Law, 1938, both from the respective historical period and from recent debates. To this purpose, authors employ a triple strategy of clarifying this piece of legislation: 1) an analysis of the Euro-Atlantic and national contexts of the interbellum period that frames the social service initiatives; 2) connecting the Law to the great public debates of the XIXth century, concerning the life of peasants in the context of village modernization; 3) integrating the experiences of cultural work in villages in the broader, comprehensive vision of the Sociological School of Bucharest, specifying them as a deepening of village modernization on four dimensions: culture of work, of health, of mind and of soul.

scholarly journals A comprehensive study on smart cities: recent developments, challenges and opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
V. Sandeep ◽  
Pallavi V. Honagond ◽  
Pooja S. Pujari ◽  
Seong-Cheol Kim ◽  
Surender Reddy Salkuti
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Comprehensive Study

<p>This paper presents the importance and applications of smart cities in view of taxonomy in urbanization particularly in Asia and Africa economies. It describes the characteristics and architecture of smart cites and reviews on the recent technological developments. The paper analyses the social impacts due to up-gradation of existing cities. The implementation goals like policies and standards are still in progressive state. The international organizations like IEEE, ISO, IEC etc are focused in this emerging area and prepared road map for successful deployment of technologies in cities. In this way of development, there are some interesting challenges like visualization, integration, privacy etc, need to be addressed with specific and innovative solutions. The paper highlights the opportunities in developing and governance of smart cities.</p>

Narratief onderzoek

KWALON ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneke Sools
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Methodical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Social Scientific

Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. Narrative research. An introduction of characteristics and challenges of a rapidly growing research field. This article provides a brief overview of different narrative approaches in social scientific inquiry. First different definitions, methodological and epistemological approaches are introduced. Then, the emergence of a narrative approach in the social sciences is situated in historical and societal contexts. Finally, some challenges and potentials of developing this rapidly growing approach are identified. In particular the use of technological developments and the advancement of the relational turn in narrative inquiry are addressed. In the discussion, arguments are presented concerning a more methodical approach and attention is drawn to the risks of losing the humanistic potential of narrative research.

The social implications of technology

1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
J.D. Radford ◽  
D.B. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Social Implications ◽  
The Social

Narrating Society: Enacting ‘Immigrant’ Characters through Negotiating, Naturalization, and Forgetting

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Media And Communication

This article scrutinizes how ‘immigrant’ characters of perpetual arrival are enacted in the social scientific work of immigrant integration monitoring. Immigrant integration research produces narratives in which characters—classified in highly specific, contingent ways as ‘immigrants’—are portrayed as arriving and never as having arrived. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at social scientific institutions and networks in four Western European countries, this article analyzes three practices that enact the characters of arrival narratives: negotiating, naturalizing, and forgetting. First, it shows how negotiating constitutes objects of research while at the same time a process of hybridization is observed among negotiating scientific and governmental actors. Second, a naturalization process is analyzed in which slippery categories become fixed and self-evident. Third, the practice of forgetting involves the fading away of contingent and historical circumstances of the research and specifically a dispensation of ‘native’ or ‘autochthonous’ populations. Consequently, the article states how some people are considered rightful occupants of ‘society’ and others are enacted to travel an infinite road toward an occupied societal space. Moreover, it shows how enactments of arriving ‘immigrant’ characters have performative effects in racially differentiating national populations and hence in narrating society. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on “Media, Migration, and Nationalism,” guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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