scholarly journals Conceptual generalization of sociological data

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Gennadiy Kanygin ◽  
Mariya Poltinnikova ◽  
Viktoria Koretskaya
Keyword(s):  
Data Structures ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Data Organization ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Modern Knowledge

In the modern world of exponentially increasing information, it becomes more and more difficult to analyze and organize well-known data such as: texts, tables, files, networks, etc. The considerable diversity of data structures, used in numerous sociological projects, makes it hard for sociologists to be aware of the social information processing that takes place in reality. The article observes shortcomings of sociological data as a tool of social communication that could be overcome with the help of modern knowledge management methods. We propose the new graph context oriented ontological methods that allow sociologists to organize any artifacts into semantic networks. Such representation opens a new way of data organization aimed to unify sociological data structures and to facilitate creation and maintenance of data by a wider range of social actors. We demonstrate how sociological data of different types used in the study of professional links within Russian ethnographic community can be transformed into semantic network and what problems arise during this work.

From state socialism to capitalism: The role of class and the world system

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lane
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Modern World ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
State Socialist

While theories of global capitalism have added a new dimension to our understanding of the dynamics of the modern world, a ‘globalisation’ approach to the transformation of the state socialist societies is relatively underdeveloped. This paper studies the role of international and global factors under state socialism and the world system in the pre-1989 period. The paper considers traditional Marxist approaches to the transition to capitalism and criticises the model of state capitalism as well as the world system approach. In contrast, social actors (the ‘acquisition’ and ‘administrative’ social strata and the global political elite)are identified as playing a major role in the fall of state socialism, and were a nascent capitalist class. The transformation of state socialism, it is contended, had the character of a revolution rather than a shift between different types of capitalism.

scholarly journals Fast Distributed Dynamics of Semantic Networks via Social Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Facundo Carrillo ◽  
Guillermo A. Cecchi ◽  
Mariano Sigman ◽  
Diego Fernández Slezak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Semantic Similarity Measure ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Distributed Structure ◽  
Semantic Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Induced Changes

We investigate thedynamicsof semantic organization using social media, a collective expression of human thought. We propose a novel, time-dependent semantic similarity measure (TSS), based on the social network Twitter. We show that TSS is consistent with static measures of similarity but provides high temporal resolution for the identification of real-world events and induced changes in the distributed structure of semantic relationships across the entire lexicon. Using TSS, we measured the evolution of a concept and its movement along the semantic neighborhood, driven by specific news/events. Finally, we showed that particular events may trigger a temporary reorganization of elements in the semantic network.

scholarly journals Collective intentionality and the social status of artifactual kinds

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Collective Intentionality ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Design Engineering ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Artifact Design

There is a well-developed view of artifacts according to which their nature depends on the intentions of their authors or creators. However, in the modern world of artifact design and creation, typically not one but many agents are involved in the process of making an artifact. In this paper, I show how the intentional view can be maintained even for ‘collective’ artifacts having multiple authors. My approach is to combine some basic concepts that have been proposed in the study of collective intentionality with a suitable model of artifact creation that takes account of the multiple agents and processes that arise in design, engineering and manufacturing a new or existing product. In this way, we can explain how an artifactual kind can be understood via a form of collective intentionality. For the design sciences, notions such as we-intentionality and group agency can help to model different types of cooperation and, in particular, to reconcile individualism with strong forms of collectivity at a group level.

scholarly journals SKIRTINGUS NUSIKALTIMUS PADARIUSIŲ PILNAMEČIŲ NEUTRALIZACIJOS: ĮVAIROVĖ, PAPLITIMAS, SĄSAJOS SU KRIMINALINE PATIRTIMI

Psichologija ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 102-121
Author(s):  
V. Tarozienė
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Illegal Disposal

Remiantis socialinės informacijos apdorojimo modeliu (Crick and Dodge, 1994), papildytu neutralizaCcijos procesu (Sykes and Matza, 1957), straipsnyje analizuojamos turtinius, mišrius, smurtinius ir neteisėto disponavimo nusikaltimus padariusių pilnamečių vyrų neutralizacijos: jų įvairovė ir paplitimas skirtingus nusikaltimus padariusių asmenų grupėse bei priklausomybė nuo nuteistųjų kriminalinės patirties. Neutralizacijos įvertintos smurto neutralizacijos skale (Agnew, 1994) (n = 161) ir analizuojant pusiau struktūruotus interviu apie tiriamųjų padarytą nusikaltimą (n = 67). Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad pilnamečių nuteistųjų neutralizacijų naudojimas susijęs su šių asmenų padaryto nusikaltimo pobūdžiu. Nusikaltimus, turinčius smurto komponentą (mišrius, smurtinius) padarę tiriamieji dažniausiai naudojo atsakomybės neigimo ir aukos neigimo neutralizacijas. Nusikaltimus be smurto komponento (turtinius, neteisėto disponavimo) padarę tiriamieji dažniausiai naudojo žalos neigimo neutralizacijas. Turtinius nusikaltimus padarę nuteistieji žalos neigimo neutralizacijas, o smurtinius nusikaltimus padarę asmenys – aukos neigimo neutralizacijas naudojo dažniau, negu kitus nusikaltimus padarę tiriamieji(p < 0,01). Nustatyta, kad pilnamečiai nuteistieji vienu metu gali naudoti keletą skirtingų neutralizacijų, ir tai, tikėtina, sustiprina neutralizacijos efektą. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė, kad neutralizacijų naudojimas nepriklauso nuo nuteistųjų kriminalinės patirties, taip pat nuo kriminalinės patirties ir padaryto nusikaltimo pobūdžio sąveikos.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: neutralizacija, nusikalstamas elgesys, kriminalinė patirtis.Neutralizations of adults committing different crimes:Variety, prevalence and connection with criminal experienceTarozienė V. SummaryThere is a lack of information about neutralizations used by adult criminals who have committed different crimes. Moreover, very little is known about the mechanism of neutralization establishment and changes of prevalence in groups of people with different criminal experience, and the available data are controversial. According to G.M.Sykes, D.Matza (1957), neutralizations are learned together with the conduct of crime and do not change in prevalence with increasing criminal experience. Other researchers conclude that with accumulation of antisocial experience, the need of neutralization reduces. The aim of this investigation was to identify neutralizations of adult convicts who have committed different crimes and to test the effect of criminal experience on neutralization. There were three goals of the recent study: 1) to identify the prevalence of neutralization in groups of adult convicts who committed property, violence, mixed (robberies) and illegal disposal crimes; 2) to compare the frequency of different neutralizations used by adult convicts who have committed different crimes; 3) to test the effect of criminal experience, as well as of interaction of criminal experience and the type of crime on neutralization. The social information processing model (Crick and Dodge, 1994) complemented with the neutralization process (Sykes and Matza, 1957) was chosen as a theoretical background of the study. We state that neutralizations are the interpretation process in the second step of the social information processing model. Neutralization of adult men who had committed property (theft), violence (murder, aasault), mixed (robbery) and illegal disposal (drugs, alcohol) crimes was investigated. Participants of the research were divided into two groups by the amount of previous convictions. A supra-secondary analysis of data collected during the program “One to one” (Priestley, 2008) was performed. Two investigators coded different types of neutralizations in semi-structured interview protocols about crimes committed by participants (n = 67). Coded information about the frequency of different types of neutralization as well as scores of the violence neutralization scale (Agnew, 1994) (n = 161) were processed in the further statistical analysis.The results of the research showed that the types of neutralization were significantly related to the type of crime committed by adult convicts (p < 0.001). The prevalence of neutralizations varied in groups of men who had committed different crimes. Men who had committed crimes with elements of violence (violent crimes and robberies) mostly used denial of responsibility and denial of victim (above 80% of group participants). Men who had committed crimes without elements of violence (property and illegal disposal crimes) mostly used denial of harm (about 85% of group participants). Groups of convicts who had committed different crimes significantly differed in the rates of two neutralizations: denial of harm (p < 0.01) and denial of victim (p < 0.01). Men who had convicted property crimes used denial of harm and men who had convicted of violent crimes used denial of victim more often than convicts in other groups. Results of this investigation show that convicts can use several different neutralizations at a time. There was an insignificant main effect of the amount of criminal experience on the frequency of neutralization (p > 0.05). Neither there was a significant interaction between the criminal experience and the type of crime on the frequency of neutralization (p > 0.05).Keywords: neutralization, criminal behavior, criminal experience.

Impact of the Locus of Causality and Internal Control on the Social Utility of Causal Explanations

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perrin ◽  
Benoît Testé
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
External Control ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

Research into the norm of internality ( Beauvois & Dubois, 1988 ) has shown that the expression of internal causal explanations is socially valued in social judgment. However, the value attributed to different types of internal explanations (e.g., efforts vs. traits) is far from homogeneous. This study used the Weiner (1979 ) tridimensional model to clarify the factors explaining the social utility attached to internal versus external explanations. Three dimensions were manipulated: locus of causality, controllability, and stability. Participants (N = 180 students) read the explanations expressed by appliants during a job interview. They then described the applicants on the French version of the revised causal dimension scale and rated their future professional success. Results indicated that internal-controllable explanations were the most valued. In addition, perceived internal and external control of explanations were significant predictors of judgments.

Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

Human Ear Pattern Recognition System

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Jagan Naveen ◽  
K. Krishna Kishore ◽  
P. Rajesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Expectation Maximization Algorithm ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Person Identification ◽  
Biometric Systems ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Human Ear ◽  
Pca Algorithm

In the modern world, human recognition systems play an important role to   improve security by reducing chances of evasion. Human ear is used for person identification .In the Empirical study on research on human ear, 10000 images are taken to find the uniqueness of the ear. Ear based system is one of the few biometric systems which can provides stable characteristics over the age. In this paper, ear images are taken from mathematical analysis of images (AMI) ear data base and the analysis is done on ear pattern recognition based on the Expectation maximization algorithm and k means algorithm.  Pattern of ears affected with different types of noises are recognized based on Principle component analysis (PCA) algorithm.

The Social Furniture of Virtual Worlds

Disputatio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (55) ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Peter Ludlow
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Causal Powers ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
David Chalmers ◽  
The Social

AbstractDavid Chalmers argues that virtual objects exist in the form of data structures that have causal powers. I argue that there is a large class of virtual objects that are social objects and that do not depend upon data structures for their existence. I also argue that data structures are themselves fundamentally social objects. Thus, virtual objects are fundamentally social objects.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE - THE HERO CITY OF KYIV AS A GUARANTEE OF THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS OF UKRAINE AND THE TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY OF THE CITY

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Chepov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
City Councils ◽  
The Social ◽  
District Management ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The qualitative and clear definition of the legal regime of the capital of Ukraine, the hero city of Kyiv, is influenced by its legislative enshrinement, however, it should be noted that discussions are ongoing and one of the reasons for the unclear legal status of the capital is the ambiguity of current legislation in this area. Separation of the functions of the city of Kyiv, which are carried out to ensure the rights of citizens of Ukraine and the functions that guarantee the rights of the territorial community of the city of Kyiv. In the modern world, in legal doctrine and practice, the capital is understood as the capital of the country, which at the legislative level received this status and, accordingly, is the administrative and political center of the state, which houses the main state bodies and diplomatic missions of other states. It is the identification of the boundaries of the relationship between the competencies of state administrations and local self-government, in practice, often raises questions about their delimitation and ways of regulatory solution. Peculiarities of local self-government in Kyiv city districts are defined in the provisions of the Law on the Capital, which reveal the norms of the Constitution in these legal relations, according to which the issue of organizing district management in cities belongs to city councils. Likewise, it is unregulated by law to lose the particularity of the legal status of the territory of the city. It should be emphasized that the subject of administrative-legal relations is not a certain administrative-territorial entity, but the social group is designated - the territorial community of the city of Kiev, kiyani. Thus, the provisions on the city of Kyiv partially ignore the potential of the territorial community.

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