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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of the professors in the field of sociology. The basis is a full survey of professors at departments of sociology at … sociology professors, which indicates the ongoing dominance of specific pattern of recruitment. In particular the inclusion of …
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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of professors in the field of sociology. This investigation is based upon a full survey of professors at sociological …
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important, if often under-appreciated, steps to incorporate insights from social and political theory, but that these (hard …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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roots and bearers, their institutional academic bases within geography, economics, sociology, planning, and other fields …
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The idea of synthesising theory is receiving attention within public health as part of a drive to design theoretically … informed interventions. Theory synthesis is not a new idea, however, having been debated by sociologists for several decades …. We consider the various methodological approaches to theory synthesis and test the feasibility of one such approach by …
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This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...
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and somewhat cynical toward Management theory. …
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George J. Stigler's seminal role as one of the founders of the economics of science is summarized and evaluated. His main contribution rests in his asking an array of important questions and arguing persuasively for the application of empirical, and especially statistical, techniques to the...
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