Natural Selection
... animal classifications have been made by men, and errors in labeling can and do occur. There are about three dozen different breeds of domesticated house cats, but a few taxonomists list most of them as different species. Yet it is generally recognized that they all are in the cat family, Felidae, t ...
... animal classifications have been made by men, and errors in labeling can and do occur. There are about three dozen different breeds of domesticated house cats, but a few taxonomists list most of them as different species. Yet it is generally recognized that they all are in the cat family, Felidae, t ...
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
... application of SSK’s symmetry principle. The complexity of technoscientific networks revealed in their studies cannot be accounted for simply by invoking social factors, however “symmetrically” they are applied to successful and failed courses of action. Natural factors need to be invoked as well—an ...
... application of SSK’s symmetry principle. The complexity of technoscientific networks revealed in their studies cannot be accounted for simply by invoking social factors, however “symmetrically” they are applied to successful and failed courses of action. Natural factors need to be invoked as well—an ...
Renaissance Ruffs and Roman Aromas
... diagnose, and the urban Renaissance practices of testing goods by using the senses is hardly alien to today’s shoppers. Moreover, as Ms. Classen writes: “The social order of 19th-century Europe was marked by a continuation of many of the sensory stereotypes which had been used to characterize social ...
... diagnose, and the urban Renaissance practices of testing goods by using the senses is hardly alien to today’s shoppers. Moreover, as Ms. Classen writes: “The social order of 19th-century Europe was marked by a continuation of many of the sensory stereotypes which had been used to characterize social ...
The “Breakdown” Debate in Social Movements
... some of the cnditions underlying the emergence of various forms of collective actions. Some scholars argue that tht term and its associated ideas should be jettisoned; others find it an apt metaphor which helps to acount for the collective phenomena they seek to explain. What is your position on thi ...
... some of the cnditions underlying the emergence of various forms of collective actions. Some scholars argue that tht term and its associated ideas should be jettisoned; others find it an apt metaphor which helps to acount for the collective phenomena they seek to explain. What is your position on thi ...
- NIILM University
... sociologist; his Muqaddimah was perhaps the first work to advance social-scientific reasoning on social cohesion and social conflict. Most sociological concepts were used in English prior to their adoption as the technical language of sociology. The word sociology (or "sociologie") is derived from b ...
... sociologist; his Muqaddimah was perhaps the first work to advance social-scientific reasoning on social cohesion and social conflict. Most sociological concepts were used in English prior to their adoption as the technical language of sociology. The word sociology (or "sociologie") is derived from b ...
The Exposure Society Experience as a new aspect of social status
... industry (glass). The quote comes from an interview from his book about himself, by himself, published by himself (2007) and sold in his glass making factory in Kosta, the “glass society” of Småland, Sweden, which has 1 million visitors a year.1 ...
... industry (glass). The quote comes from an interview from his book about himself, by himself, published by himself (2007) and sold in his glass making factory in Kosta, the “glass society” of Småland, Sweden, which has 1 million visitors a year.1 ...
Agent-Based Computational Models And Generative Social Science
... Barnsley’s fern (Barnsley, 1988) is a good mathematical example. The limit object indeed looks very much like a black spleenwort fern. But—under iteration of a certain affine function system—it assembles itself in a completely unbiological way, with the tip first, then a few outer branches, eventual ...
... Barnsley’s fern (Barnsley, 1988) is a good mathematical example. The limit object indeed looks very much like a black spleenwort fern. But—under iteration of a certain affine function system—it assembles itself in a completely unbiological way, with the tip first, then a few outer branches, eventual ...
Bo Rothstein (born 1954) holds the August Röhss Chair in Political
... In November 1997, I was invited to Moscow to lecture about the Swedish civil service for academics, politicians and bureaucrats. The topic given to me was, “How To Control the Civil Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. H ...
... In November 1997, I was invited to Moscow to lecture about the Swedish civil service for academics, politicians and bureaucrats. The topic given to me was, “How To Control the Civil Service”. After the talk, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the top officials in the Russian tax authority. H ...
Marx, Engels and Darwin
... France’s revolutionary government reorganized the country’s scientific institutions in the 1790s. In the early 1800s, he argued that all modern animals are the descendants of less complex ancestors. Unlike Darwin, Lamarck didn’t suggest common descent, but rather a complex model in which every type ...
... France’s revolutionary government reorganized the country’s scientific institutions in the 1790s. In the early 1800s, he argued that all modern animals are the descendants of less complex ancestors. Unlike Darwin, Lamarck didn’t suggest common descent, but rather a complex model in which every type ...
Methodological & Epistemological Foundations of EAP
... Taking history (as well as other social sciences) as an empirical science, Hempel began his article with an outright criticism on the historians by underlining that they have focused their research efforts on “the description of particular events of the past” rather than on “the search for general ...
... Taking history (as well as other social sciences) as an empirical science, Hempel began his article with an outright criticism on the historians by underlining that they have focused their research efforts on “the description of particular events of the past” rather than on “the search for general ...
Evolution Programs
... The OneZoom tree of life explorer Evolution of Flightlessness at age three in Birds James Rosindell Ryan Terrill ...
... The OneZoom tree of life explorer Evolution of Flightlessness at age three in Birds James Rosindell Ryan Terrill ...
Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems
... The development of methodological and philosophical discussion of sociology and anthropology paralleled and was closely connected to the creation and self-definition of these fields as academic disciplines. Among the basic strategies were American statistical sociology, which appealed to Karl Pearso ...
... The development of methodological and philosophical discussion of sociology and anthropology paralleled and was closely connected to the creation and self-definition of these fields as academic disciplines. Among the basic strategies were American statistical sociology, which appealed to Karl Pearso ...
HAMILTON`S FORCES OF NATURAL SELECTION AFTER FORTY
... the shifting of the transition ages between development, aging, and late life. For these reasons, evolutionary research on the demographic features of life history should be referred to as “Hamiltonian.” ...
... the shifting of the transition ages between development, aging, and late life. For these reasons, evolutionary research on the demographic features of life history should be referred to as “Hamiltonian.” ...
"Charles Darwin". Encyclopædia Britannica
... against the church and its beliefs that God created man, Adam and Eve, and that humans did not evolve from another creature, like the ape, was like confessing to murder. Darwin befriended Lyell and discussed the change in land height over the years. Darwin never told Lyell his findings and theories ...
... against the church and its beliefs that God created man, Adam and Eve, and that humans did not evolve from another creature, like the ape, was like confessing to murder. Darwin befriended Lyell and discussed the change in land height over the years. Darwin never told Lyell his findings and theories ...
Evolutionary developmental biology: its
... which bring forth characters that have long been lost in the evolutionary line leading to an extant species, were seen as “throwbacks” to earlier eras and as important evidence for evolution as descent with modification. So excited was Zacharias by this discovery that he bought the pig and, after it ...
... which bring forth characters that have long been lost in the evolutionary line leading to an extant species, were seen as “throwbacks” to earlier eras and as important evidence for evolution as descent with modification. So excited was Zacharias by this discovery that he bought the pig and, after it ...
Simulation second edition
... computers (all simulations nowadays are run on computers). It helps to know how to write simple programs, although the first half of this book does not demand any programming knowledge at all, and the second half needs only a beginner’s level of skill. Simulation introduces the possibility of a new ...
... computers (all simulations nowadays are run on computers). It helps to know how to write simple programs, although the first half of this book does not demand any programming knowledge at all, and the second half needs only a beginner’s level of skill. Simulation introduces the possibility of a new ...
Document
... all, a transnational perspective not only helps to look at emergent cross-border social formations, their properties and their entanglements with nation-states and institutions of the nation-state system but also help us to better understand the formation of nation-states and the nation-state system ...
... all, a transnational perspective not only helps to look at emergent cross-border social formations, their properties and their entanglements with nation-states and institutions of the nation-state system but also help us to better understand the formation of nation-states and the nation-state system ...
Human-like social skills in dogs?
... domestication and represent a case of convergent evolution with humans (i.e. similar derived traits in distantly related species; see Figure 2). Perhaps most surprisingly, research with domesticated foxes suggests that dogs’ skills for reading human social-communicative behavior might have initially ...
... domestication and represent a case of convergent evolution with humans (i.e. similar derived traits in distantly related species; see Figure 2). Perhaps most surprisingly, research with domesticated foxes suggests that dogs’ skills for reading human social-communicative behavior might have initially ...