In Search of Absolute Inwardness and Spiritual Subjectivity? The Historical and Ideological Context of Schumann's "Neue ...
Fight or flight? Crime as a driving force in business failure and business mobility.
A growing body of research has documented the consequences of neighborhood crime for a myriad of individual, household, and community outcomes. Given that neighborhood businesses figure into the link between neighborhood structure and crime as sources of employment or sites for neighbor interaction, the present study examines the extent to which ne...
Enlisting Supervised Machine Learning in Mapping Scientific Uncertainty Expressed in Food Risk Analysis
© The Author(s) 2017. Recently, both sociology of science and policy research have shown increased interest in scientific uncertainty. To contribute to these debates and create an empirical measure of scientific uncertainty, we inductively devised two systems of classification or ontologies to describe scientific uncertainty in a large corpus of fo...
Science and Sociology: Predictive Power Is the Name of the Game
Back to the Future
Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality
Whereas Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has long been envisioned as a structuralist, quantitative, and positivist sociologist, some materials that Durkheim produced in the later stages of his career—namely, Moral Education (1961 [1902-1903]), The Evolution of Educational Thought (1977 [1904-1905]), The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915 [1912]...
Examining Cumulative Inequality in the Association Between Childhood SES and BMI from Midlife to Old Age.
OBJECTIVES: Socioeconomic status (SES) is among the strongest determinants of body mass index (BMI), particularly for women. For older populations, selection bias due to attrition is a large barrier to assessing the accumulation of inequality. Under multiple missing data mechanisms, we investigated the extent to which childhood and midlife SES affe...
Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand
Youth-Sized Lab Coats: When Children Become Doctors Through Adolescent Healthcare Brokering
Child language brokering refers to the practice of children acting as linguistic and cultural mediators in general settings like school, stores, banks and other personal uses. The primary focus of this paper is “adolescent healthcare brokering,” a term coined in 2016 by researchers Jennifer R. Banas, James W. Ball, Lisa C. Wallis and Sarah Gershon,...
A second opinion: diagnosis and prescription of the American case.
