Background: The role of online health communities (OHCs) in patient empowerment is growing and has been increasingly studied in recent years. Research has focused primarily on individualistic conception of patients' empowerment, with much less attention paid to the role of OHCs in the development of patients' collective empowerment. Although OHCs h...
By focusing on the Chinese official discourse of "neoindustrialisation" published on the People's Daily, this article not only provides an understanding of the Chinese official understanding of information society and information economy, but also foregrounds the issue of information in China's conflicted reintegration with global capitalism. This ...
Avtor poudarja, da je sta bila že Spencer in Durkheim, še bolj očitno pa Weber in Parsons, skeptična do nekaterih predpostavk o družbeni evoluciji kot nujnem napredku in/ali kot uresničevanju določenega načrta. Čeprav so človeški akterji in družbeni sistemi zmožni načrtovanja, njihovo načrtovanje niti ne nasprotuje niti ne spreminja splošne logike ...
Dosedanje razprave o mikro- in makrosociologiji so bile preveč zaprte v okvire retrospektivne analize same sociološke misli. Niso vključevale sprememb (zlasti tistih na podlagi nove informacijske in komunikacijske tehnologije), ki izpodkopavajo (hierarhično) strukturo prostorskega reda na prehodu iz industrijske v informacijsko družbo. To je imelo ...
