Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv)

Two Cultures of Walking: A Human-Scale Comparison of Pedestrian Behaviors in Hong Kong and San Francisco This study compares pedestrian behaviors in station areas of Hong Kong and San Francisco to explore how culture and urban design shape human-environment interactions. With fie
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Absence of Correlation Between Lunar Phases and Birth Rates: A Statistical Analysis of 135,000 Japanese Individuals Background: The belief that the frequency of births increases during the full moon or new moon (the so-called "lunar effect") persists among the general public and
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Does work time reduction improve workers' well-being? Evidence from global four-day workweek trials Time spent on the job is a fundamental aspect of working conditions that influences many facets of individuals’ lives. We study how an organisation-wide four-day workweek intervent
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Code Mixing and identity: A Gender-Based study in a public University of Bangladesh This paper examines how male and female students at a Bangladeshi public university mix English and Bangla languages. It examines how frequently and in what manner these students employ code-mixin
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Adaptive Infophilia: The Ethics of Information Power This paper integrates Chris Bronk's information power framework with adaptive infophilia theory to explain how our evolutionary drive for information both empowers us and endangers us in the context of digital content and geopo
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Beyond the Discount War: Strategy and Survival in India’s Food Delivery Duopoly India’s online food delivery market has consolidated into a stable duopoly following the exits of Uber Eats and Amazon Food. Standard Bertrand competition predicts that such a market structure should
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Hypotheses on Baseball Decline Among Youth in Japan Youth well-being has become an increasing concern in Japan in recent years. This study considers sports as a potential factor impacting the lives and psychology of young people and examines the long-standing and widely cherished
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The Wall Teaches the Rooms: Transduction, Equivalence, and the Cost of Cross-Interface Coordination How do agents with radically different experiential repertoires achieve communicative coordination? This paper introduces a minimal analytical framework organized around two parame
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Working paper: The Greenium as the Value of a Sign Why should bonds issued by the same sovereign trade at different yields when they differ only in their label? This paper proposes that the greenium — the yield compression observed on green bonds relative to their conventional co
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“The Indicator of CCTV Success is Winning Elections”: Insights from the Implementation of an Algorithmic Video Surveillance System in Poland This article explores the emergence and dynamics of institutional collaboration surrounding the implementation of an algorithmic video surv
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Now as Then: The Construction of Structural Barriers to 'Right to Abode' for Racialised Commonwealth Migrants in Britain — A Rapid Review of Contemporary Oppositional Voices This rapid review synthesises 17 sources from legal scholars, historians, and advocacy organisations to ar
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Fame as an Illusion of Creativity: Evidence from Pioneers of Abstract Art We disentangle two social structural views of fame: whether social structure influences fame directly or through the mechanism of creativity. We test these views in a significant empirical context: 90 pione
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Riskante Retweets: „Predictive Risk Intelligence“ und Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken Social media play a paradoxical role for matters of interest representation in global value-creation networks. On the one hand, social media platforms offer workers an
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Citizen voice as democratic data: public administration’s role in knowing the public in representative government Public administration (PA) has long experimented with ‘bringing the public in,’ yet democratic theory cautions that such approaches may displace rather than resolve d
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Pre-Framework Sustainability Governance: A Historical Analysis of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Sustainability Legacy, 1946–2004 The global sustainability narrative is structured around Western institutional milestones beginning in 1972, with recognition accruing to the arc
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Retooling the tools of critical reflection: On how quotidian tasks undermine critical inquiry This paper describes a fundamental ambivalence in the ‘tools’ deployed in education. These aim to support critical reflection, yet undermine criticality by reproducing the dominant disco
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Party youth wings as forces of renovation: A study of young women members’ efficacy and ambition Party youth wings are a vital pipeline to power in parliamentary democracies, but have been overlooked by gender scholars. We investigate the political socialization that youth wings
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MultiSpline: Nonlinear Multilevel Spline Modeling Across R, Python, and Stata We introduce MultiSpline, a cross-platform software suite for nonlinear multilevel spline modeling implemented in R, Python, and Stata. Nonlinear relationships between continuous predictors and outcomes
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“In Real Life, Everything Feels so Different”: Autistic, Embodied Perspectives on Online Sociality Background: Autistic adults often report heightened bodily vulnerability in face-to-face interactions, shaped by factors such as social expectations and sensory demands. With the in
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Psychotherapy in Unsettled Times: How Therapists Mediate Between Collective Crises and Personal Distress Psychotherapy has long been critiqued for turning individuals inward and away from civic life. Drawing on 40 interviews with therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area, this art
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POPULATION GROWTH, INFRASTRUCTURE DEMAND, AND CONSTRUCTION TRADE: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS FOR BANGLADESH Bangladesh’s population growth and urbanization have heightened demand for construction materials, leading to heavy import reliance amid domestic supply constraints. This s
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Digitale Souveränität in der Data Governance Schweizer Unternehmen As a result of growing international tensions, digital sovereignty has become a topic of increasing relevance for European and Swiss stakeholders. Beyond the significance of digital sovereignty to states and citiz
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Right-wing Populism in a Global Perspective: The Necessity for an Integrative Theory This chapter not only presents a critical review of the contemporary academic literature regarding the “social nature” (basic characteristics), “social manifestations,” and “social nurtures” (det
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SCOPE: A Decision Framework for Evaluating the Sustainability and Ethics of AI Adoption Evaluation tools for AI rarely address both ethical and environmental dimensions. This paper introduces SCOPE, a decision framework for assessing AI projects across five integrated dimensions:
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Azerbaijani Identity in Iran: A Systematic Review, Identity Spectrum, and Analysis of Contemporary Developments Context. Estimates suggest that 20–30 million Azerbaijanis live in Iran, a population two to three times larger than that of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Although offici
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[L] Interaction Paradigms and Design Philosophy for "Symbiotic Intelligence": From HCI to HAC (Human-AI Co-becoming) Traditional Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) primarily focuses on usability, efficiency, and user experience. However, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes incr
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Revisiting the social determinants of health with explainable AI: a cross-country perspective In social science and epidemiological research, individual risk factors for mortality are often examined in isolation, while approaches that consider multiple risk factors simultaneously
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Politicizing menopausal flesh: Collective bodies and affective endurance in graphic narrative Menopause is often stigmatized and viewed as a private health issue, contributing to the marginalization of aging female bodies. Despite the rise of medical humanities, menopause is rare
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Policy-driven innovation: The science-policy nexus in artificial intelligence research in Germany This study reconstructs and characterises the science-policy nexus in the field of artificial intelligence research in Germany, examining the alignment between normative policy goals
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Eco-Digital Posthumanism: Eco-Digital Co-Responsible Agency, Genealogy and Research Agenda Eco-Digital Posthumanism is a sociological-philosophical theory that redefines subject formation and civic responsibility at the intersection of ecological systems and digital infrastruct
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