US sociology has been historically segregated in that, at least until the 1960s, there were two distinct institutionally organized traditions of sociological thought - one black and one white. For the most part, however, dominant historiographies have been silent on that segregation and, at best, reproduce it when addressing the US sociological tradition. This is evident in the rarity with whic...

Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing interest. Most past sociological work has only described stigmatization, rather than developing ways to facilitate coping with it. A model for cop...

This paper introduces a new direction in formalizing sociological models. Sociological theories are a field of application for computer science, hence sociologists describe a theory in informal ways. These theories are transformed into computational models which can be studied and investigated with formal methods. We have chosen to formalize a common model of sociological theory, the Garbage Ca...

This article examines intimacy from a sociological perspective. It reveals that 'over-involved' or 'intimate' nurse-patient relationships do not tend to be welcomed by nurses. The work of certain theorists is explored to provide a sociological explanation of intimate nurse-patient relationships and to highlight the complexities of nurses developing intimate relationships with patients in the wo...

This paper is concerned with how to construct a sociology of wine. It begins by considering the sociologist’s relations wine, making comparisons sociologists relate music and art. comments on interplay between love wine sceptical attitude towards world phenomena. The major part concerns proposals create based around sociological conceptualisation long-term processes. kind takes as its object an...

analysis and design of object oriented is onemodern paradigms for developing a system. in this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles. identifying objects (and classes) is one of the most important steps in the object-oriented paradigm. this paper makes a literature review over techniques to identify objects and then presents six taxonomies for them. the f...

Marital Coital Frequency and the Passage of Time: Estimating the Separate Effects of Spouses' Ages and Marital Duration, Birth and Marriage Cohorts, and Period Influences Author(s): Guillermina Jasso Source: American Sociological Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, (Apr., 1985), pp. 224-241 Published by: American Sociological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095411 Accessed: 07/06/2008 ...

Software systems emerge from mere keystrokes to form intricate functional networks connecting many collaborating modules, objects, classes, methods, and subroutines. Building on recent advances in the study of complex networks, I have examined software collaboration graphs contained within several open-source software systems, and have found them to reveal scale-free, small-world networks simil...

The pages and hyperlinks of the World-Wide Web may be viewed as nodes and edges in a directed graph. This graph is a fascinating object of study: it has several hundred million nodes today, over a billion links, and appears to grow exponentially with time. There are many reasons | mathematical, sociological, and commercial | for studying the evolution of this graph. In this paper we begin by de...

The basic concepts in agent negotiation are negotiation object, negotiation protocol and reasoning process. While aiming to transfer sociological concepts into multi-agent systems, where agents coordinate themselves by negotiation, we recognized the need for a more detailed structure. Therefore we developed C-IPS, which is presented in this article. It distinguishes between external constraints...