scientific communications network is presented in, sociology of science. and we can use steven's evaluative bibliometrics to map it. in citation network approach, scientist's communication behavior is predicted through their citation behavior. in this paper, first, concepts such as sociology of science, scientific community, scientific communications and its kinds are described. two k...

This paper discusses the aims and format of an introductory course in clinical sociology . It reviews the process of teaching clinical sociology as a profession and teaching the theoretical basis that distinguishes the field. Case studies, guest practitioners, and practical exercises are used to prompt an application and integration of the acquired knowledge. Ideally, the course reviewed here c...

Max Weber and Georg Simmel are considered as ideal-typical founders of sociology. Whereas Simmel pleaded for a large conception of sociology, which would include the epistemological and metaphysical issues as well, Max Weber explicitly excluded philosophical questions from the domain of sociology. A philosophical reading of Max Weber’s sociology, which uncovers his philosophy in the margins of ...

Methodological diversity is a condition for the development of sociology since complexity social reality does not allow adhering to one universal scientific paradigm. At same time, nature methodological in research an indicator alignment forces agents field science. Hence question arises — how influence external contour science (business, public organizations, media, politicians, etc.) manifest...

Sociobiology is the scientific study of the biological bases of social behavior among animals, including humans. The new field of evolutionary sociology is the product of recent efforts by sociologists to integrate sociobiological reasoning into their theoretical thinking and empirical research. Evolutionary sociologists reject the Standard Social Science Model of human nature and human social ...

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...