John Scott’s career as a sociologist spans more than 50 years, during which time he has written or edited 40 books among total of 200 publications. The breadth his interests and service to the discipline in various roles including President British Sociological Association chair Sociology sub-panel for Research Assessment Exercise Excellence Framework make him particularly well-placed comment o...

Abstract Modern sciences were introduced to Japan from Western countries during the Meiji period. In other words, this was process of translating academic languages into Japanese languages. The translation meant reuse existing Chinese characters with similar meanings or create new characters. able rapidly introduce modern science period because it already had comparable science; thus, proceeded...

Since the early 2000s, proposals to deliberately modify Earth's climate have gained political traction as a controversial last resort measure against dangerous global warming. The article provides ‘longue durée’ picture of such engineering proposals. It traces their historical trajectory from late 1950s most recent arrival on mainstream policy agendas. This perspective suggests that history unf...

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Game theory is rampant in economics. Having long ago invaded industrial organization (the sub-field of economics that studies firms and their product markets), game-theoretic modeling is now commonplace in international, labor, macro, and financial economics, and is gathering steam even in development economics and economic history. Nor is economics alone: accounting, law, marketing, political ...

This article  studyies Political Identity of Dagestani people in the North Caucasus. At the first, I have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with Dagestanis. This theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...