Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...

This paper argues for and attempts to establish three major hypotheses: first, that some of the ideas behind today’s knowledge bases in use in intelligent agents are misleading and this is because most studies tend to overlook the critical differences between the concepts of information and of knowledge, of perception and of truth; second, that knowledge acquisition (or knowledge production, as...

PURPOSE To understand risk-related practices of older adults returning home posthospitalization. RESEARCH DESIGN Qualitative methods informed by critical discourse theory, designed to uncover linkages between broader social practices and peoples' talk and stories, were used. METHODS Eight older adults, screened as high-risk from an inpatient cardiology unit, and six partners were interviewe...

one of the basic subjects in political sociology of every society is the nature of stat in that society. the states have different economical social culture and political nature. the essay studies the political nature of the state in studies the political nature of the state in iran during pahlavi period , from the view point of transition to democracy. the aim of study the political nature of ...

abstract theories of behavior consumer deal with human behaviors as a being with will and purpose, so they are based on specific assumptions about the human nature and fundamentals of decision making. these assumptions often have ideological roots in different value systems consequently they are different in various these systems. the aim of this paper is to investigate these assumptions in the...

The technological is often in the background of our research, despite claims of being socio-technical. Following from Orlikowski and Iacono’s call for research on the ability to theorize the technological within IS research, this research note reviews the literature on society and technology to understand how we may interrogate the technological within a discourse. This article then proposes th...