The most prominent studies of cooperation in sociology proceed from some kind of rationality assumption. There are basically two groups of studies, one starting from the assumption of rational egoists and the other starting from the assumption of social rationality in which other regard has a prominent place. The studies based on the assumption of rational egoists is strongly inspired by (mostl...

Using the case study of the Czech Republic, the article examines the link between the development of environmental policy and the more general social and economic development of a post-communist society. The initially progressive arrangement of environmental agencies and procedures of the early 1990s, which were in tune with the concurrent development in the West, was abandoned due to the arres...

Critical realism, championed by its proponents as the most promising post-positivist social science paradigm, has gained significant influence in last few decades. This paper provides a critical evaluation of realism movement hope facilitating more fruitful dialogues between and rivalling schools sociologists. Two concerns are raised about contemporary realism. First, is not only philosophical ...

Much social science suggests that income inequality is a product of economic and demographic factors and recent work highlights the influence of Leftist politics in affluent Western democracies. But, prior research has neglected rightist politics. We examine the impact of cumulative right party power on three measures of income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 16 affluent Western democracie...

Using the sociological methodology of interpretative text analysis, I study the status of intellectual values in the TOC community during the last three decades. Specifically, analyzing the motivational parts of papers that appeared in several STOC proceedings, I found evidence to my feeling that the importance attributed to intellectual values has declined in the last decade (or so). I conside...

Our contribution aims kick off a nuanced debate about theories and theorising in higher education research. Drawing on sociological literature that reflects theorising, we introduce the notion of ‘theory work.’ Theory work emphasises are practical tools can be used for variety purposes. To make different forms engagement with visible, develop first step three conceptual lenses facilitate observ...

Conventional and modern finance is related to various theories concepts that has done respectable job in financial market providing guidance for strategic decisions. Among all, emerging behavior come up with psychological sociological issues affects the choices are often ignored by modernized theories. This paper will elaborate concept of its relation Efficient Market Hypothesis. The helps us k...

Literature is the mirror of life. Through literature we can know changes occurring in human society from time to time. A theory a hypothesis that has been established through experiments. In analysing important and it supports our analysis. When examining based on theories, becomes deeper objective. There are various theories like sociological theory, critical Marxist psychological historical a...

In this work we investigate the issue of modeling users’ sociological needs. We introduce a sociological model approach for Microblog Search based sociological needs Categorization and Opinion Mining from textual content to explain why Vodkaster’s 100,000 users express their opinions and how it can be used for Microblog Search about Festival.