We study to what degree and how homophily and network properties affect individual citation counts of researchers in the sociology departments of three East European countries, namely Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. We built first-order personal coauthorship networks out of the Web of Science publication records. Each sociologist is assigned as a focal node or ego, while her coauthors are alters...

Heidegger criticized “ontotheology,” which in the present context might be construed as advocacy of static, precise, complete, eternally valid categorizations of what is, either altogether, or in some limited domain. Not to be outdone, French post-structuralists considered intertextuality, deconstruction, writerly texts, etc. Sociologists of science observe the intensely political and ethical a...

T INTR he food system is undergoing profound changes, at the level of production and consumption models. Economic theory on the one hand, and sociological and anthropological theories on the other, give different interpretations of the changes, but these often do not confront each other. Moreover, within sociology, with regard to food, ‘(a) curious, if implicit, division of labour seems to have...

College students, especially women, demonstrated negativity toward math and science relative to arts and language on implicit measures. Group membership (being female), group identity (self female), and gender stereotypes (math male) were related to attitudes and identification with mathematics. Stronger implicit math male stereotypes corresponded with more negative implicit and explicit math a...

OBJECTIVE Nightmares are a robust and modifiable predictor of increased suicidality and poor psychiatric outcomes, yet nightmare screening and treatment remain rare, even in sleep centers. This paper aims to examine what proportion of nightmare sufferers have discussed nightmares with a healthcare provider, as well as possible explanations for low rates of nightmare complaints. METHODS The pr...

But the Lord came down to see. .. the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ''Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;. .. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''. .. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all th...

When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

The issue of future societal development has captured the attention scientists and experts from different fields it is increasingly associated with environmental capacity quality. reach topicality were identified more than 40 years ago, while solution materialized later as a new paradigm – sustainable development. Considering subject study sociology its significance for steering development, th...