This paper introduces the term organizational shunning to describe a form of psychological violence against employees. Well established psychological and sociological theories are used to develop propositions regarding organizational shunning and to set a prospective research agenda. In this theory building exercise, an organizational taboo is exposed, and implications are discussed for improve...

In this paper, I critically examine Stephen Turner‘s (1994) critique of practice theory in light of recent research in neuroscience focused on the discovery the ―mirror neuron system‖ in the pre-frontal motor cortex of humans and other primates. I argue that the strength of two of Turner‘s strongest objections against the sociological version of practice theory—what I refer to as the problem of...

entangled with their historical and cultural contexts, sociological theories come into existence and try to explain social phenomena of their own society. hence, practitioners of other milieus with different accumulation of cultural traits must be aware of how they use non-native theories. a wide range of iranian sociological investigations, unfortunately, take benefit of western social scienti...

skopos theory ,as a functionalist approach, has made a notable switch from a lingusitic oriented to a more sociocultural concept of translation. initially proposed by vermeer, skopos theory framework has been applied by several researchers in their attempts to defend translators’ dignity and social status. yet; as far as the authors are concerned, no researcher has ever employed sociological th...

[1]. INTRODUCTION In this report there will be a discussion for Information Diffusion. There will be discussions on what information diffusion is, its key characteristics and on several other aspects of these kinds of networks. This report will focus on peer to peer models in information diffusion. There will be discussions on epidemic model, OSN and other details related to information diffusi...

Discovering genetic mechanisms driving complex diseases is a hard problem. Existing methods often lack power to identify the set of responsible genes. Protein-protein interaction networks have been shown to boost power when detecting gene-disease associations. We introduce a Bayesian framework, Conflux, to find disease associated genes from exome sequencing data using networks as a prior. There...

This paper examines three bodies of macroscopic evidence that are relevant to testing the classical theory of production. No one of these bodies of evidence offers any persuasive support for the classical theory. Fits to data of the Cobb-Douglas and ACMS functions appear to be artifactual, the data actually reflecting the accounting identity between values of inputs and outputs. Similarly, ther...

In this chapter Wolvin reviews some of the principal research and theory in listening in order to provide a foundation for building listening theory. Recognizing that a great deal of work has been done in the study of listening, he proposes that this work can be characterized from physiological, psychological, sociological, and communicative perspectives which frame an engagement theory of list...

Donald Black’s The Behavior of Law contains the most powerful sociological theory of legal variation ever produced. Despite the critical reactions of some analysts, the generality, testability, originality, and validity of the theory have been well-established. The one area where the theory can be improved, however, involves the criterion of “parsimony.” The following paper demonstrates that ro...

The various behavioral disciplines model human behavior in distinct and incompatible ways. Yet, recent theoretical and empirical developments have created the conditions for rendering coherent the areas of overlap of the various behavioral disciplines. The analytical tools deployed in this task incorporate core principles from several behavioral disciplines. The proposed framework recognizes ev...