Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement Mikaela J. Dufur a,∗, Toby L. Parcel b, Kelly P. Troutman c a Department of Sociology, 2008 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Campus Box 8107, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27603, United States c Departmen...

The current use of Artificial Intelligence methods as tools for theory construction in sociology is reviewed. The main use seems to be the modelling of cognitive models processes of individual actors. Other approaches to simulation in sociology uses very simple models of individual actors, especially cellular automata. The theoretical importance of this kind of model for sociology is neglectabl...

This paper reported on a genre-driven comparative study, which aimed to identify the generic moves in the conclusion sections of twenty research articles in the field of sociology written in the two codes of Persian and English. To meet this purpose, the researchers employed Moritz, Meurer, and Dellagnelo's model, which was set within the Swalesian framework of genre analysis. The analysis was ...

The Policeman in the Community by Michael Banton is viewed as a seminal work in the Anglo-American sociological study of the police. This article – which draws on and cites a personal dialogue with Banton himself sets this work in context by outlining the intellectual formation of its author in the 1950s, before setting out the main theoretical and methodological aspects of this study. It is ar...

Major features of the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin are related to Michael Burawoy’s four forms of sociology. The article develops the theme that Sorokin’s system of sociology makes major contributions to identifying standards of excellence for professional, critical, policy, and public sociology and for their interrelationships. Sorokin’s integral ontology and epistemology are described and id...