Abstract Innovative products can be highly prospective and apt to disrupt usages profoundly. They lead multiple long-term social impacts influencing people's way of life behaviour. So it is necessary anticipate them without delay. Due high uncertainty, designers may face the problem that conventional user-centred methods, which assess design performances from today's users, are not adapted. We ...

Sociobiology is the scientific study of the biological bases of social behavior among animals, including humans. The new field of evolutionary sociology is the product of recent efforts by sociologists to integrate sociobiological reasoning into their theoretical thinking and empirical research. Evolutionary sociologists reject the Standard Social Science Model of human nature and human social ...

How have sociologists engaged the late philosopher Charles Mills’ landmark The Racial Contract (1997) in twenty-five years since its publication? I first synthesize and periodize corpus of sociological research citing into two chronological epistemological waves. wave (1997-2009) is distinguished by scholarship a vanguard who drew on text, direct engagement with Mills himself, paradigmatic shif...

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Reliability, transparency, and ethical crises pushed many social science disciplines toward dramatic changes, in particular psychology more recently political science. This paper discusses why sociology should also change. It reviews as a discipline through the lens of current practices, definitions sociology, positions sociological associations, brief consideration arguments three highly influ...

Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states families entangle in modern societies [...]