We present a tool BlogTrackers, which assists sociologists to track and analyze blogs of particular interests by designing and integrating unique features. We present an overview of BlogTrackers, illustrate its functions of various components of BlogTrackers, and outline future work for expansion in meeting the growing needs of sociologists. Introduction Blogosphere, the network of blogs, is gr...

Social network analysis is a rapid expanding interdisciplinary field, growing from work of sociologists, physicists, historians, mathematicians, political scientists, etc. Some methods have been commonly accepted in spite of defects, perhaps because of the rareness of synthetic work like (Freeman, 1978; Faust & Wasserman, 1992). In this article, we propose an alternative index of closeness cent...

Bilateral and multilateral development cooperation agencies are to an increasing extent promoting and adopting a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in their development cooperation. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for example, joined their first sector-wide approach cooperation in the late 90s, and today they are involved in SWAps in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin...

A person, being by nature a social being, cannot live out of touch with other people: he must consult, share thoughts, feelings, empathize, seek understanding, etc. Communication is the channel communication people. complex process human interaction. The representatives various sciences: philosophers, psychologists, linguists, sociologists, cultural scientists, deal problem communication. Accor...

Sociologists of the 19th and the 20th centuries were tackling the relation between science and religion. A few models of these relations were offered, by which the monopoly over the truth by any one of those is crashed. Therefore, there are a few models but each is with lots of limitations. None is sufficient to explain the relation between the science and religion, but each contributes to cert...