Abstract The article discusses to what extent sociological theories produced in the Brazilian academic field dialogue with a global intellectual movement criticizing coloniality and Eurocentric foundations of social sciences. Initially, we analyze challenges regarding attempts define two theoretical approaches, sociology, Postcolonial Thought, without overlooking their internal heterogeneities....

Inferring diffusion networks from traces of cascades has been intensively studied to gain a better understanding of information diffusion. Traditional methods normally formulate a generative model to find the network that can generate the cascades with the maximum likelihood. The performance of such methods largely depends on sufficient cascades spreading in the network. In many real-world scen...

The discussion in the sociology of science about the role of model systems in biology provides an invitation to reflect on whether and how they operate in sociology in comparison to other disciplines. This paper shows that sociology too relies on objects of study that receive a disproportionate amount of attention and implicitly come to stand in for a specific class of objects. But, unlike othe...

A central concern of many theorists of later life has been to elucidate the processes which shape the marginalisation and relative disadvantage of older people in contemporary society. This concern parallels a current argument within sociological theorising: that life course stage and generational location constitute increasingly important dimensions of social difference and inequality. It is a...

In our recent work we developed a general model for negotiations in a sociological context, which we will introduce here. As application domain we have chosen the field of hospitals. Our specific subject in the present paper deals with informal negotiations between the hospital staff about the exchange of certain shifts. The models used as the foundation for our negotiation process are based on...

I offer a discussion of the criminological sociology of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936). While Tönnies is generally well known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, his elaborate contributions to the sociological study of crime have been almost entirely neglected in the history of sociology. Situated within Tönnies’ general theoretical perspective, I present the central themes of Tönni...