Routing in Intermittently Connected Networks (ICN) is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty and time varying nature of network connectivity. In this work, we focus on a special class of ICN formed by mobile ad hoc users called ICMAN. We first consider a new and practical probabilistic mobility model where the nodes move between a set of “hubs” in a partially repetitive and nondeterminist...

Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Background.The analysis of past research shows that the study of mental illness was part of the agenda of the founders of the discipline of sociology. Additionally, the sociological study of mental illness changes to reflect the mark of historical periods such as premodernity, modernity and postmodernity.Aim.The aim of this study is to compare and contrast some modern sociological theories of m...

This article offers a critique of the self-observation social sciences practiced in philosophy and epistemological orientations. kind reflection involves curious construction wholes under labels, which are result process “distillation” or “abstraction” “position” somewhat removed from actual research practices concrete claims findings that researchers produce, share, debate. In this context, I ...

Barker et al’s thoughts on face transplantation were most interesting, thought provoking and controversial.1 Surgery is not a subject with whom one outside of the medical profession feels comfortable and facial surgery would certainly not be considered an after-dinner topic. It is for reasons of human discomfort with facial disfigurement that such developments are viewed as a leap as opposed to...

This paper is concerned with the problem of how effective social interaction arises from individual social action and mind. The need to study the individual social mind, suggests a move towards the notion of sociological agents who can model their social environment as opposed to acting socially within it. This does not constrain such social behaviour; on the contrary, we argue that it provides...