Sociologists examine space and place as constitutive of social life but rarely attend to the fact that places are also real property. The authors use a law society lens investigate how property regulations (property rights, codes, zoning, licensure) shape characteristics for two very different cases: neighborhood bathhouse. These influence sociologists argue constitute places: location, materia...

Abstract This paper analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by case of sociology in Norway. For that purpose, this introduces concept disciplines’ societal territories, which refer to bounded spaces are shaped knowledge a discipline, premised on linkages discipline its audience. By mapping sociologists’ reported contributions changes academia, firstl...

The work reported in this paper aims at describing a project that leverages the potential of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning towards novel techniques that unveil the latent states of expert users such as sociologists and economists by means of indicators when the user is accessing large collection of newspapers, blogs, etc. An indicator measures the degree to which a certain latent s...

Given its renown, many psychologists and sociologists likely consider the publication of Gordon Allport's (1954/1979) seminal book The Nature of Prejudice as the inauguration of the psychological study of prejudice. However, we have uncovered rarely-cited, published papers (starting in 1830) that provide a wealth of speculation on prejudice even before psychologists/sociologists attempted to me...

Future developments in AI and robotics, brain interfaces, the Internet and virtual and augmented reality, will make possible new types of integration of humans and machines which will change how we think, learn and live. This paper uses a story about a future scenario involving systems of this kind to respond to crises and disasters to explore the possibilities of collective intelligence and co...