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...

One of the most pressing issues in the social sciences and in distributed artificial intelligence research is the micro-macro link that is the question of how individual action and social structure are interrelated. Besides others disciplines, sociological research has identified emotion as being a possible key component in this link. Unfortunately, sociological theories in question remain rela...

P re-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is one of a number of new reproductive/ genetics technologies which have emerged since IVF became widely available. While new reproductive technologies in general have been the subject of sustained sociological interest, PGD initially attracted the attention of scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as anthropology, ethics, law and government...