by Lewis Yablonsky, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology, California State University-Northridge (Published in the American Sociological Association, "Sociological Practice Newsletter" 8/2000 on my acceptance of THE WILLIAM FOOTE WHYTE CAREER AWARD FOR SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE at the ASA Meetings 8/2000 in Washington, D.C.; and was the basis for a lecture on 1/25/01 presented at Grand V...

Despite the ongoing "war" between methodological camps this paper will argue for an integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in the sociological research process. For this purpose a short overview about important methodological discussions addressing basic questions of mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method designs will be given focusing on the term "triangulation" which is seen...

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In this paper Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’ is argued to be important for exploring complexities relationship between national identity and sport. distinct sociological perspective briefly outlined before importance drag-effect considered alongside other much more popular concepts commonly used in study nationalism The then applied help make sense contemporary English sport, usin...

Viral marketing has attracted attention from both academics and practitioners. With the rise of usergenerated content (UGC) and broadcasting networks, viral online video advertising campaigns (viral advertising in short) are an emerging trend in viral marketing. Previous literature mainly studied the influence of network structure on viral advertising. Here, we extend such works by decomposing ...

Communities of practices (Cops) can improve organizational performance by effectively promoting knowledge diffusion, and recently they were receiving increasing attention from organizations in abroad. The aim of our study was to further explore how to cultivate and support Communities of practice. According to some literatures, we first studied what is the most important influencing factor of k...

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...

youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. this sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of sociological, anthropological, and ethnological works on the gift metaphor in organ donation contexts, as well as in the number of philosophical and theological analyses of giving and generosity, which has been mirrored in the ethical debate on organ donation. In order to capture the breadth of this field, four frameworks for thinking about bodily ...