News tagged with social theories

Social networking for terrorists

A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attack ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Feminist social theories put to the test

A dissertation at Örebro University in Sweden brings to light major weaknesses in feminist social theories. They are untenable, far too undeveloped, and laden with insoluble internal problems of logic.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior

Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Tracking the digital traces of social networks

Why do we create and maintain social networks? Most people can immediately think of a few natural reasons -- we get something from the interaction, or the person is nearby and is close to us in proximity, age or gender.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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