Nineteenth-century European intellectual history has given rise to such varied and abundant research that one is surprised to find certain important problems long identified and yet still relatively u
1979 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Sovietica
Ken Coghill, Sonja Yrjo Olavi Petrovic-Lazarevic,
This paper examines the implications of widespread behavioural characteristics and values found in human communities for the operation of fuzzy logic in social organisation. It distinguishes between community and society, after Nancy (1991). The paper argues that there are features of human behaviour and values which are so general as to be regarded as fundamental aspects of mankind, notwithstanding some variations in their rankings between and within communities. Amongst these features are mankind’ ...
Tópico(s): Complex Systems and Decision Making
2002 - Springer Nature | Studies in fuzziness and soft computing
Everett Mendelsohn, Helga Nowotny,
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
1984 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Sociology of the sciences/Sociology of the sciences yearbook
One of the reasons the Democratic Kampuchea regime was more brutal than other communist regimes may partly originate from the grandeur of the Angkorian era in the Khmer Rouge's (KR) megalomaniac, utopian imagination. Was this modelled on an illusory future or on an imagined past? Even before the KR seized power, they managed to fashion a bizarre amalgam of royalty, revolution, and past glory through the propaganda trip made by Norodom Sihanouk to Angkor in March 1973. Soon after seizing power on ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2015 - Springer Nature | Transcultural research - Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context
1995 - Brepols | Rencontres de philosophie médiévale
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Since the beginning of the so-called second wave feminism (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a critical reflection on technics and science within feminist discourse. However, feminist thinkers have not consistently interpreted technics and science as emancipative and liberating for people who identify as women. At the same time, many early feminists criticized the structures of dominance, marginalization, and oppression inherent in numerous technologies ...
Tópico(s): Bioethics and Human Rights Issues
2019 - J.B. Metzler | Techno:Phil
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Simulation is a rapidly growing field in social sciences. Simulation theories in social sciences are considered to critique social dynamics and societies which are mostly simulated by media, cinema, TV, internet, etc. Recently we (Akdeniz KG, Disorder in complex human system. In: Fritzsch H, Phua KK (eds) Singapore: proceedings of the conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann’s 80th birthday quantum mechanics, elementary particles, quantum cosmology and complexity. World Scientific Publishing, Hackensack, ...
Tópico(s): Social and Cultural Studies
2014 - Springer Nature | Understanding complex systems
Why is it that people in organizations seem to be so vulnerable to management fashion and guruism? And why is it that both phenomena are loathed in traditional academic thinking about management and organization?In this book, René ten Bos argues for a more philosophical rather than scientific understanding of management fashion. In doing so he questions the positivist and utopian orthodoxies that have pervaded management thinking. Ten Bos contends that management fashion is a cultural phenomenon ...
Tópico(s): Management and Organizational Studies
2000 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Advances in organization studies
We describe the semantic domains for Compass Modelling Language (CML), using Hoare & He’s Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP). CML has been designed to specify, design, compose, simulate, verify, test, and validate industrial systems of systems. CML is a semantically heterogeneous language, with state-rich imperative constructs based on VDM, communication and concurrency based on CSP, object orientation with object references, and discrete time based on Timed CSP. A key objective is to be semantically ...
Tópico(s): Logic, programming, and type systems
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Simulation theories in social sciences are in interest mostly with human behaviors in societies. Recently we have purposed a simulation theory to complete Baudrillard Simulation Theory. In this theory, “Disorder-Sensitive Human Behaviors (DSHB) Simulation Theory”, chaotic awareness is also considered as a reality principle in simulation world. The zuhur, as an emergence of disordered human behaviors of this reality, is different than simulacra. The complex utopia is a complex autonom system in which ...
Tópico(s): Chaos, Complexity, and Education
2013 - Springer International Publishing | Springer proceedings in complexity
In the Histories of Herodotus, the Second Book stands out by its long digression on the Nile Valley and has been studied mainly from the Egyptological point of view.This article's purpose is to read it through Greek Literature perspective and through some of its utopias.
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
2009 - Coimbra University Press | Cadmo Revista de História Antiga
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O seguinte artigo busca apresentar um recuo histórico com o intuito de compreender como a tradicional concepção de livro foi reformulada no período de vanguarda, especialmente a russa, a partir da incorporação da fotografia em sua estrutura. Nesse processo, privilegiaremos o estudo sobre as contaminações entre cinema, literatura, revistas e jornais ilustrados, cartazes e design de exposições para que possamos compreender, de modo histórico, o aspecto híbrido dado ao livro fotográfico. Teremos como ...
Tópico(s): Photography and Visual Culture
2020 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | ARS (São Paulo)
R. Allen Curry, Steve L. Currie, Louis Bernatchez, Robert Saint‐Laurent,
We report on the spawning ecology, genetic characteristics, and predation threats to spawning groups of rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax, in Lake Utopia, New Brunswick where a dwarf morpho-type has been listed as a threat- ened species. Two spawning groups in three inlet streams had been previously identified; we observed three groups using four inlet streams. The earliest group was the largest in body size (12–29 cm fork length (FL)), lowest in numbers (∼1 000), and completed spawning approximately two ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2004 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Developments in environmental biology of fishes
Pierre Schmitt, Cédric Bonhomme, Jocelyn Aubert, Benjamin Gâteau,
In Multi-Agent Systems, Organizations are means to structure cooperation and collaboration between agents. MoiseInst is a normative Organization model giving the possibility to constraint agents behaviour according to four dimensions (structural, functional, contextual and normative). Mabeli as Electronic Institution model allows the supervision of MoiseInst Organizations compliance through an arbitration system. The difficulty is to easily instantiate such Organizations to obtain a dynamic entity ...
Tópico(s): Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
In August 2007, over 6,000 sociologists gathered in New York to attend the 102nd meeting of the American Sociological Association and discuss the possibility of radical social transformation in post-modern capitalist society.1 The adoption of the conference theme ‘Is another world possible?’ was theoretically significant, for it seemed to call into question one of the most fundamental assumptions upon which critical sociology depends: that despite the rarity of radical social change, it is possible, ...
Tópico(s): Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
2008 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Current perspectives in social theory