ABSTRACT: This article integrates the list of studies on teaching Sociology in higher education. It has the objective of how to understand the significance and importance that undergraduate students in Dentistry at the State University of Maringá (UEM) attribute to the discipline of Sociology in their professional training and to relate them to legal discourses and formal courses, along with the competencies of the sociology for Higher Education. The research is qualitative. The results show that the importance the students gave to sociology is in line with the skills of the discipline and the legal and formal questions of the undergraduate degree course in dentistry. However, it is not a reproduction of discourses, but subjects that speak of their concrete experience with the discipline, so that the sociological content starts to produce meaning for their lives and in the exercise of their profession.

PowerPoint Presentation at the conference of International Society for Information Studies, Vienna, 3-7 June 2014; Session: Integration of the Philosophy of Information and Information Science

Note: Updates to this data product are discontinued. Dozens of definitions are currently used by Federal and State agencies, researchers, and policymakers. The ERS Rural Definitions data product allows users to make comparisons among nine representative rural definitions.

Methods of designating the urban periphery range from the use of municipal boundaries to definitions based on counties. Definitions based on municipal boundaries may classify as rural much of what would typically be considered suburban. Definitions that delineate the urban periphery based on counties may include extensive segments of a county that many would consider rural.

We have selected a representative set of nine alternative rural definitions and compare social and economic indicators from the 2000 decennial census across the nine definitions. We chose socioeconomic indicators (population, education, poverty, etc.) that are commonly used to highlight differences between urban and rural areas.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: Webpage with links to Excel files State-Level Maps For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the main aspects that constitute the performance experience, as well as to examine the contributions of speculative-pragmatism to the renewal of the field of sociology of art. The text is structured in three parts: 1) a contextualization of the work within the scope of the research project Protocols for the Musealization of Performative Actions in Public Art Museums and its problematic from the sociological point of view; 2) a definition of the concept of experience; 3) verification of the analytical yield of this concept for research in performance arts. As a main conclusion, the text sought to systematize the ways in which pragmatic-speculative sociology may provide access to the complex networks of actors and social practices involved in contemporary artistic production.

EN: Mangrove forests are located at the in-between of the sea and the land. People around the world have made sense of mangroves in many different ways, ranging from mangroves as "home of ghosts", "resources", "biodiversity reserve", "coastal protection" to "death bringers". The aim of the research project is to understand how people in Southern Ecuador have made sense of their mangrove surrounding at the Gulf of Guayaquil over the last 200 years, and how this guides the use of mangrove areas around the Gulf of Guayaquil. The research draws on Communicative and Discursive Constructivism and the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. The research data is composed of ethnographic and historical data, collected online, in archives and in an eight months' field research from 06/2019 until 02/2020 in Southern Ecuador. Besides unfolding empirically how meaning is attached to mangroves around the Gulf of Guayaquil and how discourses have shaped these meanings, the results aim to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the methodological framework used. ES: Los manglares se encuentran en el intermedio del mar y de la tierra. Personas en todo el mundo han entendido los manglares de muchas maneras distintas, desde "casa de espíritus", "recursos", "reserva de biodiversidad", "protección costal" hasta "traedor de muerte". El objetivo de este proyecto de investigación es entender cómo la gente en el Ecuador del sur entiende a los manglares de alrededor del Golfo de Guayaquil a lo largo de los últimos 200 años, y cómo esto guia el uso de los manglares alrededor del Golfo de Guayaquil. Esta investigación se refiere al constructivismo comunicativo y al análisis de discurso de la sociología del conocimiento. Los datos de la investigación están compuestos de datos etnográficos e históricos, recabados online, en archivos y durante un trabajo de campo desde 06/2019 hasta 02/2020 en el Ecuador del sur. Además de revelar empíricamente cómo se asigna un significado a los manglares alrededor del Golfo de Guayaquil y cómo los discursos han formado estos significados, los resultados quieren contribuir a las discusiones actuales acerca del esquema metodológico usado aquí.

Abstract Background Since 2015, the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action has provided guidance for care within England and beyond. Relaunched in 2021, the Framework sets out six Ambitions which, collectively, provide a vision to improve how death, dying and bereavement are experienced and managed. However, to date, there has been no central evaluation of how the Framework and its Ambitions have been implemented within service development and provision. To address this evidence gap, we investigated understanding and use of the Framework. Methods An online questionnaire survey was conducted to identify where the Framework has been used; examples of how it has been used; which Ambitions are being addressed; which foundations are being used; understanding of the utility of the Framework; and understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in its use. The survey was open between 30 November 2021–31 January 2022, promoted via email, social media, professional newsletter and snowball sampling. Survey responses were analysed both descriptively, using frequency and cross-tabulations, and exploratively, using content and thematic analysis. Results 45 respondents submitted data; 86% were from England. Findings indicate that the Framework is particularly relevant to service commissioning and development across wider palliative and end of life care, with most respondents reporting a focus on Ambition 1 (Each person is seen as an individual) and Ambition 3 (Maximising comfort and wellbeing). Ambition 6 (Each community is prepared to help) was least likely to be prioritised, despite people welcoming the focus on community in national guidance. Of the Framework foundations, ‘Education and training’ was seen as most necessary to develop and/or sustain reported services. The provision of a shared language and collaborative work across sectors and partners were also deemed important. However, there is some indication that the Framework must give more prioritisation to carer and/or bereavement support, have greater scope to enhance shared practice and mutual learning, and be more easily accessible to non-NHS partners. Conclusions The survey generated valuable summary level evidence on uptake of the Framework across England, offering important insights into current and past work, the factors impacting on this work and the implications for future development of the Framework. Our findings suggest considerable positive potential of the Framework to generate local action as intended, although difficulties remain concerning the mechanisms and resources necessary to enact this action. They also offer a valuable steer for research to further understand the issues raised, as well as scope for additional policy and implementation activity.

The sample was drawn by means of the central population register (CPR) of Statistics Sweden. CPR contains basic demographic and social data on every individual born on the 15th of any month, any year, and irrespective of place of birth or place of residence. Thus CPR forms, in effect, a 3.3 probability sample of the entire Swedish population. From CPR were drawn all men born in any of the years 1899, 1902, 1905, and so on, down to and including 1923. Thus there are nine birth cohorts, spaced with three-year intervals. Information about occupation in the present (son's) generation was taken from CPR. The method for gathering information on occupation in the previous (father's) generation was a different one. In CPR parish of birth (if in Sweden) and date of birth is always stated. Consequently every person can be located in the copies of the parish birth registers filed in Stockholm, and in these registers the father's occupation is stated (if the father is known). Other data collected from the CPR: place of birth and current place of residence, marital status, age of the parents, and information on income based on the tax assessments.

The Observatory of Conflicts is based on a definition proposed by UNDP, understanding the conflict as a "process of contentious interaction between actors and institutions, with varying degrees of organization, acting collectively seeking to improve or defend their interests, and that they express themselves in the public space in a visible way". Thus, a conflict would arise when an actor, group or social movement publicly expresses a collective malaise through demands and pressure measures against some public or private instance. This definition is conceptually close to the COES Theoretical Agenda and has been adapted for the purposes of the work to be done. The methodology of the Observatory's work consists of a systematic review of various media and the structuring of this information based on unique events and a series of relevant variables to characterize them. To avoid the biases inherent in media analysis, a wide selection has been selected. A variety of press media, cross-checking between encoders, a group of relevant variables has been specified and the unit of analysis has been clearly defined. The result of this process is systematized in this dataset.

This spreadsheet contains a collection of over 230 data visualisations about public finances from media organisations, journalists, civil society organisations, advocacy groups, civic hackers, companies and public institutions. In order to build the collection I started with a collection of projects derived from another study mapping “open budget data” on digital media (Gray, 2015). Over 65% of the 120 fiscal data projects identified through the study used visualisations to present information about public finances. Examples were also incorporated from other lists, including relevant items from a database of 466 projects from The Guardian and the New York Times from between 2000 and 2015 (Rooze, 2015), as well as from expert data visualisation blogs such as Infosthetics and Visual Complexity. Further examples were solicited from expert mailing lists, forums and targeted outreach via email and social media. Analyses of the data visualisations are forthcoming in several publications. The collection will continue to be updated periodically. If you have suggestions for projects to add, please get in touch: http://jonathangray.org/contact/

References Gray, J. (2015) "Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape". Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2654878Rooze, M. (2015) "News Graphics Collection". Available at: http://collection.marijerooze.nl/

This dataset is about book subjects. It has 2 rows and is filtered where the books is The Penguin dictionary of sociology. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

Interviews and focus groups for the Dublin Case Study. Much of the world continues to endure an economic crisis of possibly unprecedented scale and intensity. After a brief period of stimulus in the aftermath of the crash, many states turned (once more) to the technologies of austerity to cut debt and restore economic growth. Our overall project is a comparative study of the relationships between austerity collaborative governance in eight cities. This is the collated data from the Dublin case study. Interviews and focus groups were conducted over four phases between September 2015 and December 2017. In total, the field research comprised 47 interviews and 2 focus groups centred around the core research question: “what role does collaboration play in the governance and contestation of austerity?”. Collaboration, in this context, is defined as concerted and purposeful interactions between governmental and non-governmental actors, deemed by us or by our respondents to be significant for governing and contesting austerity. Collaborative processes may be consensual, conflictual or adversarial. Our study generates insights for scholars, policy-makers, community-based organisations and activists into how best they might pursue collaborative and non-collaborative goals under austerity. The study also contributes to governance theory, exploring what the data reveals about changing state-civil society relationships and whether austerity governance interrupts, maintains or augments purported transformations within an overall context of network governance.Austerity governance, defined as a sustained agenda for reducing public spending, poses new challenges for the organisation of relationships between government, business and citizens in many parts of the world. This project compares how these challenges are addressed in eight countries: Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, Spain, the UK and the USA. Governments have long sought effective ways of engaging citizen activists and business leaders in decision making, through many formal and informal mechanisms - what we term collaborative governance. The focus of our research is how collaboration contributes to the governance of austerity. Governments and public service leaders argue that collaboration with businesses, voluntary organisations and active citizens is essential for addressing the many challenges posed by austerity. The challenges include transforming public services to cope with cuts, changing citizen expectations and managing demand for services and enhancing the legitimacy of difficult policy decisions by involving people outside government in making them. But at the same time, collaboration can be exclusionary. For example, if there are high levels of protest, governmental and business elites may collaborate in ways that marginalise ordinary citizens to push through unpopular policies. Our challenge is to explore different ways in which collaboration works or fails in governing austerity and whether it is becoming more or less important in doing so. We propose to compare the role of collaboration in governing austerity in eight cities of the aforementioned countries: Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes. It is in towns and cities that government has the most immediate and closest day-to-day engagement with citizens and it is for this reason that we chose to locate our research at the urban scale. Our primary objective is to understand whether, and if so how, collaboration among public officials, citizens, business leaders and other actors contributes to austerity governance. For example is there more collaboration, less or are we seeing different kinds of collaboration emerging? Who, if anyone, refuses to collaborate and with what implications for governing austerity? Might collaboration be a way to subvert or resist aspects of austerity? The research is comparative, meaning that it is looking for patterns and to see what lessons and insights countries in different parts of the world might draw from one another.

Finding ways to collaborate with citizens has always been important for central and local governments, although collaboration has been a higher political priority in the past 20 years than before. Our study will tell politicians and public officials much about how collaboration works as a way of governing austerity. However we are not trying to 'sell' collaboration, or suggest that those suffering from cuts and wanting to resist them should collaborate if they do not wish to. For citizen activists our research will highlight different strategies and options for speaking truth to power - by engaging with city government and local business elites, or refusing to do so and perhaps focusing on protest instead. We will discover when collaboration serves the ends of community groups and when it does not. Participants in our study, and others, will have the opportunity to discuss these issues at a series of local events, at which we will discuss our findings. The research will also engage with important academic debates about the changing nature of governance. In gathering and comparing a large body of data we will learn about the changing role of government under austerity and whether governing is becoming more elite-focused, remote and hierarchical, or perhaps even more inclusive despite the challenging times in which we live.

Rachmad, Yoesoep Edhie. 2023. Social Media Impact Theory. Port Elizabeth Bay Book Publishing, Special Edition 2023. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/2dbnx

The Social Media Impact Theory, developed by Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad and published in his 2023 edition by "Port Elizabeth Bay Book Publishing, Special Edition," delves into the profound and multifaceted effects of social media on individual behavior, societal norms, and cultural dynamics. Since beginning his research in 2016, Rachmad has sought to unpack the ways in which social media platforms not only distribute information but also shape human interactions, influence public opinion, and alter traditional communication practices. This theory emerges from the recognition that social media is not merely a set of digital platforms for social interaction, but a transformative cultural force that has redefined how information is created, shared, and consumed. The ubiquity of social media has led to significant shifts in everything from how individuals perceive themselves and others to how movements are mobilized and how businesses operate. The Social Media Impact Theory proposes that the impact of social media can be understood through several key dimensions: psychological, sociological, and economic. Psychologically, social media affects self-esteem, attention spans, and stress levels among users. Sociologically, it influences social norms, political activism, and cultural trends. Economically, social media platforms have transformed marketing strategies, consumer behavior, and business models. Rachmad concludes that the implications of social media's impact are profound and necessitate careful consideration by policymakers, educators, and business leaders. He suggests that to harness the positive aspects of social media while mitigating the negative, it is essential to promote digital literacy, encourage ethical online behavior, and foster a healthy digital culture. He also emphasizes the need for continuous research to track the evolving impacts of social media and adapt strategies accordingly. He recommends strategies for individuals and organizations to adapt to the challenges posed by social media, including fostering environments that encourage critical thinking and maintaining transparency in communication. For businesses, Rachmad advises leveraging social media analytics to gain deeper insights into consumer preferences and behaviors, thus allowing for more effective engagement strategies. Overall, the Social Media Impact Theory provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the complex effects of social media on modern life. It offers valuable insights for effectively navigating the social media landscape, highlighting the importance of proactive and informed approaches to managing its influence in various spheres of society.   Table of Contents Rachmad, Yoesoep Edhie. 2023. "Social Media Impact Theory." Port Elizabeth Bay Book Publishing, Special Edition. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/2dbnx]

Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Media Impact Understanding the Evolution of Social Media............................3 Why Social Media’s Influence Matters Today..............................21 Defining the Boundaries of Digital Influence................................39 Chapter 2: Psychological Impacts of Social Media Effects on Self-Esteem and Self-Perception................................57 Attention Span and the Age of Distraction................................75 Social Media Stress: Causes and Consequences........................93 Chapter 3: Sociological Implications of Social Media Shaping Social Norms and Cultural Trends................................111 Political Activism in the Digital Era..........................................129 The Role of Social Media in Community Building.........................147 Chapter 4: Economic Influences of Social Media Transforming Modern Marketing Strategies................................165 Social Media's Impact on Consumer Behavior.............................183 New Business Models Driven by Social Media.............................201 Chapter 5: Social Media as a Cultural Force How Platforms Shape Public Discourse.......................................219 The Influence on Identity Formation and Group Dynamics............237 Mobilizing Movements: From Hashtags to Real-World Change.....255 Chapter 6: Navigating Social Media’s Complexities Digital Literacy: Key to Responsible Social Media Use................273 Strategies for Ethical Online Behavior.........................................291 Maintaining a Healthy Digital Culture in the Social Media Age......309 Chapter 7: Leveraging Social Media Analytics Gaining Insights into Consumer Preferences...............................327 Tools for Tracking and Analyzing Engagement..............................345 Using Data to Drive Effective Marketing Strategies......................363 Chapter 8: Challenges and Risks of Social Media Addressing the Spread of Misinformation..................................381 Privacy Concerns in the Era of Social Platforms..........................399 The Dark Side: Cyberbullying and Online Harassment................417 Chapter 9: Strategies for Individuals and Organizations Adapting to the Challenges of Social Media................................435 Encouraging Critical Thinking Among Users................................453 Building Transparent Communication Practices............................471 Chapter 10: The Future of Social Media’s Impact Emerging Trends in Digital Influence..........................................489 The Role of AI and Algorithms in Shaping Experiences................507 Preparing for the Evolving Social Media Landscape.......................525

Appendices Appendix A: Glossary of Key Terms in Social Media Impact............543 Appendix B: Framework for Assessing Social Media’s Effects.........561 Appendix C: Sample Social Media Analysis Report Template............579 References Selected Bibliography on Digital Influence and Media Studies.........597 Index Comprehensive Index of Topics and Concepts Covered..................617

AUTHOR PROFILE
In 2016, the author earned the title of Doctor of Humanity, hold a Ph.D. in Information Technology and a DBA in General Management. Since 2016, the author has been teaching at international universities in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the USA. In 1999, the author founded the Education Training Centre (ETC), an organization dedicated to providing educational services and social support for the underprivileged. This organization offers shelter homes for children in need of a safe place to live and drop-in schools for those who need to continue their education. The ETC is also involved in research aimed at advancing science, which led to the author earning the title of Professor and joining the WPF. Additionally, the author is actively involved in global social development programs through the United Nations. They are a member of the UN Global Compact (id-137635), the UN Global Market (id-709131), and the UN ECOSOC (id-677556). The author has served as a reviewer for several international journals and book chapters, and has written numerous books and articles on a wide range of topics including Philosophy, Economics, Management, Arts and Culture, Anthropology, Law, Psychology, Education, Sociology, Health, Technology, Tourism, and Communication.

We coded 12 selected policy documents to identify RSGs and examine their views on fairness and AI application's potential benefits and risks in compulsory education. The unit of analysis was the individual document. More specifically, we read all documents several times. We identified the RSGs, their motives for using AI, the main problems AI can solve and the perceived benefits and risks of using AI. We conducted a manifest analysis, meaning we remained close to the text, describing the visible, such as the words in the text, without trying to infer latent meanings. The attached file provides examples of data analysis, including coding. For each identified group, we created a table that displays sample quotes from the data to exemplify our codes and categories.Pinch, T. J., & Bijker, W. E. (1984). The social construction of facts and artefacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. Social Studies of Science, 14(3), 399–441. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312840140030

This review provides a critical appraisal of the measurement of students’ social class and socioeconomic status (SES) in the context of widening higher education participation. Most assessments of social class and SES in higher education have focused on objective measurements based on the income, occupation, and education of students' parents, and they have tended to overlook diversity among students based on factors such as age, ethnicity, indigeneity, and rurality. However, recent research in psychology and sociology has stressed the more subjective and intersectional nature of social class. The authors argue that it is important to consider subjective self-definitions of social class and SES alongside more traditional objective measures. The implications of this dual measurement approach for higher education research are discussed.

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the editorial policies of Brazilian periodicals indexed in the SciELO electronic library in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics in order to identify similarities and differences between these journals and the Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas and subsequently recommend potential adjustments to current editorial policy at this journal. The survey was qualitative and quantitative, and used documentary and bibliographic techniques to collect the data. The variables analyzed were languages for submissions, journal format (online or printed), sections in which content is presented, peer review methods, requirements for authorship, content origin (from dissertations or other research), access to content, indexing in Brazilian and international databases, and plagiarism detection policy. The authors determined that all the elements of the Boletim’s current policy are effective, but recommend more precise definition of the journal’s scope for works in correlated areas (such as sociology and geography).

HIC – high-income countries; LMIC – low- and middle-income countries.aAlso included occupation-based measures of socioeconomic status.bIncluded measures of material possession, family composition, insurance status, immigrant status, and health care accessibility.cAs defined by study authors.dSee supplemental data for definitions of study quality variables.