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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters
Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...
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For a political sociology of water resources management
Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008
"political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206383
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Technology and work : new sociological approaches?
Moniz, Antonio; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Frey, Philipp - 2018
From 15–21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA …
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On the price of priceless goods : sociological Observations on and around Art Basel
Schultheis, Franz - In: Journal for art market studies 1 (2017) 1, pp. 68-82
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Workplace discrimination against LGBT employees in Mauritius : a sociological perspective
Bhankaraully, Shabneez; Goyer, Michel; Aroles, Jeremy - In: Economic and industrial democracy 44 (2023) 4, pp. 1105-1126
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Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims
Judge, Paramjit S - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...
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Die Rolle des Internets als Informationsbeschaffungsmedium in Banken
Roßbach, Peter - 2009
Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types of information used in the business processes of banks....
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A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reduction through Energy Efficiency and Beyond
Schmidt, Stephan; Weigt, Hannes - 2013
Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390692
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For a political sociology of water resources management
Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008
'political sociology of water resources management'. The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327400
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A Note on Social Norms and Transfers
Sundén, David; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997
This note elaborates an extension of the paper 'Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting' by Lindbeck, Nyberg, and Weibull [1]. That paper studies the effects of a social norm against living off others work. In the welfare-state context of their model, this means that individuals who live on...
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