G Nigel Gilbert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247357 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Nigel Gilbert |
| PRENOMES | G Nigel |
| SOBRENOME | Gilbert |
| ASSINATURA | GILBERT G N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Surrey |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 279 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Artificial Societies
An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within computer science, particularly artificial intelligence. Als…
Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation
Simulations as Tools for Modeling and Theory Building: N. Gilbert: Models, Processes and Algorithms: Towards a Simulation Toolkit.- J. Doran: Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies.- G. Muller: Computer Assisted Interfacing: On the Use of Computer Simulation for Theory Construction.- C. Stoica: Interactive Neural Networks as Tools for Modeling Social Systems.- Multi-Agent Based Simulations: W. Balzer: SMASS: A Serial Multi-Agent Sys…
Environments and Languages to Support Social Simulation
Social Science Microsimulation
Microsimulation en sciences sociales. Ci-dessous se trouvent trois articles basés sur des présentations et des discussions qui ont eu lieu au Séminaire de Dagstuhl sur la microsimulation en sciences sociales: "Une défi à l'informatique". Schloβ Dagstuhl. 1-5 mai 1995, et ont été publiés depuis dans K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert et J.E. Doran (sous la direction de). Social Science Microsimulation, 1996, Springer Verlag. Les trois arti…
Social Science Microsimulation
Shaping Written Knowledge
Early Retirement in a Period of High Unemployment
Early retirement is a policy for tackling unemployment which is popular among unions, employers and government, but there has been little recent research on its social implications for the individuals concerned. This article examines the reasons given by older men for retiring early and investigates the extent of income poverty in early retirement. Particular attention is paid to how early retirement is defined and to the differences between the …
Replication and Mere Replication
Occupational Classes and Inter-Class Mobility
Text, competence and logic
Accounts and Action
Integrating Women into Class Theory
A theoretical framework is proposed by which women as well as men may be included in class theory, and a methodology is suggested by which one aspect of women's class location, their relationship to the labour market, may be measured. It is argued that social class in a Weberian sense may be seen as comprising two distinct although related dimensions. Firstly, that based upon relationship to the labour market, measured at the level of the individ…
Paid employment and women's health
Two contrasting theories of the relationship between paid employment and women's health are examined using data from the 1975 and 1976 General Household Survey. The 'role accumulation' hypothesis, which proposes that paid employment has beneficial effects on health, was supported for women without children, and for women over 40 with children. However, the causal ordering is unclear, for there is evidence that ill-health reduces the likelihood of…
Opening Pandora's box
Experiments Are the Key
Modelling Society
Scientists' Theory Talk
The General Household Survey as a Source for Secondary Analysis
In contrast to the importance placed on secondary analysis by researchers in other disciplines, British sociologists have long neglected the rich data available from large scale government surveys, perhaps because of technical obstacles. This report describes work to make the General Household Survey (GHS) data more easily accessible for sociological analysis, summarizes the contents and structure of the GHS and reviews the arrangements which hav…
Warranting Scientific Belief
The ways in which scientists account for and justify their own scientific views are analyzed by examining in detail transcripts of interviews with biochemists working on oxidative phosphorylation. It is shown that scientists use two repertoires, the `empiricist' and the `contingent', to account for their beliefs. The empiricist repertoire derives from and reinforces the traditional conception of scientific rationality according to which data obta…
What is the Ultimate Question? Some Remarks in Defence of the Analysis of Scientific Discourse
As Tom Gieryn' is clearly aware, there is a tendency to oversimplify intellectual boundaries in the course of lively academic debate. No doubt he is right in suggesting that commentators have previously often used the term 'Mertonian' rather carelessly in devising a background within which the originality of their own work can become evident. It seems likely that we all characterize intellectual movements to which we do not belong in ways which s…
Joking Apart
This paper is an attempt to show that scientific humour is an important topic analytically, because it reveals with particular clarity some of the interpretative resources by means of which scientists create social meaning. A discourse analysis is presented of a recurrent participants' `proto-joke' dealing with communication among scientists, of a satirical article appearing in a `joke journal', and of a cartoon. This analysis adds further suppor…
Accounting for Error
There is an asymmetry in the procedures used by natural scientists to account for 'correct belief' and for 'error'. Correct belief is treated as the normal state of affairs, as deriving unproblematically from experimental evidence, and as requiring no special explanation. Errors are seen as something to be explained away, as due to the intrusion of non-scientific influences. An elaborate repertoire of interpretative resources is employed in accou…
Putting Philosophy to Work
Sociological Methodology 1980
Being interviewed
Paid employment and women's health
Two contrasting theories of the relationship between paid employment and women's health are examined using data from the 1975 and 1976 General Household Survey. The 'role accumulation' hypothesis, which proposes that paid employment has beneficial effects on health, was supported for women without children, and for women over 40 with children. However, the causal ordering is unclear, for there is evidence that ill-health reduces the likelihood of…
Referencing as Persuasion
Integrating Women into Class Theory
A theoretical framework is proposed by which women as well as men may be included in class theory, and a methodology is suggested by which one aspect of women's class location, their relationship to the labour market, may be measured. It is argued that social class in a Weberian sense may be seen as comprising two distinct although related dimensions. Firstly, that based upon relationship to the labour market, measured at the level of the individ…
Accounting for Error
There is an asymmetry in the procedures used by natural scientists to account for 'correct belief' and for 'error'. Correct belief is treated as the normal state of affairs, as deriving unproblematically from experimental evidence, and as requiring no special explanation. Errors are seen as something to be explained away, as due to the intrusion of non-scientific influences. An elaborate repertoire of interpretative resources is employed in accou…
The Transformation of Research Findings into Scientific Knowledge
conducting detailed and 'micro'-scale studies of scientific research. This has often been accompanied by a belief that the sociology of science ought to be cast within an 'interpretive' rather than within a 'normative' paradigm.1 As a result, some sociologists have begun to inquire about the everyday practices of research scientists, and others have looked at the ways in which knowledge of research techniques and innovations are transmitted from …
Warranting Scientific Belief
The ways in which scientists account for and justify their own scientific views are analyzed by examining in detail transcripts of interviews with biochemists working on oxidative phosphorylation. It is shown that scientists use two repertoires, the `empiricist' and the `contingent', to account for their beliefs. The empiricist repertoire derives from and reinforces the traditional conception of scientific rationality according to which data obta…
Joking Apart
This paper is an attempt to show that scientific humour is an important topic analytically, because it reveals with particular clarity some of the interpretative resources by means of which scientists create social meaning. A discourse analysis is presented of a recurrent participants' `proto-joke' dealing with communication among scientists, of a satirical article appearing in a `joke journal', and of a cartoon. This analysis adds further suppor…
Putting Philosophy to Work
Early Retirement in a Period of High Unemployment
Early retirement is a policy for tackling unemployment which is popular among unions, employers and government, but there has been little recent research on its social implications for the individuals concerned. This article examines the reasons given by older men for retiring early and investigates the extent of income poverty in early retirement. Particular attention is paid to how early retirement is defined and to the differences between the …
Experiments Are the Key
What is the Ultimate Question? Some Remarks in Defence of the Analysis of Scientific Discourse
As Tom Gieryn' is clearly aware, there is a tendency to oversimplify intellectual boundaries in the course of lively academic debate. No doubt he is right in suggesting that commentators have previously often used the term 'Mertonian' rather carelessly in devising a background within which the originality of their own work can become evident. It seems likely that we all characterize intellectual movements to which we do not belong in ways which s…
Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation
Simulations as Tools for Modeling and Theory Building: N. Gilbert: Models, Processes and Algorithms: Towards a Simulation Toolkit.- J. Doran: Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies.- G. Muller: Computer Assisted Interfacing: On the Use of Computer Simulation for Theory Construction.- C. Stoica: Interactive Neural Networks as Tools for Modeling Social Systems.- Multi-Agent Based Simulations: W. Balzer: SMASS: A Serial Multi-Agent Sys…
Text, competence and logic
Scientists' Theory Talk
Replication and Mere Replication
The General Household Survey as a Source for Secondary Analysis
In contrast to the importance placed on secondary analysis by researchers in other disciplines, British sociologists have long neglected the rich data available from large scale government surveys, perhaps because of technical obstacles. This report describes work to make the General Household Survey (GHS) data more easily accessible for sociological analysis, summarizes the contents and structure of the GHS and reviews the arrangements which hav…
Social Science Microsimulation
Microsimulation en sciences sociales. Ci-dessous se trouvent trois articles basés sur des présentations et des discussions qui ont eu lieu au Séminaire de Dagstuhl sur la microsimulation en sciences sociales: "Une défi à l'informatique". Schloβ Dagstuhl. 1-5 mai 1995, et ont été publiés depuis dans K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert et J.E. Doran (sous la direction de). Social Science Microsimulation, 1996, Springer Verlag. Les trois arti…
Being interviewed
Competition, differentiation and careers in science
Occupational Classes and Inter-Class Mobility
Accounts and Action
The Transformation of Research Findings into Scientific Knowledge
conducting detailed and 'micro'-scale studies of scientific research. This has often been accompanied by a belief that the sociology of science ought to be cast within an 'interpretive' rather than within a 'normative' paradigm.1 As a result, some sociologists have begun to inquire about the everyday practices of research scientists, and others have looked at the ways in which knowledge of research techniques and innovations are transmitted from …
Referencing as Persuasion
Competition, differentiation and careers in science
A Simulation Approach to Teaching Survey Sampling
Of all the topics usually covered in a course on research met ods, the theory and techniques of sampling populations is among the more difficult to convey effectively to students. Although few sociology students have either the necessary background knowledge of probability theory or the opportunity of obtaining it, we require them to become familiar with the idea of sampling and to appreciate the merits of different sampling schemes. It is not, t…
The Sociology of Science in Europe, Soviet Sociology of Science
Being interviewed
Putting Philosophy to Work
Sociological Methodology 1980
Warranting Scientific Belief
The ways in which scientists account for and justify their own scientific views are analyzed by examining in detail transcripts of interviews with biochemists working on oxidative phosphorylation. It is shown that scientists use two repertoires, the `empiricist' and the `contingent', to account for their beliefs. The empiricist repertoire derives from and reinforces the traditional conception of scientific rationality according to which data obta…
What is the Ultimate Question? Some Remarks in Defence of the Analysis of Scientific Discourse
As Tom Gieryn' is clearly aware, there is a tendency to oversimplify intellectual boundaries in the course of lively academic debate. No doubt he is right in suggesting that commentators have previously often used the term 'Mertonian' rather carelessly in devising a background within which the originality of their own work can become evident. It seems likely that we all characterize intellectual movements to which we do not belong in ways which s…
Joking Apart
This paper is an attempt to show that scientific humour is an important topic analytically, because it reveals with particular clarity some of the interpretative resources by means of which scientists create social meaning. A discourse analysis is presented of a recurrent participants' `proto-joke' dealing with communication among scientists, of a satirical article appearing in a `joke journal', and of a cartoon. This analysis adds further suppor…
Accounting for Error
There is an asymmetry in the procedures used by natural scientists to account for 'correct belief' and for 'error'. Correct belief is treated as the normal state of affairs, as deriving unproblematically from experimental evidence, and as requiring no special explanation. Errors are seen as something to be explained away, as due to the intrusion of non-scientific influences. An elaborate repertoire of interpretative resources is employed in accou…
Modelling Society
Scientists' Theory Talk
The General Household Survey as a Source for Secondary Analysis
In contrast to the importance placed on secondary analysis by researchers in other disciplines, British sociologists have long neglected the rich data available from large scale government surveys, perhaps because of technical obstacles. This report describes work to make the General Household Survey (GHS) data more easily accessible for sociological analysis, summarizes the contents and structure of the GHS and reviews the arrangements which hav…
Opening Pandora's box
Experiments Are the Key
Accounts and Action
Integrating Women into Class Theory
A theoretical framework is proposed by which women as well as men may be included in class theory, and a methodology is suggested by which one aspect of women's class location, their relationship to the labour market, may be measured. It is argued that social class in a Weberian sense may be seen as comprising two distinct although related dimensions. Firstly, that based upon relationship to the labour market, measured at the level of the individ…
Paid employment and women's health
Two contrasting theories of the relationship between paid employment and women's health are examined using data from the 1975 and 1976 General Household Survey. The 'role accumulation' hypothesis, which proposes that paid employment has beneficial effects on health, was supported for women without children, and for women over 40 with children. However, the causal ordering is unclear, for there is evidence that ill-health reduces the likelihood of…
Replication and Mere Replication
Occupational Classes and Inter-Class Mobility
Text, competence and logic
Early Retirement in a Period of High Unemployment
Early retirement is a policy for tackling unemployment which is popular among unions, employers and government, but there has been little recent research on its social implications for the individuals concerned. This article examines the reasons given by older men for retiring early and investigates the extent of income poverty in early retirement. Particular attention is paid to how early retirement is defined and to the differences between the …
Shaping Written Knowledge
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