Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Sociology

  1. Race and Book Collecting in Colombia on the Eve of Digitization
    Historical analysis of Colombian book collecting practices and how racial categories influenced institutional decisions about which authors and knowledge traditions to preserve.
  2. Students showed cohesive devices but need stronger grammatical cohesion
    Discourse analysis of cohesive devices in argumentative texts by fifth-semester students reveals adequate lexical cohesion but gaps in grammatical cohesion.
  3. Spatial modification improved mortality-rate model fit
    Spatial modification of the Lee-Carter mortality model using cluster detection methods improves forecasting accuracy by capturing age-time patterns that conventional approaches miss.
  4. Report reviews laws affecting women’s economic inclusion
    Analysis of laws and regulations affecting women's economic inclusion across 190 economies using eight indicators covering career stages from entry to retirement.
  5. Phantasms collide: Navigating video-mediated communication in the Swedish workplace.
    Case study of video-mediated communication meanings in a Swedish telecommunications company, examining institutional discourse construction and employee semantic contestation.