IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251346168

Alain Müller

{"title":"Handmade relief models as matters of concern: Maintaining, restoring, and repairing mountains?","authors":"Alain Müller","doi":"10.1177/03063127251346168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127251346168","url":null,"abstract":"Through a case study of what are known as ‘relief models’—for example of areas of landscapes—this article approaches representational objects in and as practice. Such an approach implies following the multiplicity of practices that are gathered in representational objects to bring them into and maintain their existence, especially those that often remain unacknowledged by analytical attention. Most discussions of representational objects focus on their representational capacities and properties, paying less attention to the activities that ensure their ontological security as objects. Those activities concern not only the manufacture of representational objects, but also their maintenance—which is placed at the heart of this discussion. The maintenance of relief models manifests itself as a semiotic-material ecology. Entangled here are the ontological tact of the craftsperson, the affordances, resistances, and responsiveness of the materials, and the meaning-makings and stories that articulate and guide maintenance and repair. The practice of maintaining such objects, however, diverges from their production. Their production essentially accommodates metric distance since representation involves transporting a ‘thing’ through chains of reference. On the contrary, their maintenance aims to accommodate multiple temporalities. This involves not only the ways of being in time that are specific to each material that composes the object but also the idealized past of an unused object, its worn present, and its anticipated (repaired) future. By playing with the double meaning of the word ‘representing’, this article speculatively questions the extent to which practices of maintenance of, and care for, representational objects can inform a re-vision and rethinking of the relationships to what they are meant to re-present —that is, to what counts as nature.","PeriodicalId":51152,"journal":{"name":"Social Studies of Science","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Breaking the cycle: The role of the criminal justice system in understanding homicide rates 打破循环：刑事司法系统在理解凶杀率中的作用

IF 3.3 1区社会学

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102450

G. Croci , J. Gomez

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A Two-Country Comparison of the Ethnic Wage Gaps of South Asians in the United States and the United Kingdom 美国和英国南亚民族工资差距的两国比较

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2025.2514163

Simonetta Longhi

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Improving the data quality of CO2 continuous emissions monitoring systems: In the context of China's emissions trading scheme 提高二氧化碳连续排放监测系统的数据质量：以中国碳排放权交易为例

IF 9.8 1区社会学

Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108037

Yi Song , Xiaohu Luo , Yuhao Lu , Jueying Qian , Wei Zhang , Liangke Liu , Junling Huang , Xiaolu Zhao , Da Zhang

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Precision justice: An imaginary of data and justice 精确正义：数据和正义的想象

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251342275

Margarita Boenig-Liptsin

{"title":"Precision justice: An imaginary of data and justice","authors":"Margarita Boenig-Liptsin","doi":"10.1177/03063127251342275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127251342275","url":null,"abstract":"In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World every person is conditioned through technologies to fit their social role, which is the source of the society’s alleged stability and rightness. This utopia of ‘precision justice’ is alive today in projects that deploy data and algorithmic models in decision-making in diverse branches of life to realize computing’s promise to create more just societies. I identify the sociotechnical imaginary of ‘precision justice’ by analyzing the promise and contestation of the use of an algorithmic model to calculate exam grades in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Precision justice’ is the product of the coupling of a normative concept of just distribution with data practices of identification and risk assessment, and is characterized by interventionist action, optimal distribution, and system management. It crystallized in the contexts of the emerging ‘information society’ in the 1970s United States, when visions of the risks and opportunities of information in digital form converged with the popular theory and practices of distributive justice. At stake in this imaginary is the model of the human with which it operates and that it reproduces. Instead of keying people to a substantive and expansive concept of justice, the union of distributive justice and data practices bind people to indicators and allocate them to specific places in society. To move beyond precision justice, this article calls for the need to look at justice and data symmetrically, as a simultaneously epistemic and normative set of concerns that must be addressed together in terms of what worlds we want to build.","PeriodicalId":51152,"journal":{"name":"Social Studies of Science","volume":"37 15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring adolescent & youth worker perspectives in co-creating a smoking prevention intervention 探讨青少年和青年工作者在共同创建预防吸烟干预方面的观点

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108409

Babette Demeester , Maïté Verloigne , Sara Willems , Kenji Leta , Lieve Bradt , Emelien Lauwerier

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Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization 子宫内膜异位症的自我跟踪：芬兰患者组织开发的妇科应用程序的演变期望

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251344961

Venla Oikkonen, Maria Temmes

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A cluster randomized experiment of a life coaching intervention designed to improve correctional officer mental health 生活指导干预改善狱警心理健康的整群随机实验

IF 4.6 1区社会学

Criminology & Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.70000

Frank Ferdik

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Leader humility as a form of love: Building trust and cooperative culture in Japanese organizations 领导谦卑是爱的一种形式：在日本组织中建立信任和合作文化

IF 2.4 2区社会学

International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102226

Soyeon Kim

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Gender and tenure insecurity in a matrilineal customary system 母系习俗制度中的性别和权属不安全

IF 6 1区社会学

Land Use Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107646

Laura Meinzen-Dick , Helder Zavale

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