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Sociology at the individual level, psychologies and neurosciences

Bernard Lahire
- 01 Feb 2020 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 1, pp 52-71
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The French sociological tradition has long regarded the individual as a reality situated outside its area of intellection and investigation as mentioned in this paper, according to Durkheim, the individual is a psychologic...
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The French sociological tradition has long regarded the ‘individual’ as a reality situated outside its area of intellection and investigation. According to Durkheim, the individual is a psychologic...

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Understanding audience segmentation: From elite and mass to omnivore and univore

Richard A. Peterson
- 01 Aug 1992 - 
TL;DR: This article used a log-multiplicative model to simultaneously stratify occupational groups and music preferences, and found that those in the upper occupational groups are more apt to like symphonic music and to engage in elite arts activities, while those in lowest occupational groups tend to like few activities and to strongly like one single non-elite form of music.

Word learning as Bayesian inference

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a computational theory of concept learning based on Bayesian inference to the problem of learning words from examples, without assuming that words are mutually exclusive or map only onto basic-level cat- egories.
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TL;DR: The authors present a Bayesian framework for understanding how adults and children learn the meanings of words, and explains how learners can generalize meaningfully from just one or a few positive examples of a novel word's referents.
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