• Normalization process theory (NPT) is a sociological theory, generally used in the fields of science and technology studies (STS), implementation research...
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  • Normalization refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as 'normal' and become taken-for-granted or 'natural' in everyday...
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  • integration. This model helped build the normalization process theory. The normalization process model is a theory that explains how new technologies are...
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  • shaping of technology, social network theory, normalization process theory, and diffusion of innovations theory are held to be important alternatives...
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  • Look up normalization, normalisation, or normalisâtion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Normalization or normalisation refers to a process that makes...
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  • success of a scientific theory is whether what it says about observable entities is true. Thomas Kuhn argued that the process of observation and evaluation...
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    construction of technology Actor-network theory Normalization process theory Theories of technology The general theory of crime refers to the proposition by...
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    Historical materialism Innovation system Metascience Mode 2 Normalization process theory Public awareness of science Science studies Science of team science...
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  • existing theory, literature sources, and technology. Traditionally 5, after Dewey's 1910 idea of a "complete act of thought". He held that thought-process best...
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    Schiffer, M. B. (2013). "Discovery Processes: Trial Models". The Archaeology of Science. Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique. Vol. 9. Heidelberg:...
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  • Theories of technological change and innovation attempt to explain the factors that shape technological innovation as well as the impact of technology...
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    invention. Technical innovation often manifests itself via the engineering process when the problem being solved is of a technical or scientific nature. The...
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    scientist" Swedish definition: "Intention[al] distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's...
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  • The term fuzzy logic was introduced with the 1965 proposal of fuzzy set theory by mathematician Lotfi Zadeh. Fuzzy logic had, however, been studied since...
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    trust in. This process is captured by the empirically grounded construct of "Relational Integration" within Normalization Process Theory. This can be traced...
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  • technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. In essence, technological change covers...
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  • rendered incompatible with new phenomena, facilitating the adoption of a new theory or paradigm. As one commentator summarizes: Kuhn acknowledges having used...
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    Roger Laurence, in the field of clinical pharmacology, described a similar process in drug development in the seventies.[citation needed] There have been...
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  • responsibilities. Technocracy follows largely in the tradition of other meritocratic theories and works best when the state exerts strong control over social and economic...
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    Internet, and the widespread digitalization of communication and industrial processes. A book by Jeremy Rifkin titled The Third Industrial Revolution, published...
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    of this ideological process are creation science and intelligent design, which were developed in response to the scientific theory of evolution. A topic...
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  • machine‐learning approach to coding book reviews as quality indicators: Toward a theory of megacitation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and...
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  • Innovation diffusion disruptive linear model system user Leapfrogging Normalization process theory Media studies Reverse salient Skunkworks project Sociotechnical...
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    uptake in education. In medical sociology, Carl May has proposed normalization process theory that shows how technologies become embedded and integrated in...
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  • Technological determinism (category Marxist theory)
    tied, with the change of either affecting the other by consequence of normalization. This stance however ignores the social and cultural circumstances in...
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    Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett...
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  • Neo-Luddism (category Social theories)
    advocating return to a previous societal state New World Order – Conspiracy theory regarding a totalitarian world government Brave New World – 1932 dystopian...
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  • Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization...
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  • method used to normalize the range of independent variables or features of data. In data processing, it is also known as data normalization and is generally...
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  • Database normalization is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data...
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