http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/sociological-theory Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:08:49 -0400 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:08:49 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1568/the-conceptual-access-network-thesis-theorizing-the-success-of-new-internet-based-products-services-and-technologies By La Shun L. Carroll - The Conceptual Access-Network Thesis proposed suggests that the development or success of any new internet-based product, service, or technology will ultimately be contingent upon how well it satisfies the criterion of providing access to or creating a network of potential users, products, and services. The significance of this thesis is that, as a criterion, the principle not only explicates how internet technology evolves but can explain what underlies a range of technologies beyond that of the internet, which include chemical forms such as Insulin and highways that are based on the tenets of... Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:29 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1568/the-conceptual-access-network-thesis-theorizing-the-success-of-new-internet-based-products-services-and-technologies http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1463/anxieties-of-the-modern-world-assessing-the-risk-society-thesis By Nathanael Chouraqui - The core idea of this theory, which was first formulated by the sociologist Ulrich Beck in 1986, is that postmodern societies are oriented towards the idea of risk, defined as “a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself” (Beck, 1992) and that risk management techniques pervade most spheres of today’s social and political activities. The idea of controlling the future is, therefore, inherent in the concept of risk. As a result of this necessarily vain attempt to control the uncontrollable, it is argued that anxiety... Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:44 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1463/anxieties-of-the-modern-world-assessing-the-risk-society-thesis