Dualities of Culture and Structure
... But these candidate reasons to explain a shift toward culture themselves seem largely descriptive. And in any case, White and Godart (2007) reject conceiving of the relation between structure and culture as “interdependent yet autonomous,” preferring instead to view both “structure” and “culture ...
... But these candidate reasons to explain a shift toward culture themselves seem largely descriptive. And in any case, White and Godart (2007) reject conceiving of the relation between structure and culture as “interdependent yet autonomous,” preferring instead to view both “structure” and “culture ...
FAMOUS SOCIOLOGY MAJORS
... FAMOUS SOCIOLOGY MAJORS There are thousands of accomplished people with BA, MA, and PhD degrees in sociology, who are not necessarily Sociologists with a capital “S.” Below is a list of just a few, found by Peter Dreier, Occidental College, for his commencement address to the 2001 department of soci ...
... FAMOUS SOCIOLOGY MAJORS There are thousands of accomplished people with BA, MA, and PhD degrees in sociology, who are not necessarily Sociologists with a capital “S.” Below is a list of just a few, found by Peter Dreier, Occidental College, for his commencement address to the 2001 department of soci ...
Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics
... method? Such was the view of epistemology. In the late 1960s sociologists read Kuhn and created a sociology of scientific knowledge. A paradigm can be understood, they said, as a culture. Scientists acquire this culture and use it to guide their puzzle-solving practices. Successful puzzle-solving ex ...
... method? Such was the view of epistemology. In the late 1960s sociologists read Kuhn and created a sociology of scientific knowledge. A paradigm can be understood, they said, as a culture. Scientists acquire this culture and use it to guide their puzzle-solving practices. Successful puzzle-solving ex ...
SO 200. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE: CHAPTER 1
... 1. What is sociology? 2. What is the “sociological imagination”? 3. What is “social structure”? 4. Why is Émile Durkheim important to the development of sociology? Note: The answer key to Question #8 in the Review Questions gives the wrong answer. The answer should be “all except d,” an alternative ...
... 1. What is sociology? 2. What is the “sociological imagination”? 3. What is “social structure”? 4. Why is Émile Durkheim important to the development of sociology? Note: The answer key to Question #8 in the Review Questions gives the wrong answer. The answer should be “all except d,” an alternative ...
Centre for Science Studies
... generated by through the operation of a privileged scientific method. And, in particular, they argued that "knowledge" (but they generalise from knowledge to agents, social institutions, machines and organisations) may be seen as a product or an effect of a network of heterogeneous materials. I put ...
... generated by through the operation of a privileged scientific method. And, in particular, they argued that "knowledge" (but they generalise from knowledge to agents, social institutions, machines and organisations) may be seen as a product or an effect of a network of heterogeneous materials. I put ...
Social Networks
... Social network analysis is periodically accused of being merely “methods in search of a theory.” Theoretical underpinnings of network models often unstated or vague. No orthodoxy dominates SNA, but several theoretical perspectives provide useful micro-level core concepts and explanatory propositions ...
... Social network analysis is periodically accused of being merely “methods in search of a theory.” Theoretical underpinnings of network models often unstated or vague. No orthodoxy dominates SNA, but several theoretical perspectives provide useful micro-level core concepts and explanatory propositions ...
Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network
... materials too. Indeed, the argument is that we wouldn't have a society at all if it weren't for the heterogeneity of the networks of the social. So in this view the task of sociology is to characterise these networks in their heterogeneity, and explore how it is that they come to be patterned to gen ...
... materials too. Indeed, the argument is that we wouldn't have a society at all if it weren't for the heterogeneity of the networks of the social. So in this view the task of sociology is to characterise these networks in their heterogeneity, and explore how it is that they come to be patterned to gen ...
SOC 8311 Basic Social Statistics
... Forming Interorg’l Relations At the org’l level of analysis, theories examine interorganizational relations (IOR). Emergent properties arise when nonunitary collective actors interact, exchange, bargain, compete, collaborate, conflict, ... ...
... Forming Interorg’l Relations At the org’l level of analysis, theories examine interorganizational relations (IOR). Emergent properties arise when nonunitary collective actors interact, exchange, bargain, compete, collaborate, conflict, ... ...
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... in sociology? What is the difference between a theory and a stereotype? (5) Identify three theoretical paradigms in sociology. What characteristics distinguish the structuralfunctional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches? What is the difference between a microand a macro-level orie ...
... in sociology? What is the difference between a theory and a stereotype? (5) Identify three theoretical paradigms in sociology. What characteristics distinguish the structuralfunctional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches? What is the difference between a microand a macro-level orie ...
(1) Provide a brief (one sentence) definition for the following terms:
... in sociology? What is the difference between a theory and a stereotype? (5) Identify three theoretical paradigms in sociology. What characteristics distinguish the structuralfunctional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches? What is the difference between a microand a macro-level orie ...
... in sociology? What is the difference between a theory and a stereotype? (5) Identify three theoretical paradigms in sociology. What characteristics distinguish the structuralfunctional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches? What is the difference between a microand a macro-level orie ...
On the Use of Actor-Network Theory for Developing Web Services
... respect, one important goal is to attempt to reconcile these often contrasting perspectives" (Abreu de Paula, 2004). While Participatory Design does not explicitly address the social construction of usefulness, it may be considered as framing the social interactions that eventually lead to a recogni ...
... respect, one important goal is to attempt to reconcile these often contrasting perspectives" (Abreu de Paula, 2004). While Participatory Design does not explicitly address the social construction of usefulness, it may be considered as framing the social interactions that eventually lead to a recogni ...
Human Agency as Primary (Social Construction of Technology, user-)
... satisfy “informational requirements” of each world (393) weakly structures in common use but strong structure in individual use, have diff meanings in each world but a small thread of common meaning across worlds (393) in other words, they are objects that can be interpreted by different social grou ...
... satisfy “informational requirements” of each world (393) weakly structures in common use but strong structure in individual use, have diff meanings in each world but a small thread of common meaning across worlds (393) in other words, they are objects that can be interpreted by different social grou ...
Opening Up The Future To Inspection: Actor
... The study focused on the method and process of scenarioplanning. The objective was to successfully use the theoretical basis of actor-network theory and the methodological principles of the sociology of translation to analyse the interactions between the participants of a scenario-planning project. ...
... The study focused on the method and process of scenarioplanning. The objective was to successfully use the theoretical basis of actor-network theory and the methodological principles of the sociology of translation to analyse the interactions between the participants of a scenario-planning project. ...
Overall Lecture - So..
... – It contests REALIST (and other) orientations. – There are several varieties of Soc. Const “weak” versions to “strong” versions. ...
... – It contests REALIST (and other) orientations. – There are several varieties of Soc. Const “weak” versions to “strong” versions. ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist aitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT a ...
... It seems peculiar that a non-theory, anti-method has managed to become canonical, but that is what Bruno Latour will introduce you to in his book; the post-pluralist, post-humanist aitude called Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). Drawing together heaps of controversial research, Latour resuscitates ANT a ...
Social network analysis and semantic web
... intensity of relationships, the number of interactions (e.g. mails), or the number of affiliations (e.g. shared links). ...
... intensity of relationships, the number of interactions (e.g. mails), or the number of affiliations (e.g. shared links). ...
Swarm_Intelligence-prakhar
... A subset-based Ant System adapts the central idea in the following way: “the more pheromone on a particular item, the more profitable that item is. ” In other words, we move the pheromone from paths to items. For the subset problem, the Ant system considers a special ...
... A subset-based Ant System adapts the central idea in the following way: “the more pheromone on a particular item, the more profitable that item is. ” In other words, we move the pheromone from paths to items. For the subset problem, the Ant system considers a special ...
10-AntColony
... TSP is a very important problem in the context of Ant Colony Optimization because it is the problem to which the original AS was first applied, and it has later often been used as a benchmark to test a new idea and algorithmic variants. • It is a metaphor problem for the ant colony • It is one of th ...
... TSP is a very important problem in the context of Ant Colony Optimization because it is the problem to which the original AS was first applied, and it has later often been used as a benchmark to test a new idea and algorithmic variants. • It is a metaphor problem for the ant colony • It is one of th ...
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Actor
... they produce agency (this is a way of understanding the volitional aspect of technology). Established networks act as black boxes. The work of technoscientists can be characterized as an attempt to understand the “interests” of various actors in the network and then translate them, so that they work ...
... they produce agency (this is a way of understanding the volitional aspect of technology). Established networks act as black boxes. The work of technoscientists can be characterized as an attempt to understand the “interests” of various actors in the network and then translate them, so that they work ...
Social nature: Collapsing dichotomies without unraveling the fabric of things
... economic, the political, the cultural, the ethical, the religious (even if each of these has social dimensions). The nature of the social, Latour argues, is normally preassumed, even if there are competing ways of configuring it, for instance, as consisting of individual agents, persons, organizatio ...
... economic, the political, the cultural, the ethical, the religious (even if each of these has social dimensions). The nature of the social, Latour argues, is normally preassumed, even if there are competing ways of configuring it, for instance, as consisting of individual agents, persons, organizatio ...
WebClient deployment made easy
... Ant replaces the popular 'make' utility used by many C/C++ developers. 'Make' lacks a file format that is easily parsed, has variations in implementations, and lacks extensibility. Ant files are simple XML files, where nodes represents tasks Tasks may be dependant on each others ...
... Ant replaces the popular 'make' utility used by many C/C++ developers. 'Make' lacks a file format that is easily parsed, has variations in implementations, and lacks extensibility. Ant files are simple XML files, where nodes represents tasks Tasks may be dependant on each others ...
Sociology of science
... The aim of the lecture is to introduce the students to the field of Sociology of Science and Technology, or what now is called the Science, Technology and Society field (STS). The lecture will cover the developments from the emergence of the Edinburgh School and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge ...
... The aim of the lecture is to introduce the students to the field of Sociology of Science and Technology, or what now is called the Science, Technology and Society field (STS). The lecture will cover the developments from the emergence of the Edinburgh School and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge ...
- EdShare
... Latour, B. (1991) ‘Technology is society made durable’ in Law, J. (ed) A Sociology of Monsters: essays on power, technology and domination London, Routledge. Latour, B. (1999) ‘On recalling ANT’ in Law, J. and Hassard, J. (eds) (1999). Actor Network Theory and After (Oxford and Keele: Blackwell and ...
... Latour, B. (1991) ‘Technology is society made durable’ in Law, J. (ed) A Sociology of Monsters: essays on power, technology and domination London, Routledge. Latour, B. (1999) ‘On recalling ANT’ in Law, J. and Hassard, J. (eds) (1999). Actor Network Theory and After (Oxford and Keele: Blackwell and ...