Emergence of communication networks in organizations:
... theory, structural theory of action), (e) cognitive theories (semantic networks, knowledge structures, cognitive social structures, cognitive consistency), (f) theories of homophily (social comparison theory, social identity theory), (g) theories of proximity (physical and electronic propinquity), ( ...
... theory, structural theory of action), (e) cognitive theories (semantic networks, knowledge structures, cognitive social structures, cognitive consistency), (f) theories of homophily (social comparison theory, social identity theory), (g) theories of proximity (physical and electronic propinquity), ( ...
Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social
... a) the nature and society divide is irrelevant for understanding the world of human interactions ; b) the micro/macro distinction stifle any attempt at understanding how society is being generated. In other words, I want to make a little thought experiment and imagine what the field of social scienc ...
... a) the nature and society divide is irrelevant for understanding the world of human interactions ; b) the micro/macro distinction stifle any attempt at understanding how society is being generated. In other words, I want to make a little thought experiment and imagine what the field of social scienc ...
Bureaucracy, Institutional Change, and Deegan`s Theory of Core
... In the conclusion of American Ritual Dramas, Deegan (1989: 162-167) identifies ways to liberate the alienating rituals she documented in the course of her research. As students, teachers, researchers, and administrators, we can explore ways to generate liminal play and communitas in bureaucratic edu ...
... In the conclusion of American Ritual Dramas, Deegan (1989: 162-167) identifies ways to liberate the alienating rituals she documented in the course of her research. As students, teachers, researchers, and administrators, we can explore ways to generate liminal play and communitas in bureaucratic edu ...
Network Position Measures
... interlocking roles using algebraic and matrix methods began with S.F. Nadel’s (1957) theory of social structure as positions possessing distinctive rights and duties in relation to other positions. Structural equivalence is one fundamental method for identifying roles and positions in a social netwo ...
... interlocking roles using algebraic and matrix methods began with S.F. Nadel’s (1957) theory of social structure as positions possessing distinctive rights and duties in relation to other positions. Structural equivalence is one fundamental method for identifying roles and positions in a social netwo ...
Delegating and Distributing Morality: Can We Inscribe Privacy
... Without wishing in any way to trivialize the tragedy of these cases, both involve, in some senses a delegation to a nonhuman i.e. to a database. The database does not work on its own – the whole moral network of database plus police and/or social workers, education and health officials, those who co ...
... Without wishing in any way to trivialize the tragedy of these cases, both involve, in some senses a delegation to a nonhuman i.e. to a database. The database does not work on its own – the whole moral network of database plus police and/or social workers, education and health officials, those who co ...
Historical Sociology of International Relations - Assets
... Historical sociologists would do well, therefore, to follow the progress of their ‘cousins’ within international relations. Nevertheless, it seems fair to state that the ‘boundaries between those writers in international relations who are interested in taking a historical sociological approach and t ...
... Historical sociologists would do well, therefore, to follow the progress of their ‘cousins’ within international relations. Nevertheless, it seems fair to state that the ‘boundaries between those writers in international relations who are interested in taking a historical sociological approach and t ...
The sociological studies of technology
... paper for you. I recommend three books as basic textbooks: Bruno Latour’s “Science in Action” is an excellent method book in order to do applied sociological research on scientific and technological projects. It also defends the idea that science and technology should no be seen as in the textbooks, ...
... paper for you. I recommend three books as basic textbooks: Bruno Latour’s “Science in Action” is an excellent method book in order to do applied sociological research on scientific and technological projects. It also defends the idea that science and technology should no be seen as in the textbooks, ...
The promise of public sociology
... Burawoy sees sociology moving leftward while the world it studies has moved rightward over the last half century. The pattern seems to me a bit more complex. First, a half century ago the US was just coming out of the McCarthy era, French colonialism was just being defeated in Vietnam and had not ye ...
... Burawoy sees sociology moving leftward while the world it studies has moved rightward over the last half century. The pattern seems to me a bit more complex. First, a half century ago the US was just coming out of the McCarthy era, French colonialism was just being defeated in Vietnam and had not ye ...
Doing Sociology
... need to be regularly informed of the researches’ made in the other disciplines. 4 Sociology in this sense had to be interdisciplinary. This changed over time. Sociologists over years began to define the discipline in terms of ‘residual’ subjects which did not fall clearly within the sphere of other ...
... need to be regularly informed of the researches’ made in the other disciplines. 4 Sociology in this sense had to be interdisciplinary. This changed over time. Sociologists over years began to define the discipline in terms of ‘residual’ subjects which did not fall clearly within the sphere of other ...
Copyright notice: this is a non-finalised version of a chapter
... Introduction: What is ontology and why does it matter for organisation studies? The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. I ...
... Introduction: What is ontology and why does it matter for organisation studies? The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. I ...
The promise of public sociology
... market meant that it could exercise more discipline on the intellectual choices of aspirants. This period marked the most decisive ascendancy of quantitative empiricism, and with it a reassertion of ‘professional’ rather than ‘political’ values.2 It also brought a clearer division between those with ...
... market meant that it could exercise more discipline on the intellectual choices of aspirants. This period marked the most decisive ascendancy of quantitative empiricism, and with it a reassertion of ‘professional’ rather than ‘political’ values.2 It also brought a clearer division between those with ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology Temporary table of
... The relational scheme of Bruno Latour’s associology – as he calls the kind of sociology which he wants to promote – roots in his concept of association. With this concept, Latour wants to deliver a new theoretical perspective in sociology. In his theoretical works from 1986 until 1990, he gives to t ...
... The relational scheme of Bruno Latour’s associology – as he calls the kind of sociology which he wants to promote – roots in his concept of association. With this concept, Latour wants to deliver a new theoretical perspective in sociology. In his theoretical works from 1986 until 1990, he gives to t ...
Sociological
... Professional organization and sponsor of annual meetings. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology: http://www.aacsnet.org/wp/ Professional organization dedicated to the application of sociological knowledge. ...
... Professional organization and sponsor of annual meetings. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology: http://www.aacsnet.org/wp/ Professional organization dedicated to the application of sociological knowledge. ...
Sociology Teaching Resources available on the Internet
... Professional organization and sponsor of annual meetings. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology: http://www.aacsnet.org/wp/ Professional organization dedicated to the application of sociological knowledge. Journals and newsletters Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter Econo ...
... Professional organization and sponsor of annual meetings. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology: http://www.aacsnet.org/wp/ Professional organization dedicated to the application of sociological knowledge. Journals and newsletters Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter Econo ...
A Family of Affiliation Indices for Two
... events, relative to other actors. The one-mode notion of centrality immediately comes to mind as a possible proxy, but upon reflection it doesn‘t take into account the richer types of connections possible in a two-mode network. (For applications of various centrality measures to two-mode networks se ...
... events, relative to other actors. The one-mode notion of centrality immediately comes to mind as a possible proxy, but upon reflection it doesn‘t take into account the richer types of connections possible in a two-mode network. (For applications of various centrality measures to two-mode networks se ...
Alvin W. Gouldner and Industrial Sociology at Columbia University
... Lynd over scholarly reputation and allegiances. The problem was that MacIver's program matic attempt to establish an agenda for theorizing around his concepts of community and association (MacIver, 1917, 1931, 1937; see Halas, 2001) was becoming overshadowed by the theoretical work of Talcott Parso ...
... Lynd over scholarly reputation and allegiances. The problem was that MacIver's program matic attempt to establish an agenda for theorizing around his concepts of community and association (MacIver, 1917, 1931, 1937; see Halas, 2001) was becoming overshadowed by the theoretical work of Talcott Parso ...
Lesson 1: What is Sociology?
... structuring out interactions and laying out an orderly world before us Society is a social construction, that is, it is an idea created by humans (i.e. doesn’t exist in the biological world but only in the social world) through social interaction and given a reality through our understanding of it ...
... structuring out interactions and laying out an orderly world before us Society is a social construction, that is, it is an idea created by humans (i.e. doesn’t exist in the biological world but only in the social world) through social interaction and given a reality through our understanding of it ...
Public Sociology and Democratic Theory
... As with foundations, the autonomy of universities is granted under certain conditions, one of which is that they remain outside of politics. In the course of establishing itself as an academic subject, sociology had to draw its own lines in a way that was sufficiently convincing that other scholarly ...
... As with foundations, the autonomy of universities is granted under certain conditions, one of which is that they remain outside of politics. In the course of establishing itself as an academic subject, sociology had to draw its own lines in a way that was sufficiently convincing that other scholarly ...
Lesson 1 - What is Sociology
... share a culture and live more or less together. They have a set of institutions which provide what they need to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs and which maintain order and the values of the culture. ...
... share a culture and live more or less together. They have a set of institutions which provide what they need to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs and which maintain order and the values of the culture. ...
Lesson 1 - What is Sociology
... share a culture and live more or less together. They have a set of institutions which provide what they need to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs and which maintain order and the values of the culture. ...
... share a culture and live more or less together. They have a set of institutions which provide what they need to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs and which maintain order and the values of the culture. ...
The Sociological Perspective Revisited
... In the second decade of the 21st century, sociology continues to drift from its scientific roots with a commitment to synthesis. It no longer claims to be the N+1 discipline of Sorokin (1928) but a politically correct discipline which stresses insight and understanding of social forces. Without deve ...
... In the second decade of the 21st century, sociology continues to drift from its scientific roots with a commitment to synthesis. It no longer claims to be the N+1 discipline of Sorokin (1928) but a politically correct discipline which stresses insight and understanding of social forces. Without deve ...
History and sociology in Britain: a review article
... form of systematic comparative research showing the extent to which sociological generalizations purporting to reflect "the world" reflected only the United States society of the period. The customary line of attack was abstractly theoretical, often epistemological, and empirical research was seldom ...
... form of systematic comparative research showing the extent to which sociological generalizations purporting to reflect "the world" reflected only the United States society of the period. The customary line of attack was abstractly theoretical, often epistemological, and empirical research was seldom ...
Group-In-a-Box Layout for Multi-faceted Analysis of Communities
... interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and graph layout algorithms. These approaches result in 2D or 3D visualizations of clustered graphs, with groups of vertices representing individuals that form a community. However, in many instances the vertices ...
... interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and graph layout algorithms. These approaches result in 2D or 3D visualizations of clustered graphs, with groups of vertices representing individuals that form a community. However, in many instances the vertices ...
Anthropological Theory
... The approach is in the style of Murdock’s classic treatise, with two important innovations. First, D’Andrade capitalizes on zero or non-zero table frequencies and interprets these as phenomena requiring explanation in themselves. This approach to tables – which might be phrased, ‘Look first for what ...
... The approach is in the style of Murdock’s classic treatise, with two important innovations. First, D’Andrade capitalizes on zero or non-zero table frequencies and interprets these as phenomena requiring explanation in themselves. This approach to tables – which might be phrased, ‘Look first for what ...