Sociological Amnesia - Herbert J. Gans Online
... Under such conditions, noncumulation may be occupationally extremely useful. Sociology, like much of the rest of the academic piecework industry, puts a high value on originality; forgetting the past is functional for increasing (artificially to be sure) the number of original findings, and the numb ...
... Under such conditions, noncumulation may be occupationally extremely useful. Sociology, like much of the rest of the academic piecework industry, puts a high value on originality; forgetting the past is functional for increasing (artificially to be sure) the number of original findings, and the numb ...
26 Writing it up, writing it down: being reflexive in accounts of
... In the early 1970s, at the time when reflexivity became a central concern of anthropology, Ricoeur's idea (1 970, p. 530) that 'the world is the ensemble of references opened up by the texts' (exemplified also in the writings of Geertz, 1973) had become well accepted. This led to a focus on the writ ...
... In the early 1970s, at the time when reflexivity became a central concern of anthropology, Ricoeur's idea (1 970, p. 530) that 'the world is the ensemble of references opened up by the texts' (exemplified also in the writings of Geertz, 1973) had become well accepted. This led to a focus on the writ ...
Placing power in practice theory Matt Watson
... and time, far beyond the immediate reach of practitioners (including the situations that look most like the exercise of power conventionally understood), can be approached through the framing of governmentality. Foucault’s own working through of governmentality is as an analytic representation of sp ...
... and time, far beyond the immediate reach of practitioners (including the situations that look most like the exercise of power conventionally understood), can be approached through the framing of governmentality. Foucault’s own working through of governmentality is as an analytic representation of sp ...
Theories of Communication Networks Peter R. Monge Annenberg
... computational models to explore balance theories of networks. And, by developing computational models that provide agents both sets of rules, we could explore both theories together from a multitheoretical perspective. Fourth, most network analysis is static and cross-sectional. Of course, this obs ...
... computational models to explore balance theories of networks. And, by developing computational models that provide agents both sets of rules, we could explore both theories together from a multitheoretical perspective. Fourth, most network analysis is static and cross-sectional. Of course, this obs ...
Elite Co-Occurrence in the Media
... the density. If the density of a graph is 0, this means that there is not a single link present. If the density of a graph is 1, this means that all possible edges are present. In most real networks, the density tends to be rather low, since it is usually impossible for a node to have links with man ...
... the density. If the density of a graph is 0, this means that there is not a single link present. If the density of a graph is 1, this means that all possible edges are present. In most real networks, the density tends to be rather low, since it is usually impossible for a node to have links with man ...
www.ssoar.info Relating socio-cultural network concepts to process
... “The first law consists in the succession of the three states, fictitious, abstract, and positive, through which every understanding passes in all its conceptions without exception, but with a velocity proportioned to the generality of the particular phenomena in question. The second is a recognitio ...
... “The first law consists in the succession of the three states, fictitious, abstract, and positive, through which every understanding passes in all its conceptions without exception, but with a velocity proportioned to the generality of the particular phenomena in question. The second is a recognitio ...
Technology and institutions: living in a material world
... practices is something akin to the ordinary human practices of everyday life. In effect, material practices are equivalent to social practices. They give examples from Clifford Geertz’s research on sheep raids or cock fights and from Friedland and Alfred’s research of buying and selling commodities. ...
... practices is something akin to the ordinary human practices of everyday life. In effect, material practices are equivalent to social practices. They give examples from Clifford Geertz’s research on sheep raids or cock fights and from Friedland and Alfred’s research of buying and selling commodities. ...
sociology - anthropology - Illinois State University
... 2. All anthropology majors are encouraged to take SOC 275 (Social Statistics) as part of their undergraduate curriculum. ...
... 2. All anthropology majors are encouraged to take SOC 275 (Social Statistics) as part of their undergraduate curriculum. ...
BSA Conference 2013 Riots
... Lewis, P. and Newburn, T. (2011) Reading the Riots: Investigating England's summer of disorder, London, Guardian Books. Loader, I. and Sparks, R. (2010) ‘Wacquant and civic sociology’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10, 4, pp405-15. North London Citizens (2011) Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenha ...
... Lewis, P. and Newburn, T. (2011) Reading the Riots: Investigating England's summer of disorder, London, Guardian Books. Loader, I. and Sparks, R. (2010) ‘Wacquant and civic sociology’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10, 4, pp405-15. North London Citizens (2011) Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenha ...
Experience and Sociology Mariam Fraser PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE
... makes possible for others - as it is about the complexity of the relations between theory, method, and data. In this paper I want to explore the character of that experience a little more, and to consider two challenges to it, which bring the relevance (or not) of sociological relevance into sharp r ...
... makes possible for others - as it is about the complexity of the relations between theory, method, and data. In this paper I want to explore the character of that experience a little more, and to consider two challenges to it, which bring the relevance (or not) of sociological relevance into sharp r ...
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... sociology. Recent scholarship has resolved these debates, thus paving the way for the development of ecological sociology, the characteristics of which are briefly described. Distinguishing Environmental and Ecological Sociology A quarter century ago, William Catton and Riley Dunlap wrote a series o ...
... sociology. Recent scholarship has resolved these debates, thus paving the way for the development of ecological sociology, the characteristics of which are briefly described. Distinguishing Environmental and Ecological Sociology A quarter century ago, William Catton and Riley Dunlap wrote a series o ...
Theoretical Sociology in the 20th Century
... the situation today in which theorists are more and more constructing formal models as essential components of their methodology. The tradition of sociological theory as a whole exhibits a mixture of three types of sociological interests that I call theoretical sociology, world-historical sociology ...
... the situation today in which theorists are more and more constructing formal models as essential components of their methodology. The tradition of sociological theory as a whole exhibits a mixture of three types of sociological interests that I call theoretical sociology, world-historical sociology ...
Socially unrecognized cumulation
... theories m a r k e d the path, like posts sticking up from the m u r k y water of a river bed: each post gives w a y to another, and the older posts are r e m e m b e r e d only because they are picturesque, not because anything is built on them. For purposes of this argument, I will step outside th ...
... theories m a r k e d the path, like posts sticking up from the m u r k y water of a river bed: each post gives w a y to another, and the older posts are r e m e m b e r e d only because they are picturesque, not because anything is built on them. For purposes of this argument, I will step outside th ...
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
... of a theory of action that defined different types of action on the basis of their specific difference from rational action. It required a theory of society as a complex of interrelated actions that was more than the unintended interconnecting of self-interested actions. . . . As a safeguard against ...
... of a theory of action that defined different types of action on the basis of their specific difference from rational action. It required a theory of society as a complex of interrelated actions that was more than the unintended interconnecting of self-interested actions. . . . As a safeguard against ...
Using Complexity Theory Methods for Sociological Theory
... While traditional methods such as regression analysis can be useful in some cases, the problem is, according to Abbott (2001, p.59), that many social scientists tend to assume a linear reality and ”treat the world as if social causality actually obeyed the rules of linear transformations”. Such a no ...
... While traditional methods such as regression analysis can be useful in some cases, the problem is, according to Abbott (2001, p.59), that many social scientists tend to assume a linear reality and ”treat the world as if social causality actually obeyed the rules of linear transformations”. Such a no ...
Frédéric Vandenberghe: The Relation as Magical Operator
... structuralism in the 1960s. In the UK, we saw the emergence of cultural studies in the 1980’s. Transposed to the USA, it transmuted into postmodernism in the 1980s and poststructuralism in the 1990s. Since Richard Rorty´s (1967) declaration of a “linguistic turn” in philosophy,2 which precedes his o ...
... structuralism in the 1960s. In the UK, we saw the emergence of cultural studies in the 1980’s. Transposed to the USA, it transmuted into postmodernism in the 1980s and poststructuralism in the 1990s. Since Richard Rorty´s (1967) declaration of a “linguistic turn” in philosophy,2 which precedes his o ...
Recovering Morality: Pragmatic Sociology and Literary Studies Shai
... presumed to be universally shared. Where critical sociology sees positions in fields of power being defended through distinctions, or hegemonic ideologies being fiercely guarded, pragmatic sociology reveals a critical competence shared by actors located in different institutions. The methodological ...
... presumed to be universally shared. Where critical sociology sees positions in fields of power being defended through distinctions, or hegemonic ideologies being fiercely guarded, pragmatic sociology reveals a critical competence shared by actors located in different institutions. The methodological ...
Are We Really Friends? Link Assessment in Social Networks Using
... networks in G, then this relationship might be a noisy one or it is a very low strength link that is not qualified to be a real friendship relation. In Figure 1, it is intuitive to deduce that the links that exist in the social network SN and also exist in any other network Gi ∈ G are presumably not ...
... networks in G, then this relationship might be a noisy one or it is a very low strength link that is not qualified to be a real friendship relation. In Figure 1, it is intuitive to deduce that the links that exist in the social network SN and also exist in any other network Gi ∈ G are presumably not ...
Sociology: The Basics
... Unpleasantness, http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm. (White is neither a sociologist nor even an academic, but he does put together a lot of information and provides sources.) ...
... Unpleasantness, http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm. (White is neither a sociologist nor even an academic, but he does put together a lot of information and provides sources.) ...
Contemporary Developments in International Relations Theory
... It is my contention that the fissiparous state of present-day I.R. theory is not due - at least not in the first instance - to a large number of contending methodologies or canons of proof of scientific statements, but much more so to the competitive coexistence of a number of ontological referents ...
... It is my contention that the fissiparous state of present-day I.R. theory is not due - at least not in the first instance - to a large number of contending methodologies or canons of proof of scientific statements, but much more so to the competitive coexistence of a number of ontological referents ...
l0 Llnscrewing the big Leviathan: how actors macro
... to fbllow. F irst ol'all to lbllow, then to ltrrm an alliance or to enlist. then to have something in common, to share. Several act like a sinsle entity, the social link is there. Baboons are social like all social animals in the sense that they lbllow each other, enrol each other, Itrrm alliances, ...
... to fbllow. F irst ol'all to lbllow, then to ltrrm an alliance or to enlist. then to have something in common, to share. Several act like a sinsle entity, the social link is there. Baboons are social like all social animals in the sense that they lbllow each other, enrol each other, Itrrm alliances, ...
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 ...
Raymond Boudon: "Sociology that Really Matters"
... world of science. As far as what Lepenies understands under his notion of a Third culture is clear, he contends that sociology is in fact and should be considered as a branch of literature: the branch specialised in social essayisme. It is true that, from the early stage to the present days, sociolo ...
... world of science. As far as what Lepenies understands under his notion of a Third culture is clear, he contends that sociology is in fact and should be considered as a branch of literature: the branch specialised in social essayisme. It is true that, from the early stage to the present days, sociolo ...
Dominika Partyga
... role of public sociology in assuming the standpoint of civil society in face of violence perpetuated both by the state and market forces. Drawing parallels between their works, we learned that public sociology can make a difference in such context insofar as it resorts to variety of solutions: from ...
... role of public sociology in assuming the standpoint of civil society in face of violence perpetuated both by the state and market forces. Drawing parallels between their works, we learned that public sociology can make a difference in such context insofar as it resorts to variety of solutions: from ...
IF YOU`RE THINKING OF LIVING IN STS / A Guide
... and nothing-and [did] so retrospectively." Perhaps even more damaging was a detailed criticism from Woolgar (1981b:375), which included the memorable complaint that science studies had almost returned to the original sin of Mertonianism except that "instead of norms we have interests." A debate erup ...
... and nothing-and [did] so retrospectively." Perhaps even more damaging was a detailed criticism from Woolgar (1981b:375), which included the memorable complaint that science studies had almost returned to the original sin of Mertonianism except that "instead of norms we have interests." A debate erup ...