Book Review Title: Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology
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Chapter 1 Lecture Notes from PowerPoints
... • Objectivity (personal neutrality) – To allow the facts to speak for themselves and not be influenced by the researcher’s personal values and biases • Value-relevant research – Topics the researcher cares about • Value-free research – Dedication to finding truth as it is rather than as we think it ...
... • Objectivity (personal neutrality) – To allow the facts to speak for themselves and not be influenced by the researcher’s personal values and biases • Value-relevant research – Topics the researcher cares about • Value-free research – Dedication to finding truth as it is rather than as we think it ...
The Reference Group Reconsidered Author(s)
... sensus, in this point of view, because the symbols on which it rests are significant symbols: they call out in the actor the incipient anticipations of the responses they call out in the other. In short, they have common universal referents, with only moderate exception and qualification. Now there ...
... sensus, in this point of view, because the symbols on which it rests are significant symbols: they call out in the actor the incipient anticipations of the responses they call out in the other. In short, they have common universal referents, with only moderate exception and qualification. Now there ...
Introduction: Why We Need an Analytical Sociological Theory
... to dealing with some principles of AST, which have important consequences for traditional or «pre-analytical» ways of understanding social science. The adjective «analytical» refers to the separation of the elements of a «whole» to study how they make it up. As Hedström says, «‘analytical sociology’ ...
... to dealing with some principles of AST, which have important consequences for traditional or «pre-analytical» ways of understanding social science. The adjective «analytical» refers to the separation of the elements of a «whole» to study how they make it up. As Hedström says, «‘analytical sociology’ ...
Sociology, Social Work and Social Problems
... ill, sexual deviance and other related consequences of these conditions are also defined as social problems. But if events are not defined as problems by the society, no social problem exists. For example, changing standards of individual sexual behavior among middle class persons are not really a s ...
... ill, sexual deviance and other related consequences of these conditions are also defined as social problems. But if events are not defined as problems by the society, no social problem exists. For example, changing standards of individual sexual behavior among middle class persons are not really a s ...
Modern social system theory and the sociology of science
... individuals) are also seen in the recent discussions about the triple helix model. The triple helix is the sociological metaphor to describe the new form of relationships between science, industry and government. Staying in the frame of systemic terminology, in the emerging networks between scientif ...
... individuals) are also seen in the recent discussions about the triple helix model. The triple helix is the sociological metaphor to describe the new form of relationships between science, industry and government. Staying in the frame of systemic terminology, in the emerging networks between scientif ...
Why Major in Sociology?
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Illustrations
... is necessary to our very existence. Sociology has been described as 'the scientific study of human group behavior' and 'the application of scientific methods of inquiry to the puzzles of social life.' We all participate in any number of social groups, many of which overlap. Sociologists study how an ...
... is necessary to our very existence. Sociology has been described as 'the scientific study of human group behavior' and 'the application of scientific methods of inquiry to the puzzles of social life.' We all participate in any number of social groups, many of which overlap. Sociologists study how an ...
Institutional Theories
... Background: Institutional Theories • The 1980s saw the rise/revival of institutional scholarship in economics, political science, sociology, and other fields • Reactions (variously) to: • 1. Functionalism – Parsons; plus “lay functionalism” which crops up even today • 2. Materialism – ‘interest-bas ...
... Background: Institutional Theories • The 1980s saw the rise/revival of institutional scholarship in economics, political science, sociology, and other fields • Reactions (variously) to: • 1. Functionalism – Parsons; plus “lay functionalism” which crops up even today • 2. Materialism – ‘interest-bas ...
other research contributions
... 2005 “Youth and Inequality in Canada: the effects of Information and Communication Technology on Equity issues for youth” (with E. Dianne Looker). Presented at the European Sociological Association meetings of the Youth and generation research network. Torun, Poland, Sept. 9-12 2005 “Gender, IT use, ...
... 2005 “Youth and Inequality in Canada: the effects of Information and Communication Technology on Equity issues for youth” (with E. Dianne Looker). Presented at the European Sociological Association meetings of the Youth and generation research network. Torun, Poland, Sept. 9-12 2005 “Gender, IT use, ...
Socially unrecognized cumulation
... of science argument rests ultimately on a philosophical criterion, that knowledge is w h a t the social group recognizes as such. I w o u l d not go so far as to assert that k n o w l e d g e exists in a field even if no one at all k n o w s it--if it w e r e buried in libraries and research reports ...
... of science argument rests ultimately on a philosophical criterion, that knowledge is w h a t the social group recognizes as such. I w o u l d not go so far as to assert that k n o w l e d g e exists in a field even if no one at all k n o w s it--if it w e r e buried in libraries and research reports ...
Chapter One - From Idea to Research and Publishing in the Social
... to the intelligentsia and other white-collar workers. Following the government encouraging members of the working class to spend their vacations in this formerly exclusive vacation spot, workers adjusted to a new style of leisure. They experienced new patterns of free time, rising aspirations, anxi ...
... to the intelligentsia and other white-collar workers. Following the government encouraging members of the working class to spend their vacations in this formerly exclusive vacation spot, workers adjusted to a new style of leisure. They experienced new patterns of free time, rising aspirations, anxi ...
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and ""web of group affiliations."" Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s. Social network analysis is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other complex networks, it forms part of the nascent field of network science.