Tudor Georgescu
... courses that genocide is a process planned top-down. While he recognizes that it is not necessary that it should be there, in first instance, a whole genocidal plan put together, he affirms that certain political decisions taken by individuals, these leave no other option than continuation of that s ...
... courses that genocide is a process planned top-down. While he recognizes that it is not necessary that it should be there, in first instance, a whole genocidal plan put together, he affirms that certain political decisions taken by individuals, these leave no other option than continuation of that s ...
Toward a General Theory of Action Group Members: Catherine Bell
... unified social scientific effort. The structural momentum by which cultural systems were originally designated as one of the three system-levels of action, and which pulls together the entire list of wide-ranging and minute classifications, is both a strength and a weakness of Parson’s effort. Final ...
... unified social scientific effort. The structural momentum by which cultural systems were originally designated as one of the three system-levels of action, and which pulls together the entire list of wide-ranging and minute classifications, is both a strength and a weakness of Parson’s effort. Final ...
Analyzing the Facebook Friendship Graph
... opened new fascinating academic problems; e.g. it is possible to study OSN with tools provided by the SNA science [19]? Is the behavior of OSN users comparable with the one showed by actors of real-life social networks [12]? What are the topological characteristics of OSN [2]? And what about their s ...
... opened new fascinating academic problems; e.g. it is possible to study OSN with tools provided by the SNA science [19]? Is the behavior of OSN users comparable with the one showed by actors of real-life social networks [12]? What are the topological characteristics of OSN [2]? And what about their s ...
HEALTH AND SOCIETY Lecture notes – Qualitative and quantitative
... producing and analysing data so that theories can be tested, accepted or rejected. Without a systematic way of producing knowledge, the findings of a subject can be dismissed as guesswork, or even as common sense made to sound complicated. Methodology is concerned with both the detailed research met ...
... producing and analysing data so that theories can be tested, accepted or rejected. Without a systematic way of producing knowledge, the findings of a subject can be dismissed as guesswork, or even as common sense made to sound complicated. Methodology is concerned with both the detailed research met ...
Narratives and Numbers in the history of social science
... • The ‘methods settlement’ allowed social scientists to get caught up in their own internal disputes (between quant and qual, etc) and they have not been attentive to the deployment of new methods that deploy radically different forms of the ‘whole social’. • We should not dismiss this new work as ‘ ...
... • The ‘methods settlement’ allowed social scientists to get caught up in their own internal disputes (between quant and qual, etc) and they have not been attentive to the deployment of new methods that deploy radically different forms of the ‘whole social’. • We should not dismiss this new work as ‘ ...
Chapter 1 Slides
... Sociology includes micro-level analyses focusing on individuals, such as studies of small groups and attitude change Sociology includes macro-level analyses focusing on social structures, such as studies of political and economic systems ...
... Sociology includes micro-level analyses focusing on individuals, such as studies of small groups and attitude change Sociology includes macro-level analyses focusing on social structures, such as studies of political and economic systems ...
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.