Stories and Social Networks Warren Sack
... These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, symbolic AI, but they have some affinities with techniques of newer AI work in agent-based architectures for information filtering and recommendation. Thus, for ex ...
... These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, symbolic AI, but they have some affinities with techniques of newer AI work in agent-based architectures for information filtering and recommendation. Thus, for ex ...
an ontology for the ethnographic analysis of social processes
... making, but as nodes connecting an often diverse set of other people’s actions performed at various times and in different contexts, such that these obtain a common thrust in a particular action as reaction. Seen from this perspective, an actor is less a source than a collector and transformer produ ...
... making, but as nodes connecting an often diverse set of other people’s actions performed at various times and in different contexts, such that these obtain a common thrust in a particular action as reaction. Seen from this perspective, an actor is less a source than a collector and transformer produ ...
Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency
... how corporate agency feeds through into education, health, welfare and broader social justice agendas. This also necessitates examining issues such as ‘spin’ from a broader perspective than is usually the case. In particular it means focusing on the use of a wide range of institutional forms through ...
... how corporate agency feeds through into education, health, welfare and broader social justice agendas. This also necessitates examining issues such as ‘spin’ from a broader perspective than is usually the case. In particular it means focusing on the use of a wide range of institutional forms through ...
`Producing Communities` as a Theoretical Challenge
... community phenomena, on the other hand. Communities are traditionally defined as collectivities of people (a) who share values or beliefs, and (b) whose social relations are relations of affect, characterized by mutuality and emotional bonds, and (c) who frequently interact (Hillery 1955; Bell and N ...
... community phenomena, on the other hand. Communities are traditionally defined as collectivities of people (a) who share values or beliefs, and (b) whose social relations are relations of affect, characterized by mutuality and emotional bonds, and (c) who frequently interact (Hillery 1955; Bell and N ...
Formalism and Relationalism in Social Network Theory
... network analysis with respect to their treatment of culture, agency, and value formation; social network researchers are then criticized for neglecting these important concepts. The authors urge network researchers to rectify what they conceive as an oversight. The larger structure of the argument ...
... network analysis with respect to their treatment of culture, agency, and value formation; social network researchers are then criticized for neglecting these important concepts. The authors urge network researchers to rectify what they conceive as an oversight. The larger structure of the argument ...
Marriages and Families, 8e
... Until about fifty years ago, social attitudes, religious beliefs, and law converged into a fairly common expectation about what form the American family should take: breadwinner husband, homemaker wife, and children living together in an independent household—the nuclear family model. ...
... Until about fifty years ago, social attitudes, religious beliefs, and law converged into a fairly common expectation about what form the American family should take: breadwinner husband, homemaker wife, and children living together in an independent household—the nuclear family model. ...
Postcolonial Psychosis and Recovery Process in Osita
... colonization has seriously affected the people and to propose a healing process by which the colonial nations under the siege or burden of the ex while colonial influence could be healed. Through the study of Osita Ezenwanebe’s Withered Thrust and Helon Habila’s Measuring Time, this paper engages th ...
... colonization has seriously affected the people and to propose a healing process by which the colonial nations under the siege or burden of the ex while colonial influence could be healed. Through the study of Osita Ezenwanebe’s Withered Thrust and Helon Habila’s Measuring Time, this paper engages th ...
cordaid, social entrepreneurship and catholic social thought
... 2. Common good: human actions in society should be oriented towards the common good. We are one human family and the flourishing of that human family, more than the flourishing of its individual parts, should be the aim of our actions in society. 3. Subsidiarity: as a person created by God, every ...
... 2. Common good: human actions in society should be oriented towards the common good. We are one human family and the flourishing of that human family, more than the flourishing of its individual parts, should be the aim of our actions in society. 3. Subsidiarity: as a person created by God, every ...
Edward A. Shils, A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The
... “realistic view of the pattern of coherence of a large society which would do justice to its pluralism and recognizes, how, at the same time, the constitution of … smaller collectivities contributed to the maintenance of the whole” (65). While sharing an affinity with Emile Durkheim’s central concep ...
... “realistic view of the pattern of coherence of a large society which would do justice to its pluralism and recognizes, how, at the same time, the constitution of … smaller collectivities contributed to the maintenance of the whole” (65). While sharing an affinity with Emile Durkheim’s central concep ...
Welfare Reform in Alberta : Reflections on
... “The challenge for Hong Kong is to improve (social welfare) services without creating the sort of dependency culture that has emerged in some developed industrialized societies, a phenomenon that removes the incentive to work and undermines the productive engine of the economy.” (p.13, 14) White Pap ...
... “The challenge for Hong Kong is to improve (social welfare) services without creating the sort of dependency culture that has emerged in some developed industrialized societies, a phenomenon that removes the incentive to work and undermines the productive engine of the economy.” (p.13, 14) White Pap ...
1 - International Social Theory Consortium
... capture the role of substitution in media in modern society. His earlier work (for instance, The Theory of Communicative Action), never fully abandoned, argues that modern society is structured by realms (i.e. action systems such as the economy and government) that are in turn non-communicative in s ...
... capture the role of substitution in media in modern society. His earlier work (for instance, The Theory of Communicative Action), never fully abandoned, argues that modern society is structured by realms (i.e. action systems such as the economy and government) that are in turn non-communicative in s ...
file. - Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
... operate in the market, a place where the exchange of goods and services takes place. Simply put, these organizations are engaged in selling a product or service to a specific market or set of customers. In this sense, it excludes development initiatives that do not involve wealth creation. Secondly, ...
... operate in the market, a place where the exchange of goods and services takes place. Simply put, these organizations are engaged in selling a product or service to a specific market or set of customers. In this sense, it excludes development initiatives that do not involve wealth creation. Secondly, ...
THE WELFARE (SOCIAL) STATE, EUROPEAN UNION AND
... the author is well aware of the fact that all that can be stated in a theoretical paper is considerably more difficult to implement in practice, especially in the states which are subjected to considerable social fluctuations and are passing through a transition period. When speaking under these cir ...
... the author is well aware of the fact that all that can be stated in a theoretical paper is considerably more difficult to implement in practice, especially in the states which are subjected to considerable social fluctuations and are passing through a transition period. When speaking under these cir ...
Happiness: Between What We Want and What We Need
... from happy individuals. In our case within the paper, happiness is related to the balance between two important constraints: what and how we desire things as we want and need them. When people cannot afford what they need, the want them. But it is a commonsense that not all want is sourced from the ...
... from happy individuals. In our case within the paper, happiness is related to the balance between two important constraints: what and how we desire things as we want and need them. When people cannot afford what they need, the want them. But it is a commonsense that not all want is sourced from the ...
Forensic Social Case Work: An Analytical Survey
... exercise their authority. Rather, the case is "locked up" by the agency, which represents a significantly different definition of the situation, for both case worker and client. This correspondingly basically changes the characteristics of the relationship among agency, worker and client. 5 The ment ...
... exercise their authority. Rather, the case is "locked up" by the agency, which represents a significantly different definition of the situation, for both case worker and client. This correspondingly basically changes the characteristics of the relationship among agency, worker and client. 5 The ment ...
Introduction
... complementary norms, there must be a cultural vocabulary – concepts, narratives, images, scripts, cautionary tales – that provide the framework for action (lower left box). The cultural vocabulary, of course, will be very complex, for the scripts and images for an White able-bodied 20-something rura ...
... complementary norms, there must be a cultural vocabulary – concepts, narratives, images, scripts, cautionary tales – that provide the framework for action (lower left box). The cultural vocabulary, of course, will be very complex, for the scripts and images for an White able-bodied 20-something rura ...
Soreanu, Raluca, 2010. Metaphor in the Social Sciences
... both mainstream rationalist IR and critical IR can talk to each other.9 The considerable emotional energy surrounding Wendt could, however, point to some dangerous forms of forgetfulness in relation to other strands of radical constructivism, 10 while sustaining the illusion of a very strong subcult ...
... both mainstream rationalist IR and critical IR can talk to each other.9 The considerable emotional energy surrounding Wendt could, however, point to some dangerous forms of forgetfulness in relation to other strands of radical constructivism, 10 while sustaining the illusion of a very strong subcult ...
Understanding Social Problems
... States and the rest of the world face many social problems: poverty and hunger, racism and sexism, drug use and violence, and climate change, to name just a few. Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in ...
... States and the rest of the world face many social problems: poverty and hunger, racism and sexism, drug use and violence, and climate change, to name just a few. Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them? This new open textbook (free online, very affordable in ...
Journal of Reviews Contemporary Sociology: A
... importantly, the book goes beyond interestbased and simplistic cost/benefit accounts of social movement outcomes to show the importance of moral motivations and altruistic behavior. Yet, the author avoids throwing the baby out with the bath water and considers explanation based on self-interest as i ...
... importantly, the book goes beyond interestbased and simplistic cost/benefit accounts of social movement outcomes to show the importance of moral motivations and altruistic behavior. Yet, the author avoids throwing the baby out with the bath water and considers explanation based on self-interest as i ...
Market Forces and Fair Institutions: The Political Economy of Europe
... seems to be a very large consensus about what the welfare state is all about: it’s a matter of redistribution.14 No one can underestimate the importance of this aspect of the socioeconomic equation. Payments are made, incomes are taxed, and the whole stuff is redistribution. I will nonetheless take ...
... seems to be a very large consensus about what the welfare state is all about: it’s a matter of redistribution.14 No one can underestimate the importance of this aspect of the socioeconomic equation. Payments are made, incomes are taxed, and the whole stuff is redistribution. I will nonetheless take ...
Social Symbolism
... on group communication; statements on group origin and variability of meanings; statements on interrelation of individual and group actions in communication; and statements on social worlds created in communicative actions. Theses related to communication and the foundation of the group clarify that ...
... on group communication; statements on group origin and variability of meanings; statements on interrelation of individual and group actions in communication; and statements on social worlds created in communicative actions. Theses related to communication and the foundation of the group clarify that ...
Abstract
... that have relatively low barriers to the public expression of conflict. The term “organizational pluralism” is used to refer to the number and autonomy of organizations that must be considered in order to characterize conflicts among a given group of persons. When organizations are greater in numbe ...
... that have relatively low barriers to the public expression of conflict. The term “organizational pluralism” is used to refer to the number and autonomy of organizations that must be considered in order to characterize conflicts among a given group of persons. When organizations are greater in numbe ...
Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A
... that the norms that legislate for small-group integrity will be elevated as universally binding. Clearly, the superhero igure presents just such a stable mechanism. Indeed, punitive altruism of the type associated with the superhero is already documented as a well-attested phenomenon in human behavi ...
... that the norms that legislate for small-group integrity will be elevated as universally binding. Clearly, the superhero igure presents just such a stable mechanism. Indeed, punitive altruism of the type associated with the superhero is already documented as a well-attested phenomenon in human behavi ...
Manifesto of computational social science
... theorists since long [33]. This research direction had the merit to point out the role of extortion and tribute as mechanisms of political coalition formation. However, no much attention was given to the opposite direction of influence, i.e., downward causation or second order emergence [34, 35]. Fu ...
... theorists since long [33]. This research direction had the merit to point out the role of extortion and tribute as mechanisms of political coalition formation. However, no much attention was given to the opposite direction of influence, i.e., downward causation or second order emergence [34, 35]. Fu ...
Neighborhood Effects: Accomplishments and Looking Beyond Them
... This approach must deal, in practice, with dependence across decisions of individuals belonging to the same group, which is implied by non-random sorting in terms of unobservables. Specifically, if educated people prefer to have other educated people as neighbors, the effect of one person’s educatio ...
... This approach must deal, in practice, with dependence across decisions of individuals belonging to the same group, which is implied by non-random sorting in terms of unobservables. Specifically, if educated people prefer to have other educated people as neighbors, the effect of one person’s educatio ...