Paper - The University of Chicago Booth School of
... more benefits: Robert's early access to diverse information him more attractive to other people as a contact in their own networks. There is also a control advantage. Robert's information benefits make him more likely to know when it would be valuable to bring together certain disconnected contacts ...
... more benefits: Robert's early access to diverse information him more attractive to other people as a contact in their own networks. There is also a control advantage. Robert's information benefits make him more likely to know when it would be valuable to bring together certain disconnected contacts ...
Against Narrative: A Preface to Lyrical Sociology
... in Aristotle’s discussion of narrative in the Poetics, this concept of a branching sequence of events is at the heart not only of the narrative turn, but also—indeed, even more so—of the analytic social science against which the narrative turn defined itself. Both are in this sense utterly narrative ...
... in Aristotle’s discussion of narrative in the Poetics, this concept of a branching sequence of events is at the heart not only of the narrative turn, but also—indeed, even more so—of the analytic social science against which the narrative turn defined itself. Both are in this sense utterly narrative ...
Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research
... Discourse and Society has recently devoted a special issue to the theme (13 (2), 2002). I should add, however, that using the term ‘new capitalism’ does not imply an exclusive focus on economic issues: transformations in capitalism have ramifications throughout social life, and ‘new capitalism’ as a ...
... Discourse and Society has recently devoted a special issue to the theme (13 (2), 2002). I should add, however, that using the term ‘new capitalism’ does not imply an exclusive focus on economic issues: transformations in capitalism have ramifications throughout social life, and ‘new capitalism’ as a ...
A Short Manual to the Art of Prosopography
... Sometimes a rare name may give an indication of the origins of a person. Thus, for instance, the name Hyblesios in the Greek world is found almost exclusively on Samos and Colophon. Onomastics also helps us to know when and where a typical professional name, such as Baker or Cobbler, lost its profes ...
... Sometimes a rare name may give an indication of the origins of a person. Thus, for instance, the name Hyblesios in the Greek world is found almost exclusively on Samos and Colophon. Onomastics also helps us to know when and where a typical professional name, such as Baker or Cobbler, lost its profes ...
Attitudes, Values and Culture: Qualitative Approaches to
... As a research group on Lifestyles, values and the Environment, a proper appreciation of values falls well within our remit. One of our key objectives is to explore and understand the complex relationship between societal/cultural values and the practices that constitute different ‘lifestyles’. Indee ...
... As a research group on Lifestyles, values and the Environment, a proper appreciation of values falls well within our remit. One of our key objectives is to explore and understand the complex relationship between societal/cultural values and the practices that constitute different ‘lifestyles’. Indee ...
Social Darwinism in Anglophone Academic
... one of the few in academic circles who used the term “Social Darwinism” approvingly. Tarde (1890) attempted to apply Darwinism to an analysis of imitative behavior in human society. But this usage was relatively primitive and innocent, without strong ideological connotations, and hence Tarde does no ...
... one of the few in academic circles who used the term “Social Darwinism” approvingly. Tarde (1890) attempted to apply Darwinism to an analysis of imitative behavior in human society. But this usage was relatively primitive and innocent, without strong ideological connotations, and hence Tarde does no ...
Lecture 5
... Peter Hall and R.C.R. Taylor … Sociological institutionalism: … To some sociologists of new institutionalism, individual actions are construed as role performances or prescriptive norms of behavior attached in particular institutional contexts. "In this view, individuals who have been socialized int ...
... Peter Hall and R.C.R. Taylor … Sociological institutionalism: … To some sociologists of new institutionalism, individual actions are construed as role performances or prescriptive norms of behavior attached in particular institutional contexts. "In this view, individuals who have been socialized int ...
ABSTRACT Yang, Zheng. An Investigation into
... strategic pressure from the community environment through the mechanisms of sharedmembership between partnerships. Results indicate that partnership strategy and funding portfolio are under strategic pressures to be different from the modal design of a partnership’s ego network. (2) Paper Two examin ...
... strategic pressure from the community environment through the mechanisms of sharedmembership between partnerships. Results indicate that partnership strategy and funding portfolio are under strategic pressures to be different from the modal design of a partnership’s ego network. (2) Paper Two examin ...
Social Darwinism in Anglophone Academic Journals
... polemical label. To question this view does not in any way diminish the importance of attacking unfounded, reactionary or regressive ideas wherever they appear. Rather it will demonstrate that historical misrepresentation, and the use of ‘Social Darwinism’ as a term of abuse, have served not only p ...
... polemical label. To question this view does not in any way diminish the importance of attacking unfounded, reactionary or regressive ideas wherever they appear. Rather it will demonstrate that historical misrepresentation, and the use of ‘Social Darwinism’ as a term of abuse, have served not only p ...
Identity Obfuscation in Graphs Through the Information Theoretic Lens
... or those which are induced on the vertices of the original graph (in the case of k-preimage obfuscation). This is in contrast to Hay et al. [22] who based their definition of k-candidate anonymity on a-posteriori belief probabilities. While the a-posteriori belief probability is a local measure that ...
... or those which are induced on the vertices of the original graph (in the case of k-preimage obfuscation). This is in contrast to Hay et al. [22] who based their definition of k-candidate anonymity on a-posteriori belief probabilities. While the a-posteriori belief probability is a local measure that ...
« Absolut Counter-Discourse » - A discourse analysis of the counter
... stealing many of its ideas and incorporating them into its own creations.” (Cook 1922: 201). Today, as people grow up with and used to advertising, less and less people are prepared to stand up for their concerns and movements as e.g. feminism is losing its supporters, the critics also seem to have ...
... stealing many of its ideas and incorporating them into its own creations.” (Cook 1922: 201). Today, as people grow up with and used to advertising, less and less people are prepared to stand up for their concerns and movements as e.g. feminism is losing its supporters, the critics also seem to have ...
Born on August 1st 1930, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu
... and which, Bourdieu tells us, lodged, at least in the 1970s France, „at the antipodes of sociology‟ (p. 17), though it shares with the latter „the ambition of giving a scientific account of human behaviours‟ (p. 16). The massive book he directed in 1993 on La misère du Monde (translated as The Weigh ...
... and which, Bourdieu tells us, lodged, at least in the 1970s France, „at the antipodes of sociology‟ (p. 17), though it shares with the latter „the ambition of giving a scientific account of human behaviours‟ (p. 16). The massive book he directed in 1993 on La misère du Monde (translated as The Weigh ...
Making Use of the Past: Time Periods as Cases
... lighting some features of one period (e.g., the retreat from Progressive social engineering to laissez-faire in the 1920s) to juxtapose with selected features of another (the 1980s backlash against the welfare state). In this article, I consider how our understanding of one period may profit from ju ...
... lighting some features of one period (e.g., the retreat from Progressive social engineering to laissez-faire in the 1920s) to juxtapose with selected features of another (the 1980s backlash against the welfare state). In this article, I consider how our understanding of one period may profit from ju ...
Constructing Transnational Studies
... I am rather uncomfortable with the rather prodigious use of the term globalization to describe just about any process or relationship that somehow crosses state boundaries. In themselves, many such processes and relationships obviously do not at all extend across the world. The term ‘transnational’ ...
... I am rather uncomfortable with the rather prodigious use of the term globalization to describe just about any process or relationship that somehow crosses state boundaries. In themselves, many such processes and relationships obviously do not at all extend across the world. The term ‘transnational’ ...
This paper uses transaction data from an African mobile phone
... work to guide policy choices.2 Network effects are difficult to measure: one individual may adopt after a contact adopts because the contact provides network benefits, or because connected individuals share similar traits or are exposed to similar environments. It has also been prohibitively costly ...
... work to guide policy choices.2 Network effects are difficult to measure: one individual may adopt after a contact adopts because the contact provides network benefits, or because connected individuals share similar traits or are exposed to similar environments. It has also been prohibitively costly ...
Bristolmainlatest2
... Bourdieu’s approach to investigating the social world is essentially empirical, in which he saw its relational and dynamic nature. Here, at a particular time and place, the changing structures and institutions of the social world are analysed (an external objective reading) at the same time as the n ...
... Bourdieu’s approach to investigating the social world is essentially empirical, in which he saw its relational and dynamic nature. Here, at a particular time and place, the changing structures and institutions of the social world are analysed (an external objective reading) at the same time as the n ...
A Theory of Fields - UC Berkeley Sociology
... informs our conception of “social skill,” which we define as the capacity for intersubjective thought and action that shapes the provision of meaning, interests, and identity in the service of collective ends. In fashioning this perspective we draw heavily on research and theory generated by scholar ...
... informs our conception of “social skill,” which we define as the capacity for intersubjective thought and action that shapes the provision of meaning, interests, and identity in the service of collective ends. In fashioning this perspective we draw heavily on research and theory generated by scholar ...
Popular Culture and Narrative—Introduction
... interpretive reading of life stories. Yet the methods also indicate the blurred nature of this distinction, in for example Walters’s reliance on an entirely implicit methodology for her cultural analysis, or Smith’s use of the rhetorical structure of drama to understand her interviews with boys. Suc ...
... interpretive reading of life stories. Yet the methods also indicate the blurred nature of this distinction, in for example Walters’s reliance on an entirely implicit methodology for her cultural analysis, or Smith’s use of the rhetorical structure of drama to understand her interviews with boys. Suc ...
What Is a Disaster?
... sociologists, or in the social sciences for that matter. For example, Carr identified a disaster as a product of its consequences, arguing that if the walls withstand the earthquake and the dam retains the water, there is no disaster. Instead, he looks at disaster as the “collapse of the cultural pr ...
... sociologists, or in the social sciences for that matter. For example, Carr identified a disaster as a product of its consequences, arguing that if the walls withstand the earthquake and the dam retains the water, there is no disaster. Instead, he looks at disaster as the “collapse of the cultural pr ...
Törnberg, Petter - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
... the real entities of the social world (Byrne, 2002, p.136)? Are higher-level organizations (like firms, tribes, and states) fully explainable in terms of the preferences of their members, or are higher-level organizations also social individuals with their own properties and powers? Can individual a ...
... the real entities of the social world (Byrne, 2002, p.136)? Are higher-level organizations (like firms, tribes, and states) fully explainable in terms of the preferences of their members, or are higher-level organizations also social individuals with their own properties and powers? Can individual a ...
Anselm L. Strauss, 1917-1996 - University of California, San Francisco
... processes. This point cannot be separated from the rest of Anselm Strauss's work. The deliberate intermingling of theory and ethnography in several of his books is illustrative here. The grounded theory approach first presented with Barney Glaser in 1967 (Glaser and Strauss 1967) itself begins from ...
... processes. This point cannot be separated from the rest of Anselm Strauss's work. The deliberate intermingling of theory and ethnography in several of his books is illustrative here. The grounded theory approach first presented with Barney Glaser in 1967 (Glaser and Strauss 1967) itself begins from ...
Transnationalism: Trendy Catch
... sions and dynamics of social differentiation and integration the same in transnational social spaces as in other types of social spaces? For instance, do gender aspects of social differences or religion - as an integral aspect of social life - vary systematically in transnational societal units ( tr ...
... sions and dynamics of social differentiation and integration the same in transnational social spaces as in other types of social spaces? For instance, do gender aspects of social differences or religion - as an integral aspect of social life - vary systematically in transnational societal units ( tr ...
Sociology /Social Work - Brigham Young University - Idaho
... Unfortunately, most of the patterns of interest to sociologists are impossible to verify through simplistic personal observations. Consequently, in order to better understand society, sociologists use various methods of data collection which often involve large samples of certain populations. Once c ...
... Unfortunately, most of the patterns of interest to sociologists are impossible to verify through simplistic personal observations. Consequently, in order to better understand society, sociologists use various methods of data collection which often involve large samples of certain populations. Once c ...
Theology as a Challenge to Social Science
... study of social life, of groups within societies, and specific functions of groups and societies. These can range from how people meet their material needs, as in economics, to how people influence others as in political science and social psychology. Both sides of the discussion regard theology as ...
... study of social life, of groups within societies, and specific functions of groups and societies. These can range from how people meet their material needs, as in economics, to how people influence others as in political science and social psychology. Both sides of the discussion regard theology as ...
The interactive financial effects between corporate
... There are, however, very few studies, conceptual or empirical, dedicated to the investigation of interactions between positive and negative corporate social performance at the firm-level. Indeed, to the authors’ knowledge, there is no previous research that focuses upon the financial impact of any s ...
... There are, however, very few studies, conceptual or empirical, dedicated to the investigation of interactions between positive and negative corporate social performance at the firm-level. Indeed, to the authors’ knowledge, there is no previous research that focuses upon the financial impact of any s ...
Social network analysis
Social network analysis (SNA) is a strategy for investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties or edges (relationships or interactions) that connect them. Examples of social structures commonly visualized through social network analysis include social media networks, friendship and acquaintance networks, kinship, disease transmission,and sexual relationships. These networks are often visualized through sociograms in which nodes are represented as points and ties are represented as lines.Social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology. It has also gained a significant following in anthropology, biology, communication studies, economics, geography, history, information science, organizational studies, political science, social psychology, development studies, and sociolinguistics and is now commonly available as a consumer tool.