Clustering of Attribute and/or Relational Data
... In some applications rij can be a nonnegative real number expressing the strength of the relation R between units xi and xj . One of the main procedural goals of social network analysis is to identify, in a given network, clusters of units that share structural characteristics defined in terms of th ...
... In some applications rij can be a nonnegative real number expressing the strength of the relation R between units xi and xj . One of the main procedural goals of social network analysis is to identify, in a given network, clusters of units that share structural characteristics defined in terms of th ...
CDA Wodak File
... six categories: semiotic building, world building, activity building, identity and relationship building, political building, connection building. Luke (2002, p.101) argues that “a linguistic and text analytic metalanguage, no matter how comprehensive, cannot ‘do’ CDA in and of itself. It requires t ...
... six categories: semiotic building, world building, activity building, identity and relationship building, political building, connection building. Luke (2002, p.101) argues that “a linguistic and text analytic metalanguage, no matter how comprehensive, cannot ‘do’ CDA in and of itself. It requires t ...
Models of Political Analysis - Jawaharlal Nehru University
... this avowed empirical concern. One of his objectives in these studies had also been to identify how political action- accounts of ideas, beliefs and arguments from particular situations- when translated into conceptualizations and abstractions, generate a vocabulary of political analysis with specif ...
... this avowed empirical concern. One of his objectives in these studies had also been to identify how political action- accounts of ideas, beliefs and arguments from particular situations- when translated into conceptualizations and abstractions, generate a vocabulary of political analysis with specif ...
What Is Constructionism? - Lynne Rienner Publishers
... suggested solutions to the problem, and so on. An ISC scholar would study how narratives—those told by everyday folk as well as by OSC scholars—create meaning by making assertions about actors, motives, conditions, causes, effects, and remedies. Certainly, an ISC scholar may be tempted to argue that ...
... suggested solutions to the problem, and so on. An ISC scholar would study how narratives—those told by everyday folk as well as by OSC scholars—create meaning by making assertions about actors, motives, conditions, causes, effects, and remedies. Certainly, an ISC scholar may be tempted to argue that ...
Aligning the Two Main Approaches to the Study of Democratization
... The two major perspectives that have dominated the study of democratization have been the structural and the actor/strategy approaches. These approaches derive from the two major traditions in social sciences which, on the one hand, emphasized institution and, on the other hand, emphasized human cho ...
... The two major perspectives that have dominated the study of democratization have been the structural and the actor/strategy approaches. These approaches derive from the two major traditions in social sciences which, on the one hand, emphasized institution and, on the other hand, emphasized human cho ...
The Reality of Social Constructions
... survival. Nor are we biologically imprinted at an early age in ways that guarantee a repetition of stable action patterns over the course of our lives. In this sense, our bodies are not structured for the purposes of survival by biology alone. Despite our precarious human condition, our lack of inst ...
... survival. Nor are we biologically imprinted at an early age in ways that guarantee a repetition of stable action patterns over the course of our lives. In this sense, our bodies are not structured for the purposes of survival by biology alone. Despite our precarious human condition, our lack of inst ...
Georg_Simmel_SYA 3010
... action is perhaps best exemplified in his seminal essay, “Quantitative Aspects of the Group.” Here he comes nearest to realizing his goal of writing a grammar of social life by considering one of the most abstract characteristics of a group: the mere number of its participants. He examines forms of ...
... action is perhaps best exemplified in his seminal essay, “Quantitative Aspects of the Group.” Here he comes nearest to realizing his goal of writing a grammar of social life by considering one of the most abstract characteristics of a group: the mere number of its participants. He examines forms of ...
Diving in Magma - Science Po | Medialab
... educational version of Actor-‐Network Theory (ANT). Like ANT, it is a method “to live, to know, and to practice in the complexities of tension” (Law, 1999: p. 12). Unlike ANT, it ...
... educational version of Actor-‐Network Theory (ANT). Like ANT, it is a method “to live, to know, and to practice in the complexities of tension” (Law, 1999: p. 12). Unlike ANT, it ...
Something Happened... But What?*
... widespread sociological practice of attempting to find the real (egentlige) causes of the events became problematic at that time.8 Secondly, regarding the events as indeterminated, necessitated another view of the term "description", involving both the meaning of the term and to what extent descript ...
... widespread sociological practice of attempting to find the real (egentlige) causes of the events became problematic at that time.8 Secondly, regarding the events as indeterminated, necessitated another view of the term "description", involving both the meaning of the term and to what extent descript ...
Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision
... subjects as work, neighborhood development, or the house interiors of different social classes, to name but a few. But although the contemporary restudy of "Middletown" includes still photographs and five films, community studies in general did not make use of visual documentation. In anthropology, ...
... subjects as work, neighborhood development, or the house interiors of different social classes, to name but a few. But although the contemporary restudy of "Middletown" includes still photographs and five films, community studies in general did not make use of visual documentation. In anthropology, ...
Emergence of communication networks in organizations:
... is widespread agreement that the maturation of “complexity theory” as a viable intellectual tradition must be accompanied by a move from advocating one or more perspectives on complexity theory to executing studies that adopt these perspectives. Lamenting the failed promise of earlier forays into sy ...
... is widespread agreement that the maturation of “complexity theory” as a viable intellectual tradition must be accompanied by a move from advocating one or more perspectives on complexity theory to executing studies that adopt these perspectives. Lamenting the failed promise of earlier forays into sy ...
Call for Papers for an International Conference Marseilles, 10
... For Marc Bloch, time is the “very plasma in which phenomena and […] the place of their intelligibility are immersed”. Fernand Braudel describes the Mediterranean as a territory in a triple timeframe: a political period of events, a social period of collective movements, and a geographical period ove ...
... For Marc Bloch, time is the “very plasma in which phenomena and […] the place of their intelligibility are immersed”. Fernand Braudel describes the Mediterranean as a territory in a triple timeframe: a political period of events, a social period of collective movements, and a geographical period ove ...
Sociological Theory and Social Control
... conceptof social controlis directlylinkedto the notionof voluntaristic action, to articulatedhuman purposeand actions-that is, to various schemesof means and ends. Thereforeit is designedto avoid the over4 Robert A. Nisbet is representativeof those sociological theoristswho are aware of the centrali ...
... conceptof social controlis directlylinkedto the notionof voluntaristic action, to articulatedhuman purposeand actions-that is, to various schemesof means and ends. Thereforeit is designedto avoid the over4 Robert A. Nisbet is representativeof those sociological theoristswho are aware of the centrali ...
Functionalism - SAGE Publications
... functional equivalency. He redefined functional analysis as a form of heuristics with which the sociologist efficiently discovers and investigates unknown relations surrounding a relation already recognized by participants. ...
... functional equivalency. He redefined functional analysis as a form of heuristics with which the sociologist efficiently discovers and investigates unknown relations surrounding a relation already recognized by participants. ...
Chapter 5 Social Structure and Social Interaction
... his policies, because of this status. Many other positive master statuses exist in the political and entertainment worlds and in other spheres of life. Some master statuses have negative consequences. To recall the medical student and nursing home news story that began this chapter, a physical disab ...
... his policies, because of this status. Many other positive master statuses exist in the political and entertainment worlds and in other spheres of life. Some master statuses have negative consequences. To recall the medical student and nursing home news story that began this chapter, a physical disab ...
here - ISA RC47
... initiatives by RC47 members, whether they are members of the board or not. In addition to financial support when it is possible, RC47 may provide support by promoting and diffusing ...
... initiatives by RC47 members, whether they are members of the board or not. In addition to financial support when it is possible, RC47 may provide support by promoting and diffusing ...
Aalborg Universitet Biographical Interviews in a Critical Realist perspective Steensen, Jette Johanne
... words ” participant objectivation ”(Bourdieu 2003) These issues become relevant for discussion when considering differences within an anthropological and qualitative sociological point of view. All this has consequences for the sociological biography. When questions are asked, the biographical inter ...
... words ” participant objectivation ”(Bourdieu 2003) These issues become relevant for discussion when considering differences within an anthropological and qualitative sociological point of view. All this has consequences for the sociological biography. When questions are asked, the biographical inter ...
2015-2016 Sociology Course Descriptions
... educational institutions in the American society. Further analysis is directed to analyzing the sociological factors that influence the internal workings of the school and the classroom and the factors that impact how students experience the educational process. 4 Semester Hours. SOC 250 Medical Soc ...
... educational institutions in the American society. Further analysis is directed to analyzing the sociological factors that influence the internal workings of the school and the classroom and the factors that impact how students experience the educational process. 4 Semester Hours. SOC 250 Medical Soc ...
American Journal of Sociology 598 Given this brief
... a boon insofar as it inspired many but also a bane insofar as it has been difficult to duplicate. Scheff offers two specific hypotheses on why Goffman’s sociological charisma has proved so resistant to routinization. First, Goffman’s research methods were idiosyncratic. His books, for instance, comb ...
... a boon insofar as it inspired many but also a bane insofar as it has been difficult to duplicate. Scheff offers two specific hypotheses on why Goffman’s sociological charisma has proved so resistant to routinization. First, Goffman’s research methods were idiosyncratic. His books, for instance, comb ...
Linköping University Post Print Ethnography in action. How ethnography was
... 16). Actor-networks produce representations of the world that are part of the social practice where the metaphor is used. In this process some practices are suppressed, others becoming dominant. Actor-network theory produces a picture of research, which undermines the idea that it follows a simple, ...
... 16). Actor-networks produce representations of the world that are part of the social practice where the metaphor is used. In this process some practices are suppressed, others becoming dominant. Actor-network theory produces a picture of research, which undermines the idea that it follows a simple, ...
OAD313 Computer Applications in Business II: Introduction
... Problems as a Sociologist Example: High School Dropouts Until the end of the 1950’s, this was not a social problem There were ample, well-paid employment opportunities for the less educated • Usually these opportunities required strenuous labor and/or boring repetitive motions ...
... Problems as a Sociologist Example: High School Dropouts Until the end of the 1950’s, this was not a social problem There were ample, well-paid employment opportunities for the less educated • Usually these opportunities required strenuous labor and/or boring repetitive motions ...
Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology
... Therefore I still consider FOUCAULT's work to be the central source of inspiration for elaborating discourse research. The books, articles and conversations signed by "FOUCAULT" present a delightful set of proposals and toolboxes open to various interpretations. [8] FOUCAULT insisted on the relevanc ...
... Therefore I still consider FOUCAULT's work to be the central source of inspiration for elaborating discourse research. The books, articles and conversations signed by "FOUCAULT" present a delightful set of proposals and toolboxes open to various interpretations. [8] FOUCAULT insisted on the relevanc ...
Vartuhi Tonoyan 2008 - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung
... © Vartuhi Tonoyan 2008 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of these slides may be made without written permission ...
... © Vartuhi Tonoyan 2008 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of these slides may be made without written permission ...
Postscript. “Hughesian Sociology” and the Centrality of Occupation
... – to suspect that this might be the case. This would make this short text worth of consideration beyond its objective existence as a working statement of what Hughes considered important in the study of occupation. To be sure, it is worth of consideration also because of the academic folklore that h ...
... – to suspect that this might be the case. This would make this short text worth of consideration beyond its objective existence as a working statement of what Hughes considered important in the study of occupation. To be sure, it is worth of consideration also because of the academic folklore that h ...
Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the
... results are right or that they are wrong in the same way. Research methods are often developed within differing research traditions carrying varying epistemological and theoretical assumptions with them. Thus the combination of methods may add "breadth or depth to our analysis" (FIELDING & FIELDING ...
... results are right or that they are wrong in the same way. Research methods are often developed within differing research traditions carrying varying epistemological and theoretical assumptions with them. Thus the combination of methods may add "breadth or depth to our analysis" (FIELDING & FIELDING ...
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.