POPULATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
... Michigan-Wisconsin tradition, which devoted more attention to socioeconomic status and social mobility, presented the broadest scope of the emerging field of social demography. Preston suggested that the Michigan-Wisconsin tradition was becoming more prominent relative to the other schools. The infl ...
... Michigan-Wisconsin tradition, which devoted more attention to socioeconomic status and social mobility, presented the broadest scope of the emerging field of social demography. Preston suggested that the Michigan-Wisconsin tradition was becoming more prominent relative to the other schools. The infl ...
Reductionism in Social Science
... formalises what we probably already know and what needs explaining), but its focus on empirical regularities in events renders qualitative change and novelty unintelligible. Stable, precise, empirical regularities depend on objects being internally stable and set within invariant contexts. Such cond ...
... formalises what we probably already know and what needs explaining), but its focus on empirical regularities in events renders qualitative change and novelty unintelligible. Stable, precise, empirical regularities depend on objects being internally stable and set within invariant contexts. Such cond ...
The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research
... moderate number of cases, it is not feasible to use a purely exploratory approach and conduct an open-ended, in-depth examination of every case. At the same time, conventional hypothesis testing fails due to the limited degrees of freedom available. Instead, comparative researchers seek to answer th ...
... moderate number of cases, it is not feasible to use a purely exploratory approach and conduct an open-ended, in-depth examination of every case. At the same time, conventional hypothesis testing fails due to the limited degrees of freedom available. Instead, comparative researchers seek to answer th ...
unit 25 concepts of social structure
... people sharing in common activities and bound by multiple relationships in such a way that the aims of any individual can be achieved only by participation in action with others”. This definition of the term “community” subsumes the spatial aspect, which is that the people who form the community gen ...
... people sharing in common activities and bound by multiple relationships in such a way that the aims of any individual can be achieved only by participation in action with others”. This definition of the term “community” subsumes the spatial aspect, which is that the people who form the community gen ...
The sociology of musical networks
... working-class roots and the realignment of the genre with light-skinned artists and consumers who were drawn from the middle and upper classes. Race, as Viladrich argues, has been particularly important to the reception of tango artists outside of Argentina. For many Argentinian immigrants, the perc ...
... working-class roots and the realignment of the genre with light-skinned artists and consumers who were drawn from the middle and upper classes. Race, as Viladrich argues, has been particularly important to the reception of tango artists outside of Argentina. For many Argentinian immigrants, the perc ...
SOC-S - Indiana University Bloomington
... sociological perspective. In learning about the field of Sociology you will learn about the theories that guide sociological inquiry and the methods that sociologists employ to gain knowledge about what it is they study. In developing a sociological perspective you will learn to think in terms of th ...
... sociological perspective. In learning about the field of Sociology you will learn about the theories that guide sociological inquiry and the methods that sociologists employ to gain knowledge about what it is they study. In developing a sociological perspective you will learn to think in terms of th ...
Birds–Dead and Deadly: Why Numeracy Needs to Address Social
... upon language; they must learn their vocabularies from—and use those words to communicate with—other people. This is a social process through which all knowledge is generated. (To be clear, sociologists use the term ―social‖ very broadly, as encompassing all of the ways people interact. Thus, they u ...
... upon language; they must learn their vocabularies from—and use those words to communicate with—other people. This is a social process through which all knowledge is generated. (To be clear, sociologists use the term ―social‖ very broadly, as encompassing all of the ways people interact. Thus, they u ...
The Revival of Quantification
... History has assets to offer QUASSH (1) • Historians have a strong archival tradition, so gathering, disseminating, and preserving information is highly valued (e.g., unlike economics) • Historians who are immersed in the literature and archives of a particular period may be able to interpret data b ...
... History has assets to offer QUASSH (1) • Historians have a strong archival tradition, so gathering, disseminating, and preserving information is highly valued (e.g., unlike economics) • Historians who are immersed in the literature and archives of a particular period may be able to interpret data b ...
LINKAGES BETWEEN INFORMAL AND FORMAL SOCIAL CAPITAL
... capital not so in terms of network-based resources, but by its functions. In the approach of Coleman, social capital is embedded in networks and facilitates collective actions, mainly through obligations, expectations, trustworthiness, information, norms and sanctions associated with such networks. ...
... capital not so in terms of network-based resources, but by its functions. In the approach of Coleman, social capital is embedded in networks and facilitates collective actions, mainly through obligations, expectations, trustworthiness, information, norms and sanctions associated with such networks. ...
Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics
... If the actor-network approach started at a particular time and place then this was in Paris between 1978 and 1982. The term, devised by Michel Callon, appeared around 1982, but the approach is itself a network that extends out in time and place, so stories of its origins are necessarily in part arbi ...
... If the actor-network approach started at a particular time and place then this was in Paris between 1978 and 1982. The term, devised by Michel Callon, appeared around 1982, but the approach is itself a network that extends out in time and place, so stories of its origins are necessarily in part arbi ...
No Job Name - Goldsmiths Research Online
... analysis is too simplistic. Such a shift is certainly apparent, but it meshes in complex ways with a range of other – just as important – changes, that together mark a phase-shift in the functioning of sociological quantification. ...
... analysis is too simplistic. Such a shift is certainly apparent, but it meshes in complex ways with a range of other – just as important – changes, that together mark a phase-shift in the functioning of sociological quantification. ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. The idea is nonsensical because scales make sense only relative to classes of events. One can have a terrorism meter, but not a 9/11 meter (unless of course that event is being used as a metric for understanding other events, in which case it be ...
... terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. The idea is nonsensical because scales make sense only relative to classes of events. One can have a terrorism meter, but not a 9/11 meter (unless of course that event is being used as a metric for understanding other events, in which case it be ...
Explorations in Applied Social Science
... psychology to clinical problems. It seems instead to have been marked, from its very inception, by conceptual and theoretical innovations.* Let there be no mistake about the meaning here: it is not being said that applied social sciences should not use or have not used the general principles and con ...
... psychology to clinical problems. It seems instead to have been marked, from its very inception, by conceptual and theoretical innovations.* Let there be no mistake about the meaning here: it is not being said that applied social sciences should not use or have not used the general principles and con ...
Chapter 1 Powerpoint
... • Society = a group of people who share a culture and territory • “The Sociological Imagination” a term coined by C. Wright Mills refers to being able to look beyond common sense for explanations of why people act the way they do. It enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography ...
... • Society = a group of people who share a culture and territory • “The Sociological Imagination” a term coined by C. Wright Mills refers to being able to look beyond common sense for explanations of why people act the way they do. It enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography ...
lifestyle - Netwerk Duurzame Mobiliteit
... Direct effects of lifestyles appeared limited, non-significant, negligible… ...
... Direct effects of lifestyles appeared limited, non-significant, negligible… ...
The Comparative Strategies of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
... ideal type. In his general discussion of how subjective meaning can be understood, he spoke of the importance of "explanatory understanding." In particular this involves grasping the motive of an individual actor, or understanding "what makes him do [something] at precisely this moment and in these ...
... ideal type. In his general discussion of how subjective meaning can be understood, he spoke of the importance of "explanatory understanding." In particular this involves grasping the motive of an individual actor, or understanding "what makes him do [something] at precisely this moment and in these ...
Social Theory across Disciplinary Boundaries: Cultural Studies and
... that are construed sociologically. Social theory that attempts to articulate these processes is a "device," as DiMaggio (1995:391) argues, of enlightenment: a device used to bring about the defamiliarization of the familiar. The recurrent epistemological problem of this type of social theory is to p ...
... that are construed sociologically. Social theory that attempts to articulate these processes is a "device," as DiMaggio (1995:391) argues, of enlightenment: a device used to bring about the defamiliarization of the familiar. The recurrent epistemological problem of this type of social theory is to p ...
Unresolved tensions in sociocultural theory
... individual and social levels of analysis. A process ontology holds that only processes are real; entities, structures, or patterns are ephemeral and do not really exist. Inseparability is the claim that the individual and the social cannot be methodologically or ontologically distinguished. Sociocul ...
... individual and social levels of analysis. A process ontology holds that only processes are real; entities, structures, or patterns are ephemeral and do not really exist. Inseparability is the claim that the individual and the social cannot be methodologically or ontologically distinguished. Sociocul ...
Reading - IPFW.edu
... suicide as a public issue—a societal problem. Early sociologist Emile Durkheim refused to accept commonsense explanations of suicide. In what is probably the first sociological study to use scientific research methods, he related suicide to the issue of cohesiveness (or lack of cohesiveness) in soci ...
... suicide as a public issue—a societal problem. Early sociologist Emile Durkheim refused to accept commonsense explanations of suicide. In what is probably the first sociological study to use scientific research methods, he related suicide to the issue of cohesiveness (or lack of cohesiveness) in soci ...
Odious Comparisons
... students has been introductory statistics and methods training (e.g., Blalock 1964; Hanushek and Jackson 1977).11 Defining positivism philosophically also allows us to avoid using the term as an epithet and to acknowledge positivism as a well-established tradition (see Giere and Richardson 1996; Sti ...
... students has been introductory statistics and methods training (e.g., Blalock 1964; Hanushek and Jackson 1977).11 Defining positivism philosophically also allows us to avoid using the term as an epithet and to acknowledge positivism as a well-established tradition (see Giere and Richardson 1996; Sti ...
On the prospects for a unified social science: economics and sociology
... might be allowed to perform in our endeavours. A simple diagram which I have found useful in this respect is depicted in Figure 1.2 It points to four types of explanatory questions, each of which at least one of the established social sciences addresses, and all of which when taken together provide ...
... might be allowed to perform in our endeavours. A simple diagram which I have found useful in this respect is depicted in Figure 1.2 It points to four types of explanatory questions, each of which at least one of the established social sciences addresses, and all of which when taken together provide ...
Erich Fromm`s Concept of Social Character
... mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first. individual psychology, in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words, is at the same time social psychology as well. " The difference between personal ps ...
... mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first. individual psychology, in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words, is at the same time social psychology as well. " The difference between personal ps ...
Applying Craft for Sociological Practice: Place in Odyssey.
... practices in agricultural extension work. Perhaps intervention efforts have gone in opposite directions: to revitalize the mainstream of established extension programs or to call for a change back to already established practices. The questions to be answered undoubtedly are for extension workers th ...
... practices in agricultural extension work. Perhaps intervention efforts have gone in opposite directions: to revitalize the mainstream of established extension programs or to call for a change back to already established practices. The questions to be answered undoubtedly are for extension workers th ...
Sociology, Basis for the Secondary-School Subject of Social Sciences
... 1.4 The 1990s: the content of the subject is established, limited role for sociology In the Dutch secondary school curriculum of the nineties, two social studies subjects appeared: one was a compulsory subject for all students and the other was an (elective) examination subject. For the latter, the ...
... 1.4 The 1990s: the content of the subject is established, limited role for sociology In the Dutch secondary school curriculum of the nineties, two social studies subjects appeared: one was a compulsory subject for all students and the other was an (elective) examination subject. For the latter, the ...
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.