Consequentialist Models
... parochial populations are highly vulnerable very unlikely in networks characteristic of pluralistic societies the key people in these cascades: – not those who are highly influential they start the cascade but do not sustain it critical role is played by those who are easily influenced! ...
... parochial populations are highly vulnerable very unlikely in networks characteristic of pluralistic societies the key people in these cascades: – not those who are highly influential they start the cascade but do not sustain it critical role is played by those who are easily influenced! ...
Realist Social Theory
... in the daily experience of ordinary people is fully authentic. Its authenticity does not derive from viewing subjective experiences as self-veridical. By themselves, the strength of our feelings is never a guarantee of their veracity: our certitudes are poor guides to certainty. Instead, this ambiva ...
... in the daily experience of ordinary people is fully authentic. Its authenticity does not derive from viewing subjective experiences as self-veridical. By themselves, the strength of our feelings is never a guarantee of their veracity: our certitudes are poor guides to certainty. Instead, this ambiva ...
Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research
... in social science and humanities who have little if any background in language analysis (e.g. in Sociology, Political Science, Education, Geography, History, Social Administration, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies); and students and researchers specializing in language. People workin ...
... in social science and humanities who have little if any background in language analysis (e.g. in Sociology, Political Science, Education, Geography, History, Social Administration, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies); and students and researchers specializing in language. People workin ...
Paper - The University of Chicago Booth School of
... these data elsewhere shows that either form of a positive third-party tie slows decay, Burt, 2000a:Table 5). A third-party tie is negative if the evaluations are contradictory, e.g., a contact about whom the banker has a negative opinion makes a positive evaluation of the colleague. The vast majori ...
... these data elsewhere shows that either form of a positive third-party tie slows decay, Burt, 2000a:Table 5). A third-party tie is negative if the evaluations are contradictory, e.g., a contact about whom the banker has a negative opinion makes a positive evaluation of the colleague. The vast majori ...
Transnationalism From Below
... insuring their own survival by contributing to the constitution of new bifocal subjects with dual citizenships and multiple political identities. Inadvertently, this very process opens up interstitial social spaces which create multiple possibilities for novel forms of human agency. These spaces pro ...
... insuring their own survival by contributing to the constitution of new bifocal subjects with dual citizenships and multiple political identities. Inadvertently, this very process opens up interstitial social spaces which create multiple possibilities for novel forms of human agency. These spaces pro ...
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... mathematics as a tool for social science. These will be touched upon also in the remainder of the paper. First of all mathematics is a much more exact language than the written or spoken word that brings clarification and coherence to theoretical arguments, which help eliminate ambiguous interpretat ...
... mathematics as a tool for social science. These will be touched upon also in the remainder of the paper. First of all mathematics is a much more exact language than the written or spoken word that brings clarification and coherence to theoretical arguments, which help eliminate ambiguous interpretat ...
COMPLEX NETWORK APPROACHES TO SMALL TEAM ANALYSIS. CONFLICT AND GENDER
... anticipate conflict in small teams whereas micro-based models of structural balance, which have been traditionally used to model conflict, do not. We developed the Team Analytics web tool, which is an implementation of our group-based model of complex networks in an user friendly on-line tool. We us ...
... anticipate conflict in small teams whereas micro-based models of structural balance, which have been traditionally used to model conflict, do not. We developed the Team Analytics web tool, which is an implementation of our group-based model of complex networks in an user friendly on-line tool. We us ...
... into the mere reporting of the not necessarily well-informed beliefs about themselves of social actors. This was the blind alley into which ethnomethodology took much sociology in the 1970s. A different example again illustrates this point: it would be foolish for political scientists to ignore the ...
Socio-economic distance and spatial patterns in unemployment
... rate of the area and to be spatially correlated due to the sorting of individuals across areas.5 We compare the two estimates to get an idea of whether the clustering with respect to a given metric can be ‘explained’ by conditioning on these variables. We also present non-parametric estimates of cor ...
... rate of the area and to be spatially correlated due to the sorting of individuals across areas.5 We compare the two estimates to get an idea of whether the clustering with respect to a given metric can be ‘explained’ by conditioning on these variables. We also present non-parametric estimates of cor ...
This paper uses transaction data from an African mobile phone
... Between $800-900 billion is spent annually on infrastructure in developing countries (Bhattacharya et al., 2012). Mobile phone networks represent a case where governments successfully leveraged private investment to provide infrastructure. But in order to guide investment towards socially optimal en ...
... Between $800-900 billion is spent annually on infrastructure in developing countries (Bhattacharya et al., 2012). Mobile phone networks represent a case where governments successfully leveraged private investment to provide infrastructure. But in order to guide investment towards socially optimal en ...
Causality and Complexity in the Works of Pierre Bourdieu
... determined which paths will be taken (an aspect of chance) (Hörz 1974). In the social sciences, this general dialectic of chance and necessity has been interpreted in such a way that in the historical development of society phases of crisis show up, but it is not pre-determined when exactly they wil ...
... determined which paths will be taken (an aspect of chance) (Hörz 1974). In the social sciences, this general dialectic of chance and necessity has been interpreted in such a way that in the historical development of society phases of crisis show up, but it is not pre-determined when exactly they wil ...
ABSTRACT Yang, Zheng. An Investigation into
... Embedded Networks. (Under the direction of Dr. Branda Nowell). This dissertation presents three independent papers, each of which investigates one dimension of the phenomenon of partnership embeddedness in terms of shared-membership: (1) Paper One investigates whether partnership design is under iso ...
... Embedded Networks. (Under the direction of Dr. Branda Nowell). This dissertation presents three independent papers, each of which investigates one dimension of the phenomenon of partnership embeddedness in terms of shared-membership: (1) Paper One investigates whether partnership design is under iso ...
Discourse
... The term linguistics refers to all the branches of language study which are inside the academic discipline of linguistics. It is sometimes termed “linguistics proper” when it is the study of the sound system of a language (phonology), the grammatical structure of words (morphology), sentence and w ...
... The term linguistics refers to all the branches of language study which are inside the academic discipline of linguistics. It is sometimes termed “linguistics proper” when it is the study of the sound system of a language (phonology), the grammatical structure of words (morphology), sentence and w ...
Constructing Transnational Studies
... But this “worldist” scholarship tends to equate all trans-border and trans-boundary phenomena with planetary integration and worldwide isomorphism. Structures and processes that are really quite different are depicted as comparable in strength and character wherever they occur. Variations in scale a ...
... But this “worldist” scholarship tends to equate all trans-border and trans-boundary phenomena with planetary integration and worldwide isomorphism. Structures and processes that are really quite different are depicted as comparable in strength and character wherever they occur. Variations in scale a ...
Reconsidering Social Cohesion: Developing a
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... JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JS ...
Norms and Values
... can be viewed as a conceptual problem. One such version is related to the principle 'Ought implies can'. Suppose values are making infeasible demands: then it would make no conceptual sense to say that we have reason or that it is valuable for us to conduct ourselves in ways that are unavailable to ...
... can be viewed as a conceptual problem. One such version is related to the principle 'Ought implies can'. Suppose values are making infeasible demands: then it would make no conceptual sense to say that we have reason or that it is valuable for us to conduct ourselves in ways that are unavailable to ...
The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited
... structural equation models, or path analyses, to measure the relative contribution of different independent variables to some dependent variable, in this case occupational status (as measured by the Duncan Socioeconomic Index). Their central finding was this: The use of weak ties in finding jobs has ...
... structural equation models, or path analyses, to measure the relative contribution of different independent variables to some dependent variable, in this case occupational status (as measured by the Duncan Socioeconomic Index). Their central finding was this: The use of weak ties in finding jobs has ...
ideology: a transdisciplinary contribution from critical discourse
... one-sided emphasis on process, whereas the realist view of discourse analysis I advocate centres upon the tension between process and prestructured (discoursal as well as non-discoursal – see below) objects. Both Mumby & Stohl (1991) and Mumby & Clair (1997) set up the contrast between ‘organizing’ ...
... one-sided emphasis on process, whereas the realist view of discourse analysis I advocate centres upon the tension between process and prestructured (discoursal as well as non-discoursal – see below) objects. Both Mumby & Stohl (1991) and Mumby & Clair (1997) set up the contrast between ‘organizing’ ...
Discourse Analysis (General Introduction)
... (SFL) or simply Systemic Linguistics. SFL looks at how language is structured for use as language users interact in order to make meanings, ie, to make sense of the world of each other. According to Eggins (2004: 11), ‘the overall purpose of language then is a semantic ...
... (SFL) or simply Systemic Linguistics. SFL looks at how language is structured for use as language users interact in order to make meanings, ie, to make sense of the world of each other. According to Eggins (2004: 11), ‘the overall purpose of language then is a semantic ...
Policy network structures, institutional context, and policy change
... negotiations and interactions among collective political actors during a decision-making process.1 Therefore, relations between collective actors should be an element allowing us to understand policy outputs (Knoke et al. 1996, Bressers and O'Toole 1998, Howlett and Ramesh 1998, Marsh 1998, Adam and ...
... negotiations and interactions among collective political actors during a decision-making process.1 Therefore, relations between collective actors should be an element allowing us to understand policy outputs (Knoke et al. 1996, Bressers and O'Toole 1998, Howlett and Ramesh 1998, Marsh 1998, Adam and ...
A Theory of Collective Identity. Making Sense of the Debate on
... make three strong arguments. Their first criticism has been that reputed authors 3 using the term do not really need it. They use identity only as the marker of an intention (to be culturally sensitive). Identity is not related to the social analysis that has been presented elsewhere in their work. ...
... make three strong arguments. Their first criticism has been that reputed authors 3 using the term do not really need it. They use identity only as the marker of an intention (to be culturally sensitive). Identity is not related to the social analysis that has been presented elsewhere in their work. ...
Writing the souk as a social fact - Institute of Social and Cultural
... Malinowski The second most important influence on Geertz was Bronislaw Malinowski, his predecessor as anthropologist and academic in Great Britain and the United States. Malinowski’s theories are important for a reading of Geertz because he coined some terms which became standard in the discipline, ...
... Malinowski The second most important influence on Geertz was Bronislaw Malinowski, his predecessor as anthropologist and academic in Great Britain and the United States. Malinowski’s theories are important for a reading of Geertz because he coined some terms which became standard in the discipline, ...
second-hand brokerage - The University of Chicago Booth School of
... population (as I will show later). Second, the banker in Figure 1 is one datum and individual variation from the average is to be expected. Some people with networks rich in structural holes will not do as well as others. The prediction is only that the people with networks rich in structural holes ...
... population (as I will show later). Second, the banker in Figure 1 is one datum and individual variation from the average is to be expected. Some people with networks rich in structural holes will not do as well as others. The prediction is only that the people with networks rich in structural holes ...
Right Wing Autoritharism, Social Dominance Orientation
... researches about this topic. For this reason, in the current research it will be studied if SDO is related to AFA (in this case with explicit measures) and if this ideological variable has a relationship with the controllability of weight. Research suggests that beliefs about the causality and stabi ...
... researches about this topic. For this reason, in the current research it will be studied if SDO is related to AFA (in this case with explicit measures) and if this ideological variable has a relationship with the controllability of weight. Research suggests that beliefs about the causality and stabi ...
7 Organization design for new product development
... organization. Being able to assimilate the latest advances in science, maybe even creating the advances themselves these companies focus on incorporating the latest technology into their products. Functional cohesiveness, the form’s major strength is also its biggest weakness. The functional focus m ...
... organization. Being able to assimilate the latest advances in science, maybe even creating the advances themselves these companies focus on incorporating the latest technology into their products. Functional cohesiveness, the form’s major strength is also its biggest weakness. The functional focus m ...