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Methods Exam Reading List August 2016 Creswell
Methods Exam Reading List August 2016 Creswell, John. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches. Sage 94th edition). Emerson, Robert, Rachel Fretz and Linda Shaw. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Second Edition). Univ. of Chicago Press. Ragin, Charles. 1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Univ. of California Press. Liamputtong, Pranee. 2011. Focus Group Methodology Principle and Practice. Sage Publishing. Weiss, Robert. 1994. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Methods of Qualitative Interview Studies. Free Press. Chamblis, D.F. and Schutt, R.K. 2016. Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. Los Angeles: Sage. Chapter 11: Unobtrusive Measures. Groves, R., F. Fowler, M. Couper, J Lepkowski, E. Singer and R Tourangeau. 2004. Survey Methodology. Wiley Maines, D.R. 1993. “Narrative’s Moment and Sociology’s Phenomena: Toward a Narrative Sociology.” The Sociological Quarterly 34(1): 17-38. Pampel, F.C. 2000. Logistic Regression: A Primer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication. Small, Mario. 2011. How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature. Annual Review of Sociology 37:57-86. Tight, M. 2015. Case Studies. Sage Publications. Corbin, Juliet A., and Anselm Strauss. 2015. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Lieberson, Stanley. 1985. Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1 Ragin, Charles C., and Howard S. Becker. 1992. What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. New York: Cambridge University Press. Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968. Constructing Social Theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. -
Comparing Capitalisms Through the Lens of Classical Sociological Theory1
Comparing Capitalisms through the Lens of Classical Sociological Theory1 Gregory Jackson 1 Introduction The ‘classical tradition’ in sociology, stemming from Marx, Durkheim, and We- ber, continues to inspire sociological approaches to the economy (Beckert 2002; Swedberg 2000). Despite its foundational infl uence, the distinctively sociologi- cal contribution of this ‘classical’ tradition has been somewhat overshadowed by the widespread diffusion of economic theory, such as transaction costs or agency theory, and newer sociological approaches, such as network analysis or ‘new institutionalism’ in organizational analysis, in the process of forging inter- disciplinary approaches to the economy. In honor of the sixtieth birthday of Wolfgang Streeck, this essay looks at his contribution to economic sociology and its relationship to classical sociological theory. Wolfgang Streeck has retained and developed a distinctly sociological approach to the study of the economy that draws important inspiration from the classics. His closeness to the classic sociological tradition is perhaps unsur- prising given his early journey as a student in the 1970s from the ‘critical theory’ found in Frankfurt to the then often more ‘middle range’ concerns of sociology pursued at Columbia University by infl uential fi gures such as Robert Merton, Peter Blau, and Amitai Etzioni. Wolfgang Streeck was excited by the empiri- cal richness of early American sociology, as is evident in his subsequent edited volume Elementare Soziologie (1976). Alongside Durkheim, Weber, and Friedrich Engels, the book translated writings of postwar American sociologists such as Peter Blau, Alvin Gouldner, Howard Becker, and William Whyte. However, the focus was not on positivist empirical sociology, but on the way these sociologists utilized fundamental theoretical concepts, such as confl ict, exchange, or status, to inform their detailed empirical or even ethnographic fi eldwork. -
Dynamic Social Network Analysis: Present Roots and Future Fruits
Dynamic Social Network Analysis: Present Roots and Future Fruits Ms. Nancy K Hayden Project Leader Defense Threat Reduction Agency Advanced Systems and Concepts Office Stephen P. Borgatti, Ronald L. Breiger, Peter Brooks, George B. Davis, David S. Dornisch, Jeffrey Johnson, Mark Mizruchi, Elizabeth Warner July 2009 DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY •ADVANCED SYSTEMS AND CONCEPTS OFFICE REPORT NUMBER ASCO 2009 009 The mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is to safeguard America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat, and mitigate its effects. The Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO) supports this mission by providing long-term rolling horizon perspectives to help DTRA leadership identify, plan, and persuasively communicate what is needed in the near term to achieve the longer-term goals inherent in the agency’s mission. ASCO also emphasizes the identification, integration, and further development of leading strategic thinking and analysis on the most intractable problems related to combating weapons of mass destruction. For further information on this project, or on ASCO’s broader research program, please contact: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Advanced Systems and Concepts Office 8725 John J. Kingman Road Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-6201 [email protected] Or, visit our website: http://www.dtra.mil/asco/ascoweb/index.htm Dynamic Social Network Analysis: Present Roots and Future Fruits Ms. Nancy K. Hayden Project Leader Defense Threat Reduction Agency Advanced Systems and Concepts Office and Stephen P. Borgatti, Ronald L. Breiger, Peter Brooks, George B. Davis, David S. -
The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology Michael Houseman, Douglas, R
The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology Michael Houseman, Douglas, R. White To cite this version: Michael Houseman, Douglas, R. White. The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology. Complexity, Wiley, 2003, 8 (1), pp.72-81. halshs-00445236 HAL Id: halshs-00445236 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00445236 Submitted on 8 Jan 2010 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman for Complexity 8 (1): 72-81 , Special Issue on Networks and Complexity (draft 1.4). Sept. 6/2002 We examine data on and models of small world properties and parameters of social networks. Our focus, on tie-strength, multilevel networks and searchability in strong-tie social networks, allows us to extend some of the questions and findings of recent research and the fit of small world models to sociological and anthropological data on human communities. We offer a ‘navigability of strong ties’ hypothesis about network topologies tested with data from kinship systems, but potentially applicable to corporate cultures and business networks. -
Examples of Online Social Network Analysis Social Networks
Examples of online social network analysis Social networks • Huge field of research • Data: mostly small samples, surveys • Multiplexity Issue of data mining • Longitudinal data McPherson et al, Annu. Rev. Sociol. (2001) New technologies • Email networks • Cellphone call networks • Real-world interactions • Online networks/ social web NEW (large-scale) DATASETS, longitudinal data New laboratories • Social network properties – homophily – selection vs influence • Triadic closure, preferential attachment • Social balance • Dunbar number • Experiments at large scale... 4 Another social science lab: crowdsourcing, e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk Text http://experimentalturk.wordpress.com/ New laboratories Caveats: • online links can differ from real social links • population sampling biases? • “big” data does not automatically mean “good” data 7 The social web • social networking sites • blogs + comments + aggregators • community-edited news sites, participatory journalism • content-sharing sites • discussion forums, newsgroups • wikis, Wikipedia • services that allow sharing of bookmarks/favorites • ...and mashups of the above services An example: Dunbar number on twitter Fraction of reciprocated connections as a function of in- degree Gonçalves et al, PLoS One 6, e22656 (2011) Sharing and annotating Examples: • Flickr: sharing of photos • Last.fm: music • aNobii: books • Del.icio.us: social bookmarking • Bibsonomy: publications and bookmarks • … •“Social” networks •“specialized” content-sharing sites •Users expose profiles (content) and links -
Form and Function of Complex Networks
F O R M A N D F U N C T I O N O F C O M P L E X N E T W O R K S P e t t e r H o l m e Department of Physics Umeå University Umeå 2004 Department of Physics Umeå University 901 87 Umeå, Sweden This online version differs from the printed version only in that the figures are in colour, the text is hyperlinked and that the Acknowledgement section is omitted. Copyright c 2004 Petter Holme ° ISBN 91-7305-629-4 Printed by Print & Media, Umeå 2004 Abstract etworks are all around us, all the time. From the biochemistry of our cells to the web of friendships across the planet. From the circuitry Nof modern electronics to chains of historical events. A network is the result of the forces that shaped it. Thus the principles of network formation can be, to some extent, deciphered from the network itself. All such informa- tion comprises the structure of the network. The study of network structure is the core of modern network science. This thesis centres around three as- pects of network structure: What kinds of network structures are there and how can they be measured? How can we build models for network formation that give the structure of networks in the real world? How does the network structure affect dynamical systems confined to the networks? These questions are discussed using a variety of statistical, analytical and modelling techniques developed by physicists, mathematicians, biologists, chemists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. -
Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers (ASC) Annenberg School for Communication 12-2008 Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research Jefferson Pooley Muhlenberg College Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Pooley, J., & Katz, E. (2008). Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research. Journal of Communication, 58 (4), 767-786. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00413.x This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/269 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research Abstract Communication research seems to be flourishing, as vidente in the number of universities offering degrees in communication, number of students enrolled, number of journals, and so on. The field is interdisciplinary and embraces various combinations of former schools of journalism, schools of speech (Midwest for ‘‘rhetoric’’), and programs in sociology and political science. The field is linked to law, to schools of business and health, to cinema studies, and, increasingly, to humanistically oriented programs of so-called cultural studies. All this, in spite of having been prematurely pronounced dead, or bankrupt, by some of its founders. Sociologists once occupied a prominent place in the study of communication— both in pioneering departments of sociology and as founding members of the interdisciplinary teams that constituted departments and schools of communication. In the intervening years, we daresay that media research has attracted rather little attention in mainstream sociology and, as for departments of communication, a generation of scholars brought up on interdisciplinarity has lost touch with the disciplines from which their teachers were recruited. -
Studying Personal Communities in East York
STUDYING PERSONAL COMMUNITIES IN EAST YORK Barry Wellman Research Paper No. 128 Centre for Urban and Community Studies University of Toronto April, 1982 ISSN: 0316-0068 ISBN: 0-7727-1288-3 Reprinted July 1982 ABSTRACT Network analysis has contributed to the study of community through its focus on structured social relationships and its de-emphasis of local solidarities. Yet the initial surveys of community networks were limited in scope and findings. Our research group is now using network analysis as a comprehensive structural approach to studying the place of community networks within large-scale divisions of labour. This paper reports on the analytical concerns, research design and preliminary findings of our new East York study of "personal communities". - 11 - STUDYING PERSONAL COMMUNITIES IN EAST YORK 1 OLD AND NEW CAMPAIGNS Generals often want to refight their last war; academics often want to redo their last study. The reasons are the same. The passage of time has made them aware of mistakes in strategy, preparations and analysis. New concepts and tools have come along to make the job easier. Others looking at the same events now claim to know better. If only we could do the job again! With such thoughts in mind, I want to look at where network analyses of communities have come from and where they are likely to go. However, I propose to spend less time in refighting the past (in part, because the battles have been successful) than in proposing strategic objectives for the present and future. In this paper, I take stock of the current state of knowledge in three ways: First, I relate community network studies to fundamental concerns of both social network analysis and urban sociology. -
Soc 6460: Economic Sociology
Cornell University • Spring 2019 Syllabus Soc 6460: Economic Sociology Filiz Garip Department of Sociology 348 Uris Hall [email protected] Time: Thursday 2-4pm Location: Uris Hall 340 Office Hours: Thursday 4-5pm (Uris Hall 348) Website: search for Soc 6460 in Blackboard (www.blackboard.cornell.edu) COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES This course is an introduction to the sociological examination of economic phenomena. As a subfield that has grown rapidly over the past twenty years, economic sociology has focused on three major activities: First, it has examined the prerequisites for and constraints to economic processes as defined by economists. Second, it has extended economic models to social phenomena rarely considered in the domain of economics. Third, and most ambitiously, it has tried to search for alternative accounts of phenomena typically formulated only in economic terms. This course will provide an overview of these broad concerns and approaches in economic sociology, and review the sociological explanations of economic activities of production, consumption and distribution in a wide range of settings. REQUIREMENTS Students are expected to attend each meeting, do the readings thoroughly and in advance, and participate actively in class. Emphasis is on mastering, responding critically and creatively to, and integrating the course material, with an eye toward developing your own research questions and interests. You should be able to answer the following questions about each assigned reading: • What research question is the author -
Centennial Bibliography on the History of American Sociology
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sociology Department, Faculty Publications Sociology, Department of 2005 Centennial Bibliography On The iH story Of American Sociology Michael R. Hill [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Hill, Michael R., "Centennial Bibliography On The iH story Of American Sociology" (2005). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. 348. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/348 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Hill, Michael R., (Compiler). 2005. Centennial Bibliography of the History of American Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY Compiled by MICHAEL R. HILL Editor, Sociological Origins In consultation with the Centennial Bibliography Committee of the American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology: Brian P. Conway, Michael R. Hill (co-chair), Susan Hoecker-Drysdale (ex-officio), Jack Nusan Porter (co-chair), Pamela A. Roby, Kathleen Slobin, and Roberta Spalter-Roth. © 2005 American Sociological Association Washington, DC TABLE OF CONTENTS Note: Each part is separately paginated, with the number of pages in each part as indicated below in square brackets. The total page count for the entire file is 224 pages. To navigate within the document, please use navigation arrows and the Bookmark feature provided by Adobe Acrobat Reader.® Users may search this document by utilizing the “Find” command (typically located under the “Edit” tab on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar). -
Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis
Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis Emily Erikson Yale University 17 March 2011 Draft Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Peter Bearman, Scott Boorman, Richard Lachmann, David Stark, Nicholas Wilson, the participants of Boston University’s Society, Politics & Culture Workshop, and Yale University’s Comparative Research Workshop for their helpful comments. s Abstract: There is a widespread understanding that social networks are relationalist. In this paper, I suggest an alternative view that relationalism is only one theoretical perspective in network analysis. Relationalism, as currently defined, rejects essentialism, a priori categories, and insists upon the intersubjectivity of experience and meaning, as well as the importance of the content of interactions and their historical setting. Formalism is based on a structuralist interpretation of the theoretical works of Georg Simmel. Simmel based his theory on a Neo-Kantian program of identifying a priori categories of relational types and patterns that operate independently of cultural content or historical setting. Formalism and relationalism are therefore entirely distinct from each other. Yet both are internally consistent theoretical perspectives. The contrast between the two plays out in their approaches to culture, meaning, agency, and generalizability. In this paper, I distinguish the two theoretical strains. 2 Since its inception in the 1930s, social network research has become an increasingly vibrant part of sociology inquiry. The field has grown tremendously over the last few decades: new journals and conferences have been created, programs and concentrations in social network analysis have been created in institutions in both North America and Europe, and large numbers of scholars have been attracted to the field from across a wide disciplinary array, including sociology, anthropology, management sciences, computer science, biology, mathematics, and physics. -
Curriculum Vitae YANJIE BIAN (Updated January 2015)
Curriculum Vitae YANJIE BIAN (Updated January 2015) U.S. CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 267 19th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Tel: (612) 624-9554; Fax: (612) 624-7020 Email: [email protected] CHINA CONTACT INFORMATION School of Humanities and Social Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 28 West Xian Ning Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. Tel: (86-29) 8266-9178/Fax: (86-29) 8266-8281 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 1990 Ph.D. in sociology, State University of New York at Albany. Thesis: “Work-Unit Structure and Status Attainment: A Study of Work-Unit Status in Urban China,” Advisor: Professor Nan Lin 1984 M.A. in sociology, Nankai University, China. Thesis: “Single-Child Family and Its Socioeconomic Implications,” Advisor: Professor Zelin Wu 1982 B.A. in philosophy, Nankai University, China EMPLOYMENT University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology 2006- Professor of Sociology On sabbatical leave (2009-2010) & unpaid leave (fall 2012) 1991-2000 Assistant (1991-97) and Associate (1997-2000) Professor of Sociology Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology (1999-2000) Joint Faculty of East Asian Studies (1991-present) On sabbatical (1997-98) and unpaid (1998-99) leave at HKUST Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (a summer appointment) 2009- Dean and Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science 2009- Founding Director, Institute for Empirical Social Science Research (IESSR) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Division of Social Science 1997-2006 Associate Professor