The Social World

Author : Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262037075

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Decoding the Social World by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Pdf

How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences—offering the solution to a social paradox that has intrigued thinkers for centuries. Communication has always been the force that makes a collection of people more than the sum of individuals, but only now can we explain why: digital technologies have made it possible to parse the information we generate by being social in new, imaginative ways. And yet we must look at that data, González-Bailón argues, through the lens of theories that capture the nature of social life. The technologies we use, in the end, are also a manifestation of the social world we inhabit. González-Bailón discusses how the unpredictability of social life relates to communication networks, social influence, and the unintended effects that derive from individual decisions. She describes how communication generates social dynamics in aggregate (leading to episodes of “collective effervescence”) and discusses the mechanisms that underlie large-scale diffusion, when information and behavior spread “like wildfire.” She applies the theory of networks to illuminate why collective outcomes can differ drastically even when they arise from the same individual actions. By opening the black box of unintended effects, González-Bailón identifies strategies for social intervention and discusses the policy implications—and how data science and evidence-based research embolden critical thinking in a world that is constantly changing.

Author : Steven E. Barkan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936126532

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Sociology by Steven E. Barkan Pdf

Author : Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506364100

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Making Sense of the Social World by Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt Pdf

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018. The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.

Author : Tim Dant
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335231317

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Material Culture in the Social World by Tim Dant Pdf

"This should become a core text for second year courses in sociology and cultural studies... it synthesizes a vast body of literature and a complex range of debates into a text which is at once accessible, engaging and stimulating... it will lead to students seeing and thinking about the material world in a totally new light and can be used as a way into key theoretical debates." Keith Tester, Professor of Social Theory, University of Portsmouth In what ways do we interact with material things? How do material objects affect the way we relate to each other? What are the connections between material things and social processes like fashion, discourse, art and design? Through wearing clothes, keeping furniture, responding to the ring of the telephone, noticing the signature on a painting, holding a paperweight and in many other ways, we interact with objects in our everyday lives. These are not merely functional relationships with things but are connected to the way we relate to other people and the culture of the particular society we live in - they are social relations. This engaging book draws on established theoretical work, including that of Simmel, Marx, McLuhan, Barthes and Baudrillard as well as a range of contemporary empirical work from many humanities disciplines. It uses ideas drawn from this work to explore a variety of things - from stone cairns to denim jeans, televisions to penis rings, houses to works of art - to understand something of how we live with them.

Author : Alfred Schutz,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810106221

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The Structures of the Life-world by Alfred Schutz,Thomas Luckmann Pdf

The Structures of the Life-World is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932 and his death in 1959. This book represents Schutz's seminal attempt to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the nature of social reality. Here he integrates his theory of relevance with his analysis of social structures. Thomas Luckmann, a former student of Schutz's, completed the manuscript for publication after Schutz's untimely death.

Author : Penelope Eckert
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807770043

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Jocks and Burnouts by Penelope Eckert Pdf

This ethnographic study of adolescent social structure in a Michigan high school shows how the school's institutional environment fosters the formation of opposed class cultures in the student population, which in turn serve as a social tracking system.

Author : Russell K. Schutt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544358499

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Understanding the Social World by Russell K. Schutt Pdf

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century is a concise and accessible introduction to the process and practice of social science research. Fast-paced and visually engaging, the text crosses disciplinary and national boundaries, pays special attention to concern for human subjects, and focuses on the application of results. As it rises to the requirements of a world shaped by big data and social media, Instagram and avatars, blogs and tweets, the text also confronts the research challenges posed by cell phones, privacy concerns, linguistic diversity, and multicultural populations. The Second Edition discusses newly-popular research methods, highlights the fascinating work being conducted by contemporary social researchers, and includes enhanced tools for learning in the text and online. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

Author : Jeanette L. McAfee
Publisher : Future Horizons
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 1885477821

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Navigating the Social World by Jeanette L. McAfee Pdf

Because of its unique focus on teaching the critical social skills that autistic children lack, this book has been cited by "Library Journal" as "Essential to All Collections."

Author : Betty Hart,Todd R. Risley
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015046490937

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The Social World of Children Learning to Talk by Betty Hart,Todd R. Risley Pdf

Based on data from 2-1/2 years of observing 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, this book charts the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures and evaluates the effect

Author : John Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199745862

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Making the Social World by John Searle Pdf

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings.

Author : Robert J. Brym,Lance W. Roberts,Lisa Strohschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0176849696

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Sociology by Robert J. Brym,Lance W. Roberts,Lisa Strohschein Pdf

A compelling design, research focus, and an engaging narrative defines Sociology: Compass for a New Social World. The renowned author team shows students how thinking sociologically can help them draw connections between themselves and the social world. Sociological concepts are clearly connected to students' interests and experiences by taking universal and popular elements of contemporary culture and rendering them sociologically relevant. This text devotes more space than others do to drawing connections between objectivity and subjectivity in research, presenting a more realistic, and therefore more exciting, account of how sociologists practise their craft. Tables and graphs are not simply referred to, they are analyzed. Some theories are rejected, while others are endorsed. The author team brings depth to issues of diversity and globalization using personal and research experiences.

Author : William Damon
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015001453508

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The Social World of the Child by William Damon Pdf

Author : Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199890712

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Navigating the Social World by Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman Pdf

Navigating the Social World covers the development of social cognition from infancy into adolescence, with a focus on the first decade of human life. (dust cover).

Author : Dolores Albarracín
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108840002

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Action and Inaction in a Social World by Dolores Albarracín Pdf

This book explains how actions and inactions change in social contexts, connecting psychological research with problems of interest in communication, public health, economics, organizational and consumer behavior, and environmental sciences. This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary view also informs intervention design and gauges social media effects.

Author : Amitabha Das Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429534379

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Meaning, Agency and the Making of a Social World by Amitabha Das Gupta Pdf

This book explores a vital but neglected element in the philosophy of social science – the complex nature of the social world. By a systematic philosophical engagement, it conceives the social world in terms of three basic concerns: epistemic, methodological and ethical. It examines how we cognize, study and ethically interact with the social world. As such, it demonstrates that a discussion of ethics is epistemically indispensable to the making of the social world. The book presents a new interpretation of philosophy of social science and addresses a series of related topics, including the role of the human subject in the context of scientific knowledge, objectivity, historicity, meaning and nature of social reality, social and literary theory, scientific methodology and fact/value dichotomy, human and collective agency and the limits to relativism. Examining each in turn, it argues that the social world is constructed through human actions and becomes significant because we ascribe meaning to it. This is organized around discussions on the meaning, agency and the making of a social world. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy of social science, political philosophy and sociology.