http://technorati.com/tag/Social+Sciences+sociology Posts tagged with "Social Sciences sociology" on Technorati Thu, 15 May 2008 07:33:14 -0700 Technorati v1.0 http://static.technorati.com/pix/logos/logo_sm.gif http://technorati.com/tag/Social+Sciences+sociology support@technorati.com (Technorati Support) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Social Sciences sociology http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/gin-television-and-cognitive-surplus/ http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/gin-television-and-cognitive-surplus/ Mon, 05 May 2008 08:34:05 -0700 This is an absolutely brilliant presentation given by Clay Shirky (author of the new smash hit on organizing Without organizations called “Here Comes Everybody“) on the topic of “Where do they find the time”. You hear this phrase, usually in response to some report of silly activity or massively time consuming hobby. We Clay knows and soon you will too. It turns out that even a fraction of the time we devote to passive entertainment (e.g. Television) can, when applied to productive activity, e 2008-05-05 08:34:05 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/gin-television-and-cognitive-surplus/ 17 26 http://www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/30/material-world/ http://www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/30/material-world/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:04:11 -0700 In last week’s show we examined the research of we examined the works of Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington and envoy to North Africa for President Thomas Jefferson. In today’s show, adapted from an article recently published on the Oscar Web site written by Melissa Maki, research communications coordinator for the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, we look at the research of Allison Pugh, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virgini 2008-04-30 10:04:11 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/30/material-world/ 2 14 The Oscar Show http://aflicktion.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-sociological-imagination/ http://aflicktion.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-sociological-imagination/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:25:27 -0700 In his influential book, The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills (1959) warned that the tendency to misrepresent social disorders as merely individual psychological disorders led to a depolitization of intellectual discourse and the undermining of social criticism. He challenged notions of the false dichotomy between private and public and self and society. He warned against an overdependence on superficial psychological explanations which ignore complex social accounts. These can only be 2008-04-16 10:25:27 PDT http://technorati.com/search/aflicktion.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-sociological-imagination/ 0 0 http://mediaresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/mobile-audiences-between-access-and-participation/ http://mediaresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/mobile-audiences-between-access-and-participation/ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:02:06 -0700 The Crisc-Cmcs research “Mobile Audiences between Access and Participation” has been presented at FilMobile Conference (University of Westminster, London 4-5 April 2008). Full powerpoint presentation is available here. Furher informations about FilMobile, here. 2008-04-12 02:02:06 PDT http://technorati.com/search/mediaresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/mobile-audiences-between-access-and-participation/ 3 6 http://www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/09/working-it-2/ http://www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/09/working-it-2/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:04:30 -0700 In last week’s show we examined the research of University of Virginia politics professor Paul Freedman that suggests that the ever-growing barrage of political ads actually contributes to citizen education and engagement, and only rarely have negative impacts. In today’s show, adapted from an article recently published on the Oscar Web site written by Melissa Maki, research communications coordinator for the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, we look at the rese 2008-04-09 10:04:30 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.cvillepublicmedia.org/oscar/2008/04/09/working-it-2/ 2 14 The Oscar Show http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/milgram-the-torturers-of-new-haven-and-the-truth-of-that-obedience-experiment/ http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/milgram-the-torturers-of-new-haven-and-the-truth-of-that-obedience-experiment/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:52:50 -0700 Milgram, the Torturers of New Haven and the Truth of that Obedience Experiment By Virginia Heffernan I keep thinking that online video will be a boon to social sciences like linguistics and sociology. People will get to see all those wacko subway studies or gender tests for themselves. Or maybe, contrariwise, it will let us all analyze those non-double-blind social experiments and debunk the soft sciences once and for all. After all, we can now see and circulate field data, the experimen 2008-04-08 06:52:50 PDT http://technorati.com/search/themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/milgram-the-torturers-of-new-haven-and-the-truth-of-that-obedience-experiment/ 287 393 The Medium - Magazine - New York Times Blog http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/reality-mining/ http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/reality-mining/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:36:36 -0700 Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) . Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project: [O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that can learn aspects of a user’s life better than a human observer (including the actual user)… Kevin Kelly explains: Can our devices know us better than w 2008-04-03 07:36:36 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/reality-mining/ 17 26 http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/immigration-small-benefit-to-uk/ http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/immigration-small-benefit-to-uk/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:11:11 -0700 The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits. When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed. I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly. See or example: Immigration sophistry debunked…again The Guardian group sinks further into insanity… On hearing Simon Hughes is calling for increased immigration… Today I read 2008-04-01 10:11:11 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/immigration-small-benefit-to-uk/ 17 26 http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/ivo-was-right-about-facebook/ http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/ivo-was-right-about-facebook/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:28:24 -0700 South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds). One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started warning that Facebook was way more sinister than it appeared. When it was rumoured that Microsoft was going to buy it, Ivo publicly committed to leaving Facebook in the event Microsoft 2008-03-28 13:28:24 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/ivo-was-right-about-facebook/ 17 26 http://smlxtralarge.com/index.php/2008/03/28/evolution-of-smlxl/ http://smlxtralarge.com/index.php/2008/03/28/evolution-of-smlxl/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:56:43 -0700 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some say before our time and the result of our early work was the book entitled Communities Dominate Brands - published in 2005. Today - you can't open a page to read about another industry facing serious challenges in this period of epochal evolution, or how mo 2008-03-28 10:56:43 PDT http://technorati.com/search/smlxtralarge.com/index.php/2008/03/28/evolution-of-smlxl/ 13 40 SMLXL http://www.borrowed-heaven.net/private/im-a-dumbfuck/2008/03/#000754 http://www.borrowed-heaven.net/private/im-a-dumbfuck/2008/03/#000754 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:51:44 -0700 This is an issue that has plagued me for years, quite possibly since I was a child. I have always been quite hard on myself. That is, in terms of self-denial and self-denigration. When at school and of course, like everyone else trying my hardest, I never thought it was quite good enough. Now, doing this OU course, trying my hardest, it still isn't good enough. I'm sure that to most people 80% is a bloody wonderful mark and I know that there are some people who, no matter how freaking hard they 2008-03-26 07:51:44 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.borrowed-heaven.net/private/im-a-dumbfuck/2008/03/#000754 1 2 http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/la-belle-epoque/ http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/la-belle-epoque/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:23:18 -0700 Abelard.org has a lovely short introduction to the fascinating era of peace, prosperity and scientific now known as La Belle Époque: La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Era, is an expression born after the First World War to evoke the period after in the Napoleonic campaigns and before the watershed in Europe of the Great War - the years from 1890 to 1914. The name encompasses the realities of expansion, carefree attitudes, a faith in progress, and an affluence spreading down through society, tog 2008-03-25 15:23:18 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/la-belle-epoque/ 17 26 http://media.swarthmore.edu/video/?p=28 http://media.swarthmore.edu/video/?p=28 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:36 -0700 Sociologist and Associate Provost Sarah Willie responds to a recent poll questioning the relevance and significance of Black History Month. “When I say I’m a critic, I just mean that I want Black History Month to go further,” says Willie, whose research interests include social inequality, higher education, and African American culture. “It’s very relevant and I’m looking forward to black history, black sociology, black psychology, and black literature and the arts studied all year long.” 2008-03-20 11:29:36 PDT http://technorati.com/search/media.swarthmore.edu/video/?p=28 1 2 Swarthmore College Video http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/apocalypse-atheist-style.html http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/apocalypse-atheist-style.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:20:40 -0700 I'll get to serious stuff in a moment, but first some levity. A great comic called Subnormality at Viruscomix explores a 'scary' world of atheism and reasoning. The Atheist Apocalypse!(It sort of goes along with my previous post about the current trend of populist-driven anti-intellectualism.) 2008-03-18 13:20:40 PDT http://technorati.com/search/paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/apocalypse-atheist-style.html 19 31 http://netupdate.bluechiphosting.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.htm http://netupdate.bluechiphosting.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.htm Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:28:48 -0700 PhD Scholarships in Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences March 18th, 2008 UK. University of Glasgow. These doctoral scholarships are provided by the Adam Smith Research Foundation for candidates within the Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences Department, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences. Up to 4 PhD Scholarships within five research themes: 1. Public Policy, Governance and Social Justice, 2. Work, Ethics and Technology, 3.People Places and Change, 4. 2008-03-18 04:28:48 PDT http://technorati.com/search/netupdate.bluechiphosting.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.htm 4 7 NetUpdate http://www.scholarzip.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.html http://www.scholarzip.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:28:48 -0700 UK. University of Glasgow. These doctoral scholarships are provided by the Adam Smith Research Foundation for candidates within the Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences Department, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences. Up to 4 PhD Scholarships within five research themes: 1. Public Policy, Governance and Social Justice, 2. Work, Ethics and Technology, 3.People Places and Change, 4. Macroeconomics, Business and Finance, 5. Legal and Political Thought The Scholarships are 2008-03-18 04:28:48 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.scholarzip.com/phd-scholarships-in-sociology-anthropology-and-applied-social-sciences.html 24 793 International Scholarships and Jobs | Postdoctoral Fellowships | Research Jobs | Academic Jobs http://www.mapleleaftwo.com/brian-solis-social-media-from-the-social-science-perspective/ http://www.mapleleaftwo.com/brian-solis-social-media-from-the-social-science-perspective/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:49 -0700 One of the key parts of social media that we often forget about is the social part, but beyond that we also forget the key parts of observing a community and how to learn from it. Brian Solis penned a post today that is right up my alley, talking about the sociology and ethnographic portions of what PR and marketers need to understand to “get” social media. Why up my alley? Because I have a degree in Anthropology and have been a student of it for 20 years now. Brian’s post is deep and takes 2008-03-17 20:32:49 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.mapleleaftwo.com/brian-solis-social-media-from-the-social-science-perspective/ 219 489 Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/creativity-and-society.html http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/creativity-and-society.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:30:21 -0700 Just today, I found this article called Why is there Anti-Intellectualism?. Steven Dutch uses Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel as a base in his inquiry into what it means to be truly creative. It's very thought-provoking and, well, creative! Some questions that arise in my mind are: Might we say that 'tinkering' is a prerequisite to 'true creativity' even if the latter is not the 2008-03-17 14:30:21 PDT http://technorati.com/search/paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/creativity-and-society.html 19 31 http://jcbaker.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/the-encyclopedia-of-the-sociology-of-religion/ http://jcbaker.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/the-encyclopedia-of-the-sociology-of-religion/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:18:01 -0700 While working on a paper on Max Weber’s typology of authority and the development of the episcopate in early Christianity, I came across a great online resource that I thought some readers might find helpful. Check out the online edition of The Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. 2008-03-14 14:18:01 PDT http://technorati.com/search/jcbaker.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/the-encyclopedia-of-the-sociology-of-religion/ 10 15 http://GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/sociologists-there-is-our-chance-to-shine/ http://GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/sociologists-there-is-our-chance-to-shine/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:29:43 -0700 Via Dan Greenberg in Brainstorm, “It’s late in the day for the Bush administration to be developing ambitious plans to enlist the social, behavioral, and political sciences for dealing with nations that are collapsing, strife-ridden, or otherwise worrisome for U.S. interests. But that’s what’s proposed in a high-level report that has gone virtually unnoticed since it was issued in February.” The PDF Version of the report is here. It is titled Research and Development Challenges for Regional 2008-03-13 18:29:43 PDT http://technorati.com/search/GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/sociologists-there-is-our-chance-to-shine/ 48 89 The Global Sociology Blog