Thinking About Paradigms in Sociology

This video, produced for the Social Science program of the University of Maine a Augusta, introduces students first to the notion of what a paradigm is and how it relates to theory by using an analogy. If a theory is a particular kind of story, a paradigm is a way of building a story, and sociology as an academic discipline has paradigms for its stories just as music and literature and film have paradigms for the creating of works that fit within a particular genre. This video shares the...

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From: James Cook

Related topics : university social network analysis

BIF 7: Valdis Krebs: Getting Technology and Sociology to Match

Valdis Krebs: Getting Technology and Sociology to Match

Valdis Krebs sees something brighter on the social media horizon. Krebs calls social networking websites "the landline of technology," and declares that they will soon wear out their usefulness. He has nothing against social networking websites. In fact, Krebs has been on twitter longer than 95.8 percent of all twitter users. Be intrigued by his theories while watching him map the BIF-7 community.

ABOUT VALDIS KREBS

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From: Business Innovation Factory

Related topics : inflow social network analysis software / social media networking websites / analysis social networks / social networking community / social networking research

Bruno Latour - Panopticon/Oligopticon: A Sociological Vision of Paris, the Invisible City

Lecture date: 1999-02-22

Deploying material based on his book Paris: Ville Invisible Bruno Latour presents some of the results of the social theory known as 'sociology of translation' (actor network theory). After field studies in Africa and California, Latour specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management.

Since...

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From: AA School of Architecture

Related topics : social network theory sociology