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Measuring Culture (Paperback)
John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, …
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R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how
people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and
the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes?
Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new
to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement
of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative
and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three
common subjects of measurement-people, objects, and
relationships-and then discusses how to pivot effectively between
subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour
of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of
neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the
definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture
as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses
across the social sciences.
This is the first handbook focussing on classical social theory. It
offers extensive discussions of debates, arguments, and discussions
in classical theory and how they have informed contemporary
sociological theory. The book pushes against the conventional
classical theory pedagogy, which often focused on single theorists
and their contributions, and looks at isolating themes capturing
the essence of the interest of classical theorists that seem to
have relevance to modern research questions and theoretical
traditions. This book presents new approaches to thinking about
theory in relationship to sociological methods.
Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced,
and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological
approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this
exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects
of Collins' thought, and of microsociology more generally. The
introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides
a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic
papers by Randol Contreras, using data from New York, and Philippe
Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart, using data from Philadelphia,
examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics
markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins' microsociological account
of the features of social situations that tend to engender
violence. In the second section of the book, a study by Paul
DiMaggio, Clark Bernier, Charles Heckscher, and David Mimno tackles
the question of whether electronically mediated interaction
exhibits the ritualization which, according to Collins, is a common
feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that, at
least under certain circumstances, digitally mediated interaction
may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face
interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins'
work in the sociology of knowledge, examining multiple ways in
which social network structures can engender intellectual
creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that
critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology.
Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological
perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social
scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive
paradigm, one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of
social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents
empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether
or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes,
suggesting that Collins' model of interaction ritual can only
partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential
political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness
seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins' theory of
interaction, by including in it encounters that depart from the
ritual model in important ways. In a final, reflective chapter,
Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of
microsociology. Clearly written, these pieces offer cutting-edge
thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in
sociology today.
Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced,
and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological
approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this
exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects
of Collins' thought, and of microsociology more generally. The
introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides
a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic
papers by Randol Contreras, using data from New York, and Philippe
Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart, using data from Philadelphia,
examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics
markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins' microsociological account
of the features of social situations that tend to engender
violence. In the second section of the book, a study by Paul
DiMaggio, Clark Bernier, Charles Heckscher, and David Mimno tackles
the question of whether electronically mediated interaction
exhibits the ritualization which, according to Collins, is a common
feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that, at
least under certain circumstances, digitally mediated interaction
may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face
interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins'
work in the sociology of knowledge, examining multiple ways in
which social network structures can engender intellectual
creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that
critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology.
Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological
perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social
scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive
paradigm, one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of
social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents
empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether
or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes,
suggesting that Collins' model of interaction ritual can only
partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential
political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness
seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins' theory of
interaction, by including in it encounters that depart from the
ritual model in important ways. In a final, reflective chapter,
Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of
microsociology. Clearly written, these pieces offer cutting-edge
thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in
sociology today.
This is the first handbook focussing on classical social theory. It
offers extensive discussions of debates, arguments, and discussions
in classical theory and how they have informed contemporary
sociological theory. The book pushes against the conventional
classical theory pedagogy, which often focused on single theorists
and their contributions, and looks at isolating themes capturing
the essence of the interest of classical theorists that seem to
have relevance to modern research questions and theoretical
traditions. This book presents new approaches to thinking about
theory in relationship to sociological methods.
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Measuring Culture (Hardcover)
John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, …
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R1,905
Discovery Miles 19 050
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how
people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and
the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes?
Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new
to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement
of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative
and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three
common subjects of measurement-people, objects, and
relationships-and then discusses how to pivot effectively between
subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour
of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of
neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the
definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture
as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses
across the social sciences.
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