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New pub alert! 🚨

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0022250X.2024.2395806?src=

@dustinstoltz & I introduced concept class analysis (CoCA) in 2020 as a way to uncover traces of cultural schemas in text. Admittedly, the method's output requires some interpretive heavy-lifting.

Thus our new paper, which offers an analytical workflow for working with CoCA!

@SocArXivBot: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zvwn2

Replication repo: https://github.com/Marshall-Soc/CoCA_interpret

#sociology @sociology @academicchatter

Figure #1 in the paper, showing the correlation networks for each of t he five schematic classes.

Figure #3 in the paper, showing some predicted probabilities for schematic class membership as a function of political ideology (controlling for other factors).

@kjhealy You know who else liked bureaucracy and polycules

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Here it is: the One Weird Thing that people who aren’t programmers (or are bad programmings) just don’t understand about writing software. This is it. If you miss this, you’ll miss what LLMs can and can’t do for software development. You’ll be prey to the hype, a mark for the con.

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Programming as Theory Building

Non-trivial software changes over time. The requirements evolve, flaws need to be corrected, the world itself changes and violates assumptions we made in the past, or it just takes longer than one working session to finish. And all the while, that software is running in the real world. All of the design choices taken and not taken throughout development; all of the tradeoffs; all of the assumptions; all of the expected and unexpected situations the software encounters form a hugely complex system that includes both the software itself and the people building it. And that system is continuously changing.

The fundamental task of software development is not writing out the syntax that will execute a program. The task is to build a mental model of that complex system, make sense of it, and manage it over time.

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It is official now: The University of Toronto (Downtown campus) is HIRING an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR area of Science and Technology!

Link to the job ad here:
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Science-and-Technology-ON/572583417/

Please boost! I will add a few of my own thoughts in reply to this post.

#sociodon #sociology #sts #sociologyjob #socjobs @sociology

Feeling grateful for the chance to attend #ASA2023. Always love meeting up with old friends, learning about inspiring research, and eating great food!

Michael Wood boosted:

Pro tip: Use CA instead of two-way tables

https://olizardo.github.io/mysite/posts/CA-viz-tabular-data/

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Black-American musical expression during enslavement laid the foundation for blues, jazz, country, gospel, rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, & popular music. Emerging from oppression, it reflected resilience & creativity, becoming anthems for civil rights movements the world over. The emotive force and cultural distinctiveness of those early songs endure, nurturing the ongoing struggle for a more just world.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackMastodon #Slavery #Music

Color painting of Black American enslaved men singing with instruments.

@omarlizardo

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