Why do people always think #technology is the answer to #sociological questions ?

'Religion, Law, and Covid-19 in Europe' is one of our recent publications. The volume, edited by Brian Conway, Lene Kühle, Francesco Alicino, and Gabriel Bîrsan, explores the impact of the #pandemic on #religious life, religious freedom, and religion-state relationships in #Europe. The book's 19 country case studies combine #legal and #sociological analyses.

The book is published in #openaccess. It's available in both PDF and accessible #EPUB format at: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-28

Came across #HarrietMartineau's #SocietyInAmerica by following a trail of citations and this feels like one of those "she actually did important #sociological work but we don't talk about her because she's a #woman" sort of things.

#sociology #women #gender #science #socialscience #abolitionist #abolitionism #race #slavery

Teaching #sociological #theory this fall or spring? I am re-upping some thoughts I wrote about refreshing your course...

#sociology
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@sociology@mastodon.social

https://sethabrutyn.com/2024/08/01/teaching-sociological-theory-practically/

@easysociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @sociology Do you recommend any particular #sociological #dictionary above others?

Excellent piece about the importance of #museums as sites of #cultural and #sociological significance, and how they are sites of #research by @ANUResearch's Professor #KylieMessage.

If we let our cultural institutions wither and die, we are eroding research #infrastructure.

One for the #GLAM #GLAMR folks.

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/kylie-message-future-museums-humanities-at-risk/103970806

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The biggest mistake #humanity has made is thinking #technology can solve #sociological problems.

3/3 #Bibliometric maps are great for showing the relative distances between clusters of knowledge but lack deterministic coordinates and emphasize papers over people. Inversely, #sociological maps focus on individuals in a deterministic system of social variables but poorly capture the intellectual content of science. We reconcile these approaches by focusing on researchers primarily as knowledge producers and thereby trace the relationships between epistemic and social dimensions of science.

Other than the federal government, which are the organizations that dole out significant #grants for #sociological and #anthropological #research? I feel like all that's ever talked about are government grants and small grants from your own #university as if no one else even comes close to offering the amount of #funding that he government does, which itself is probably less than an ideal amount.

#academia #sociology #anthropology #science #linguistics #sociolinguistics

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Sociologically Imagining York - our department has created a podcasted walk through the city of #York - exploring 16 different sites of the city through a #sociological lens. Developed and created by @kathr_ithm and Mary Laing #sociology #urbansociology I really enjoyed contributing! https://www.sociologicallyimaginingyork.com/

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"...periods of change, #imperial transition, and in post-imperial orders.

Rather than suggesting grand syntheses or highly sheltered micro-analyses, projects should start from an intermediary level of investigation...

We also expect a fruitful combination of #historical, #politological and #sociological approaches to #empires and those developed in cultural and literary studies. The projects of the #RTG together are expected to demonstrate the extent to which..."

@stevesilberman Your book is one of my favorites and one I refer to frequently in my work supporting my #neurodivergent clients. It’s the only book that views autism through a more #sociological lens in the context of history and the wider society.

I would like to emphasize how the authors of this paper use the term #socioecology, instead of calling #social or #sociological environments #ecologies, which is wrong and far too popular among the wanna be intellectuals in creative circles, like #art and #museum creatives, it adopts an understandable scientific phrase. The paper itself is also great.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01257-1

Interesting #research, though the results are not surprising, seeing that they track with the #sociological #data over the past half decade+.

#church #decline #attendance #youngadult #religion #trends

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/january/pandemic-church-attendance-drop-aei-survey-young-people-eva.html

@berkes Hey thanks for replying. The problem I am referring to is not technical, it is #sociological.

Any algorithmic message scoring & distribution system implemented on the server leads to #gamification of communication. There is no ”fair” way to do it, as humans are not stupid and will try to game any system to their advantage.

The late 2010’s showed ample evidence this leads to outsized influence of the vile & cunning on public forums.

One of the most typical narratives in #philosophical / #sociological texts in #Japanese is to be cynical and ironical against the free society: even if you think you lived freely, your life style has been set up for the sake of the capitalism which exploits your freedom by tricking you into believing you were free.

This type of cynicism is seen so broadly that it plagues any narratives which try to be constructive to propose a principle for fixing the actual problems of the society.

> since they do not relate to #LLM but to consequences of #sociological #phenomena.

To me for now the answer is ‘nope, #LLM can’t fool some into believing it ‘understands’, but it doesn’t. It’s getting better in statistics that allow it to spit out seemingly ‘right’ fragments of text scraped, classified for the task of text completion after given a prompt.’
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”We recommend breaching experiments as fascinating #sociological methods and fruitful pedagogic interventions […] breaching experiments can afford profitable ways of simultaneously doing and teaching #sociology with nothing; or, rather, very little, and perhaps not much more than a creative, mischievous or anarchic spirit.” I always loved teaching using Garfinkel’s original breach experiments.