#Sociology has a pain "problem." We use concepts like (collective or cultural)#trauma draw allusions to pain, but do not ground them in the fundamental experience of rejection, exclusion, isolation, etc. This paper does this while theorizing SOCIAL trauma. When we understand the science behind social pain, or the neg. affectual response to rejection and exclusion, we can collapse the distinctions btw cultural and collective trauma.
Consequently, we can conceptualize a more generic process by which groups or classes of ppl exp social pain. It can become a part of their collective identity, collective memory even. Most imp, by using neuroscience, we can draw strong claims about the cognitive and behavioral consequences collectivized social trauma produces, as well as the pathological outcomes for mental health
Dear #sociology community: I was foolhardy enough to announce an MA seminar on "Social #transformation" for the summer semester. We start with the idea that every change has to go through a complex society, so there are no automatisms. I'm not without any plan, but I would be interested to know what reading you would recommend - thanks!
Via another channel yesterday came more references from @immersender#organization / #fieldtheory :
SAFs (Fligstein & McAdam); reflexive innovation (Windeler); issue fields (Hoffman).
And as an evergreen: Eisenstadt.
From Hobbes to Bauman, a dive into the liquefied society and the 'interregnum' of anomie. Could a fluid state be a solution? Further insights will follow in another article.
CBI image of the day is of women working on binding wires together, following a schematic on paper pinned to the work surface as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system. The processing power for SAGE was driven by the IBM AN/FSQ-7. #IBM@histodons@sociology@anthroplogy
@sociology#sociology How would one go about compiling a list of sociologists worldwideacross the planet who have died in the last two years? Thinking about memorials to our fallen comrades.
NEW DATA POLICY
In the future, quantitative studies must provide public access to data and code for replication purposes to be accepted for publication in Acta Sociologica. This initiative aims to increase transparency and quality of quantitative sociology. 1/3
This data sharing is already in the pipeline via NIH for all publicly funded research, NIH itself hasn't defined important aspects of this data sharing however. Is this journal creating a new system specific to itself? If so, that's essentially redundant now.
One issue for you will be the storage itself where NHLBI is suggesting DBGAP where a great deal of data already resides AND it has a process for attaching IRB approval to future data requests.
@TheConversationUS@sociology
"Robert, an American truck driver in his 50s, lived in a trailer park in the Deep South. After divorcing his wife, who had cheated on him, he joined an online dating agency that connected Western men with Chinese women through translator-assisted email exchanges."
@blogdiva@TheConversationUS@sociology lol like a financial analyst for Deloitte in Shanghai just fed up and meets some stage hand with a heart of gold in Branson, MO
I've only read July's article; this might be addressed elsewhere.
In one experiment some user's feed was chronological:
"[Using a chronological feed] led to people seeing more untrustworthy content (because Meta’s algorithm downranks sources who repeatedly share misinformation) [...]"
❓ Does the fact that they are seeing "more untrustworthy content" absent Meta intervention indicate the well has become so poisoned it is beyond fixing (or sufficiently testing)?
I am sitting on an empty British train. At the other end of the same carriage 10 young lads have got on. Each is carrying a full box of beer and seemingly making animal noises and grunting and swearing loudly. Nothing unusual for Britain. What can we say about this in sociological terms?
@philipncohen
We were aware of the problem from the very beginning of our research project (the proper way to transform wealth is long discussion), however Jascha came up with this solution strategy along the way. @jascha_draeger@nrmllr@sociology@asociologist
In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.
My new article Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society: Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies is now out in Sociology https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231194867
The article explores #inequality and #class through the lens of affective, imaginative, moral, symbolic and sensual dimensions in the example of Russian society.
It develops an arts-based method ‘drawing of society’, applied to a multi-sited ethnography.