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Root number
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415162 |
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Semester
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HS2015 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Sociology |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Networks, Culture, and Cognition |
| Description |
This course attempts to survey efforts in sociology that link social networks to culture, including efforts from a cognitive perspective. Social networks are understood as the patterned forms of interactions, behavior, and affiliations between individuals or other entities. Culture is understood broadly as values, norms, tastes, symbols, schemes, practices and linguistic expressions. We start by briefly introducing core concepts and techniques in network analysis. We will fill in more knowledge about particular techniques as needed. It follows a short overview of what sociologists commonly mean when they say they study culture, including the more recent cognitive perspectives on culture. After attending to calls for combining an attention to social networks and culture, we will then begin to survey studies that link culture to social networks in various ways. This will include works on political influence, social movements, ideas, attitudes and values, tastes, practices, language, cognition, and meaning. We end by focusing on some theoretical work about the relation between culture and networks that is inspired by Harrison White and calls for calling this a new field named “relational sociology”.
Requirements:
Willingness to think, engage and argue—if that’s not what you want to do, you don’t want this course.
Literature:
We will read articles (roughly) following this outline:
- Network Analysis–Overview
- Culture–Overview
- Calls for Combining Social Network Research and Culture
- Networks and Political Influence
- Networks and Social Movements
- Networks and Ideas
- Networks and the Pattern of Cultural Practices
- The Reciprocal Relationships between Networks and Values, Attitudes, and Tastes
- Networks and Language
- Networks, Cognition, and Concepts
- Meaning from Networks and Meaning as Networks
- Theoretical Combinations and Calls for a “Relational Sociology”
Prerequisites:
Compulsory courses of the social sciences from the introduction study (Einführungsstudium) completed
Assessment:
This course crucially depends on your active and informed participation in class. To ensure this, there will be three requirements: (1) Attend and participate in class. This will count towards your final grade. (2) Complete a graded writing exercise each week. This is meant to get you thinking about the material in an active way. Concretely, you will be asked to summarize the argument of the main text (250 words), then describe how the approach taken supersedes or fails in relation to one discussed in a previous session (250 words). Finally, you describe either what you think sociologists should do or think differently in response to the argument or how you envision applying this to your own sociological ideas (another 250 words). (3) Complete one term paper due by the end of the course. I will provide a general guideline for this closer to the date and discuss individual projects in my office hours.
Curriculum accountability:
- Bachelor Social Sciences: Major and all Minor
- Master Sociology Major and Minor
Inscription:
from August 15th 2015, onwards via ILIAS
Inscriptions for the Assessment:
from November 15th – December 31st 2015 via KSL |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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No registration/deregistration in CTS (Admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
PD Dr.
Achim Edelmann, Institute of Sociology ✉
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ECTS
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6 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Friday 10:00-12:00 Weekly
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Sunday 31/1/2016 23:50-23:55
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum 208, Hauptgebäude H4
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| External rooms |
Semiarraum B201, vonRoll, Fabrikstr. 8
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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