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 The Strength of Weak Ties

Diagrams of Theory: The Forbidden Triads

Wendy Griswold is one of the central nodes in the boom of cultural analysis in sociology that started in the 1980s.

Diagrams of Theory: Griswold's Cultural Diamond

View fullsize &gt; We are in a podcast bubble – so

 many

podcasts. In a recent episode of

 This American Life,

Malcolm Gladwell discusses whether one shot the basketball underhand or overhand and references an article by Mark Granovetter.

In nearly every undergraduate sociology course, we discussed the mid-century sociological tradition “structural functionalism.” But, for me at least, discussions of Talcott Parsons, the theoretical powerhouse that spearheaded the rise of structural functionalism, was strangely absent from my undergraduate sociology courses.

Diagrams of Theory: Parsons' and Merton's  Typology of Deviance

James Coleman’s

 oeuvre

represents a significant contribution to general social theory, specifically sociological rational choice theory. Skimming

 Foundations of Social Theory

(1990), we see several simple diagrams – mainly, lines with arrows.

Diagrams of Theory: Coleman's Boat

Note: I am in the process of moving to GitLab Pages and updating these posts.

For roughly two years, I was obsessed with risk. Naturally, this quickly led to the work of Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky. The former more so than the latter.

Diagrams of Theory: Douglas and Wildavsky's Grid/Group Typology of Worldviews

The sort of activities gathered under the label of The Chicago School (of American sociology, not economics) was a departure from the macro-historical and trans-national comparisons of the evolutionary sociology that dominated American academia in the late 19th century.

Diagrams of Theory: Burgess’ Concentric Zone Model

Original post on December 2020. Updated on August 2021.

The

 Document-Term Matrix

(DTM) is the foundation of computational text analysis, and as a result there are

 several

R packages that provide a means to build one.