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White, Harrison C.

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“…By examining the patterns of relationships that connect different elements within a cultural system, we can understand how cultural meanings are constructed in relation to structural arrangements. Categories that may appear to exist independently, with their inherent qualities, are more accurately understood as sets of relationships that are stabilized based on contingencies and historical factors that are constantly changing over time (Somers 1995;White 1997).…”

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Cultural Ties in American Sociology

Yan,

Bao,

Leppard

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This paper investigates the cultural ties in American sociology defined by the shared usage of cultural symbols across schools. Cultural symbols are operationalized as research focuses from the dissertations of a school’s graduates. We construct a unique pairwise dataset including 6,441 school pairs across 114 schools, detailing their dyadic relationships (e.g., geographical co-residence) and cultural proximity inferred from dissertations. We build a socio-cultural network where a school sends a tie to another when their proximity is sufficiently high. Using recent natural language processing advancements, we identify gatekeeping symbols co-used by reciprocally connected schools within the same cultural niche, differentiating them from other schools in the network. Our findings reveal two major school clusters and their research trajectories, with one representing dominant trends in relatively esoteric areas like sociology of culture, economic life, organizations, and politics and the other a more explicit focus on social problems. Employing dyadic-cluster-robust inference with school-fixed effects, we discern key determinants that shape cultural convergence and distinction, including school prestige, geographical co-residence, and institutional classification. In sum, our study proposes a pipeline for measuring the strengths and symbols of cultural ties across schools and understanding the factors that influence the development of duality between schools and schools of thought.

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Cultural Ties in American Sociology

Yan,

Bao,

Leppard

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“…Immigration phenomena, as an aspect of complex social behavior, surely should match the common properties of complexity [5,6], and, as in the whole social science [7,8], a lot of attention in their modelling has been achieved. Theories have been derived by the so-called "push-pull" models [9], or based on dynamical systems [10,11], but never the scenario has been plugged into a statisticalmechanics framework.…”

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Toward a quantitative approach to migrants integration

Barra

Contucci

2010

Europhys. Lett.

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Migration phenomena and all the related issues, like integration of different social groups, are intrinsically complex problems since they strongly depend on several competitive mechanisms as economic factors, cultural differences and many others. By identifying a few essential assumptions, and using the statistical mechanics of complex systems, we propose a novel quantitative approach that provides a minimal theory for those phenomena. We show that the competitive interactions in decision making between a population of N host citizens and P immigrants, a bi-partite spin-glass, give rise to a social consciousness inside the host community in the sense of the associative memory of neural networks. The theory leads to a natural quantitative definition of migrant's "integration" inside the community. From the technical point of view this minimal picture assumes, as control parameters, only general notions like the strength of the random interactions, the ratio between the sizes of the two parties and the cultural influence. Few steps forward, toward more refined models, which include a digression on the kind of the felt experiences and some structure on the random interaction topology (as dilution to avoid the plain mean-field approach) and correlations of experiences felt between the two parties (biasing the distribution of the coupling) are discussed at the end, where we show the robustness of our approach.

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Sociology

Healy¹

2017

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

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