A review of references in actor network theory, a major theoretical approach in the sociology of science and technology. Editors: Olaf Boettger and John Law (Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University, UK).
An Event Structure Analysis page with an on-line Java program, and an Affect Control Theory page offering a number of programs and datasets.
An association dedicated to promoting the experimental, theoretical, and applied analysis of behavior.
The major function of this foundation is to preserve and maintain Skinner's works and other behavioral classics that should be available to all students.
Burke is known for his research on identity theory and his innovative work with computer simulations of social behavior.
Information about group processes research, researchers & publications. Here you can also read the electronic journal: Current Research in Social Psychology. Edited by: Michael J. Lovagliva.
The mission of the Center is to create learning partnerships which support the design, implementation, and development of collaborative work systems, thereby maximizing individual & organizational effectiveness. The site contains information on the vision and activities of the center, free articles & literatuure, a recommended readings list, and a list of links.
A well structured listing of pointers to bibliographies and resources related to computer-mediated communication. Topics range from internet use to groupware.
A computer program which facilitates the collection of sociometric data in the classroom. It employs sociograms, scatter charts, and bar graphics to depict the social climate of a classroom.
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Group Dynamics
How do groups (and individuals) cope with their failures? What basic human needs do we satify by joining together with others? How does leadership within a group emerge? These and other questions are discussed in some clearly written documents.
The Impossibility of Sexual Communication
A chapter from his new book "The Meaning of Love".
Studying Online Social Networks
Symbolic Interactionism as defined by Herbert Blumer
Blumer was one of the premier symbolic interactionists.
A summary of many books on teams by IBM Corp. Compiled by Bob Willard.The purpose of the site is to lead those interested in leadership development to on-line resources. The material is organizaed by topics including teamwork, learning organizatyions, and systems thinking.
Dedicated to forwarding the science of contingent behaviorrelations as developed and championed by B.F. Skinner.
Information on INSN, its journal, and related resources. Includes portion of recent issues of "Connnections" and the journals "Social Networks" and "Journal of Social Stucture", the professional organization for social network researchers. A dailey updated page, that will provides access to network analysis software and to datasets contributed by network researchers.
A professional organization interested in all aspects of personal relationships. Its goal is to stimulate and support scholarship and research on personal relationships, improve communication between researchers around the world engaged in the scientific study of personal relationships, and establish the field of personal relationships within the scholarly community.
A devision of the National Communication Association (NCA).
Provides information on conferences, symposia and proceedings, topic specialty resources, personal resources, syllabi, electronic journals and more.
Sociometry is one of the methods of socio-psychology developed by professional psychiatrist Jacob Levi Moreno (USA) to estimate the interpersonal emotive relationships within a group (1934). The results of the sociometric study of a community can help to spot informal leaders, rank employees, identify those who are socially isolated. Sociometric methods enable one to express intragroup relations in terms of numbers, graphs and text and thereby obtain valuable information on the state of subjective psychological relationships in a group.
NetAge helps people work together across boundaries of space, time and organizations using technology. The site provides information about 21st century organizations, virtual teams, teamnets, and networks.
The Network gallery documents work in progress in efforts to visualize social structures. The aim is to develop experience how automatic procedures can be combined with aesthetics to ease insight into usually complex phenomena. There are two tracks which visitors can follow. As the visualizations stem from varying subject domains you may choose to follow the subject track, which organizes the presentation around the thematic aspects of the datasets. If your interest is more formal, you may wish to enter the technical laboratory. There they demonstrate methodological approaches for handling empirical data. This will often move quickly through various substantive domains where similar technical problems arise.
Journal of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships(ISSPR). PR (first published in 1994), is an international, interdisciplinary journal which has as its aim the promotion of scholarship in the field of personal relationships throughout a broad range of disciplines & methodologies. The subject matter of PR includes such topics as love, jealousy, conflict, intimacy, social support, loneliness, socialization, attachment and bonding, communication, kinship, and sexuality. They suggest that we can progress in understanding relationships, and that the separate funds of knowledge accumulated by each research style must be banked in the same vault and made readily available. That's right, but you'll have to pay (subscribe) to get access to this knowledge. Editor: Patricia Noller (University of Queensland).
A Spanish contrinution to social network analysis.
A research center at the University of Michigan. RCGD's goal is to advance the understanding of human behavior in a societal context. Current research includes studies concerned with group decision making and social judgment; conformity and independence; violence and aggression, scholastic achievement, delinquency, and alternative schools; social relationships and social support within African American communities, the study of aging in a variety of social contexts, studies focusing on the effects of educational television, computers, and other novel technology in classrooms; stereotyping and social judgment, culture and cognition, cognitive anthropology; human mating strategies and conflict between the sexes, and studies on the mental representation of social categories with a focus on the development of notions of race in young children.
Cooperative Efforts in Electronic Contexts: the Relevance of Prior Face-to-Face Interactions
The organizational shift toward horizontal mechanisms of coordination - where communication and cooperation take precedence over predefined vertical lines of authority and discrete market transactions - has been enabled by information technology. In particular communication media supported by electronic networks facilitate the emergence of fluid and flexible patterns of working relations, giving rise to innovative contexts for interactions and collaborative work that span traditional organizational boundaries. Despite the potential for communication offered by IT, networked organizations are not the same as electronic networks nor-perhaps-can they be built entirely on them. Working relations in the networked organization are intrinsically embedded in a social context made of culture, social norms, practices, habits, and expectations. These elements are primarily shaped by ongoing face-to-face interactions. Electronic networks might complement existing face-to-face relations. The extent to which networks developed through face-to-face interactions might become synonymous to networks of computer-supported relations is an issue that needs to be explored. Elena attempts to shed some light on this issue, with a specific focus on the relation between electronic-mail and cooperation. Her research question is to what extent can computer-mediated communication support spontaneous mechanisms of mutual adjustment and trust building that are essential for the development of stable cooperation?
Simulating Symbolic Interaction [pdf]
In: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 20 (1995): 271-87.
A description of a program for simulating symbolic interaction. The program processes verbal inputs using empirically-based equations and a cybernetic theoretical model, while making reference to dictionaries of culture measurements. Results are verbal outputs suggesting what behaviors, emotions, attributions, and labelings will occur in the given situation.
Social Network Analysis: A Handbook
Self Directed Work Teams are making an impact in organizations throughout the world. Why are leading-edge organizations switching from the traditional management 'boss-worker' model to a team 'collaborative' model? The site contains an extensive list of links to other sites. It also inlcudes a bibliography and links to other bibliographies on the www.
A journal for the study of social networks. It is an inter-disciplinary and international quarterly that provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the structure of social relations and associations. The journal publishes theoretical, methodological and substantive papers. Articles published in the journal are all concerned with questions about the structure--or patterning--of the linkages that connect social actors. It is edited by Linton C. Freeman and published by Elsevier Science B.V.
A social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research. Provides a set of resources for qualitative researchers.
A short explanation of the sociometric method to estimate the interpersonal emotive relationships within a group. It is presented by the makers of a commercial program called Sociometry Plus.
Home page of David Heise (Indiana University's Department of Sociology), the originator of Affect Control Theory. His methodological research has proceeded from issues in quantitative modeling to methodological problems in qualitative research. His social psychological research focuses on the affective and logical foundations of social interaction. His site contains recent or forthcoming papers. You can download software for the analysis of social interaction.
A collection of more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into over 50 groups according to their graphic characteristics. Includes the symbols' histories, uses, and meanings. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
