Intro. Sociological Theory group assignments

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Here is your assignment:

Group Writing Assignment

Use your group's page to write a 4-page paper, with a reference page of 4 or more non-Internet-only references, that answers the following question.

Karl Marx is dead, but are his ideas? Discuss the relevance or irrelevance of some of Marx's most important ideas, with reference to current events in the United States or elsewhere.

A hard copy of the 4-pages (plus a reference page) assignment is due in class February 4.

Jurgen Habermas "The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld"

The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld Jiirgen Habermas The provisional concept of society proposed here is radically different in one respectfromthe Parsonianconcept:thematureParsons rein terpretedthestruc¬tural components of the lifcworld -culture, society, perso nality -as action systems constituting environments for one another. Without much ado, he subsumed the concept of the lifeworld gained from an action-theoretical perspective under systems -theoretical concepts. As we shall see below, the structuralcomponentsofthe lifeworldbecomesubsystems of ageneralsystem of action, to 'which the physical substratum of the lifeworld is reckoned along with the "behavior system." The p roposal That I am advancing here, by contrast, attempts to take into account the methodological differences between the internalist and the externalist viewpoints connected with the two conceptual strategies . From the participant p erspective of members of a Iifeworld it looks as if sociologywith

Intro Theory Make-up Exam

Students wishing to take the make-up exam for midterm 2 will meet at my office, Chilton 397 in the sociology department, at 3:30pm this Thursday, November 29. The exam will be short-essay format, and will be based on the same review sheet used for the regular midterm 2. This will be the only chance for a make-up.

SOCI 6203/5200 Text Mining (8-week online course, summer 2020)

SOCI 6203/5200 Text Mining Semester year Professor Gabe Ignatow ignatow@unt.edu Start date-end date Overview: This is a graduate seminar on contemporary text mining and text analysis methods for the social sciences. We will cover principles of research design and research ethics as they apply to text-based social science research, and will review the major methodologies within social science text mining, including topic models and opinion mining. Course Objectives: Our goals for the course are to survey major contemporary approaches to social science text mining and for students to develop a preliminary text mining research project of their own. Prerequisites: None. However, experience with social science research methods and research design is preferred. Minimum Technology Requirements and Skills to Function in the Course: Basic reading, writing and computer skills, including the ability to access and search research databases and to download and lear

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