Reflections on a Critical Sociology of Networks
Nowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes “networks” and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination. It hence outlines a set of current theoretical and...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2016-08-01
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| description | Nowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes “networks” and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination. It hence outlines a set of current theoretical and methodological issues for approaching the wide and diverse field of the sociology of networks in a critical manner, beginning from the analytical distinction between the critical and the normative-functionalist sociology of networks. The paper concludes with reference to contemporary digital society and the critical use of network data, that is, ever-larger quantities of information generated by human communicative interactions in social networking platforms and other web activities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4a7c6dcd6875467d8423907c8672546d2023-09-03T04:12:16ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X1726-670X2016-08-01142397–412397–41210.31269/triplec.v14i2.776776Reflections on a Critical Sociology of NetworksCharalambos Tsekeris0Research Centre for Greek Society, Academy of AthensNowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes “networks” and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination. It hence outlines a set of current theoretical and methodological issues for approaching the wide and diverse field of the sociology of networks in a critical manner, beginning from the analytical distinction between the critical and the normative-functionalist sociology of networks. The paper concludes with reference to contemporary digital society and the critical use of network data, that is, ever-larger quantities of information generated by human communicative interactions in social networking platforms and other web activities.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/776Sociology of NetworksRelational Social ScienceHuman Complex SystemsResearch MethodsInternetBig DataPowerSocial Dynamics |
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