[Ias-public] The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar: Oscar Stuhler, October 5, 14:30CET, Online on Zoom

[Madelene Töpfer]

The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar

Venue: Online on Zoom (see Zoom link in the end of the email)


Thursday, October 5 @ 14:30CET

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Analyzing Textual Representations of Social Structures

Oscar Stuhler
Northwestern University

Abstract:
Textual data contain rich accounts of actions taken by different actors, of relationships, and of particular identities' attributes. In other words, texts contain representations of social structures. Sociology has a long tradition of formally studying such structures that was pioneered by Franzosi, Carley, Mohr, Tilly, and others. However, with the embrace of computational text analysis, sociologists' focus has shifted from grammar-based approaches to ones based on co-occurrence, such as word embeddings. Time to bring grammar back in! In this talk, I will first present a computational framework (and R package) for extracting grammatically structured information like the above from text. I then show how this allows us to study larger discursive patterns by presenting both past and current research. In particular, I will be talking about gender and agency in fiction writing (1850-2010), as well as contending conceptions of refugees in German news.

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https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/65535789369
Meeting ID: 655 3578 9369



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Madelene Töpfer
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