Jan Fuhse
@fuhsejan.bsky.social
Claudius Härpfer bespricht mein Buch Social Networks of Meaning and Communication (OUP 2022) in der Soziologischen Revue.
Eine differenzierte, zugleich würdigende wie auch kritische Auseinandersetzung.
Relation und Kohärenz
Article Relation und Kohärenz was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 47, issue 2).
www.degruyter.comThe hardest book to write is always the one you're currently working on.
Many people I know say writing the second book is by far the hardest. Damn it.
Harrison White, social networks scholar and theorist, died on the night of Saturday to Sunday aged 94 in his care home in Tucson, Arizona. He was a giant of the field, pioneering blockmodel analysis and creating a highly innovative theory of social structures and their change.
The INAS conference in Leipzig now has a preliminary program, available at its website (link below).
I will present there for the first time:
"The Duality of Authors and Concepts in Sociological Theory" (w. O. Wieczorek).
@marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
Universität Leipzig: INAS Conference 2024
The 2024 Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. May 29 will be reserved for a networking event of women in INAS.
www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de
On the train to the Duality50 workshop in honor of Ron Breiger in the South of Switzerland.
The night train to Zürich was surprisingly comfortable.
#responsibleconferencetravel
Why oh why do journal submission systems need two different accounts for the same person reviewing or submitting?
Berlin today, April 7.
It feels nice, but there is something seriously wrong afoot. Seriously
Vollkommen d'accord.
Und genau das will ja die Lehre von der reinen Lehre verhindern: Ganz oder gar nicht führt dann in der Konsequenz eher zu gar nicht ...
Meine Idealvorstellung ist die einer Aufnahme von ST-Ideen in dem empirisch orientierten Teil der Soziologie. Also zum Beispiel in der relationalen Soziologie (so hat das für mich überraschend WL Schneider skizziert).
Ja lustig. Oder auch nicht ...
Die soziale Adresse hätte ich jetzt schon als Teil des Kanons gesehen. Aber ich glaube ja, dass die ST als Textwissenschaft nicht überlebensfähig ist. Und das sehen inzwischen einige so.
Ach egal ist es sicher nicht. Ich werde glaube ich noch von vielen Nicht-STer:innen als ST gesehen, und von vielen STer:innen als abtrünniger Ketzer. Für mich war es eine Befreiung für mich festzustellen, dass ich den Ansprüchen der ST auf Luhmann-Werktreue nicht genügen möchte. Vor ca. 22 Jahren.
Aber im Ergebnis ist mir auch klar, dass das dann keine Systemtheorie mehr ist. Sondern eher sowas wie eine Kommunikations-Erwartungsstrukturen-Theorie. KEST oder so.
Das kann ich nicht beurteilen. Ich denke es mir so, dass Kommunikation Systeme / Erwartungsstrukturen hervor bringt, reproduziert und verändert. Aber Systeme produzieren keine Kommunikation, denn jedes k. Ereignis wird immer durch mehrere Systeme / Erwartungsstrukturen geprägt.
Keine Ahnung. Vielleicht betone ich es immer noch falsch?!?
Hmm, war ja in Bielefeld. Da wäre es wahrscheinlich aufgefallen. Oder vielleicht habe ich das Wort da schon nicht mehr in den Mund genommen? Außer vor Studis, und die beschweren sich ja eh nie.
Bevor ich das mit der Poiesis verstanden habe, las ich es irgendwie als autopoetisch. Das ergab irgendwie Sinn: Sich selbst dichtende, fortspinnende Systeme. War dann fast enttäuscht.
I have repeatedly reviewed the same manuscripts, apparently resubmitted quickly and mostly unchanged after rejection from a different journal.
Folks, if you get a reject with detailed reviewer comments: At least try to make some changes before submitting again! You might face the same reviewers ...
Awkward. Acquaintance asked for comments on an MS I previously reviewed anonymously. I was positive about project but made suggestions about presentation. Apparently it was rejected? Current MS is the same as the one I reviewed, has not incorporated my suggestions. Should I tell them? 1/2
Now the acceptance messages are out for #Sunbelt2024, can I lure you to my workshop "Social Network Theory"?
What you get:
- lofty ideas
- abstract arguments
- thoughtful reflection
- hanging out with other disoriented chums
- just outside beautiful Edinburgh.
R U in?
Aber der Referentenentwurf zum WissZeitVG geht die Sache schon entschlossen an! Ich bin mir sicher, jetzt wird alles gut.
Ist es nicht erfreulich? Die Klima-Kleber kleben nicht mehr. In Bayern darf nicht mehr gegendert werden. Und die Kanzlerpartei SPD fordert diplomatische Initiativen für ein Einfrieren der Ukraine-Invasion. Die wichtigsten Probleme sind gelöst.
I feel seen ...
Schaue mir gerade Profile von Kolleg*innen an, die sich teilweise vor 10 (zehn) Jahren und mehr habilitiert (!) haben und seitdem von einer Gastprofessor oder Vertretung zur nächsten gehüpft sind. Wie in aller Welt hält man sowas so lange aus?? #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG
Finde ich gut.
Neugierige Nachfrage: Warum braucht es für mehr Dauerstellen Förderprogramme? Die Lehre wird m.W. mit Dauerstellen eher günstiger als teurer.
This take is from a medium-range academic user with ~2k followers across the three instances.
I simply don't know where the conversation is going now, and where to post in the future. Maybe lure more users to Mastodon / Bluesky? Or just keep cross-posting and monitoring?
5/5
Then, a lot of power users moved to Bluesky, probably bc it looks like Twitter. Almost no spam / heated discussion due to early restriction of access by invites. However, most of the time, it is power users talking to each other. Lesser folk get less attention there. 4/5
Soon after the takeover, tech-savvy users were looking for an alternative, and migrated to Mastodon in troves. New instances were set up. Mastodon is a bit chaotic by design. The discussions on Mastodon are civilized and interesting, but not broad enough for my interests.
3/5
The X site now has recurrent glitches, with abundant fake / spam accounts (what is the current API / bot situation?), and a lot of hate speech and disinformation making the rounds. Nevertheless, most institional accounts and small users / lurkers are still around.
2/5
Trying to make sense of X / Mastodon / bluesky: It seems we're in an intermediate limbo situation right now which could go anywhere. After the Musk takeover, Twitter became X, and we all witnessed the turbulence from chaotic management decisions and reversals.
1/5
Sorry this wasn't meant as countering your argument, but the argument quoted, and in part joking ...
Doesn't the pill also mean that we can have heterosexual sex without necessarily getting children (which in turn would reduce opportunities for sex). Given this logic one might argue that the pill makes heterosexuality more attractive for people who like sex more than children ...
Is there a connection between "life under pressure" and the bottle of Scotch?
Any recommendations for good recent novels in Italian?
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Sto cercando dei romanzi in Italiano, non troppo difficile da leggere ...
I will not submit to Frontiers, and neither should you.
When an accepted article gets rejected again after the abstact was online already. Actually, it got rejected twice. For different reasons www.bobuttl.net/2024/02/12/w... Authors' detailed report of frustrating experience made with Frontiers in Psychology
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishung
The SI on Network Ecology (ed. M. Doehne, D. McFarland & J. Moody) is now officially out in Social Networks, with an impressive set of papers.
It includes an article by @nehagondal.bsky.social and myself on network mechanisms as relative to culture in fields:
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Für unsere Tagung "Digitale Netzwerke" am 14./15.3. in Marburg (Orga mit @irobo.bsky.social & Malte Doehne) gibt es ein leicht überarbeitetes Programm, und die Anmeldung ist nun offen:
www.janfuhse.de/dignw.html
Bin im Sommersemester (mal wieder) arbeitslos. Diesmal kommt mir das ein bisschen recht: weniger Geld, aber mehr Zeit. Hoffentlich nicht für länger.
Heißt aber, dass ich gerne irgendwo für Vorträge hin fahre - insbesondere natürlich bei Übernahme der Reisekosten ...
Hmm, I'm all for the importance of sociology. But aren't things like power, culture, social movements, and class theoretical constructs that we conjure to make sense of empirical observations?
The same holds IMHO for things like force, acceleration, probability, evolution, truth, inflation etc. etc.
Man we really ought to have a discipline dedicated to understanding the processes through which things that aren't physical (like academic subjects) can be "real" and "not real"
For once, the winter school holidays in Berlin come after the end of term (in Saxony), and we get to spend a family vacation in the Harz mountains (which aren't really mountains, of course).
Oh, thanks.
I would argue that theories should of course be true in the sense of accurately mapping empirical data. But they cannot possibly cover "what is really there". I guess that's what you mean by *true*.
My last commute back from Chemnitz, with all my stuff for a lengthy stint as interim professor.
It was nice and rewarding. But now I'm looking forward to not commuting for a while ...
Danke, da habe ich gesucht und offensichtlich nicht gefunden.
Ja die Tabellen sind eindrucksvoll, gut dass Theorie meist keine Tabellen hat ...
Die "Soziale Welt" legt in ihren Autorenhinweisen das Layout für Ergebnistabellen für Pfadanalysen fest, aber nicht, wie lang das Abstract sein soll.
Gibt mir schon zu denken: Der Herrgott persönlich antreten muss, um einen AfD-Landrat zu verhindern.
Die AfD verliert die Stichwahl um das Landratsamt im Saale-Orla-Kreis! Zu den Gründen gehören nicht nur der CDU-Gegenkandidat und die bundesweiten Demos: Schon im letzten Jahr gründete sich vor Ort die Bürgerinitiative “Dorfliebe für alle”, um einen AfD-Landrat zu verhindern. Enorm wichtig!
Even desk rejects had long turnaround times at Theory and Society (tho some desk rejects result from a lack of willing reviewers).
Overall, Springer was right that TaS probably needed editors who were better entrenched in the discipline, which leads to more willing reviewers.
And we as a discipline have to ask ourselves how we manage editorial transitions, especially in cases where established editors do not quite work to the satisfaction of the community.
To me, the ownership of journals by associations or departments looks much preferable.
Well, I don't really know what went on behind the scenes. If you compare the old editorial board against the new one, though, Springer have to ask themselves whether it was a good idea to push this forward without consulting a large part of the elite of sociological theory. /
Yes, that was a problem, and a severe one. This could well be another story of good intentions on all sides leading to all-out conflict.
The larger issue for me is the power of commercial publishers over academic publishing. If this leads to us taking control, it would be a good thing.
I think it would be great. E.g., Sociological Theory had a discussion ("symposium") around Healy's piece "F*#% Nuance", which was well worth reading, even if not all the contributions were equally great.
Not that I plan on submitting anything to Theory and Society anytime soon ...