Social Sequence Analysis

Auteur

Benjamin Cornwell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, New York. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review and Social Forces. His work has been covered in many media outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC and the Los Angeles Times. In 2012, he taught one of the first graduate courses on social sequence analysis in the United States at Cornell University. He has most recently been awarded the 2017 Leo Goodman Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher.

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Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods that brings together foundational, theoretical and methodological work on social sequences.

Résumé
Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods for scientists who are interested in studying sequenced social processes. This book is ideal for teachers of both undergraduate and graduate courses, and as a reference for researchers at all levels who are inexperienced in social sequence analysis.

Contenu

Part I. Introduction: 1. Sequence analysis in the social sciences; Part II. Theoretical Background: 2. Theoretical foundations of social sequence analysis; Part III. Social Sequence Analysis Concepts and Techniques: 3. Sequence analysis concepts and data; 4. Detecting sequence structure; 5. Whole-sequence comparison methods; Part IV. New Directions in Social Sequence Analysis: 6. Network methods for sequence analysis; 7. Social microsequence analysis; Part V. Conclusions: 8. The promise of social sequence analysis.