Knowledge

(CAD1a) Institutional Ethnographies and Critical Sociologies of Health and Health Care in Canada

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Thursday Jun 20 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online via the CSA

This session features novel work from critical scholars who employ Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith’s approach to studies in the social organization of knowledge, known as institutional ethnography (IE). ... more

(ITD6) Sociological Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

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Friday Jun 21 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online via the CSA

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be understood as “systems designed by humans that, given a complex goal, act in the physical or digital world by perceiving their environment, interpreting the collected ... more

(KNW1b) Sociology of Knowledge II: Actors and Structures of Knowledge

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Thursday Jun 20 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online via the CSA

The sociology of knowledge explores the creation and representation of reality and social life, including organizational, practical, historical, cultural, and embodied knowledge, as well as beliefs, myths, facts, customs, routines, ... more

(KNW2) Sociology, Sociologically

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Monday Jun 03 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Not applicable

The discipline of sociology has a range of theoretical and empirical tools for considering the social world. This session explores the insights yielded by these tools when they are turned ... more

(RES1) Relational Sociology I

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Thursday Jun 06 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Not applicable

Relational sociology is a broad family of ontological and epistemological approaches characterized by a common tendency to shift or reconceptualize the objects of sociological analysis from ‘things’ to relations. Relational ... more