Concern over social scientists' inability to reproduce empirical research has spawned a vast
and rapidly growing literature. The size and growth of this literature make it difficult for newly …

In Social Networks of Meaning and Communication, Jan A. Fuhse offers a coherent theory of
social structures as networks of relations interwoven with meaning. Drawing upon and …

Environmental sociology is a growing field producing a diverse body of literature while also
moving into the mainstream of the larger discipline. The twin goals of this paper are to …

The 100th anniversary of Social Forces provides a rich opportunity to reflect on the history of
the journal and changes to sociology as a whole. Using a series of formal text-analytic …

Social relations between actors and symbolic relations between concepts or ideas are
interwoven in discourse. We conceptually distinguish three approaches that construct …

With the development of economic globalization, the issue of industrial upgrading has
gradually become the focus of scholars. This paper provides a systematic review of …

Much of what we know about the intellectual landscape of anglophone demography comes
from two sources: subjective narratives authored by leaders in the field, whose reviews and …

Over the past decade, sociologists have become increasingly interested in the formal study
of semantic relations within text. Most contemporary studies focus either on map** …

This article discusses (a) sustained critiques of framing theory and of collective action
frames,(b) the development and implications of a dialogic and relational alternative, and (c) …

This article proposes an innovative method for the visual analysis of narrative data that
involves three steps: transforming narrative data into relational data, creating two-mode …