Teoría sociológica y realidad social / Sociological Theory and Social Reality

Sociological Theory and Social Control

Social Media and Social Reality Theory, Evidence and Validation

Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputers such as the Cray XMT open new vistas for research. Conclusions drawn from such analysis must recognize that social media are distinct from the underlying social reality. Rigorous validation is essential. This paper ...

Social Filtering and Social Reality

In this paper, we argue that most current social information ltering approaches may bene t from more seriously taking into account the peculiarities of human cognition and human social behavior since current approaches only consider de-contextualized ratings. Social ltering systems exploit ratings provided by users in order to compute recommendations for other users. Typically, these ratings ar...

Bringing a Micro-Sociological Theory to Co-located Social Games

Social play is complicated to study because of its emergent, diverse, and inter-subjective nature. Since social psychology and sociology have studied human interactions in great detail and depth in real life, we propose that they can deepen our understandings of social game experience. Specifically, the interaction ritual theory (IR theory) from Micro-sociology that focuses on moment-to-moment ...

Pareto ’ s Theory of Elites : Circulation or Circularity ?

La sociología de Pareto es inseparable de su perspectiva económica, en especial su célebre teoría de las élites. Su teoría de los mercados monopólicos requiere factores extra-económicos, por lo tanto, construyó una teoría sociológica de las élites. Aquí se demuestra que su teoría sociológica general de las élites es vacua, ya que la clase de las elites es co-extensiva respecto de la población t...