Inferring diffusion networks from traces of cascades has been intensively studied to gain a better understanding of information diffusion. Traditional methods normally formulate a generative model to find the network that can generate the cascades with the maximum likelihood. The performance of such methods largely depends on sufficient cascades spreading in the network. In many real-world scen...

Thanks to Christopher Gibbons and C. J. Lee for help with the simulation code, model validation, and data management. Thanks to Wenpin Tsai and three anonymous reviewers whose input significantly improved this article.

This article discusses online media’s contribution to the youthification of television through case study DRUCK (tr. Pressure, 2018–), German format adaptation SKAM Shame, 2015–17). Youthification is understood as industry’s attempts reach and win back teen tween viewers with strategies in production, representations, aesthetics distribution. In DRUCK, media are integral all these strategies. O...

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The point of departure is that the activities associated with the Internet are organizational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such they can profit from sociological theories such as postmodemism. Postmodemism can be seen as a reaction to some signal failures of modernism and the modernity project. It is very much a socio-cultural and philosophical syst...

For several decades, Peter Alheit has been an influential advocate of biographical research. Typically, his writing is distinguished by a capacity for balancing the particularity of individual biography with a search for patterns and trends. This analytical balancing act rests on a foundation of sociological theory (developing concepts from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias among ot...

The paper examines some trends in the living arrangements and in the living conditions of the Portuguese elderly . The analysis draws on panel data from the European Community Household Panel and provides a sociological characterization of the living realities of the Portuguese elderly in order to ground in empirical evidence the discussion on the interest and viability of tele-care in the Port...

1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s. In the meantime, the use of visual methods in ethnographic description, the study of social processes ...

A CRITICAL discussion of some of the social aspects of catholic education in this country i s no easy task for Catholics themselves. The difficulty lies in the remarkable degree to which the story of catholic education has become ingrained in the folklore of the catholic community. Whether one perceives the story in terms of the hagiography of penal times or in terms of the financial sacrifices...