Taste is a subject of longstanding academic interest. The question how cultural interests and preferences are socially stratified at the heart sociology culture. This article adds to this literature by examining tastes specific social fraction, those working in creative occupations ( N = 203). analysis finds that, keeping with existing quantitative research on changing hierarchies, workers open...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that cultural competence training improves the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of clinicians related to caring for diverse populations. Social Justice in medicine is the idea that healthcare workers promote fair treatment in healthcare so that disparities are eliminated. Providing students with the opportunity to explore social issues in health is the first step t...

A significant body of work focuses on detecting events in social media, much of which relies on restrictive assumptions like prior event-centric filtering or known language models. Rather than build these expensive pre-processing and filtering pipelines, we explore language-agnostic techniques using only temporal features like token frequency. We construct temporal features for tokens in an unf...

Dr. Neilson (Ph.D. Queen’s University, Marketing and MIS) is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business. She taught Information Systems courses in her previous appointment at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches in the Marketing area at the Sprott School. Her research focuses on social and cultural influences on consumption, consumer culture theory, morality in marketpla...

Urban planning and change in the last century has been guided by concepts of Modernity rooted in the Age of Enlightenment that placed the needs of "rational man" at the core of human endeavors of all kinds. Yet, rather than leading to aesthetically beautiful cities characterized by sustainable resource utilization processes, the anthropocentric approach to urban and economic development has cre...

a r t i c l e i n f o Visual methods have a long history in ethnographic research and ethnographic methods are increasingly used to gain a depth of insight and understanding not achievable with traditional marketing research approaches. As a rigorous and valid research method, visual ethnography enables documentation of marketing and consumption as social and cultural phenomenon. Visual text co...