My experiences with computational sociology (so far)
I have been spending my spring ploddingly pursuing my master’s thesis. Inspired by my visit to the NLP crowd, I’ve undertaken a text-mining project, where I’...
sociology
When did social workers become timid?
I’ve been working with the mentally atypical and disabled for quite nearly two decades. In this time, I’ve developed a feeling. A sense of discomfort, discon...
The Toll of Emotional Labor
I’ve been doing “emotion work” most of my adult life; a lot of it in assisting the (very) differently abled. Now, with my transition out from direct emotion ...
Gatecrashing the NLP party
OK, so I didn’t really crash any gates. I did, however, have the chance to attend a workshop on natural language processing, hosted by the Interacting Minds ...
Finding a Professional Identity
Some months ago, I wrote about “developing my sociological identity”. My interests are (still) solidly interactional, with maybe a slight focus on how indivi...
Developing my sociological identity
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Comments on the proposed changes for working with the cognitively impaired in Denmark
This post has been percolating for nearly half a year — about as long as the blog has been dormant. But now I rear my head from the depths of exam prep and… ...
Social constructivism and (working with) the cognitively impaired
I was first introduced to the concept of social constructivism while studying to be a social educator. From what I recall of that lecture, most of it blew ri...
Why academia?
So. Why not start a master’s degree in educational sociology, six and-a-bit years after finishing a bachelor? Six years as a working stiff, with varied and, ...