John W Mohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 255573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Mohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohr |
| SIGNATURE | MOHR J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5300-7940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1044 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The institutional logics of love: The Order of Passion in an Intimate Field
We use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to capture the institutional logics of love and intimacy among a random sample of American university students. Comparing the theoretical assumptions of field theory and the institutional logics approach we explore whether institutional logics of intimacy exist, what kinds of practices are gathered in these logics, and whether these institutional logics are shaped by the actors’ field capitals, viz . gender…
Capturing distinctions while mining text data: Toward low-tech formalization for text analysis
Formal studies of culture: Issues, challenges, and current trends
Structure, Content and Meaning of Organizational Networks: Extending Network Thinking
Prelims -- Structure, content, and meaning of organizational networks: extending network thinking, introduction -- Culture and connectivity intertwined: visualizing organizational fields as relational structures and meaning systems -- Being apart together: convergence and divergence in the field of Dutch politics -- The network structure of organizational vocabularies -- Duality beyond Dyads: Multiplex patterning of social ties and cultural meani…
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
Formal Methods of Cultural Analysis
Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
In our Introduction to the Conceiving the Social with Big Data Special Issue of Big Data & Society, we survey the 18 contributions from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and highlight several questions and themes that emerge within and across them. These emergent issues reflect the challenges, problems, and promises of working with Big Data to access and assess the social. They include puzzles about the locus and nature of human lif…
Toward a computational hermeneutics
We describe some of the ways that the field of content analysis is being transformed in an Era of Big Data. We argue that content analysis, from its beginning, has been concerned with extracting the main meanings of a text and mapping those meanings onto the space of a textual corpus. In contrast, we suggest that the emergence of new styles of text mining tools is creating an opportunity to develop a different kind of content analysis that we des…
Collection and Analysis of Relational Data from Digital Archives
Problems and prospects of measurement in the study of culture
The institutional logics of love: Measuring Intimate Life
Introduction-Topic models: What they are and why they matter
Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics
Meanings and relations: An introduction to the study of language, discourse and networks
Modeling Foucault: Dualities of power in institutional fields
The work of Michel Foucault is taken as inspiration for a study of the organizational field of asylums, prisons, orphanages, and other carceral organizations operating in New York City in 1888. Foucault argues that institutional power is organized into dually ordered system of truth and power. Using text data describing the clients and institutional technologies (organizational “power signatures”) of 168 organizations, we apply structural equival…
Theorizing the institution: Foundations, Duality, and Data
How to model an institution
From affirmative action to outreach: Discourse shifts at the University of California
Introduction: Structures, institutions, and cultural analysis
Comparison of dual orderings in time
In the direction of recent researches on formalization in social sciences, several papers were devoted to analysing the dual interplay between cultural components (categories of words) and actual practices (welfare treatments, programs...). Hence, a first analysis of the description of relief treatments by words was already undertaken in a recent joint work to investigate their institutional logic, by making use of the abilities of Galois lattice…
Measuring Meaning Structures
The recent cultural turn in American sociology has inspired a number of more scientifically oriented scholars to study the meanings that are embedded within institutions, practices, and cultural artifacts. I focus here on research that (a) emphasizes institutional (rather than individual) meanings, (b) uses a structural approach to interpretation, and (c) employs formal algorithms or quantitative procedures for reducing the complexity of meanings…
The duality of culture and practice: Poverty relief in New York City, 1888--1917
New directions in formalization and historical analysis
Soldiers, mothers, tramps and others: Discourse roles in the 1907 New York City charity directory
The Logic and Method of Macrosociology: An Input-Output Approach to Organizational Networks
Foreword by William Form The Limits of Micro Sociology: Are Individual Level Explanations Possible? In Search of Macro Sociology Rival Paradigms of Organizations Organizational Networks Individualistic Theories of Earnings Structural and Network Theories of Earnings Structural Equivalence and Clique Analysis The Input-Output Framework Bibliography
Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
Although Weber distinguished sharply between "class" (an individual's market position) and "status" (participation in a collectivity bound together by a shared status culture), only measures of the former have been included in most empirical analyses of the stratification process. In this article a measure of status-culture participation (or cultural capital) is developed from the responses of men and women interviewed in 1960 by Project Talent. …
Measuring Meaning Structures
The recent cultural turn in American sociology has inspired a number of more scientifically oriented scholars to study the meanings that are embedded within institutions, practices, and cultural artifacts. I focus here on research that (a) emphasizes institutional (rather than individual) meanings, (b) uses a structural approach to interpretation, and (c) employs formal algorithms or quantitative procedures for reducing the complexity of meanings…
The duality of culture and practice: Poverty relief in New York City, 1888--1917
Introduction-Topic models: What they are and why they matter
Soldiers, mothers, tramps and others: Discourse roles in the 1907 New York City charity directory
How to model an institution
Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics
Introduction: Structures, institutions, and cultural analysis
From affirmative action to outreach: Discourse shifts at the University of California
Toward a computational hermeneutics
We describe some of the ways that the field of content analysis is being transformed in an Era of Big Data. We argue that content analysis, from its beginning, has been concerned with extracting the main meanings of a text and mapping those meanings onto the space of a textual corpus. In contrast, we suggest that the emergence of new styles of text mining tools is creating an opportunity to develop a different kind of content analysis that we des…
Formal studies of culture: Issues, challenges, and current trends
The institutional logics of love: Measuring Intimate Life
Meanings and relations: An introduction to the study of language, discourse and networks
Capturing distinctions while mining text data: Toward low-tech formalization for text analysis
Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
In our Introduction to the Conceiving the Social with Big Data Special Issue of Big Data & Society, we survey the 18 contributions from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and highlight several questions and themes that emerge within and across them. These emergent issues reflect the challenges, problems, and promises of working with Big Data to access and assess the social. They include puzzles about the locus and nature of human lif…
Problems and prospects of measurement in the study of culture
New directions in formalization and historical analysis
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
Theorizing the institution: Foundations, Duality, and Data
Comparison of dual orderings in time
In the direction of recent researches on formalization in social sciences, several papers were devoted to analysing the dual interplay between cultural components (categories of words) and actual practices (welfare treatments, programs...). Hence, a first analysis of the description of relief treatments by words was already undertaken in a recent joint work to investigate their institutional logic, by making use of the abilities of Galois lattice…
The institutional logics of love: The Order of Passion in an Intimate Field
We use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to capture the institutional logics of love and intimacy among a random sample of American university students. Comparing the theoretical assumptions of field theory and the institutional logics approach we explore whether institutional logics of intimacy exist, what kinds of practices are gathered in these logics, and whether these institutional logics are shaped by the actors’ field capitals, viz . gender…
Mass Media and Adolescent Schooling: Conflict or Coexistence
Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection
Although Weber distinguished sharply between "class" (an individual's market position) and "status" (participation in a collectivity bound together by a shared status culture), only measures of the former have been included in most empirical analyses of the stratification process. In this article a measure of status-culture participation (or cultural capital) is developed from the responses of men and women interviewed in 1960 by Project Talent. …
Soldiers, mothers, tramps and others: Discourse roles in the 1907 New York City charity directory
The Logic and Method of Macrosociology: An Input-Output Approach to Organizational Networks
Foreword by William Form The Limits of Micro Sociology: Are Individual Level Explanations Possible? In Search of Macro Sociology Rival Paradigms of Organizations Organizational Networks Individualistic Theories of Earnings Structural and Network Theories of Earnings Structural Equivalence and Clique Analysis The Input-Output Framework Bibliography
The duality of culture and practice: Poverty relief in New York City, 1888--1917
New directions in formalization and historical analysis
Comparison of dual orderings in time
In the direction of recent researches on formalization in social sciences, several papers were devoted to analysing the dual interplay between cultural components (categories of words) and actual practices (welfare treatments, programs...). Hence, a first analysis of the description of relief treatments by words was already undertaken in a recent joint work to investigate their institutional logic, by making use of the abilities of Galois lattice…
Measuring Meaning Structures
The recent cultural turn in American sociology has inspired a number of more scientifically oriented scholars to study the meanings that are embedded within institutions, practices, and cultural artifacts. I focus here on research that (a) emphasizes institutional (rather than individual) meanings, (b) uses a structural approach to interpretation, and (c) employs formal algorithms or quantitative procedures for reducing the complexity of meanings…
From affirmative action to outreach: Discourse shifts at the University of California
Introduction: Structures, institutions, and cultural analysis
Theorizing the institution: Foundations, Duality, and Data
How to model an institution
Modeling Foucault: Dualities of power in institutional fields
The work of Michel Foucault is taken as inspiration for a study of the organizational field of asylums, prisons, orphanages, and other carceral organizations operating in New York City in 1888. Foucault argues that institutional power is organized into dually ordered system of truth and power. Using text data describing the clients and institutional technologies (organizational “power signatures”) of 168 organizations, we apply structural equival…
Meanings and relations: An introduction to the study of language, discourse and networks
Introduction-Topic models: What they are and why they matter
Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics
Collection and Analysis of Relational Data from Digital Archives
Problems and prospects of measurement in the study of culture
The institutional logics of love: Measuring Intimate Life
Formal Methods of Cultural Analysis
Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
In our Introduction to the Conceiving the Social with Big Data Special Issue of Big Data & Society, we survey the 18 contributions from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and highlight several questions and themes that emerge within and across them. These emergent issues reflect the challenges, problems, and promises of working with Big Data to access and assess the social. They include puzzles about the locus and nature of human lif…
Toward a computational hermeneutics
We describe some of the ways that the field of content analysis is being transformed in an Era of Big Data. We argue that content analysis, from its beginning, has been concerned with extracting the main meanings of a text and mapping those meanings onto the space of a textual corpus. In contrast, we suggest that the emergence of new styles of text mining tools is creating an opportunity to develop a different kind of content analysis that we des…
Structure, Content and Meaning of Organizational Networks: Extending Network Thinking
Prelims -- Structure, content, and meaning of organizational networks: extending network thinking, introduction -- Culture and connectivity intertwined: visualizing organizational fields as relational structures and meaning systems -- Being apart together: convergence and divergence in the field of Dutch politics -- The network structure of organizational vocabularies -- Duality beyond Dyads: Multiplex patterning of social ties and cultural meani…
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
Capturing distinctions while mining text data: Toward low-tech formalization for text analysis
Sociology (23 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (14 works) · Social science (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Law (7 works)