Seminar 3: Qualitative complexity
Seminar 3. Qualitative Complexity
Date: Friday 7 November 2014
In this third seminar of this series, we will explore the strengths of qualitative approaches to understand complex social systems. We will also discuss the notion of 'metaphor' and the ways in which this is embedded within complexity approaches more generally. Full AGENDA here.
Speakers
DR JOHN SMITH (Department of Education and Community Studies, University of Greenwich)
Title: Why Qualitative Complexity? and more detailed Notes on the talk. (Read Prof. David Byrne's review of Smith and Jenks' [2006] Qualitative Complexity book here.)
DR NOORTJE MARRES (now in CIM)
Title: Are we researching society or technology? Qualifying the ambiguous objects of digital social research
DR NICK EMMEL (Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds)
Title:I'm not Dancing; I’m Zigzagging
DR PIP BEVAN (Sociology, Independent Researcher)
Title: Change and continuity in rural Ethiopia 1994 (and before) to 2013 (and beyond): a longitudinal study of twenty communities using complexity methods