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Navigating the MeldC
This manual covers not only MeldC keywords, syntax, and currently, implemented features, but also a simple (and, one hopes, painless) introduction to some areas of computer science research that spurred creation of the language. This approach was taken so that readers who are not familiar with the peculiarities of operating systems theory, the object-oriented programming paradigm, and network communication might gain a quick overview of those subjects and be able to better appreciate MeldCâs features. For the sake of style, these overviews are knitted into the discussions of keywords and syntax, so more educated readers be forewarned
Tiny Publics and Social WorldsâToward a Sociology of the Local. Gary Alan Fine in Conversation With Reiner Keller
Gary Alan FINE gehört weltweit zu den prominentesten Persönlichkeiten der zeitgenössischen soziologischen Ethnografie. In diesem GesprĂ€ch spricht er ĂŒber EinflĂŒsse in seiner akademischen Laufbahn und prĂ€gende intellektuelle Entscheidungen. Er gilt als "serieller Ethnograf", der in zahlreichen Feldkontexten gearbeitet hat und dabei einerseits Kleingruppen und eine von Menschen bevölkerte Ethnografie favorisiert, sich andererseits mit GerĂŒchten, Klatsch und moralischen Geschichten beschĂ€ftigt, die in kleinen und gröĂeren Publiken erzĂ€hlt werden. FINE beschreibt sein theoretisches Kerninteresse als die Untersuchung des Wechselspiels von Struktur, Interaktion und Kultur. In seinem Werk analysiert er die vielfĂ€ltigen ortsgebundenen Arten und Weisen, in denen Gesellschaft von Menschen in formellen und informellen sozialen Settings verwirklicht wird, angefangen bei Baseballteams ĂŒber RestaurantkĂŒchen oder die Wetterberichterstattung bis hin zum Schachspielen âum nur einige wenige GegenstĂ€nde seiner Forschungen zu nennen. Wesentlich beeinflusst durch symbolisch-interaktionistisches Denken und im Rekurs auf weitere wichtige Perspektiven auf soziale Welten plĂ€diert er fĂŒr eine selbstbewusste Haltung der ethnografischen Forschung und des ethnografischen Schreibens sowie fĂŒr die Bedeutung der Konzeptarbeit in einer theorie-informierten empirischen Soziologie dessen, was Menschen zusammen tun.Gary Alan FINE is among the most prominent figures in contemporary sociological ethnography worldwide. In this conversation, he talks about influences in his academic career and key intellectual choices. Considered to be a "serial ethnographer" who has worked in multiple settings, his work focuses on small groups and peopled ethnography, as well as on rumors, gossip, and moral story telling in tiny and larger publics. FINE describes his core theoretical interest as residing in the interplay of structure, interaction, and culture and discusses the multiple local ways society is realized by people in formal and informal social settings: ranging from baseball teams, restaurant kitchens, weather reporting to chess playersâto name but a few research sites. Influenced by symbolic interactionist thinking and other important approaches to social worlds, he argues for a confident voice of ethnographic research and writing as well as the importance of conceptual work in a theory-informed empirical sociology of what people do together
Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Reassessing the Visual Networks of Barlaam and Ioasaph
This essay analyzes the nuance, mutability, and political purposes of illustrated Greek manuscripts containing a ubiquitous medieval tale: Barlaam and Ioasaph. Exploring the dynamic nature of this Byzantine material and its global peregrinations, it reveals processes of medieval world formation through text and imagery of a story that, paradoxically, advocates the renunciation of the worldly. Ultimately, it argues that the textual transmission of this story and its diverse visual imagery bridged cultures from Asia to Europe, and religions from Buddhism to Christianity