6th Annual Conference 2010: The Social Life Of Methods - 31 August-3 September, St Hugh's College Oxford
Conference Announcement
During the past century and longer, social scientific methods have come to be extensively deployed in government, administration and business, as well as in academic research. Maps, enumerations, surveys, interviews, indicators, software and visualizations proliferate. The aim of this conference is to consider how we can best understand the agency of social science methods in both shaping, and themselves being affected, by economic, social and cultural change, both historically and in the current context when digitalization poses specific challenges to established repertoires of social science methods.
Plenary Speakers
Andrew Abbott (University of Chicago).
Engin Isin (Open University)
Katie King (University of Maryland)
Patti Lather (Ohio State University)
John Law (CRESC, The Open University)
Celia Lury (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)
Mark Peel (University of Liverpool)
Conference Organising Committee: Mike Savage (University of Manchester), John Law (Open university), Evelyn Ruppert (Open University), Niamh Moore (University of Manchester), Andrew Hill, (Open University), Josine Opmeer (University of Manchester)
Conference Officers: Bussie Awosanya and Karen Ho
Conference Manager: Josine Opmeer
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