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Marshall TAYLOR (New Mexico State University) & Dustin STOLTZ (University of Lehigh) – “Valence in the Flesh: Two Cases on Embodiment and the Language of Valuation”
Sociology Seminar
Time: :17:00 pm – 18:15 pm
Date: 3th of November
Room : 3049
Marshall TAYLOR (Mexico State University)
Dustin STOLTZ (Lehigh University) – “Valence in the Flesh: Two Cases on Embodiment and the Language of Valuation”
Abstract :
“Sociologist commonly use seemingly abstract bipolar valuations to explore the regularities of social life, such as prestige or bias. The cognitive sciences, anthropology in particular, has a rich history of demonstrating how valuations are grounded in the body and the physical world. Using techniques from computational text analysis, we bring these two together by demonstrating the ways that this grounding in sensorimotor systems, bodily loci, and mundane materiality shapes the language of valuation in two contexts: ranking occupations by prestige and description bias in news coverage of protest events.”
Organizers:
Paola TUBARO (Pôle sociologie CREST)
Patrick PRÄG (Pôle sociologie CREST)
Julia NICOLAS (Pôle sociologie CREST)
Sponsors:
CREST