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James Cook
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Welcome! My name's James Cook, I'm an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine at Augusta, and this UA-cam channel is home to instructional videos in sociology, how-to walkthroughs for data gathering, data analysis, and data visualization methods, and trailers for upcoming events at UMA, which is perhaps the most open of the state universities in Maine.
Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Outcomes
This video from a social networks course in the sociology program at the University of Maine at Augusta considers the implications of structures of networks for social capital and the tendency of some communities to be able to achieve the kind of communities they desire while other communities struggle. Bridging social capital and bonding social capital, two very different advantages of connection, are introduced as part of a review of Robert Putnam's 2000 work Bowling Alone. The video concludes with a consideration of evidence presented by Putnam and updated with more recent evidence to ask what outcomes are produced by different kinds of social capital and what disturbing and reassuring trends in American social capital have emerged.
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Why Research Methods? An Answer Drawing from Umwelt, Vorhandenheit, and Zuhandenheit
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This video, shot for undergraduate social science research methods students at the beginning of the semester, asks the question, "why bother with research methods?" The answer provided by this video (one of many possible answers) starts with Ed Yong's example of the Jakob von Uexkull's "umwelt" (surrounding world of perception) of different animals including humans, and turns to Martin Heidegge...
What does Public Higher Education as a Public Investment for the Public Good look like?
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There are two competing models of higher education today: one supposes that education is a private good accruing to the student as a private customer for their own private benefit gaining compensation from a private employer who uses them as a tool for private good. The other model imagines education as a public investment for the public good. Associate Professor of Sociology James Cook briefly...
Deaths, Counts, and Cultural Significance of Maine's Mass Shooting
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If we literally compare of the numbers who died in the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine to the numbers of those who die in other ways in Maine every year, it's not clear why a mass shooting in Maine strikes so many as significant. This doesn't mean at all that the shooting in Maine was insignificant. Instead, it means that in order to find the event's significance we need to look beyond mere co...
Education as a Public Good
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In Fall 2023, the University of Maine at Augusta opened its academic year by declaring a theme for the year: "Education as a Public Good." Despite this theme, the book chosen for the year only mentioned the term "public good" once, and multiple convocation speeches on the academic theme discussed education as a matter of personal, individual, private accomplishment and benefit, not primarily re...
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 3
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Associate Professor of Sociology James Cook hosts a third hour addressing questions on sociological topics, parrying questions on psychological topics, and twice directing students to external scholarly literature review tools in order to find answers to questions outside his area of knowledge nobody knows everything about their subject, and "I don't know" are three very powerful and important ...
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 2
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This video features a second round of questions from Introduction to Sociology students, with discussion by Associate Professor of Sociology James Cook. This paracurricular video is recorded for the Social Science program at the University of Maine at Augusta.
Research Makes Sociology Distinctive
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There are many academic disciplines that touch on issues related to the social world: identity studies, philosophy, literature, and art among them. What makes sociology distinctive from these other disciplines? Research. Sociologists are researchers, which means we base our claims on systematic empirical observation of the world. We think in terms of variables and seek general explanations. Res...
Introduction To Sociology Question and Answer Show 1
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This video features questions from Introduction to Sociology students, with discussion by Associate Professor of Sociology James Cook. This video is recorded for the Social Science program at the University of Maine at Augusta.
My Course Plan for an Introduction to Sociology
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In this brief video, I share the ideas forming the arc of the Introduction to Sociology course at the University of Maine at Augusta in the Fall 2023 semester.
Basic, Elementary, Flexible Social Media Sentiment Analysis In R
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With the package SentimentAnalysis added to R and the ggplot approach to creating analytic graphs with a consistent structure, it's possible to use elements of scripts to understand different social media data sources in the same way. In this video, recorded for the social science program at the University of Maine at Augusta, I introduce the idea of adding simple sentiment analysis to social m...
Extracting Reddit Data With R and the package RedditExtractoR (2023 Update)
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This walkthrough video demonstrates how to use the new version of the RedditExtractoR package for the free research program R (and its free, more polished presentation in RStudio) in order to download social media information about content of posts and comments and social network relations between Reddit users. The simple 3-line script here will work for any subreddit, making the grabbing of da...
Crafting Cultural Networks From Text with R and igraph
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Here, we consider the insight of a number of social network analysts and sociologists of culture who have developed new theoretical insights and methodological techniques for uncovering cultural networks based on text. Sarah Shugars and Sandra González-Bailón, in "Semantic and Cultural Networks" (forthcoming in The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, 2nd ed.), bring new clarity to ideas o...
Collecting and Analyzing YouTube Video Data with R and VosonSML
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This video, recorded for the Social Science program at the University of Maine at Augusta, discusses how to use the free program RStudio with the free R packages vosonSML and igraph to collect and analyze UA-cam Video Data. Thanks much to Robert Ackland, Bryan Gertzel, Francisca Borquez, and Christoph Spörlein, whose coding work at www.cspoerlein.com/files/textanalyse.html and cran.r-project.or...
Getting a YouTube API Key: How Easy? This Easy.
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An API (short for Application Programming Interface) is a key that unlocks the door to data in online environments. Getting an API key to unlock the door to UA-cam data is easy. How easy? This video shows you. Credit to Christoph Spörlein , whose "Text Mining of Social Media data using R" at www.cspoerlein.com/files/textanalyse.html is the basis for this process, which only needed a pinch of up...
Reading Social Media into Data: Manually, through JSON, and through R
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Reading Social Media into Data: Manually, through JSON, and through R
Identifying and Structuring Individuals, Attributes, Relations, and Affiliations in a Text
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Identifying and Structuring Individuals, Attributes, Relations, and Affiliations in a Text
Easy as Pie: Installing R and RStudio from a Windows computer and saying "Hello" Three Ways
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Easy as Pie: Installing R and RStudio from a Windows computer and saying "Hello" Three Ways
Thinking about Social Media Affordances through the Analogy of a Room
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Thinking about Social Media Affordances through the Analogy of a Room
Income Inequality Data for Anytown USA through data.census.gov
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Income Inequality Data for Anytown USA through data.census.gov
Visualizing Gender as a Cultural Structure
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Visualizing Gender as a Cultural Structure
Walkthrough: Finding the Racial Composition of an American town
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Walkthrough: Finding the Racial Composition of an American town
What does your professor want from you?
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What does your professor want from you?
Looking for a pandemic-safer college course on social change? Try SSC 334: Cultivating Community
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Looking for a pandemic-safer college course on social change? Try SSC 334: Cultivating Community
SSC 334: Facing Challenges & Finding Community Solutions at the University of Maine at Augusta
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SSC 334: Facing Challenges & Finding Community Solutions at the University of Maine at Augusta
A Garden, a Course: SSC 334 & the UMA Augusta Community Garden
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A Garden, a Course: SSC 334 & the UMA Augusta Community Garden
The Way Life Should Be? Food Insecurity in Maine, Compared to Other States, 2010-2019
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The Way Life Should Be? Food Insecurity in Maine, Compared to Other States, 2010-2019
A wild turkey with the neighborhood cat (Maine)
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A wild turkey with the neighborhood cat (Maine)
Make a Population Pyramid for Anytown USA (Census Data plus Spreadsheet = Success)
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Make a Population Pyramid for Anytown USA (Census Data plus Spreadsheet = Success)
Measuring Segregation with the Duncan Dissimilarity Index
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Measuring Segregation with the Duncan Dissimilarity Index
Hi, thanks for the video. how to fix this error "Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, method, ...) : Forbidden (HTTP 403).!
Martin, unfortunately, this represents a rejection of the script in Twitter's API interface: the last 7 years have had a lot of changes in Twitter's architecture, which is why the script no longer functions.
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When I run the code on Rstudio, Google prompt " Access blocked: This app’s request is invalid" notificantion and I can't proceed. How to resolve the issue. seeking kind help
Hi, Jamal. It's hard to be sure without all the details that came along with that error, but I can give you a few suggestions. There should be a "learn more" or "error details" or similar link that comes with that prompt. Click on it for details. This is an error that can occur when the link in your script doesn't match the link in your UA-cam Google Cloud Project that you got when you got yourself a UA-cam API Key (see here -- ua-cam.com/video/of0nzBJrT20/v-deo.html -- if you haven't completed that step successfully).
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Can I use this method to extract the contents of one specific post in a subreddit that has been archived (9 months ago)?
This is a great lecture. Is there a go to textbook that captures all of this. I’m not a sociology student but a PhD economics student that has a sociological focus too but couldn’t identify 1 textbook that is comprehensive enough
Thanks, Sinyorimparatore. In my judgment, there isn't a single textbook that accomplishes this for sociology. SOC 101 texts unfortunately don't communicate sociology as it's carried out by sociologists in their research. Instead, they read as fairly uniform "social studies" texts to accomplish general education goals.
Thank your for your sharing and your interesting tutorial!
Thank you! Cheers!
I got Error: Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, method, ...) : Forbidden (HTTP 403). after compiling: account.timeline.
Hi. Unfortunately, since this video, there have been multiple changes to the Twitter API.
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Updates to RedditExractoR and igraph have changed many of the shown commands. Do you have an update?
Yes! Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/Snm0Azfi_hc/v-deo.html
Thanks alot!
This is really insightful, and wonderfully described. I'm also thankful that this video exists because it is one of the very very few videos covering the concept of Umwelt.
Thank you for the kind feedback. What is your interest in Umwelt?
Thanks a lot for this insightful video! It truly is helping me with my master thesis. I do have a question. How do you extract the data for the whole year? (for example 2023)
Sadly (but understandably), Reddit limits the amount of information that one can obtain through methods like these. I've seen examples in a low-communication subreddit where it's possible to go back a few months, but in high-communication subreddits your search may obtain only a few weeks' worth of information. Pushshift has some stored data here -- academictorrents.com/details/89d24ff9d5fbc1efcdaf9d7689d72b7548f699fc -- but use at your own risk.
Absolutely saved my thesis, thank you!
Glad it helped!
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Hi James! Thank you, it was super helpful. Just one quick question. You limited the Period to Day, but R extracted data with different dates. How did it happen?
Hi! Two points: 1) yes, Reddit sometimes returns interesting results like that; it's important to examine and sort through data to ensure that you have the information collected within the bounds that you'd intended to collect. 2) data with different dates can appear because the posts are what's selected, and then comments are collected that are associated with the posts.
Many thanks for your videos! Now trying to see if there is any Spanish Dictionary uploaded to study comments in the Chilean Congress.
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This was super helpful for someone who has never coded anything before. Thank you lots!
Hi James - is there a way to create a frequency table of the number of youtube uploads that meet a certain search criteria? So for example, if you wanted to know how many videos were uploaded to youtube each year that met the search term "vegetable recipes"?
Hi, Lucy. Unfortunately, I don't know of such a capability, at least with R scripts. That doesn't mean that the potential isn't there, just that if it is there I'm not familiar with it.
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For activating R packages Script library(rtweet) Library(SentimentAna1ysis) library(dplyr) library( ggplot2) library(SnowballC) For API Permission api_key <- "" api_secret_key <- "" access token<- "" access token secret<- "" Authenticate Via Webapp token <- create_token( app = "", consumer_key = api_secret_key, access_token = acess_token, access_secret = acccess_token_secret)
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Hi James, amazing video! Just wondering if this still works with reddits new API terms?
Hi, @zacks9897 -- and thanks for writing. APIs change all the time, so this is no guarantee for the future, but the good news is that yes, this approach still works!
Thanks a ton!
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oh m y gosh this video is gonna save my entire msc project THANK YOU
Awesome, Thank you, it helped me a lot during my MSc Thesis
Surprise, it doesn't work at all. Been here 70 years and I think that at least 30% of people in jail are innocent. America doesn't have a justice system, it has a conviction factory.
student in forensic psychology, have questions about the age-crime curve and the impact of the policies for juveniles and into adulthood.
Hi! Here's a great place to start. It's a consideration of different ways of measuring the age-crime curve and how those differences influences thinking about policy regarding young people and crime. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cbm.2159
Amazing!
No criminology be ingrained in Eugenics 💀✋🏽
Some branches of criminology are based in eugenics. Other branches of criminology are decidedly not. See critical criminology.
Is it still possible to construct a SNS visualization like in one of your older videos? I don't see the construct_graph option on the new version of the RedditExtractoR package. Thank you for your time!
Thanks for this great question. You are right. The authors of that package have removed that option. What you would have to do to visualize a network now is to integrate another package, such as igraph.
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Hello james, I am trying to work through my research extracting data. The only thing is min only stops at page 3 instead of going on like yours does, any idea why is that ?
Hi, Antonin. There are many possibilities, and without looking at your script I can't say for sure what might be going on with you. Perhaps the top possibility is that what you're looking for is simply less frequent in occurrence. If this is what's happening, consider changing the period="day" option to period="week" and seeing what happens.
As a post-secondary educator myself, I have a knack for identifying strong teachers and you have a gift for explanation! Your students are lucky to learn from you. Thanks for all these resources.
That's so kind. I appreciate your encouragement!
So, is it fair to say that you think all sociology research is quantitive? I'm fine with that. I'm a biologist ;) Anyways, well described. I normally talk in terms of models and predictive capability, but really the same idea. Science itself is a sort of learning algorithm (as is evolution FWIW).
Hi, Trav. Actually, there's a fair amount of qualitative research in sociology avoiding generality, just like there's a fair amount of qualitative research avoiding generality in biology, but what makes sociology distinctive is this general approach.
@@JamesCookUMA Descriptive reports and observations have a long history in Biology, but I'm not sure that's quite the same as what folks in the social sciences tend to mean by "qualitative research" these days. It just wasn't a common term yet when I was learning the basics, so I thought I'd ask.
This is very helpful and easy to understand! Thank you
Fantastic material, many years later. Really great delivery & explanation.
I get this error after running the 2nd netowork: Error in graph.data.frame(my_data, directed = FALSE) : the data frame should contain at least two columns Can someone please help I've been trying to understand what's wrong for an hour
got it. For anyone wondering (after having tried everything), it might be your computer's language. R process information from the CSV file in "english" so if your computer runs on something different then search up the control panel in the windows search bar and then change the language of the computer to USA english and it should be fixed (took me 3 days to find out...)
how do you export the dataset from R?
Hi, and thanks for writing. The command write.csv is one standard way to do that. Here's a resource on that command: www.statology.org/export-data-frame-to-csv-in-r/
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I'd have thought there would be more of a bump in the middle years for crimes like fraud, embezzlement, espionage.... They don't seem to be that accessible for youth. They wouldn't have the connections or authority roles needed. And there was no gender or racial studies included? Or is that something you get into later? I look forward to seeing that.
I thought Count 1 and 2 of Nuremberg War Trials was Conspiring to wage aggressive war and Waging aggressive war.