Sociology Seminar  Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am Date: 25th of March Room : 3049   Zackary DUNIVIN (University of Stuttgart) - "What is the role of social identity in LLMs?" Abstract :  Frontier language models don’t simply generate text. LLMs perform sociocultural sensemaking, drawing on shared cultural patterns (e.g., roles, norms, social identity) to […]

Sociology Seminar  Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 25th of March Room : 3049   Marshall TAYLOR "Meaningful Geometries: Towards a More Reliable Analysis of Culture using Word Embeddings" Abstract :  To what extent do text corpora reflect gender or social class biases? In computational social science, answering these types of questions often involves analyzing […]

Sociology Seminar  Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am Date: 26th of March Room : 3049 Juliette SAETRE (Toulouse School of Economics) - "From Frontlines to Home: The Impact of Returning Soldiers’ Testimonies on Public Opinion" Abstract :  A large body of social science research treats political attitudes as settled dispositions, formed early in life and […]

Sociology Seminar  Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 26th of March Room : 3049   Luca CARBONE (KU Leuven) - "A Computational Sociology of Everyday Media Consumption for Youth Identities and Well-Being: Evidence from a Cross-National Daily Diary Study" Abstract :  How do digitally distributed cultural narratives relate to young people’s everyday cognitions and well-being? […]

Sociology Seminar  Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am Date: 31th of March Online : Zoom https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/66781575458 Brianne DUBOIS (ENS-PSL) - "A Computational Sociology of Cultural Inequalities" Abstract :  This talk presents my research in computational sociology, which examines cultural inequalities through case studies of French contemporary art and beauty labor among hairdressers and interior designers. […]