Seminar

Ethnographic Methods for Network Research

Date
Wed February 19th 2014, 3:00pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences & Stanford Sociology Department
Location
Cubberley 115
Ethnographic Methods for Network Research

Stephen Barley (Management Science & Engineering)

This week the Network Forum is delighted to invite Steve Barley to discuss ethnographic research strategies for structural and network research.  Steve has a talent for carving out niches in unexpected places.  One of the few social scientists at Stanford trained in the tradition of the Chicago School, Steve's research centers on occupations and work, even rarer topics in contemporary sociology.  In advance of this week's discussion, Steve has provided us with his 1990 article about how new technologies altered relational role structures in radiology departments, and a 2011 paper on the interaction between technical work environments, teaching and learning activities, and social structure.  Please find articles attached and a brief biography below.

Stephen R. Barley is the Associate Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering and the Co- Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's. He has been a fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. In 2006 the Academy of Management Journal named Barley as the author of the largest number of interesting articles in the field of management studies. Barley has written over sixty articles on the impact of new technologies on work, the organization of technical work and organizational culture. Barley is currently researching corporate power in the United States, the rhetorical history of telecommuting, and how sophisticated mathematical modeling tools are altering the work of engineers who design automobiles.

Light refreshments will be provided.