南國島夷：古代東亞與中國中古研究

講　題： “LOCAL ELITE INTEGRATION: A SOCIAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVE” （臺灣大學社會系學術演講）

主講人：Prof. Christofer Edling （斯德哥爾摩大學[Stockholm University]社會學系系主任）

日　時：2008年3月13日（Thur）15:00~17:00（12：30~14：00，以現場公布為準）

會　場：臺大社會學系館 401室

簡　介：

In what way if any, do the political and economic spheres of society overlap? There is reason to believe that the degree of overlap between political and economic decision making has immediate consequences for administrative efficiency and for trust in societal institutions. The overarching research question in the Swedish Local Elites Project is to investigate this overlap empirically. The desired method is social network analysis, which is the ultimate tool for investigating relations between social actors. In 2007, we interviewed decision makers in politics, business and civil society in four municipalities in West-Sweden. The initial phase of the coding has just been completed and this is the first presentation based on these data. In the presentation I will discuss three aspects that are at the heart of the project; theories of the elite and especially elite.

瑞典斯德哥爾摩大學(Stockholm University)社會學系系主任Christofer Edling教授應國科會之邀於三月中旬來台進行學術交流。Christofer Edling教授的專長領域是社會網絡、網際網路社群、地方菁英與民主，在瑞典、歐洲以及各國際重要期刊發表豐富，其中包括Nature, Annual Review of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Social Networks等期刊。他將在台大發表一場有關地方菁英網絡的研究心得，以一項瑞典地方菁英的經驗研究計畫為基礎，討論研究菁英網絡的理論與實證研究的挑戰。