James Cook

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Welcome! My name's James Cook, I'm a professor of sociology retired from the University of Maine at Augusta, and currently Chair of the Board of Midcoast Com...

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Why Protest Episode 3 Because cowardly politicians bend to strength

Why Protest Reason #1 Kayfabe not Debate Club and Games vs. Lives

Non-monogamy in Online Social Media Platforms

The Brett Kavanaugh Nomination on Social Media

Bisexuality in Social Media Context Presentation to the UMA Research Colloquium, 11142024

Why a Community Chorus Matters Connection, Collective Effervescence, and Contact to Reduce Division

Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Outcomes

Why Research Methods An Answer Drawing from Umwelt, Vorhandenheit, and Zuhandenheit

What does Public Higher Education as a Public Investment for the Public Good look like

Deaths, Counts, and Cultural Significance of Maine's Mass Shooting

Education as a Public Good

Introduction to Sociology Question Show 3

Introduction to Sociology Question Show 2

Research Makes Sociology Distinctive

Introduction To Sociology Question and Answer Show 1

My Course Plan for an Introduction to Sociology

Basic, Elementary, Flexible Social Media Sentiment Analysis In R

Extracting Reddit Data With R and the package RedditExtractoR (2023 Update)

Crafting Cultural Networks From Text with R and igraph

Collecting and Analyzing YouTube Video Data with R and VosonSML

Getting a YouTube API Key How Easy This Easy.

Reading Social Media into Data Manually, through JSON, and through R

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

Thinking about Social Media Affordances through the Analogy of a Room

Income Inequality Data for Anytown USA through data.census.gov

Visualizing Gender as a Cultural Structure

Walkthrough Finding the Racial Composition of an American town

What does your professor want from you

SSC 334 Facing Challenges & Finding Community Solutions at the University of Maine at Augusta