Sociology
Practitioners and ICTD: Communities of Practice Theory in Technology Interventionism
ICTD interventions targeting practitioners fit into a common typology that can be understood as how these interventions interact with the situated and social aspects of practice. I discuss how a Communites of Practice lens may intersect with other theoretical lenses in ICTD and related fields, to …
Acculturation and the Educational Aspirations of the Children of Immigrants
In recent decades, new sociological theories have risen to try to explain the barriers to reaching middle-class experienced by recent immigrants to America. A key issue is the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic assimilation. In this work, I use data from the Beyond High School study to …