{"id":145,"date":"2015-06-05T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?p=145"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:34:05","slug":"shamus-khan-on-historical-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/2015\/06\/05\/shamus-khan-on-historical-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Khan on Historical Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/shamuskhan.wordpress.com\/\">Shamus Khan<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Professor Khan studies\u00a0cultural sociology and stratification, with a strong focus on elites. He is the author of\u00a0<em>Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul\u2019s School <\/em>and <em>The Practice of Research<\/em>. We discuss\u00a0using historical data for\u00a0his new\u00a0research project, in which he uses the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/incite.columbia.edu\/subscribers-to-the-ny-philharm\/\">New York Philharmonic archives<\/a> to uncover the character of their subscribers from the 1870s to the present.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI love very micro-level analyses where you can see what one person is doing or what is happening on the ground\u2026It is super exciting to see where did the Vanderbilts sit, who was sitting around them, and what kind of things they were listening to\u2026The main advantage of this methodological approach to me, is that I find it really exciting. It is not hard for me to get up and go to my office everyday to do something like this because, as time consuming as it is, I get to really know something that happened, and I am able to document it and provide a really clear account of what was going on in what is often a cloudy past.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u2013 Shamus Khan \u2013 <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_64\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-145-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3\">http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?powerpress_pinw=145-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GMAC14_Khan_on_Historical_Data.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we are joined by Shamus Khan,\u00a0Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Professor Khan studies\u00a0cultural sociology and stratification, with a strong focus on elites. He is the author of\u00a0Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul\u2019s School and The Practice of Research. We discuss\u00a0using historical data for\u00a0his new\u00a0research project, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34730,34729,34732],"tags":[29,34719,34706,3349,34720],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanatory-quantitative","category-interpretive-qualitative","category-methodological-innovations","tag-class","tag-historical","tag-mixed-methods","tag-quantitative","tag-spatial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}