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Lynette Shaw

is a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor of Complex Systems

Lynette Shaw is a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor of Complex Systems. One of her lines of work employs computational social science methods to study social constructions of value and money in the context of digital currencies such as Bitcoin. The second part of her research is devoted to theorizing and modeling the emergence of cultural dynamics from individual cognitive processing. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 2016.

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Lynette Shaw

October 21, 2019

Lynette Shaw on Social Constructionism and Finding Academic Common Ground

Podcast

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October 9, 2018

Saving Social Constructivism

Social constructivism is on trial for being an academic fraud. Can it be rescued and does it have valid points to make about science after all?

Biology

Philosophy

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