9:30 am to 11:00 am (UTC+8,HKT)<\/p>","photos":[{"photo":226929,"caption":""}],"venue":"","speaker_name":"
Prof. Aur\u00e9lien Boucher\u00a0<\/p>","speaker":"
Aur\u00e9lien Boucher is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where he teaches General Education and Computational Social Sciences (MPhil-PhD). He obtained his Habilitation \u00e0 Diriger des Recherches<\/em> (HDR) from the University of Paris Cit\u00e9 in 2025 and his PhD in Sociology in 2013 from the University of Nantes, France.<\/p>","admission":"","enquiry":"","details":"","intro":" Since the mid-1920s, Chinese sociologists have explored different paths toward the localization\/sinicization of social sciences. While sociologists are now invited by the Chinese government to develop \u201csocial sciences with Chinese characteristics\u201d and an \u201cautonomous system of knowledge\u201d to \u201ctell beautiful stories about China,\u201d vigorous academic debates are ongoing. Based on the International Chinese Sociologists Value survey, our article explores the possible structural homology between the position of Chinese sociologists and their position taking on the localization debate by using geometrical data analysis, that are methods belonging to \u201cMachine Learning\u201d and widely used by Pierre Bourdieu for its capacity to investigate the \u201crelational nature\u201d of societies.<\/p>\r\n While focusing on the specific cases of Chinese sociologists, this seminar will be an opportunity for computational social scientists to become more familiar with Geometrical Data Analysis, also named Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods.<\/p>","remarks":"