Archive for the ‘Sociology’ Category
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
There is a fundamental sociological interest in the infrastructure or social conditions that facilitate the distribution of information in a society. Unfortunately, treatments of the ‘Flow of Information’ in the context of sociological or organizational theory typically refer to the ‘information channels’ that play that role with minimal if any ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2026
An important aspect of communication relates to the transfer of information, but the treatment of information as a sociological phenomenon cannot be limited to its associations with communication alone: of equal importance are questions of creation, access, accumulation, transformation, function, social effect, etc. To address such issues, we will need ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2015
A class of ensembles can be defined for which the EX includes the acceptance of a norm formation. Amongst the subclasses of this we shall seek to define a class of ‘institutions’ that is suitable to play the theoretical role assigned to institutions in HLSTs (but without assuming that those ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2015
Research indicates that certain kinds of collections of agents below the level of species are sociologically significant. ‘Class’, ‘group’, and ‘organization’, for example, are all terms used to name such collections – each of them with a slightly different intention and occupying a slightly different role in some sociological theory. ...
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity by Susan R. Jones, Marylu K. McEwen, Journal of College Student Development, V 41, No. 4, July/August 2000
A conceptual model of multiple dimensions of identity depicts a core sense of self or one’s personal identity. Intersecting circles surrounding the core identity represent significant identity dimensions ...
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Saturday, January 4th, 2014
Let X be an ensemble and x an individual. This individual may or may not be aware of their membership status wrt X, and may or may not correctly understand their status
Bx[ x ∈ X ]Bx[ x ∉ X ]
x ∈ XIdentityFalse Alienity
x ∉ XFalse IdentityAlienity
~Bx[ x ...
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Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
The Ascape Model Developer's Manual
Individual-Based Models:an annotated list of links by Craig Reynolds
Introduction to Stochastic Actor-Based Models for Network Dynamics (pdf) by Tom A.B. Snijdersy, Gerhard G. van de Buntz, Christian E.G. Steglichx
This paper gives an introduction to stochastic actor-based models for dynamics of directed networks, using only a minimum of mathematics. The focus ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
Amongst the beliefs that are important in the subjective determination of interest-maximising behaviour are some that impose restrictions on the kinds of actions that the agent believes are permissible in certain circumstances. Such beliefs are beliefs about norms of action. Actions which fall outside the range permitted by the appropriate ...
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Sunday, July 1st, 2012
A Norm is an action-directing rule, n.
an agent x is an Acceptant of the norm n iff x accepts the rule n.
K(n) = {x: B(x)[ n ]}
We can discover whether x accepts a norm by observation of his behaviour
A Norm Formation is a set of norms, N = {n1, ...
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Sunday, June 24th, 2012
Groups may be viewed as operators on the social world. They take a context and modify it. This context modification includes that which is responsible for the advantaging of intentional interests of the members, but is not limited to that. We can write this quickly as
F(G): C → C
But to ...
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