Archive for the ‘Sociology’ Category
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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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Revise the notation to be suggestive of the standard terminology in intentional psychology – which is to say BDA psychology. The least disruptive change I judge to be as follows:
B(x)[ argument ] is the 'belief' of x about ‘argument’, which replaces E(x)[ argument ]
D(x)[ argument ] is the 'desire' ...
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Interests
A significant part of the standard conception of a group is that group membership is valued because it is estimated that it will advance particular interests that are salient and weighty for the group member. We previously said that where a group is generally believed to particularly advance the interest ...
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
In order for G to retain its membership it needs to be the case that continuing membership of G is believed to be more likely to advance the salient and weighty interests of x than relinquishing membership of G. This Retention Condition may be expressed as follows:
For x ∈ |G|,
Let ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Previously, we have said that groups are organized wrt subsets of the membership, thus:
O(G) = {r1, …, rn} ∈ 2|G| is the Organization of G, where ri are the roles in G, satisfying
(∀x ∈ |G|)(∃r ∈ O(G)) [x ∈ r]
(∀x ∈ |G|)(∀ri, rj ∈ O(G)) [x ∈ ri & x ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2012
Blalock and Wilken (Intergroup Processes, NY: Free Press, 1979, p. 330) note that there are at least two conceptions of social power that are in play in sociological theorizing. The first conception concerns the actual achievement of goals and may apply more readily to larger scale elements of the sociological ...
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