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Friday, June 15th, 2012
A Selection of Actions in the World of Groups
There are a number of actions in the social world that can be associated with groups as actors.
The following are actions that are associated with single groups.
Formation: A group is formed when several individuals come together.
A book club is formed to ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
The perfectly informed and perfectly rational agent (assumed here) is acceptable for a first approximation of agency; however, it is reasonably easy to modify the formulae above to take account of various forms of imperfection.
Functions and variables, V say, that are estimated by x or are otherwise subjective wrt x ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2012
The fundamental atom of social theory must be the individual agent.
We are interested in those aspects of the agent that are relevant to its role in the social world.
The agent is first of all an actor, acting to improve the degree of satisfaction of its interests.
The model for ...
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
Group Definition
A group is essentially an organization of individuals in pursuit of their common interests.
Each individual has an interest
That interest is advanced by group action
An organization exists to coordinate the actions of members in pursuit of that interest
Interests and Satisfaction
Let I(x) = {i1, …, in} be the Interests of ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Group Definition
The typical definition of a social group includes some combination of the following characteristics or characteristics that are equivalent to these:
Two or more people
Direct interaction amongst the members
Members are aware of their membership
Members share an interest or a cause
There is an organizational structure
Insofar as membership of the group ...
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