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	Top20Sociology.com - Online Directory for Sociology Education. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sociology is interested in our behavior as social beings; thus the sociological field of interest ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes.
		Sociology as a scientific discipline emerged in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenge of modernity: as the world was becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world was increasingly atomized and dispersed.
		In 1919 a sociology department was established in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich by Max Weber and in 1920 in Poland by Florian Znaniecki.
	www.top20sociology.com (3317 words)

	Computational sociology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Computational sociology is a recently developed branch of sociology that uses computation to analyze social phenomena.
		The basic premise of computational sociology is to take advantage of computer simulation in the construction of social theories.
		In relevant literature, computational sociology is often related to the study of social complexity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computational_sociology (250 words)

	List of publications in sociology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a list of important publications in sociology, organized by field.
		The book's twelve chapters explore: Foucault's concept of discourse; the critique of the medicalization thesis; analysis of the body and the self; Foucault's concepts for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities; the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion and the consumption of health.
		Assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_publications_in_sociology (1087 words)

	NECSI Announcements: Positions Available
		The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is an expanding unit whos undergraduate and graduate programs center on social inequality, the structural bases of social conflict, and cultural differences (see www.gmu.edu/departments/soci).
		Computational and Theoretical candidates whose interests integrate several aspects of complex systems, modeling and simulation and have close contact with experimentalists will be considered especially interesting.
		Gene Regulation and Systems Biology: Through the use of theoretical models and large-scale computation, and leveraging the enormous experimental investment by the biology community, we plan to develop biologically useful theories of large subsystems of cellular function, specifically in the areas of gene regulation, manufacture of RNA and proteins, and cell signaling.
	necsi.org /announce/positions.html (3848 words)

	Sociology Suicide Death Society
		That is why when we study our own society we call it sociology, the function of...
		Maher Abu Zant, a psychologist and head of the sociology and social work department at the city?s An...
		McCarty, who majored in media studies and sociology, urged the students to remain in...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Death/Suicide/Sociology (370 words)

	Mills College - Sociology
		Sociology at Mills teaches the sociological imagination through systematic study of empirical research results, theory, and method.
		By combining these courses and, sometimes, related courses in other departments, students have the option of organizing their studies into one of several areas of concentration: social inequality; computational social science; race and ethnic relations; law and society; urban sociology; and individual and society.
		And, regardless of one's career plans, the Sociology major is an excellent foundation for lifelong learning and citizenship in the global village.
	www.mills.edu /academics/undergraduate/soc (449 words)

	B.G.W. Craenen - Research
		My research concentrates on solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Evolutionary Algorithms although lately, I started researching the use of Peer-to-Peer Network Architectures in Computational Sociology as part of the NEWTIES project were I am researching the Emergent Behaviour of these networks in a constrained network environment.
		Computational Sociology is a recently developed branch of sociology that uses computation to analyse social phenomena.
		Computational sociology is often related to the study of social complexity.
	www.xs4all.nl /~bcraenen/research.html (585 words)

	Results for 'sociology'
		Sociology from Clark University and her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Social Psychology from Rutgers University.
		Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174 Autumn, 1978...
		Sociology from the University of Illinois and was Assistant Professor of
	odysseus.ieee.org /ieeesearch/query.html?qt=sociology (1705 words)

	Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) - Sociology/Anthropology Faculty
		Individual: Dr. Allen is currently involved in various research projects focusing on issues of academic organizations and systems, mathematical and computational sociology, and the sociology of science.
		He is involved in several on-going research projects, including a multivariate sociological study of organizational changes affecting 241 institutions of higher education in the Harvard Faculty Appointment and Policy Archive.
		Allen is also in the process of writing a book about the use of mathematical and computational models in analyzing academic systems as well as a reprisal of his doctoral dissertation study that focuses on organizational changes in historically fl colleges.
	www.wheaton.edu /Socio/faculty/allen.html (448 words)

	Robb Willer
		I previously earned an M.A. in Sociology at Cornell and a B.A. in Sociology (minor in English) at the University of Iowa.
		In 2004 Michael Macy and I received an NSF grant to continue this research with a series of experimental studies testing the behavioral assumptions and structural implications of this computational model.
		A paper from this project won the student paper award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the ASA in 2004.
	sociology.berkeley.edu /faculty/willer (1886 words)

	National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
		Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU) has been developing the Sociology Workbench (SWB).
		The Ed Center is part of NPACI's collaborative education, outreach, and training activities with the National Computational Science Alliance, offering students and faculty access to state-of-the art programs and technologies being developed throughout NPACI and the Alliance.
		The Sociology Workbench is available from the Ed Center site at http://edcenter.sdsu.edu/, and is still under development.
	www.npaci.edu /online/v3.19/swb.html (558 words)

	ASA Methodology Section Meetings 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The theme of the 2003 annual meeting, “Simulation Models” is meant to reflect the dynamic nature of methodological research in Sociology.
		In sociology, computational and simulation modeling are providing new ways to approach theorizing about society and testing those models.
		Agent-based modeling and other forms of computational modeling and simulation have established strong footholds in sociology, political science, economics, and anthropology.
	www.csde.washington.edu /~handcock/asameth03 (996 words)

	Agent Based Model...Artilifes.com
		Agent Based Model is a specific individual based computational model for computer simulation extensively related to the theme in complex systems, emergence, Monte Carlo Method, computational sociology, multi agent systems, and evolutionary programming.
		The idea is to construct the computational devices (known as agents with some properties) and then, simulate them in parallel to model the real phenomena.
		The birth of agent based model as a model for social systems was primarily brought by a computer scientist, Craig Reynold.
	www.artilifes.com /agentbasedmodel.html (277 words)

	Projects - EdCenter
		The Faculty Fellows is an innovative program established in 1998 that provides release time and expert assistance to faculty members in an ongoing effort to foster the use of high-performance computing in the undergraduate curriculum.
		The Sociology WorkBench (SWB) is a collection of on-line resources for sociologists and social scientists.
		The Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering at San Diego State University is collaborating with the Regional WorkBench Consortium to create some exciting 3D flythrough capabilities for education on regional planning.
	www.edcenter.sdsu.edu /projects/index.html (709 words)

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		Kathleen M. Carley, 2002, “Intra-Organizational Computation and Complexity.” In Companion to Organizations edited by Joel A.C. Baum, Blackwell Publishers.
		Kathleen M. Carley and William A. Wallace, 2001, “Computational Organization Theory,” Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Edited by Saul I. Gass and Carl M. Harris.
		Kathleen M. Carley, 2001, “Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing” in J. Turner (Ed.) Handbook of Sociological Theory, ch.
	www.epp.cmu.edu /httpdocs/people/bios/cvs/carleycv.htm (4757 words)

	Robert Hanneman Research
		My main interests have been in the formalization of sociological theories as mathematical models, and the study of the properties of these models by use of computer simulation.
		Using perspectives derived mostly from comparative politics and the sociology of the military, I have done several classifications and predictive models directed toward understanding military coups worldwide in the bi-polar era (1947-1989).
		Currently, I am working on an article that contrasts several alternative classifications of world-system position of nations (political versus economic) in terms of their utility for understanding military interventions into politics in the period from 1947 to 1989.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~hanneman/research.htm (901 words)

	Computational Sociology Workshop in Sozionik
		So the influence from sociology on DAI is obvious, whereas it is yet not at all clear, in which way sociology can benefit from DAI.
		As DAI advises sociologists to take a new look at computer methods, this might be a good opportunity to rethink the use of computers for sociology more generally.
		Scientists in sociology and computer science, who are ready to consider the other discipline as a potential and interesting cooperation partner are warmly welcome at this meeting.
	www.tu-harburg.de /tbg/English/Projekte/compsoc.html (916 words)

	Dynamic Networks References
		It is therefore not surprising to see a recent explosion in the occurrence and scope of work related to dynamic network and social network analysis in computer science literature.
		Below are some citations we consider important in computer science literature and in computational sociology literature, each listed separately.
		In: Proceedings of the Thirty-second ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing.
	privacy.cs.cmu.edu /dataprivacy/papers/socialnetworks/index.html (2260 words)

	Introductory Materials: Agent-Based Computational Economics (Tesfatsion)
		Abstract: Economic sociology is concerned with the study of economic processes imbedded in social contexts and relational (interaction) networks.
		Leigh Tesfatsion, Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory (pdf preprint,253K), in Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd (eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics, Handbooks in Economics Series, Elsevier/North-Holland, the Netherlands, 2006.
		The main objectives and defining characteristics of agent-based computational economics (ACE) are outlined, and similarities and distinctions between ACE and artificial life research are clarified.
	www.econ.iastate.edu /tesfatsi/aintro.htm (3282 words)

	David Hales' home page
		Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Socially Inspired Computing, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK 12 - 15 April 2005, Published by AISB.
		In proceedings of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (p2p2004), 25-27 August 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.
		CRESS workshop: "The Potential of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences", January 1998, University of Surrey, UK.
	cfpm.org /~david (4097 words)

	The SocioWeb: Sociology Books » Computational Number Theory: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Computational ...
		The SocioWeb: Sociology Books » Computational Number Theory: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Computational Number Theory, Kossuth Lajos University, Hungary, September 4-9 1989
		Computational Number Theory: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Computational Number Theory, Kossuth Lajos University, Hungary, September 4-9 1989
		The SocioWeb » Books » Sociology Books » Computational Number Theory: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Computational Number Theory, Kossuth Lajos University, Hungary, September 4-9 1989
	www.socioweb.com /sociology-books/book/0899256740 (121 words)

	Research Scientist
		Ability to work with (and coherently incorporate input and specifications from) a multidisciplinary team that includes: computer scientists, microbiologists, health care researchers, social scientists, software developers, systems analysts, engineers, defense planners and emergency management professionals.
		Ability to clearly formulate and address problems critical to homeland security and the defense of citizens and soldiers against weapons of mass destruction in an increasingly fluid and uncertain future environment.
		We are especially interested in researchers who have worked in the complexity sciences and/or with a demonstrated capability in emerging applied mathematical and computational approaches to problem solving.
	www.ieminc.com /Career_Info/openjobs/Research_Scientist.htm (307 words)

	[nep-sea] MEP SEA, 2004-06-02 (11 papers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The estimated output losses, which depend on, for example, the method used to generate shock estimates, seem to be moderate and are likely to be less than the efficient gains derived from a currency union arrangement.
		Theoretical exploration is carried out by using comparisons of some usual financial economy system models frequently and popularly used in econophysics and computational finance.
		Primitive model, which consists of agent microsimulation with fundamentalist strategy, chartist, and noise, was established with an expectation of adjusting micro-simulation analysis upon stock market in Indonesia.
	lists.repec.org /pipermail/nep-sea/2004-June/000075.html (1704 words)

	Sociology
		Somewhat unfairly, this notebook also serves as my dumping-ground for general issues related to all the social sciences, as well as "social theory" (so far as I can make out: sociology unburdened by any but the most stylized facts).
		Michael W. Macy and Robert Willer, "From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling,"
		But useful for figuring out what could possibly count as good sociological explanations, and what attempts really are question-begging, or even mind-boggling.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/sociology.html (1061 words)

	Subfields of Sociology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Interactionism also known as the social action theory and symbolic-interactionism
		Industrial sociology also known as sociology of industrial relations or sociology of work
		Political sociology also known as sociology of politics or sociology of the state
	www.gettysburg.edu /~cartkr01/ed306/subfields_of_sociology.htm (60 words)

	Computational Linguistics Books
		Computational Intelligence II : Proceedings of the International Symposium Computational Intelligence 89' Milan, Italy, 25-27 September, 1989
		Computational linguistics in medicine : proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Computational Linguistics in Medicine
		The Computer in literary and linguistic research Papers from a Cambridge symposium
	www.criticism.com /amaz/cl1.html (4258 words)

	Cogprints - EPrints submitted by Situngkir, Mr Hokky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Situngkir, Hokky (2003) EMERGING THE EMERGENCE SOCIOLOGY: The Philosophical Framework of Agent-Based Social Studies.
		Technical Report WPO2005, Computational Sociology, Bandung Fe Institute.
		Technical Report WPP2005, Computational Sociology, Bandung Fe Institute.
	cogprints.org /perl/user_eprints?userid=4745 (299 words)

	Fredrik Liljeros (Phd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		International Conference on Computational Science (3) 2006: 1048-1055
		Modelling sexually transmitted infections: the effect of partnership activity and number of partners on R
		On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences.
	www.sociology.su.se /home/Liljeros (676 words)

	Agent-Based Modeling
		Epstein that this paper will be reprinted in a forthcoming book of his on agent-based models, which I'm looking forward to.]
		Radek Erban, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis and Hans G. Othmer, "An equation-free computational approach for extracting population-level behavior from individual-based models of biological dispersal",
		Robert L. Goldstone and Marco A. Janssen, "Computational models of collective behavior",
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/agent-based-modeling.html (532 words)

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