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Agent Based Modeling
agent-based modelling
analytical sociology
Area Stratification
Average Path Length
Bridge Assumptions
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Cave Size
Checker Board
cooperation
cooperation dynamics
Cooperative Clusters
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Ethnic Preferences
laboratory experiments in sociology
Long Range Ties
Micro-macro Explanations
Micro-macro Models
microfoundations
Minority Status Disadvantage
Negative Valence
Neighborhood Ethnic Mix
opinion formation models
Opinion Space
Random Ties
rational choice
rational choice theory
Reconstruction Thesis
research methods
Salient Cultural Issues
Segregation Patterns
Singular Propositions
social networks
social simulations
social systems analysis
structural balance theory
Van De Rijt
Von Neumann Neighborhood
White Cells
Wide Version
Women's Labor Market Opportunities
Women’s Labor Market Opportunities

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415698979
  • Weight: 620g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Dec 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology focuses on two main issues in sociology. Firstly, how macro-conditions can explain macro-outcomes mediated by actor behaviour at the micro-level (micro-macro links). Secondly, how alternative micro-models affect macro-outcomes (microfoundations). The contributions reflect key features of micro-macro modelling in sociology as well as recent progress in this field. The chapters address core features of explanations of social phenomena using micro-macro models, the problem of cooperation, heterogeneity of actors, structural balance, opinion formation, segregation, and problems of micro-macro models that are based on rational choice assumptions. Moreover, the contributions show how different research methods can be applied fruitfully, such as laboratory experiments, equilibrium analysis, and agent-based modelling.

As a result, the book can be a guide for graduate students who want to develop their skills in building micro-macro models. In addition, the book provides specialists of the different substantive research areas with up-to-date new developments in their research area.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Mathematical Sociology.
About
Vincent Buskens is professor of theoretical sociology at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His main research areas are theoretical sociology, game theory, social networks, mathematical sociology, methods of empirical social science research. Werner Raub is professor of theoretical sociology at the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His main research areas are theoretical sociology, organization theory and economic sociology, mathematical sociology, experiments and the use of complementary research designs in the social sciences, sociological applications of neuroscience. Marcel Van Assen is assistant professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research interests include mathematical sociology, mathematical psychology, rational choice sociology, social networks, and statistics.