Social Networks Colloquia for '98-99
Colloquia from '96-97
'97-98
'98-
Please email suggestions for invitations (see below) to Doug White
or John Boyd '98-99 colloquium chairs
Fall: posted to '98-
Thursday, January 14, 4:00: SSPA 2112 MBS / Networks Joint Colloquium
Duncan Watts
Santa Fe Institute
Collective Dynamics of 'Small World' Networks (reprints available)
Tuesday, February 16, 11:00 to 12:00: SSPB 1208
Alexis Ferrand
Institute of Sociology,
University of Lille
Speaking of Sex ... and Sexual Relationships: Some results of
the "Analysis of Sexual Behavior in France" 1992 Survey
Monday, April 5, 12:00: SSPB 1208
Jeff Johnson, Fisheries Institute
East Carolina University, Greenville,
North Carolina
Network Models of Food Webs
Thursday, April 8, 4:00: SSPA 2112 MBS / Networks Joint Colloquium
Ron Breiger (on Sabbatical at UCSB, 1998-99)
Social Capital as Generalized Exchange: Toward Models and Measures
"Two major social theorists of recent decades--James Coleman and Pierre
Bourdieu--are often seen as formulating distinctive approaches to the study
of society that are mutually incompatible. However, investigation of the
mathematical and statistical models and the discursive frameworks that
underlie or are implied by the "social capital" concepts formulated by each
theorist provides useful analytical leverage, not only for a deeper
understanding of each analyst's thought, but for further developing a
mathematically oriented social science. It is argued that a particular
family of models of generalized exchange unifies important aspects of
Coleman's and Bourdieu's work with respect to concepts of duality,
equilibrium, and social fields, while allowing statistical tests of
dimensions of "social capital." Applications are presented to data on
investment banks, life course trajectories and voluntary associations,
cultural fields, and patterns of agreement among US Supreme Court justices.
Tuesday, April 13, 12:00: SSPB 1208
Ryuhei Tsuji, UCI
Trusting Behavior in Prisoner's Dilemma:
the Effects of Social Networks
Thursday, SPRING, 4:00: SSPA 2112
Phil Bonacich, UCLA
Dynamic Network Evolution
Wednesday, SPRING, Noon:
Doug White
Rethinking Cohesion: Definitions, Group Size, and Small Worlds
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Noah Friedkin, UCSB
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Robert Aunger, Postdoc at Cambridge University
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John Mohr, UCSB
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Gene Johnson, UCSB, Sociology
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Elisa Bienenstock, Stanford, "Networks and Game Theory"
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Networks Colloquia Suggestions
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Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, UCLA
Complex Societies: The Evolutionary Dynamics of a Crude Superorganism
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Robin Allott Evolution and Culture
- Peter Bearman
- Narciso Pizarro (Madrid Complutense)
- Our students and postdocs, e.g.:
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