Modeling Social Processes of Aggregation

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-84777-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 797 g

This book demonstrates, via formal statements and empirical illustrations, that nonlinearities in social processes can be modeled systematically to create solutions with practical applications in the institutional forms of paid employment, schooling, and familial relations including marital and kinship ties and the rearing of children. It shows how social processes can be modeled accurately through analyzing time series data—specifically, a temporal sequence of process outcomes that is dense enough in observation time to support appropriate techniques of modeling the outcome sequence. The book illustrates techniques using minimal mathematical formalism which is explained also in careful narrative descriptions of the model logic.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hazelrigg, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Intentions, Actions, Institutions.- On the Arts of Modeling.- Modeling Aggregation Processes.- Applications to Work as Paid Employment.- Supplements and Bridges in the Meter of Time.

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Hazelrigg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. His primary areas of specialization and interest are social theory and philosophy of social science.  He has had a long history of publishing books, chapters and articles from the 1960s. He published  (1968) and, as co-author,  (1972, 2005),  (1996), and  (2007). He has contributed to reference books such as the  (on individualism) and  (on inference). He is best known for his trilogy, , published by the University Press of Florida.  He also is an Associate Editor of , and has co-edited two volumes that form a set (with Harry F. Dahms),  (vol. 27) and  (vol. 30).