Sociology 242G

Lecture Outlines Index

This page contains materials supporting sociology 242G. During the terms when this course is being taught, it will also have a home page on the U.C.R. campus web-server, which gives access to email and web-board utilities. This course is developed by Robert Hanneman of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Feel free to use and redistribute any materials posted here (with citation, please). Your comments and suggestions are much appreciated.
Links to Lecture Outlines:

Week 1 Introduction: Formal dynamic models and simulation in sociology
Week 2 Problems: Order and change, macro and micro, constraint and agency
Week 3 Agent-based modeling: Space and social networks
Week 4 Agent-based modeling: Exchange games and rational choice
Week 5 Agent-based modeling: Learning, self-organization, complexity
Week 6 Systems-based modeling: Systems, systems dynamics, and chaos
Week 7 Systems-based modeling: Simple chains, feedback, and control
Week 8 Systems-based modeling: Multi-state systems
Week 9 Systems-based modeling: Translating Theories to Systems Dynamics

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