Douglas R. WhiteProfessor, Anthropology Graduate Director, Social Networks |
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Research Interests |
Computational social science, mathematical anthropology, social networks, longitudinal analysis, development and social change, social simulation and game theory (vita) | |
| URL | eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/ | |
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Academic Distinctions | Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Distinguished Senior Social Scientist) | |
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Research Abstract |
I am interested in how societies, cultures, social roles and historical agents of change evolve dynamically out of multiple networks of social action. To what extent do diffuse "weak-tie" structures of matrimonial and kinship networks, for example, operate to construct social class, ethnicity, and the particular social structures, gender roles, social cognition, etc., of local communities embedded in a larger political economy? How does the network structure of the world political economy engender the opportunity and constraint structures of more localized social activity? I work with several types of comparative data with longitudinal time depth (kinship and marriage networks; demographic baseline studies; global political events and economic exchange). Recent publications include: |
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| Publications |
1999. Controlled Simulation of Marriage Systems Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 2, no. 3 |
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1997. Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories (Lilyan Brudner & drw). Theory and Society 25:161-208. |
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1992. Structure and Dynamics of the Global Economy: Network Analysis of International Trade 1965-1980. (first author David Smith). Social Forces 70:857-94. |
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| 1998. Kinship, Networks and Exchange Eds. Thomas Schweizer, drw. Cambridge University Press. | ||
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1989. Research Methods in Social Network Analysis Eds. L.C.Freeman, drw, A.K. Romney. Transaction Press. |
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Professional Societies |
President 1992-1993: Social Science Computing Association. International Network for Social Network Analysis |
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| Research Center | Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3122 | |
| Last updated | 03/15/2002 | |