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Partial Syllabus Networks and Social Evolution Anthro 289A/Social Sciences 249A Fall 2004 (preliminary) Professors Duran Bell and Doug White Each week, selected students will present discuss the material of the week's readings. It is expected that students will do more than summarize the reading and challenge some aspects of the readings from methodological and/or theoretical perspectives. The overall objective of this section of the course is to advance the development of theory and method for understanding the internal dynamics of social formations. For questions: dbell@uci.edu Week One, 1: Inter-species interaction Tim Ingold: Predation and Protection (30 pages) Alan Rogers: Resources and population dynamics (27 pages) Week One, 2: Intra-species interaction Robert L. Trivers: Sexual selection and parental investment (48 pages) Bell & Song: Sacrificing reproductive success (10 pages)
Week Two, 1: Intra-species interaction Week Two, 2:
Dynamics of Population Turchin: Chapters Two, Three and Four (68 pages)
Korotayev, Malkov, and White: (More is Simpler -) A Compact Macromodel of World Population Growth
(11 pages)
Population Dynamics and Warfare: preprint Turchin and Korotayev;
Addendum;
Supplementary
Turchin's nature article
Peter Turchin Dynamical Analysis of Socio-Economic Oscillations: England, 1100-1900
Week Three, 1: Dynamics of Wealth Accumulation
Bell: Wealth, Power & Corp. Groups (40 pages)
Korotayev:
World Religions (40 pages) Bell: Bands, fertility and the social organization of early humans (21 pages, doc file) Fredrik Barth: Nomads of South Persia (32 pages) Week Three, 2: Social structure and demographic processes Bell: A new model of Middle Eastern Social Structures.(34 pages)
White and Houseman:
The Navigability of Strong Ties: 2003 Douglas R. White, Emergence, transformation and decay in pastoral nomad socio-natural systems. to appear in Emergence, Transformation and Decay in Socio-Natural Systems, edited by Sander van der Leeuw, Uno Svedin, Tim Kohler, and Dwight Read. 1998 Michael Houseman and Douglas R. White, Network Mediation of Exchange Structures: Ambilateral Sidedness and Property Flows in Pul Eliya. Kinship, Networks and Exchange, Chapter 4, pp. 58-88. Edited by Thomas Schweizer and Douglas R. White. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Week Four, 1: Social structure and demographic processes in early China HISTORICAL POPULATION DYNAMICS: A MODEL OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL DEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE Komarova and Korotayev Korotayev and Komarova: A new model of Chinese dynastic cycles (40 pages) Rethinking the Hobbesian Metaphor for International Politics - Comparing Ancient China and Early Modern Europe Jack A. Goldstone: Chapter 4, State Breakdown in Early Modern Asia:
Supplementary:
C. Martin Wilbur: Slavery in China During the Former Han Dynasty (33 pages) Week Four, 2: General Models of Network Evolution2004 Douglas R. White, Walter W. Powell, Jason Owen-Smith and James Moody. Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 10:95-117. Special issue on Mathematical Representations for the Analysis of Social Networks within and between Organizations. 1977 Douglas R. White, Michael L. Burton, and Lilyan A. Brudner, Entailment Theory and Method: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Sexual Division of Labor. Behavior Science Research 12:1-249. download data from spss excel James G. March, 1991 " Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning," Organization Science 2 71-87. JSTOR Week Five: Edge-Based Modeling (EBM) and Network Evolution of Civilizations White, Tsallis, Farmer and White: Feedback Circuits in Evolving Networks: Micro-Macro Linkages for Biases in Attachment, Routing and Distance Decay (8 pages), with live simulations Stuart Kauffman's NK Boolean Networks (2 pages) White and Spufford: From Medieval to Modern (4 pages), with slides, GIS and SVG network images John F. Padgett, Christopher K. Ansell, Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434 American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 6. (May, 1993), pp. 1259-1319. Brudner, Lilyan A., and Douglas R. White. 1997. Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories Theory and Society 25:161-208. White, Douglas R. 2005. Ring Cohesion in Marriage and Social Networks Forthcoming: Social Networks special issue edited by Alain Degenne Mathematiques, informatique, et sciences humaines Journal of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris Download:RingCohesionMarriage.pdf Hamberger, Klaus, Michael Houseman, Elizabeth Daillant, Douglas R. White and Laurent Barry. 2005 Matrimonial ring structures Forthcoming: Social Networks special issue edited by Alain Degenne Mathematiques, informatique, et sciences humaines Journal of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris Download: MatrimonialRingStructure.pdf Tools for Marriage Network Analysis Week Six: Discussion papers on early Chinese demographic processes
Additional:
Chiefdoms into States
Boehm, Christopher. 1993.
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy
Current Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 227-254. See also (for blood feud as self-regulation)
Exposing the Moral Self in Montenegro: The Use of Natural Definitions to Keep Ethnography Descriptive
Christopher Boehm
American Ethnologist, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Feb., 1980), pp. 1-26.
Wright, Henry. From Chiefdoms to Origins of States and Civilizations
Role Interlock
Nadel, S.F. Social Structure. Chapter on the Coherence of Roles
White et al. 2004. Adding Higher-Order Interactions to Network Ontology
Transformations of Structure
Denham and White
Balasz, Socialism to Capitalism in Hungary
Bearman, Social Movements
Micro Behavior and Macro Structure
White, Networks, Ethnography and Emergence
Network Evolution in the Industrial Economy
2005 Walter W. Powell, Douglas R.
White, Kenneth W. Koput and Jason Owen-Smith. Network
Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational
Collaboration in the Life Sciences. Forthcoming: American
Journal of Sociology 110(4) January
electronic edition
Download: 2005 Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, and Douglas R. White.
Network Growth and Consolidation: The Effects of Cohesion and Diversity on the Biotechnology Industry Network
Submitted Forthcoming in Management Science , Special issue on Complex Systems Across Disciplines.
Download: 1988 Large-Scale Network of World Economy: Social scientists use the CRAY
Interview: Douglas R. White, David A. Smith. Science at the San Diego Supercomputer Center 1987: 27-28
Macrocultural Evolution and Networks
Korotayev - world religions and social structure
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