Texts:

The Development of Social Network Analysis by Linton Freeman. Paperback $15.99. eBook. $7.99.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback). List Price: $14.95. Amazon Price: $10.47.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior IN THE BOOKSTORE. by Thomas C. Schelling (Paperback). List Price: $18.00. Amazon Price: $18.00.

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek 2005. Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj $39.99, paperback. Students may download data one of the chapters from the net in such a way (coordinated with others in class) that each student will report in class, during weeks 2-4, on analysis of a network dataset using Pajek software that is used as an example in that chapter. Datasets for each chapter are downloadable from the syllabus - each chapter is a workbook with examples, and explanation of the program Pajek. The software, exercises and research modules provided by the chapters of this book along with its data modules provide an excellent track towards a final grade with a high learning curve.

Bob Hanneman's tutorial on network analysis

Recommended: Re: Social Dynamics of Cities, States and Empires
Turchin, Peter. 2003. Historical Dynamics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (in press). Contains a link to complete text in pdf.

Recommended: Re: Fractal Complexity in Cultural Phenomena
IN THE BOOKSTORE African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design by Ron Eglash. Amazon Price: $28.37

Recommended: Re: Fractal Complexity in Technology and Warfare War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel DeLanda List Price: $17.00 Amazon Price: $11.90

Recommended: Re: Social Networks
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $19.57

You may find the GLOSSARY: Networks and Ethnography very useful for this course as all the basic terms for networks and complexity theory are defined as well as anthropological terminology for social organization.

Links to my work on Networks and Complexity

Recommended: Re: Long-Term Field Anthropology

Chronicling Cultures: Long-term Field Research in Anthropology, eds., Robert V. Kemper, Anya Royce. AltaMira Press. $29.95 Ch. 4 and "The Navigability of Strong Ties" (on the same case, the two articles provide an introduction to long-term anthropological studies through issues of networks and complexity -- for an anthro major this might provide an alternate route to a final grade through a term project involving analysis of anthropological network data

Recommended for ICS and Econ majors: illustrated tour through the book: Linked: The New Science of Networks Albert-László Barabási Amazon Price: $18.20

Recommended for Bio majors: Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology by Ricard V. Sole and Brian Goodwin Amazon Price: $12.25

On-line Resources:

Networks and Complexity: Special Issue (see Intro, Social Insects, Brain, Small Worlds, History, Civilizations, Markets)

Fractal Properties of Growing Networks source: Networked Nation by Sid Karen

Theme 1 - Social Network Analysis: A Handbook by John Scott

Theme 1 - Nexus: The Groundbreaking Science of Networks Mark BuchananAmazon Price: $18.17

Theme 2 - Self-Organized Systems (SOC) How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality - Per Bak. ISBN: 038798738X Amazon: $18.00

Theme 3 - Simulations of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World by Stefan Helmreich For hands-on simulation experience, Download Starlogo from the MIT media lab (PC and Mac)
Readings by the author of Starlogo: first chapter, pp. 3-19 (on decentralization): Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems) - Mitchel Resnick; 1997. Paperback MIT PRESS. ISBN: 0262680939 Usually ships in 2-3 days - Amazon Price: $12.50.

Theme 3 - Simulations - Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems) - Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell; 1996. Paperback Usually ships 24 hours - Amazon Price: $20.00.

Theme 4 - Simulations of Evolutionary Dynamics (ED)
see: Simulations: Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Theoretical Background - Notes - Simulations - Simulators predprey - Patch Simulator- instructions

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Instructor: Douglas R. White Office: 4169 Social Science Plaza A Office Hours: Tues/Th 11:00-12:00 or by Appt, x8495 (Lin 3175 SSPA) Phone: (949) 824-5893 Email: drwhite[.at.]uci.edu

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Welcome to Anthro 179a! Social networks and dynamics, as an approach to understanding society and dynamical problems in social science, is studied through complexity theory and modeling interactions in social networks of various kinds of entities. In this course you will come to understand methods of dynamical analysis, the grounding of complexity theory in the sciences, learn the contributions of evolutionary game theory and coevolutionary theory, learn how computer programs are used to do network analysis and/or simulate multi-agent interaction, and read a variety of articles that use a dynamical, network or complex systems approach. In addition, you will write an exploratory research paper on a topic such as using dynamical methods to model a collection of actors interacting over time.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 2002. TIME: 9:00am to 5:15pm Computational Colloquium, UCLA Faculty Center, California Room: Location of the faculty center is at coordinates G4 on the campus map: http://www.ucla.edu/map/sectors/northeast.html