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Mathematical sociology. Mathematical Bridge, or officially Wooden Bridge, is an arch bridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. Part of a series on.
Patrick Doreian is an American mathematician and social scientist, whose specialty is network analysis. His specific research interests include blockmodeling, social structure and network processes. [1] Doreian, professor emeritus from the University of Pittsburgh in sociology and statistics, was during his research career focused on social ...
James Samuel Coleman. James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. [1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of ...
Fararo has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Social Networks, Sociological Forum, and Sociological Theory. Fararo has been both an originator and an explicator of ideas and methods relating to the use of formal methods in sociological theory.
Mathematics for social justice. Mathematics for social justice is a pedagogical approach to mathematics education that seeks to incorporate lessons from critical mathematics pedagogy and similar educational philosophies into the teaching of mathematics at schools and colleges. The approach tries to empower students on their way to developing a ...
Threshold models are often used to model the behavior of groups, ranging from social insects to animal herds to human society. Classic threshold models were introduced by Sakoda, [2] in his 1949 dissertation and the Journal of Mathematical Sociology (JMS vol 1 #1, 1971). [3]
Ethnomathematics. In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture. [1] Often associated with "cultures without written expression", [2] it may also be defined as "the mathematics which is practised among identifiable cultural groups". [3] It refers to a broad cluster of ideas ranging ...
Journal of Applied Social Science. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Journal of Family Issues. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Journal of Homosexuality. Journal of Marriage and Family. Journal of Mundane Behavior. Journal of Politics & Society.