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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.
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.
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 ...
In the spirit of Granovetter's threshold model, the “threshold” is “the number or proportion of others who must make one decision before a given actor does so”. It is necessary to emphasize the determinants of threshold. Different individuals have different thresholds. Individuals' thresholds may be influenced by many factors: social ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
James Douglas Montgomery (born April 13, 1963) is professor of sociology and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has applied game-theoretic models and non-monotonic logic to present formal analysis and description of social theories and ...