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<\/a><\/p>\nWith millions of people connecting in online social networks, researchers across academia are racing to make sense of the terabytes of new social data being generated daily.<\/p>\n
Some folks, like Duncan Watts<\/a>, have been thinking about social networks for a long time, even before the online variants went viral. In fact, throughout the 20th century, the field of analytical sociology has been developing tools to prepare us for where we stand now.Those analytical sociologists: They’ve skated to where the data puck is going and brought us closer to the goal of understanding the social net. (Four hockey allusions in one sentence is a DSN record – Ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\n You can learn all about it in the The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology<\/a> TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Foundations<\/strong> THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY With millions of people connecting in online social networks, researchers across academia are racing to make sense of the terabytes of new social data being generated daily. Some folks, like Duncan Watts, have been thinking about social networks for a long time, even before the online variants went viral. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n (publisher’s info<\/a>) and get started by reading the free online chapter\u00a0What is analytical Sociology all about? An introductory essay<\/a> by Peter Hedstr\u00f6m and Peter Bearman.<\/p>\n
\n1: Peter Hedstr\u00f6m and Peter Bearman: What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay by Peter Hedstr\u00f6m
\n2: Peter Hedstr\u00f6m and Lars Ud\u00e9hn: Analytical sociology and theories of the middle range
\nSocial Cogs and Wheels<\/strong>
\n3: Jon Elster: Emotions
\n4: Jens Rydgren: Beliefs
\n5: Jeremy Freese: Preferences
\n6: Trond Petersen: Opportunities
\n7: Dan Goldstein: Heuristics
\n8: Diego Gambetta: Signaling
\n9: Jon Elster: Norms
\n10: Karen Cook and Alexandra Gerbasi: Trust
\nSocial Dynamics<\/strong>
\n11: Michael Macy and Andreas Flache: Social dynamics from the bottom up: Agent-based models of social interaction
\n12: Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare: Segregation dynamics
\n13: Michael Biggs: Self fulfilling processes
\n14: Matthew Salganik and Duncan Watts: Social influence: The puzzling nature of success in cultural markets
\n15: Yvonne \u00c5berg: The Contagiousness of Divorce
\n16: Katherine Stovel and Christine Fountain: Matching
\n17: Delia Baldassarri: Collective action
\n18: Meredith Rolfe: Conditional choice
\n19: James Moody: Network dynamics
\n20: Duncan Watts and Peter Dodds: Threshold models of social influence
\n21: Christopher Winship: Time and scheduling
\n22: Scott Feld and Bernard Grofman: Homophily and the focused organization of ties
\n23: Joel Podolny and Freda Lynn: Status
\n24: Ivan Chase and W. Brent Lindquist: Dominance hierarchies
\n25: Stathis Kalyvas: Conflict
\nPerspectives from other fields and approaches<\/strong>
\n26: Richard Breen: Game theory
\n27: Iris Bohnet: Experiments
\n28: Hannah Brueckner: Surveys
\n29: Diane Vaughan: Analytical ethnography
\n30: Karen Barkey: Historical sociology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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