Douglas R. White

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Contents 1 Current wiki projects 2 Short bio 3 Some books 4 Some problems explored 5 Some journal articles on these topics 6 Current teaching - courses

[edit] Current wiki projects

1. A new style of teaching?
2. Tsallis q distribution project: Tambayong, Clauset, Shalizi, White
3. Tsallis q historical cities and city-sizes White, Tambayong
4. Reconstructing evolutionary trees Bhattacharya, Gell-Mannx
5. Statistical topic model project Smyth, White
6. Averting a Runaway Massive Planetary-Systems Breakdown White, Harrison
7. Redesigning road systems for global sustainability

[edit] Short bio

Douglas R. White is founder and sysop of the InterSci http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/ for Complexity Sciences. He is an American complexity researcher on the Santa Fe Institute external faculty and a social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine.

Born in Minneapolis in 1942, White attended the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.A. in 1964, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D. in 1969, all under advisor E. Adamson Wikipedia:Hoebel and the CIC: Travelling Scholars Program. He taught at the Wikipedia:University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1976. Since then he has been a Social Science Professor at the Wikipedia:University of California, Irvine, teaching in Social Relations, in Comparative Culture, in Social Networks and in Anthropology. He co-founded and has chaired the Social Networks PhD program and within the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences chairs the Social Dynamics and Complexity research group as well as the UC four-campus Human Sciences and Complexity videoconference group. He is on the governing Council of the European Complex Systems Society, and served as President of the Social Science Computing Association and the Linkages Development Research Council. He founded the World Cultures electronic journal in 1985 as part of the movement for open access scientific data and publication and founded the open access and peer reviewed Structure and Dynamics electronic journal in 2005, where he continues as editor-in-chief. He is a recipient of the U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the "Best Paper in Mathematical Sociology of 2003" Award of the American Sociological Association (2004), and the 2007 "Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award" for the outstanding article published in the field of economic sociology in the previous two years. A reaction to his latest book with Ulla Johansen, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems, by one reviewer, was that this "could be the most important book in anthropology in fifty years."

White is the Science Chair (2008-) of the French Réseau national des systèmes complexes (RNSC).

[edit] Some books

• Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan (Lexington Press, 2004; paperback 2006, with Ulla Johansen)
• Kinship, Networks, and Exchange (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (Cambridge University Press, 1998, edited, with Thomas Schweizer)
• Research Methods in Social Network Analysis (Transaction Publishers, Reprint edition, 1991, edited, with Linton C. Freeman and A. Kimball Romney)
• Tuaraiscail: Report of the Committee on Language Attitudes Research Regarding Irish (5 volumes, Dublin: Government Printing Office, 1975, with Lilyan A. Brudner)
• The Anthropology of Urban Environments (Society for Applied Anthropology, Monograph Series, 1972, with Thomas Weaver).

[edit] Some problems explored

• How to do longitudinal studies of communities, human groups, and historical evolution in ways that connect to the dynamics of causal processes to include the effects on human communities of ups and downs of regional and world markets, internal wars, sociopolitical violence, external wars, ecological deplation, effects of global warming, etcetera (See: Realistic modeling of complex interactive systems).

• How to draw major historical and evolutionary conclusions from cross-cultural studies, including division of labor, sexual division of labor, polygyny, marriage and kinship systems, and how to make best educational and research usage of the collaborative Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database (SCCS), and its public domain distribution, along with courseware and software.

• How best to model Wikipedia:mathematical modeling of social, economic, and historical dynamics in terms of equilibrium of disequilibrium proces, how to employ statistical Wikipedia:entailment entailment analysis, problems raised by complex interactions such as Galton's problem

• How to couple social network analyses to a more specific concern with network realism and how to define a more general network realism paradigm

• What are the effects of the kinds of unity and structural cohesion in human communities and societies or part-societies, achieved by Wikipedia: structural endogamy, marital relinking or structural endogamy in kinship, social class, power elites?

• how to use network simulation, and network modeling tools like regular equivalence, flow Wikipedia:centrality, and other concepts to increase realistic explanatory power of network modeling

• How to test and improve the quality of ethnographic models and understandings such as the Natchez Class Paradox, the Australian Demographic Paradox, etc.

• How to improve and explore the fundamental complex network processes and issues of social complexity and social system dynamics through network simulations such as the complex-network.
• How to match the parameters of these models with those measured in comparative empirical network studies

• How to use the relatively sparse quantitative data on cities to understanding urban system dynamics over the last millennium, and similarly for
• world system dynamics, and
• trade network dynamics

[edit] Some journal articles on these topics

• "Generative Model for Feedback Networks" in Physical Review E, 016119 2006 (8 pages), with Nataša Kejžar, Constantino Tsallis, Doyne Farmer, Scott D. White; see summary in Wikipedia: Social-circles network model. This work on implications of network feedback and feedforward processes provides one of the foundational network simulations for understanding complex networks. Tsallis is a founder of nonextensive physics, and Farmer a developer of chaos theory. The implications of this type of model are carried further in Thurner, Kyriakopoulos and Tsallis, 2007, Unified Model for Network Dynamics Exhibiting Nonextensive Statistics Phys. Rev. E 76, 036111 (2007) (8 pages).
• "Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences" in the American Journal of Sociology (2005, Powell, White, Koput and Owen-Smith) http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/woody_images.html
• “Ring Cohesion in Marriage and Social Networks” in Mathematiques et sciences humaines (2004)
• "The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology" journal Complexity (2002, with Michael Houseman)
• "Controlled Simulation of Marriage Systems" in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (1999)
• "Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories" in Theory and Society (1997, with Lilyan A. Brudner)
• "Structure and Dynamics of the Global Economy: Network Analysis of International Trade 1965-1980" in Social Forces (1992, with David Smith)
• "Graph and Semigroup Homomorphisms" in Social Networks (1983, with Karl Reitz)
• "Standard Cross-Cultural Sample" in the 1969 journal Ethnology (with George P. Murdock, 2006 on-line edition reprinted with new annotations).
• three classic articles reprinted in Social Networks Analysis. Four Volume Set. Edited by: Linton Freeman

Series: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series

For other publications: [1] [2][3]

• The above part of this page is adapted from Wikipedia
• Wikipedia site for Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
• 2007 Paris PIF Complexity summer school

[edit] Current teaching - courses

Fall-Winter-Spring (may be taken multiple times, 1-9 quarters, 1.33 credits per quarter)

1. Courses: Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment)
2. Seminars: Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment); Network Theory and Social Complexity;

Fall 2007 Course 174AW Human Social Complexity and World Cultures.

Fall 2008 Course 174AW Human Social Complexity and World Cultures.

Spring Seminar Anthropological Methods and Models 2008 (taught at UCSD, UCI students by interactive video)

Fall 2008 Anthro 129 (60230) Breadth Kinship and Complexity T,Th 3:30-4:50 Rm ELH 110 requested

my courses and seminar home pages