Douglas R. White

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[edit] Current projects discussed on the wiki

  1. Tipp - TIPP Kinship and computing‎
  2. Structure k-cohesion experiment
  3. Vision statement: Human Societies Project
  4. A new style of teaching - EduMod
  5. Tsallis q distribution project: Tambayong, Clauset, Shalizi, White
  6. Tsallis q historical cities and city-sizes White, Tambayong
  7. Reconstructing evolutionary trees Bhattacharya, Gell-Mann
  8. Statistical topic model project Smyth, White,
  9. Averting a Runaway Massive Planetary-Systems Breakdown White, Harrison
  10. Kinsources
  11. The P-graph/Pajek marriage census

[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.

Doug White credit: SFI
Doug White credit: SFI
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 Hoebel and the CIC: Travelling Scholars Program. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1976. Since then he has been a Social Science Professor at the 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 (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 Wikipedia:Structure_and_Dynamics 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 (2008-09) of the French Réseau national des systèmes complexes (RNSC).

[edit] Books and selected publications

Selected publications

Vita in pdf

[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 couple social network analyses to a more specific concern with network realism and how to define a more general network realism paradigm
  • 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,
  • trade flow centralities, flow centrality, and
  • trade network dynamics

[edit] Some journal articles on these topics

Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change]. D.Lane, D.Pumain, S. van der Leeuw and G.West (eds). Berlin: Springer (Methodos series). http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/ch5revMay-20.pdf

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

[edit] Current teaching: courses

Fall-Winter-Spring (may be taken multiple times, 1-9 quarters, 1.33 credits per quarter) UCI Course signup from other UC Campuses

  1. Courses (undergrad) 2008 fall: Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment)
  2. Seminars 2008 SOC SCI 240A (fall 72100): Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment) - multicampus videoconference;
  3. Seminars 2009 winter Network Theory and Social Complexity;

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

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

my courses and seminar home pages - https://eee.uci.edu/

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