User:Douglas R. White

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Doug White credit: SFI known for Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems, Complexity research, SCCS

1 Current @wiki projects DRW
2 Short Bio
3 Current teaching and research
4 Links
5 Categories

[edit] Current @wiki projects DRW

DRW ARTICLES in draft
Structure and Dynamics: articles in process
Software: Kinship simulation
Réseau national des systèmes complexes (RNSC) Chairmanship
Doug's R package installation list
China migration project
China project
Testing the model: q exponential
Software: Role Models for Complex Networks
Social-circles network model
Dynamics of human behavior
Complexity in human behavior
Reconstructing evolutionary trees Bhattacharya, Gell-Mann
Statistical topic model project Smyth, White
An invisible college
Averting a Runaway Massive Planetary-Systems Breakdown White, Harrison (note to review: Haila, Yrjö, and Chuck Dyke (eds). 2006. How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition. (eBook) Duke University Press. $22 at http://www.deepdiscount.com/
Stability domains group White, Harrison Studies
The Harrison Studio <<sandbox for Peninsula Europe>> wiki writeup
Dynamics of Civilizations group-SFI
Redesigning road systems for global sustainability - Road Systems for failed states, failing empires, displaced populations, and sustainable communities (try the http://tinyurl.com/29sh7z tiny URL)
Historical networks of Eurasian Roads
Use of Mathematica, program and free on-line resources at Calculus and differential equations
Study of ideosyncratic readings
Wikipedia:Kinship

[edit] Short Bio

I am a complexity researcher (SFI external faculty) and ethno-sociologist, or social anthropologist with broad sociological as well as comparative and ethnographic interests in human societies and global historical processes. My PhD in Anthropology with a subfield in sociological theory was done with advisor E. Adamson Hoebel, University of Minnesota, although largely through the CIC Traveling Scholars Program that allowed transfer of seminar credits from the University of Michigan, Columbia, and Northwestern. My High School education involved an immersion school-year in Madrid living with two Spanish families. My BA involved two quarters of transfer credits for ethnographic fieldwork under supervision at the University of Veracruz in Jalapa, Mexico. My graduate work focused on Mathematical Anthropology, Mathematical Psychology, and Mathematical Sociology. For a thesis in Math Anthro I used a detailed multilevel comparative complexity sciences approach to studying intrasocietal and intersociety networks in a continuous-region of 90 adjoining societies with high variation in social organization. I tested the hypothesis that cross-cutting (cohesive v. segmentary) network integration in each of several forms would all be predicted by high cooperativity in productive economic tasks (see my page on my extension of Louis Guttman's Radex theory of complex interactions). The hypothesis worked, and formed a basis for further work on social networks as a general theoretical approach to social organization and sociopolitical as well as economic institutions. My studies in Math Psych as U Michigan provided training with Frank Harary in network and graph theory, with Louis Guttman in multidimensional and discrete-structure scaling, and with Clyde Coombs in unfolding theory and math modelling of diversity in preferences. Studies with Paul Lazarsfeld, Neil Henry, and others at Columbia at the Bureau of Applied Social Research provided training in a large array of topics in Mathematical and Applied Sociology.

eJrnl logo Structure and Dynamics; credit Krempel and Schnegg

I began teaching at the University of Pittsburgh (Anthropology, with involvement also in Sociology) in 1967, finished the PhD in 1969, and continued from 1976 to the present as a Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. I chair a research group on Social Dynamics and Complexity and lead a multicampus videoconference series in Human Social Complexity, supported by a research appointment with the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. The years of my 1990-92 Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation were largely spent at the Institute of Ethnology, Cologne, and the Maison Suger and EHESS (Center for Advanced Studies), Paris, and a third of my time since then was spent at various European research institutes and universities. I have worked extensively since 1999 at the Santa Fe Institute for Studies in Complexity and am currently on their external faculty. I serve on several professional societies that run the Complex Systems conferences in Europe and Internationally, taught in the 2007 Paris ISC PIF Complexity summer school, am an active Wikipedian and one of the Anthropology editors at Citizendium. I am Editor-in-Chief of the InterSci.ss.uci.edu/wiki and the Structure and Dynamics eJournal.

[edit] Current teaching and research

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

Courses: Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment)
Seminars: Networks and Complexity (open for enrollment)

Fall 2008

Fall Course 174AW Human Social Complexity and World Cultures T,Th 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm in SST 155
Fall Course 129 60230 Breadth Kinship and Complexity T,Th 3:30-4:50 Rm ELH 110 requested
Fall Seminar Network Theory and Social Complexity

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

my courses and seminar home pages

Research: Networks and Ethnography; Network dynamics and simulation; historical and urban dynamics. Eurasia: 870 CE - 2070 CE. Mexico: 1500 CE - 2070 CE.