Sociology and Complexity Science Blog

In 2007, the periodical, Social Science & Medicine (one of the leading journals in community health science) published a special edition...

The following is a brief interview I conducted with British Sociologist and Complexity Scientist, David Byrne. Dr. Byrne is Professor in the...

While the community-as-complex-system model is relatively new, it already has a major journal outlet, called Health & Place: An Internat...

In yesterday's post, I discussed the three models currently used to do community health science. Of the three models, I am obviously a ...

At present, one can organize the community health science literature into three dominant approaches. 1. Social Pathways Model : The oldest ...

As I have discussed in previous posts, my two main substative foci are medical professionalism and community health--both from a complexity ...

I am presenting the following paper at the upcoming sociocybernetics conference this June in Urbino Italy. This year's conference is al...

The above picture is another example of what I call complexity art . The technique is called assemblage (or, alternatively, assembled cubi...

Sociology is not the only trajectory along which I have pursued the study of complexity. In fact, long before I figured out how to apply com...

I have been working on a few new geek t-shirts shirts, which people have seemed to like. The whole idea behind these shirts is to promote co...

For those interested in learning more about qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), here is the link to Ragin's overview, which provides...

For the last several posts, I have been discussing the need for complexity science to truly overcome the qualitative/quantitative divide by ...

(click here for article) GROUNDED NEURAL NETWORKING: MODELING COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE DATA. The above publication is the type of work I am re...

This post builds on yesterday's Qualitative/Narrative Complexity Science . Part of my argument in the above post was that, in terms of q...

For all of its advances (and they are many) complexity science has yet to bridge fully the rift between qualitative and quantitative method....

CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS ABSOLUTELY ROCKIN' MANDELBROT SONG This is absolutely the coolest math song ever written. I gave a MATH DAY pres...

Okay, so most of us geeks fit the stereotype--instead of going on dates in highschool with humans, we were dating elves (male or female) or ...

This is a great graphic overview of the increasing complexity and interdiscplinary nature of scientific inquiry. (As a side note, it also s...

When people take time to post a comment on this blog, I always take the time to read about their work. Recently, Tom Mandel posted a commen...

Another overwhelming aspect to sticking my toe into the complexity rapids is the number of new concepts and terms I have encountered (from a...

Professor Castellani:  I want to begin a study of complexity -- as it applies to sociology and to issues of healthcare, but I am not sure wh...

In 1999 I wrote an article for Studies in Symbolic Interaction titled, Michel Foucault and Symbolic Interactionism: The Making of a New The...

I've got a bunch of new geek t-shirts at my CAFE PRESS STORE . Check em out. I particularly like this one and the irony of it. Factor...

Starting today, I will be featuring a new segment on this blog, called Complexity 1001 . Like the name sounds, Complexity 1001 will provide...

Several blogs ago I posted on the need for researchers to do more work intersecting the new science of networks (complexity science) with th...

Okay, so I just posted on Gershenson's blog, COMPLEXES and now I am posting on his recent book, Complexity 5 . I have to admit that this...

I have been following another excellent blog: COMPLEXES. Complexes is run by Carlos Gershenson , who is a bit of an iconoclast. He has very...

It is time to widen the complexity science vocabulary on global networks. Two rather disparate literature currently exist: First, there is ...

Complexity science has been around long enough for the field to finally settle on a name. Systems science has a clear name, as does cyberne...

In the 2002 January/February issue of Society , Judith Kleinfeld published an interesting article titled " THE SMALL WORLD PROBLEM ....

NOTE: This post is one of my rants. It is not based on serious data analysis. Instead, it is an impression I have had for a while. If you...

I have been following an excellent complexity science blog for the past couple of weeks. It is called COMPLEXITY BLOG and it is run by two...

Several years ago I came across an excellent educational website on complexity--at a time when few such websites existed. In the late 1990s...

If you are looking for excellent books and journals on complexity, you have to check out the Springer Complexity Series I took the following...

My new book, Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry was released by Springer on 4 Feb 2009. The book is part of Springer...

If you want a quick overview of sociology and complexity science and its major areas of study, see the Wikipedia article I recently posted o...

If you type in COMPLEXITY at Wikipedia, you will find my new map of complexity science there along with the article. CLICK HERE TO GO DIREC...

I just put together a new internet-based map of the field of complexity science, including all its major areas of study, leading scholars an...

Hello fellow complexity science geeks. You have got to check out the complexity science t-shirts I put on Cafe Press . In the vernacular ...

I am trying to put together a comprehensive list of the degree programs students can complete to earn a degree is complexity science, agent-...

In the fall (2008) we attended the ICAM seminar at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems , at Univ of Michigan. We heard a great prese...

For those into complexity science, one of my personal favorite sites is BarabasiLab . It is run by the world-renown network scholar, Albert-...

I have been looking at the grants at the National Science Foundation ( specifically, in the social and economic sciences section ) and was a...

A question I have been thinking a lot about lately, given the upcoming sociocybernetics conference in Urbino Italy , is: what is the link be...