Sociology and Complexity Science Blog

This past week I painted my first self-portrait. My brilliant nephew, Kevin Rusnak, took the photo of me at a family barbecue. I decided to...

I have always been a huge comics fan. I wasn't so much into the superhero genre, though. I was drawn more to humor, social critique an...

On 1 Sept 2009 I posted on the "SOM for qualitative data" work done by Timo Honkela and colleagues at the Helsinki University of ...

If you are into neural nets, you know about the Laboratory of Computer and Information Science at the Helsinki University of Technology. On...

Here is a photographic example of the assemblage process. In this photo a mom and her daughter are integrated to form a system and yet thei...

Okay, just in case you do not agree with my art postings about the connection between art and complexity science, you need to look at the wo...

Here is a second version of my Space Madonna. The focus in this painting, as in most of my work, is the creation of a multi-singularity; th...

Here is a painting I recently completed, or one version of it. It combines cubism, abstract expressionism, pop, illustration, icons, and su...

Well, I am back from a couple weeks in Europe where I attended the sociocybernetics conference in Urbino. The conference focus was life on ...

The past several days I have been searching the web for articles or books that explore the connections between Foucault's work and compl...

One of the fastest growing areas in the study of community health in complex systems terms is the built environment literature. The built e...

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...