Stata, Sociology, and Diffusion Models
In my 2014 Sociological Theory, I argued that some things are gross or illegal to buy overtly and so people sometimes find ways to create exchange circuits that obfuscate the transactional nature. In one paragraph I noted that status differs somewhat from other cases discussed here insofar as it is not exactly disreputable for firms [ ]
Last year, Charles Lehman and I wrote pieces for the Autumn 2021 issue of City Journal (Charles’s essay, my essay) giving organizational explanations for the rise of woke capital. Here is a list of articles that Charles and I put together of scholarly works, mostly in sociology, that inspired our essays. Background on Neo-Institutionalism Institutionalized [ ]
A coauthor and I are doing power analyses based on a pilot test and we quickly realized that it s really hard to calculate a power analysis for anything much more exotic than a t-test of means. As I usually do when there s no obvious solution, I decided to just brute force it with a Monte [ ]
I’ve been reading a lot of OSR games and they remind me a lot of the “traditionalist” phase of the genre trajectory model from Lena and Peterson s 2008 ASR and Lena s book Banding Together. OSR games are attempts to recreate Dungeons and Dragons as it was played in the 1970s, often by using the OGL [ ]
I spent basically all of spring quarter working on advice for colleagues as to how to teach online. In fall quarter, I actually did it myself and it was a different experience than the theoretical one. I had a huge learning curve over the course of the quarter such a big one that if I ever do another online quarter I am probably re-recording most of my lectures even though as you ll see recording…
My prediction for what s going to come for higher education, and particularly the job market is that a repeat of 2008-2009 is the best case scenario. As many of you will recall, the 2008-09 academic year job market was surprisingly normal, in part because the lines were approved before the crash. Then there was essentially [ ]
Given the severe shortage of covid testing capacity, creative approaches are needed to expand the effective testing capacity. If the population base rate is relatively low, it can be effective to pool samples and test by batches. Doing so would imply substantial rates of false positives since every member of a test batch would be [ ]
I am doing a simulation in R that generates a list of simulated data objects and then simulates emergent behavior on them. Unfortunately, it chokes on data meeting a certain set of conditions and so I need to kick data like that from the list before running it. This is kind of hard to do [ ]
Gabriel Yesterday the Guardian published a list of 34,361 migrants who had died attempting to reach or settle within Europe. (The list is originally from United for Intercultural Action). The modal cause of death is shipwreck, but the list also includes suicides, homicides, terrestrial accidents, etc. I was curious as to the timeline [ ]
Gabriel In response to my review of Ferguson s Square and the Tower, several people have asked me what to read to get a good introduction to social networks. First of all, Part I of Ferguson s book is actually pretty good. I meant it when I said in the review that it s a pretty [ ]