presentation on social behavior for Computer Simulation group

1. The Traditional Economic View

2. Individuals are
isolated

3. Transactions are isolated

4. The Sociological View
Individuals & transactions are embedded in…

5. Groups
In-group / Out-group
Reference group

6. Neighborhoods
Individuals are embedded in space

7. Networks
Connections that span space and social category

8. Homans’ Law

9. Social Control

10. The war of all against all?
Thomas Hobbes
The “State of Nature” is conflict
Emile Durkheim
Solidarity is our natural state

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12. Reciprocity Exchange

13. Bounded Solidarity

14. Value Introjection

15. Enforceable Trust

16. Acknowledgements
Anonymous. “Prisoner’s Dilemma. Wikipedia. Accessed
8/31/2007
Anonymous. “Social Contract Theory.” Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed 8/31/2007.
Homans, George. 1958. quot;Social Behavior as Exchange.quot;
American Journal of Sociology. 63: 597-606.
Portes Alejandro & Julia Sensenbrenner. 1993.
Embeddedness & Immigration. American Journal of
Sociology. 98(6): 1320-50.
Yu Zhang, Christine Drennon, Mark Lewis, Luis Schettino, Dante Suarez
Associated Colleges of the South
Associated Colleges of the South