Douglas R. White, Constantino Tsallis, Céline Rozenblat January
v1.1.2 Generative modeling of city-size scaling laws, 250 BCE –
Douglas R. White, Artemy Malkov
Sornette (2001) and Cohen (2003). World Population 1
Community Variations and Network Structure in the Social Functions of Compadrazgo in Rural (2009)
Tlaxcala Mexico, Hugo G. Nutini, Douglas R. White
The functions of com~adraz~o (ritual kinship) have been widely discussed in the
Property Flows in Pul Eliya (Sri Lanka) (2009)
Structures Ambilateral Sidedness, Michael Houseman, Douglas R. White, Thomas Schweizer, Douglas R. White
Our aim, by means of the richly documented example of Pul Eliya (Leach 1961 [1968]), is to examine the relationship between certain kinship phenomenon (pertaining to the circulation of persons) and...
A Normalized and a Hybrid Modularity (2009)
Haifeng Du, Douglas R. White, Yike Ren, Shuzhuo Li
Abstract: The study of community structures is a hot spot for many inhomogeneous networks. Modularity plays an important role in this area, because it is a criterion for community detection, and a...
Douglas R. White, Andrey Korotayev, Daria Khaltourina
2 Cross-Cultural Research with the Standard Sample
Pinpointing Sheets for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample: Complete Edition (2009)
The original pinpointing sheets, 2/3rds prepared by Murdock and 1/3rd by White, are printed here in the same font as they were originally typescript, with only minor spelling corrections. Only the...
Multiple Measures of Alyawarra Kinship (2009)
Woodrow W. Denham, Douglas R. White, Woodrow W. Denham, Douglas R. White
between what Aborigines actually did and what they said they did when anthropologists interviewed them. Fieldwork entailed observing behavior and recording it in numerically coded forms; analysis...
Forthcoming, American Journal of Sociology (2008)
Walter W. Powell, Douglas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput, Jason Owen-smith, Michael Heaney, Sanjay Jain, ...
where these ideas were initially discussed and much of the work was done. We are especially grateful to John Padgett, organizer of the States and Markets group at SFI for his support and insights. We...
Dynamics of Human Behavior (2008)
ARTICLE OUTLINE Glossary and Notation I. Definition of the Subject and Its Importance 3 II. Introduction 3 III. Networks, and Cohesion in HB Dynamics 4 IV. Cooperation, Connectivity-k, and "Critical...
RÉSUMÉ – Théorie de la cohésion par les renchaînements d’alliance dans les mariages et les réseaux sociaux Une théorie de la cohésion sociale peut être développée à partir d’une...
Network Analysis and Social Dynamics (2008)
Abstract? Network analysis, an area of mathematical sociology and anthropology crucial to the linking of theory and observation, developed dramatically in recent decades. These developments make...
Network Analysis and Social Dynamics (2008)
Network analysis, an area of mathematical sociology and anthropology crucial to the linking of theory and observation, developed dramatically in recent decades. Methodological developments are...
Self-organization in Strong-tie Small Worlds (2008)
Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman
small world (SW) is a (large) graph with both local clustering and, on average, short distances between nodes [1,2]. Short distances promote accessibility, whereas local clustering and redundancy of...
2007. “Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems (2008)
Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, Nataša Kejžar
(proof corrections; variables not italicized) Globalization, world-system, and historical dynamic theory offer complementary perspectives for the study of city systems as the politico-economic engine...
hierarchy, levels and units in human and technological networks and evolution 1 (2008)
Social Scaling: From scale-free to stretched exponential models for scalar stress,
Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered (2008)
Douglas R. White, George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion
colonial administrators recorded the features of Natchez social life. In 1731 a war with the French led to the surrender and sale into slavery of one sector of the tribe and the dispersal of the...
Douglas R. White, Vladimir Batagelj, Andrej Mrvar, Douglas R. White, Vladimir Batagelj, Andrej Mrvar
Five key problems of kinship networks are boundedness, cohesion, size and cohesive relinking, types of relations and relinking, and groups or roles. Approaches to solving these problems include...
Douglas R. White, J. Patrick Gray
CORR-REL is a C++ program described in White (1990). The program offers four options. First, it can read a file containing a correlation matrix and calculate reliabilities of the variables..Second,...
Abstract Statistical entailments and the Galois lattice 1 (2008)
a rigorous evaluation of null hypotheses of statistical independence as a potential source of binary data structure, and second at constructing a discrete structure (Boolean) model of those...
Cross tabulations of qualitative data are a fundamental tool of empirical research. Their interpretation in terms of testing hypotheses requires a number of relatively simple concepts in statistical...
Woodrow W. Denham, Douglas R. White
between what Aborigines actually did and what they said they did when anthropologists interviewed them. Fieldwork entailed observing behavior and recording it in numerically coded forms; analysis...
Spatial Levels in Cultural Organization: An Empirical Study1 (2008)
Interpreting comparative observations from diverse world cultures poses the dilemma of how to unfold the wide variety of functional and histori-cal processes observed in cultural systems. Do...
North-Holland GRAPH AND SEMIGROUP HOMOMORPHISMS ON NETWORKS OF RELATIONS (2008)
Douglas R. White, Karl P. Reitz
The algebraic definitions presented here are motivated by our search for an adequate formaliza-tion of the concepts of social roles as regularities in social network patterns. The theorems represent...
Fisher-B is an interactive FORTRAN program that performs two functions. First, it calculates the Fisher's exact test and gamma measure of association for 2x2 tables. Second, it tests the null...
Conceptual Ethnography: Integrating Disciplinary Practice (2008)
Abstract. Conceptual ethnography begins from the recognition that the compartments and conceptions of anthropology and ethnography are interlinked. Here I examine cognition and social networks in...
A New Perspective on Innovation and Social Change. (2008)
Douglas R. White, David Lane, Geoff West, Denise Pumain
The ability to specify models of social processes in relatively precise terms proves to be central to historical dynamics and to a macro-approach to innovation and social change as well as to...
Sidedness Million, Strong Aaa, Sidedness Million, Strong Aaa, Douglas R. White, Vladimir Batagelj, ...
We started our study from a close reading of Edmund Leach’s Pul Eliya (Sri Lanka) and the genealogies in his monograph, which we converted to a kinship and marriage network in order to study the...
Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, Nataša Kejžar
“Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems ” 1
RÉSUMÉ – Cohésion par les cycles dans les mariages et les réseaux sociaux Une théorie à propos de la cohésion sociale s’est offert comme une approche structural: « Les recherches...
City-system dynamics in world history studied by change in city-size distributions 1 (2008)
Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, Nataša Kejžar
Abstract. Oscillatory patterns of expansion/contraction have long characterized the dynamics of demographic, economic, and political processes of human societies, including those of exchange...
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Affiliation of Authors (2008)
Douglas R. White, Jason Owen-smith, James Moody, Walter W. Powell, Guest Aless, Ro Lomi, ...
January 2004: Special Issue on Mathematical representations for the analysis of social networks within and between organizations
Malcolm M. Dow, Northwestern Unioersity, Michael L. Burton, Douglas R. White
It is axiomatic to the social sciences, and an essential part of the network perspective, that human performances are intricately linked with their social and enviromental contexts. Researchers in...
The Periodic Theory of Elements for World Population 1 (2008)
Douglas R. White, Artemy Malkov
For submission to Structure and Dynamics with a shortened version for Science Abstract. Given that a power-law growth dynamic giving way as predicted by von Foerster et al. (1960) to a global...
The Indigenous Australian Marriage Paradox: Small-World Dynamics on a Continental Scale (2008)
White, Douglas R, Denham, Woodrow W.
Ethnographies of Indigenous Australian language groups suggest that their populations were consistently small, averaging perhaps 500 people each, while classical models of their kinship systems...
Nakano, Tsutomu, White, Douglas R.
Given data on supplier chains in a Tokyo industrial district, we show how network structures such as monopsony (uniqueness of buyers) may affect noncompetitive pricing. To address the distribution of...
Network analysis, an area of mathematical anthropology and sociology crucial to the linking of theory and observation, developed dramatically in recent decades. This made possible a new understanding...
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample 1: on-line (2007)
George P. Murdock, Douglas R. White
offers to scholars a representative sample of the world's known and well described cultures, 186 in number, each "pinpointed " to the smallest identifiable subgroup of the...
Douglas R. White, Walter W. Powell, Jason Owen-smith, Guest Aless, Ro Lomi, Phillipa Pattison, ...
Special Issue on Mathematical representations for the analysis of social networks within and between organizations
Douglas R. White, Frank Harary, Michael Sobel, Mark Becker
This study shows various ways that formal graph theoretic statements map patterns of network ties into substantive hypotheses about social cohesion. If network cohesion is enhanced by multiple...
Collective Geodesics and Co-evolution: A Graph Theoretic Structural Model 1 (2007)
Douglas R. White, Frank Harary
Abstract. Contributions to complexity theory in relation to social organization are given by original proofs in graph theory that show the structural conditions that maximize the probability of...
Chapter 9 EMERGENCE, TRANSFORMATION AND DECAY IN SOCIO-NATURAL SYSTEMS, (2007)
Uno Svedin, Tim Kohler, Dwight Read, Douglas R. White
Emergence, transformation and decay in pastoral nomad socio-natural systems
Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman
The focus of this AAA symposium is on cultural idea systems as logical structures with instantiating logics of practice. We turn this notion somewhat on its head in that we look first at social...
Submitted to American Journal of Sociology (2007)
Word Count (including text, figures, tables and bibliography): 13,811
Role models for complex networks (2007)
Reichardt, Joerg, White, Douglas R.
We present a framework for automatically decomposing ("block-modeling") the functional classes of agents within a complex network. These classes are represented by the nodes of an image graph ("block...
Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems (2007)
White, Douglas R., Tambayong, Laurent, Nataa , Kejar
Oscillatory patterns of expansion/contraction have long characterized the dynamics of demographic, economic, and political processes of human societies, including those of exchange economies and...
City-system dynamics in world history studied by change in city-size distributions1 (2007)
White, Douglas R., Tambayong, Laurent
Oscillatory patterns of expansion/contraction have long characterized the dynamics of demographic, economic, and political processes of human societies, including those of exchange economies and...
Tsutomu Nakano, Douglas R. White
Given data on supplier chains in a Tokyo industrial district, we show how network structures such as monopsony (uniqueness of buyers) may affect noncompetitive pricing. To address the distribution of...
Tsutomu Nakano, Douglas R. White
Given data on supplier chains in a Tokyo industrial district, we show how network structures such as monopsony (uniqueness of buyers) may affect noncompetitive pricing. To address the distribution of...
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Structure and Dynamics Vol.1 No.2: Editorial Commentary (2006)
White, Douglas R, Manlove, Robert F.
The Structure and Dynamics eJournal offers a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We invite you--as an...
Johansen, Ulla, White, Douglas R
Longitudinal network analysis is coupled in this study to a systematic analysis of the results of long-term ethnography of a nomadic group. Data collection using genealogical, interview and...
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample: on-line edition (2006)
Murdock, George P., White, Douglas R
The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample contains the best-described society in each of 186 cultural provinces of the world, chosen so that cultural independence of each unit in terms of historical origin...
Ring cohesion theory in marriage and social networks (2006)
Une théorie de la cohésion sociale peut être développée à partir d’une approche structurale : « Les recherches structurales sont apparues dans les sciences sociales comme une conséquence...
Matrimonial ring structures (2006)
Hamberger, Klaus;, Houseman, Michael, Daillant, Isabelle, White, Douglas R., Barry, Laurent
Les anneaux matrimoniaux sont un type particulier de cycles qui se constituent dans les réseaux de parenté lorsque les conjoints sont liés entre eux par des liens de consanguinité et...
Endogamie structurale et le réseau graphe de parenté (2006)
Cet article, qui fait partie d'une série, aborde les thèmes du mariage et de la parenté sous un angle cinétique et structural qui déplace le centre d'intérêt, du point de vue initial, fait de...
Introduction to Structure and Dynamics: Inaugural Issue (2005)
White, Douglas R., Manlove, Robert, Colby, B. N., Garfias, Robert, Bell, Duran
In inaugurating the Structure and Dynamics journal, we offer a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We as...
Kejzar, Natasa, White, Douglas R, Tsallis, Constantino, Farmer, J. Doyne, White, Scott
We investigate a simple generative model for network formation. The model is designed to describe the growth of networks of kinship, trading, corporate alliances, or autocatalytic chemical reactions,...
A generative model for feedback networks (2005)
White, Douglas R, Kejzar, Natasa, Tsallis, Constantino, Farmer, Doyne, White, Scott D.
We investigate a simple generative model for network formation. The model is designed to describe the growth of networks of kinship, trading, corporate alliances, or autocatalytic chemical reactions,...
A generative model for feedback networks (2005)
White, Douglas R., Kejzar, Natasa, Tsallis, Constantino, Farmer, Doyne, White, Scott
We investigate a simple generative model for network formation. The model is designed to describe the growth of networks of kinship, trading, corporate alliances, or autocatalytic chemical reactions,...
Introduction to Structure and Dynamics: Inaugural Issue (2005)
Douglas R. White, Robert Manlove, B. N. Colby, Robert Garfias, Duran Bell
In inaugurating the Structure and Dynamics journal, we offer a conduit for refereed electronic publication, debate, and editorial communication in the domain of anthropology and human sciences. We as...
Teoría de la Cohesión Circular en el Matrimonio y las Redes Sociales (2005)
La cohesión circular, como teoría relevante de la cohesión social, se presenta en el análisis de los reencadenamientos matrimoniales como el resultado de una aproximación estructural: "Los...
Douglas R. White, Patrick Heady
Abstract. The paper is designed to serve as a guide for integrating network analysis into major research institutes in social anthropology and related fields Although written from a broadly...
Walter W. Powell, Douglas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput, Jason Owen-smith, Tim Bresnahan, Paul David, ...
where these ideas were initially discussed and much of the work was done. We are especially grateful to John Padgett, organizer of the States and Markets group at SFI for his support and insights. We...
Matrimonial ring structures (2004)
Laurent Barry, Isabelle Daillant, Michael Houseman, Klaus Hamberger, Douglas R. White
Les anneaux matrimoniaux sont un type particulier de cycles qui se constituent dans les réseaux de parenté lorsque les conjoints sont liés entre eux par des liens de consanguinité et...
Ring cohesion theory in marriage and social networks (2004)
Une théorie de la cohésion sociale peut être développée à partir d’une approche structurale : « Les recherches structurales sont apparues dans les sciences sociales comme une conséquence...
Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings. (2004)
White, Douglas R, Owen-Smith, Jason, Moody, James, Powell, Walter W.
Social action is situated in fields that are simultaneously composed of interpersonal ties and relations among organizations, which are both usefully characterized as social networks. We introduce a...
Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings (2004)
White, Douglas R., Owen-Smith, Jason, Moody, James, Powell, Walter W.
Social action is situated in fields that are simultaneously composed of interpersonal ties and relations among organizations, which are both usefully characterized as social networks. We introduce a...
Matrimonial ring structures (2004)
Klaus Hamberger, Michael Houseman, Isabelle Daillant, Douglas R. White, Laurent Barry
Les anneaux matrimoniaux sont un type particulier de cycles qui se constituent dans les réseaux de parenté lorsque les conjoints sont liés entre eux par des liens de consanguinité et...
Prepared for a Social Networks special issue edited by Alain Degenne (2004)
Structural studies are, in the social sciences, the indirect outcome of modern developments in mathematics which have given increasing importance to the qualitative point of view in contradistinction...
Structural cohesion and embeddedness: A hierarchical concept of social groups (2003)
of Cologne, who provided productive commentary on the applications of connectivity and network methods to large-scale ethnographic projects. Thanks are due to Alexis Ferrand who provided a venue for...
Structural cohesion and embeddedness: A hierarchical concept of social groups (2003)
James Moody, Steve Borgatti, Bob Farris, Douglas R. White
Although questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. Here, research on social cohesion and social embeddedness is...
Tomlinson, Shannon K, Melin, Susan A, Higgs, Vetta, White, Douglas R, Savage, Paul, Case, Douglas, ...
Abstract Background 5-fluorouracil remains the standard therapy for patients with advanced/metastatic colorectal cancer. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated the biological modulation of...
Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman
“Probably the only way to give an account of the practical coherence of practices and works is to construct generative models which reproduce in their own terms the logic from which the coherence...
Taking sides: From coherent practice to macro organization (2002)
Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman
“Probably the only way to give an account of the practical coherence of practices and works is to construct generative models which reproduce in their own terms the logic from which the coherence...
Fast Approximation Algorithms for Finding Node-Independent Paths in Networks (2001)
A network is robust to the extent that it is not vulnerable to disconnection by removal of nodes. The minimum number of nodes that need be removed to disconnect a pair of other nodes is called the...
The cohesiveness of blocks in social networks: Node connectivity and conditional density (2001)
Douglas R. White, Frank Harary
Abstract. The social cohesion of a group, as measured by patterns of network ties, increases with the level of redundancy of interconnections of its members. We will see that the minimal number k of...
Analyzing Large Kinship and Marriage Networks (1999)
Douglas R. White, Vladimir Batagelj, Andrej Mrvar
...helps to solve five key conceptual problems of network studies of kinship, including that of identifying subgroup boundaries. As a solution to these problems, the p-graph approach has proven an...
Kinship, property transmission, and stratification in Javanese villages (1998)
Douglas R. White, Thomas Schweizer
Kinship is a basic institution in human societies, ordering social interaction, reproduction, and the flow of resources. Despite questioning of underlying conceptions and definitions (Schneider...
Endogamie structurale et le réseau graphe de parenté (1997)
Cet article, qui fait partie d'une série, aborde les thèmes du mariage et de la parenté sous un angle cinétique et structural qui déplace le centre d'intérêt, du point de vue initial, fait de...
Class, property and structural endogamy: Visualizing networked histories. (1997)
Brudner, Lilyan A, White, Douglas R
This is the first theoretical application of the concept of structural endogamy as identifying an empirical variable or boundary condition within social networks that is linked in causal-explanatory...
P-systems: A structural model for kinship studies (1997)
Frank Harary, Douglas R. White
Several mathematical models have been proposed for kinship studies. We propose an alternate structural model designed to be so simple logically and intuitively that it can be understood and used by...
P-systems: A structural model for kinship studies / Harary & White (1997)
Frank Harary, Douglas R. White
We dedicate this paper to the memory of Oystein Ore Several mathematical models have been proposed for kinship studies. We propose an alternate structural model designed to be so simple logically and...
P-systems: A structural model for kinship studies / Harary & White (1997)
Frank Harary, Douglas R. White
We dedicate this paper to the memory of Oystein Ore Several mathematical models have been proposed for kinship studies. We propose an alternate structural model designed to be so simple logically and...
Using Galois lattices to represent network data (1993)
Linton C. Freeman, Douglas R. White
Galois lattices are introduced as a device to provide a general representation for two mode social network data. It is shown that Galois lattices yield a single visual image of such data in cases...
The navigability of strong ties: small worlds, tie strength and network topology (1993)
Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman
We examine data on and models of small world properties and parameters of social networks. Our focus, on tie-strength, multilevel networks and searchability in strong-tie social networks, allows us...
ABSTRACT: The theory of reliability and reliability estimates, nearly a century old, has rarely been employed in anthropology, both for lack of familiarity and related problems of computation. This...
Entailment theory and method: A cross-cultural analysis of the sexual division of labor (1977)
Douglas R. White, Michael L. Burton, Lilyan A. Brudner
The purpose of this paper is to explore a more precise form for theoretical propositions in certain types of cross-cultural problems and to develop and explicate an accompanying statistical method....
Cross tabulations of qualitative data are a fundamental tool of empirical research. Their interpretation in terms of testing hypotheses requires a number of relatively simple concepts in statistical...
Tomlinson, Shannon K, Melin, Susan A, Higgs, Vetta, White, Douglas R, Savage, Paul, Case, Douglas, ...
Tomlinson, Shannon K, Melin, Susan A, Higgs, Vetta, White, Douglas R, Savage, Paul, Case, Douglas, ...
Fast Approximation Algorithms for Finding Node-Independent Paths in Networks
A network is robust to the extent that it is not vulnerable to disconnection by removal of nodes. The minimum number of nodes that need be removed to disconnect a pair of other nodes is called the...
Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups
While questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, no clear definition of cohesion exists. We present a definition of structural cohesion based on network connectivity that...
ECONOMIC NETWORKS: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?
FRANK SCHWEITZER, GIORGIO FAGIOLO, DIDIER SORNETTE, FERNANDO VEGA-REDONDO, DOUGLAS R. WHITE
We examine the emergent field of economic networks and explore its ability to shed light on the global and volatile economy where credit, ownership, innovation, investment, and virtually every other...