Sociology

Campbell (1958): "Common Fate, Similarity, and Other Indices of the Status of Aggregates of Persons as Social Entities" pdf
Coleman (1986): "Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action" pdf
summary
Sociologists in the early 1900s adapted the economic (rational) model of human behavior to sociology, but due to the difficulty of the micro-macro unification problem, this tool was then widely abandoned by sociologists in favor of functionalism and then structural functionalism and behaviorism until the 1980s. While during this time social theory remained focused on macro-level functionalism, methodology switched from anthropological fieldwork to surveys, which moved the empirical focus of sociology from groups and systemic behavior towards individuals, but still neglected individual agency, instead focusing on explaining social factors in individual behavior. Coleman in this paper called for a renewed interest in bridging the micro-macro divide by developing a theory of sociology based in purposive individual action.

Analytical/Computational Sociology

*Emirbayer and Goodwin (1994): "Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency" pdf
Epstein (1999): "Agent-Based Computational Models And Generative Social Science" pdf
*Macy and Willer (2002): "FROM FACTORS TO ACTORS: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling" pdf
Marks (2009): "Analysis and Synthesis: Multi-Agent Systems in the Social Sciences" pdf
Sawyer (2003): "Artificial Societies: Multiagent Systems and the Micro-Macro Link in Sociological Theory " link
Squazzoni et al. (2013): "Social Simulation in the Social Sciences: A Brief Overview" link
Tsvetkovaa et al. (2015): "An Experimental Study of Segregation Mechanisms" link
summary
The researchers put high school students in a simulated Schelling seggregation game in which each player is assigned a certain color, and utilities are given. They played by making moves on a shared game board and informally interacting with each other. The authors report that the aggregate predictions of the Schelling model largely hold in two conditions, Same Alone and Different Alone, indicating that people are utility maximizing, but not in the more complex "Same and Different" or "Same or Different". People basically seemed to treat the first as just a Different game, and the second as just a Same game. I like this paradigm, and it's interesting to see how people compare to our models when put in the model context. It would be interesting to try to find natural contexts that mirror the model contexts, and see if human behavior in those field contexts matches the human behavior in this lab context. Not clear if field or quasi-field experiments of that sort have been done.

Mathematical Sociology

Galam et al. (1982): "Sociophysics: A new approach of sociological collective behaviour. I. mean‐behaviour description of a strike" link

Methodology

Goldthorpe (2001): "Causation, Statistics, and Sociology" pdf

Norms

Agotnes (2010): "Optimal Social Laws" pdf
Airiau et al. (2013): "Emergence of conventions through social learning" link
Camerer and Fehr (2002): "Measuring Social Norms and Preferences using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists" pdf
Centola et al. (2005): "The Emperor’s Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self-Enforcing Norms" pdf
Mahmoud (2014): "An Approach to Norms Assimilation in Normative Multi-agent Systems" link
Srivastava and Banaji (2011): "Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations" pdf
Stern (1999): "A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism" pdf
Trascau et al. (2014): "Emergence of Norms in Multi-agent Societies: An Ultimatum Game Case Study" link
Young (1993): "The Evolution of Conventions" link
Yu et al. (2013): "Emergence of social norms through collective learning in networked agent societies" link

Philosophy

Velupillai (2010): "THE ALGORITHMIC REVOLUTION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS, GAME THEORY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE" pdf

Social Identity Theory

Turner (2010): "Towards a cognitive redefinition of the social group" link
*Turner et al. (1994): "Self and Collective: Cognition and Social Context" pdf

Stereotypes and Biases

LaCour and Green (2014): "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality" link
summary
This paper studies the effect of face-to-face interaction on resolving stereotypes and biases. The paper presents the results of a field experiment in which households selected by an online survey containing at least two participating voters were randomly assigned to receive visits either by gay or straight canvassers discussing either recycling or gay marriage. (Sexual orientation of the canvassers was only revealed in the gay marriage condition.) The researchers show that both both gay and straight canvassers produced instanteneous effects on opinion change on the visited individual but only gay canvassers produced lasting effects and only gay canvassers produced spillover effects to the non-contacted individuals in the household. Moreover, the recycling script produced no changes. The strenght of these results is surprisingly strong, and the observed spillover effects are particularly surprising.

Trust

Karen Cook link
Macy and Skvoretz (1998): "The evolution of trust and cooperation between strangers: A computational model" pdf
Szabo: "Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks" link
Vogiatzis et al. (2010): "A Probabilistic Model for Trust and Reputation" pdf
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