A frame for organizational actions and macroactions*
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 95-123
ISSN: 1545-5874
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In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 95-123
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 20, Heft 2-3, S. 271-287
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 425-439
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 13, Heft 1-2, S. 153-169
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 13, Heft 1-2, S. 5-7
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 13, Heft 1-2, S. 103-132
ISSN: 1545-5874
This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 109, Heft 5, S. 1109-1136
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 13, Heft 1-2, S. 133-151
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: ICB-research report 45
In: Annual review of sociology, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 407-436
ISSN: 1545-2115
Sociologists have begun to explore the gains for theory and research that might be achieved by artificial intelligence technology: symbolic processors, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and classifier systems. The first major accomplishments of artificial social intelligence (ASI) have been in the realm of theory, where these techniques have inspired new theories as well as helping to render existing theories more rigorous. Two application areas for which ASI holds great promise are the sociological analysis of written texts and data retrieval from the forthcoming Global Information Infrastructure. ASI has already been applied to some kinds of statistical analysis, but how competitive it will be with more conventional techniques remains unclear. To take advantage of the opportunities offered by ASI, sociologists will have to become more computer literate and will have to reconsider the place of programming and computer science in the sociological curriculum. ASI may be a revolutionary approach with the potential to rescue sociology from the doldrums into which some observers believe it has fallen.