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Record Nr.

UNINA9910988286603321

Autore

Hazelrigg Lawrence

Titolo

Modeling Social Processes of Aggregation / / by Lawrence Hazelrigg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031847783

3031847784

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 412 p. 41 illus., 16 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Sociology - Methodology

Anthropology - Research

Mathematics - Data processing

Social sciences - Statistical methods

Sociological Methods

Research Methods in Anthropology

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Intentions, Actions, Institutions -- On the Arts of Modeling -- Modeling Aggregation Processes -- Applications to Work as Paid Employment -- Supplements and Bridges in the Meter of Time.

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates, via formal statements and empirical illustrations, that nonlinearities in social processes can be modeled systematically to create solutions with practical applications in the institutional forms of paid employment, schooling, and familial relations including marital and kinship ties and the rearing of children. It shows how social processes can be modeled accurately through analyzing time series data—specifically, a temporal sequence of process outcomes that is dense enough in observation time to support appropriate techniques of modeling the outcome sequence. The book illustrates techniques using minimal mathematical formalism which is explained also in careful narrative descriptions of the model logic.