| collective behavior is easy to study: The Ecology of Collective Behavior Deborah M. Gordon, 2023-10-24 A groundbreaking new perspective on collective behavior across biological systems Collective behavior is everywhere in nature, from gene transcription and cancer cells to ant colonies and human societies. It operates without central control, using local interactions among participants to allow groups to adjust to changing conditions. The Ecology of Collective Behavior brings together ideas from evolutionary biology, network science, and dynamical systems to present an ecological approach to understanding how the interactions of individuals generate collective outcomes. Deborah Gordon argues that the starting point for explaining how collective behavior works in any natural system is to consider how it changes in relation to the changing world around it. She shows how feedback use—the means by which networks of interactions operate—and the organization of interaction networks evolve to reflect the stability and demands of the environment. Ant colonies function collectively, and the enormous diversity of species in different habitats provides opportunities to look for general ecological patterns. Through an in-depth comparison of ant species, Gordon identifies broad trends in how the diversity of collective behavior in many other collective systems reflects the dynamics of the environment. Shedding light on how individual actions give rise to group behavior, The Ecology of Collective Behavior explains the evolution of collective behavior through innovation in participant interactions, offering new insights into how collective responses function in changing conditions. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: SOCIOLOGY NARAYAN CHANGDER, 2023-12-11 THE SOCIOLOGY MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE SOCIOLOGY MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR SOCIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Introduction to Sociology and Anthropolgy' 2007 Ed. Epitacio S. Palispis, 2007 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Dynamics and Analysis of Alignment Models of Collective Behavior Roman Shvydkoy, 2021-05-13 This book introduces a class of alignment models based on the so-called Cucker-Smale system as well as its kinetic and hydrodynamic counterparts. Cutting edge research in the area of collective behavior is presented, including emerging techniques from fluid mechanics, fractional analysis, and kinetic theory. Analytical aspects are highlighted throughout, such as regularity theory and long time behavior of solutions. Featuring open problems, readers will be motivated to apply these breakthrough methods to future research. The chapters offer an overview of state of the art research with introductions to core concepts. Chapter One introduces the central focus of the book: The agent-based Cucker-Smale system. Further agent-based systems and alignment systems are covered in chapters Two and Three. Following this are chapters covering the kinetic and hydrodynamic variants of the Cucker-Smale system. The core well-posedness theory of both smooth and singular models is then presented. Chapter Eight discusses the fully developed one-dimensional theory. The final chapter presents some of the known partial results concerning the regularity of multidimensional Euler Alignment systems. Dynamics and Analysis of Alignment Models of Collective Behavior is ideal for graduate students and researchers studying PDEs, especially those interested in the active areas of collective behavior and alignment models. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: The Crowd Gustave Le Bon, 1897 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Introduction to Collective Behavior David L. Miller, 1985 This book is an introduction to the study of collective behavior & social movements. By using narratives & descriptions of collective behavior, it reflects what has transpired during & after the events of the 1960's & 1970's. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Theory of Collective Behavior Neil J. Smelser, 2018-11-11 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Fish Cognition and Behavior Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, Jens Krause, 2008-04-15 The study of animal cognition has been largely confined to birds and mammals; a historical bias which has led to the belief that learning plays little or no part in the development of behaviour in fishes and reptiles. Research in recent decades has begun to redress this misconception and it is now recognised that fishes exhibit a rich array of sophisticated behaviour with impressive learning capabilities entirely comparable with those of mammals and other terrestrial animals. In this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: foraging skills Predator recognition Social organisation and learning Welfare and pain Fish Cognition and Behavior is an important contribution to all fish biologists and ethologists and contains much information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel. Libraries in universities and research establishments will find it an important addition to their shelves. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Novel Technological and Methodological Tools for the Understanding of Collective Behaviors Elio Tuci, Vito Trianni, Simon Garnier, Andrew King, 2020-01-23 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action David L. Miller, 2013-08-06 David Millers expanded third edition makes it the definitive source on collective behavior and collective action. Up-to-date and meticulously researched, this popular volume continues to provide a systematic overview of theory and research. Each topic is meaningfully linked to the appropriate theories of collective behavior (mass hysteria, emergent-norm, and value-added perspectives) and collective action (social-behavioral interactionist, resource mobilization, and value-added perspectives). Rumor, mass hysteria, fads and fashion, UFOs, sports, migrations, disasters, riots, protest, and social movements are among the topics presented in a unique side-by-side presentation of the two disciplines. In an engaging, accessible style, Miller offers detailed discussion of classic sociological studies interspersed with intriguing modern-day examples that students will enjoy reading. His thorough topical treatment effectively reduces the need for outside readings. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Basic Interests Frank R. Baumgartner, Beth L. Leech, 1998-03-23 A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevance. The authors begin by explaining how the group approach to politics became dominant forty years ago in reaction to the constitutional-legal approach that preceded it. They show how it fell into decline in the 1970s as scholars ignored the impact of groups on government to focus on more quantifiable but narrower subjects, such as collective-action dilemmas and the dynamics of recruitment. As a result, despite intense research activity, we still know very little about how groups influence day-to-day governing. Baumgartner and Leech argue that scholars need to develop a more coherent set of research questions, focus on large-scale studies, and pay more attention to the context of group behavior. Their book will give new impetus and direction to a field that has been in the academic wilderness too long. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Handbook of Research on Systems Biology Applications in Medicine Daskalaki, Andriani, 2008-11-30 This book highlights the use of systems approaches including genomic, cellular, proteomic, metabolomic, bioinformatics, molecular, and biochemical, to address fundamental questions in complex diseases like cancer diabetes but also in ageing--Provided by publisher. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Collective Behavior and Public Opinion Jaap van Ginneken, 2003-04-02 This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics. Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the points of departure: the most relevant processes of opinion formation and communication. Part II is about phenomena on three different levels, that have traditionally been studied within the twin fields of mass psychology and collective behavior sociology. Part III focuses on the three prime forms of emotional coloring of opinion currents and public moods. Part IV discusses a combination of some of the aforementioned phenomena: successive crazes and crashes in financial markets, and looks at why technological and economic, and social and opinion forecasts often fail so miserably. The audience for this book includes students of social and mass psychology, social movements and collective behavior sociology, and opinion and communication in general. Professionals in public relations, marketing, health, finance, and politics, as well as the educated lay audience, will also find this book of interest. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society Lawrence A. Wenner, 2022-09-27 Sport has come to have an increasingly large impact on daily life and commerce across the globe. From mega-events, such as the World Cup or Super Bowl, to the early socialization of children into sport, the study of sport and society has developed as a distinctly wide-ranging scholarly enterprise, centered in sociology, sport studies, and cultural, media, and gender studies. In The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, Lawrence Wenner brings together contributions from the world's leading scholars on sport and society to create the premier comprehensive and interdisciplinary reference for scholars and students looking to understand key areas of inquiry about the role and impacts of sport in contemporary culture. The Handbook offers penetrating analyses of the key ways that today's outsized sport is integrated into the lives of both athletes and fans and increasingly shapes the social fabric and cultural logics across the world. Featuring 85 leading international scholars, the volume is organized into six sections: society and values, enterprise and capital, participation and cultures, lifespan and careers, inclusion and exclusion, and spectator engagement and media. To aid comprehension and comparison, each chapter opens with a brief introduction to the area of research and features a common organizational scheme with three main sections of key issues, approaches, and debates to guide scholars and students to what is currently most important in the study of each area. Written at an accessible level and offering rich resources to further study each topic, this handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students as well as general readers who wish to understand the growing social, cultural, political, and economic influences of sport in society and our everyday lives. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Sociology Paul B. Horton, Chester L. Hunt, 1968 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing Leandro N. De Castro, Fernando J. Von Zuben, 2005-01-01 Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing is necessary reading for undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers interested in knowing the most recent advances in problem solving techniques inspired by nature. This book covers the most relevant areas in computational intelligence, including evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems and swarm systems. It also brings together novel and philosophical trends in the exciting fields of artificial life and robotics. This book has the advantage of covering a large number of computational approaches, presenting the state-of-the-art before entering into the details of specific extensions and new developments. Pseudocodes, flow charts and examples of applications are provided so as to help newcomers and mature researchers to get the point of the new approaches presented. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: How Behavior Spreads Damon Centola, 2020-03-24 A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behavior New social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned from the viral diffusion of diseases improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? How Behavior Spreads presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior—in voting, health, technology, and finance—occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate. Damon Centola's startling findings show that the same conditions that accelerate the viral expansion of an epidemic unexpectedly inhibit the spread of behaviors. How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for anyone interested in how the theory of social networks can transform our world. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling Robert Thomson, Christopher Dancy, Aryn Pyke, 2022-09-17 This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2022, which was in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2022. The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science. Numerous types of computational methods are used include, but not limited to, machine learning, language technology, social network analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation, and statistics. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: The Handbook of Group Research and Practice Susan A. Wheelan, 2005-06 Organized into six practical sections relating theory to application from an historical perspective, this text offers contributions from international scholars and practitioners who reflect the diversity of this field. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Collective Behavior Joseph B. Perry, Meredith David Pugh, 1978 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Engineering Perspectives of Human Society Robert Zahn, 2004 Special interest categories: sociology; social economics; political science; globalisation. What determines individuals' rational behaviors in various social systems? How can we predict the long-term effects of a social policy? What governs the evolution path of human society? How will human society evolve in the future? This book addresses these perplexing questions about human society from a fresh angle. By applying engineering principles of control theory, game theory and information theory to fundamental social phenomena, Zhibo Zhang constructs a coherent scientific theory of human society and explores its real-world implications on domestic and international policies. Engineering Perspectives of Human Society analyzes the underlying governing mechanisms of human behaviors and makes a convincing case that seeking win-win solutions is in the best interests of all parties. Supported with historical facts, this book evaluates determining factors of the failure of various social structures including the Chinese feudal societies, Arabic civilisation and communist states. It discusses the fundamental reasons leading to the triumph of free-market capitalism as well as its potential failure modes. It presents an optimistic assessment of the future society and argues persuasively that the globalisation and the current global power distribution with the United States and its allies being the sole superpower will lead to a long-lasting world peace. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Selected Papers from 2017 International Conference on Micro/Nanomachines Jianguo Guan, Fangzhi Mou, 2018-08-09 This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Selected Papers from 2017 International Conference on Micro/Nanomachines that was published in Micromachines |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Freud and American Sociology Philip Manning, 2005-08-05 Although Freud’s impact on social science – and indeed 20th century social thought – has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H.Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman, as well as a range of key contemporary thinkers, it provides an accurate history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played in the development of American social theory. Despite the often reluctant, and frequently resistant, nature of this encounter, the book also draws attention to the abiding potential of fusing psychoanalytic and sociological thinking. Freud and American Sociology represents an original and compelling contribution to scholarly debate. At the same time, the clarity with which Manning develops his comprehensive account means that the book is also highly suitable for adoption on a range of upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, including sociology, social theory, social psychology, and related disciiplines. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Knowledge Engineering and Management Yinglin Wang, Tianrui Li, 2011-11-25 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering presents selected papers from the conference ISKE 2011, held December 15-17 in Shanghai, China. This proceedings doesn’t only examine original research and approaches in the broad areas of intelligent systems and knowledge engineering, but also present new methodologies and practices in intelligent computing paradigms. The book introduces the current scientific and technical advances in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge-based systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural-language processing, etc. Furthermore, new computing methodologies are presented, including cloud computing, service computing and pervasive computing with traditional intelligent methods. The proceedings will be beneficial for both researchers and practitioners who want to utilize intelligent methods in their specific research fields. Dr. Yinglin Wang is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Dr. Tianrui Li is a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Keeping Mozart in Mind Gordon L. Shaw, 2003-11-19 The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators. Presents the theory that music exercises higher brain function and can enhance math comprehension Details how music training coupled with special-temporal reasoning (thinking in pictures) can dramatically impact a child's ability to understand and master math Includes an interactive CD-ROM with math games |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Collective behavior and social movements: Socio-psychological perspectives Juan Carlos Oyanedel, Agustin Espinosa, Huseyin Çakal, Dario Paez, 2023-09-25 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Handbook of Research on Swarm Intelligence in Engineering Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha, 2015-04-30 Swarm Intelligence has recently emerged as a next-generation methodology belonging to the class of evolutionary computing. As a result, scientists have been able to explain and understand real-life processes and practices that previously remained unexplored. The Handbook of Research on Swarm Intelligence in Engineering presents the latest research being conducted on diverse topics in intelligence technologies such as Swarm Intelligence, Machine Intelligence, Optical Engineering, and Signal Processing with the goal of advancing knowledge and applications in this rapidly evolving field. The enriched interdisciplinary contents of this book will be a subject of interest to the widest forum of faculties, existing research communities, and new research aspirants from a multitude of disciplines and trades. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Social Philosophy 2' 2005 Ed. (including Gen.& Professional Ethics for Teachers) , |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Pervasive Advertising Jörg Müller, Florian Alt, Daniel Michelis, 2011-09-21 This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. Pervasive computing encompasses the integration of computers into everyday devices, like the covering of surfaces with interactive displays and networked mobile phones. Advertising is the communication of sponsored messages to inform, convince, and persuade to buy. We believe that our future cities will be digital, giving us instant access to any information we need everywhere, like at bus stops, on the sidewalk, inside the subway and in shopping malls. We will be able to play with and change the appearance of our cities effortlessly, like making flowers grow along a building wall or changing the colour of the street we are in. Like the internet as we know it, this digitalization will be paid for by adverts, which unobtrusively provide us suggestions for nearby restaurants or cafés. If any content annoys us, we will be able to effortlessly say so and change it with simple gestures, and content providers and advertisers will know what we like and be able to act accordingly. This book presents the technological foundations to make this vision a reality. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Outbreaks Jerry D. Rose, 1982 From the Salem witch hunts and the storming of the Bastille, to the Holocaust, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the People's Temple mass suicide, extraordinary episodes of collective behavior fill our history books. In Outbreaks, Jerry D. Rose examines the social conditions that generate panic, nonviolent and violent protest, religious revivals, progroms, and the like-- and analyzes their connection to ordinary human behavior. Rose begins with an overview of traditional theories and approaches that have been applied to collective behavior and the introduces his own framework. Four chapters are devoted to the different categories of collective behavior: Disasters- when social systems are unable to sustain the resources required for their own continuation Protest- when unusual or extralegal tactics are used to achieve a political goal Persecution- when persons or behaviors viewed as threats to the social order are sought out and suppressed Renewal- when people work to change what they see as a growth in moral indifference and corruption Each chapter examines the background causes of the episodes; participation (who starts or joins); process (how the episode develops and how the spectators, participants, and authorities interact); and the consequences (the success or failure of the action and its side effects and by-products). The final chapter revisits the realm of the general theory of collective behavior, seeking new, coherent, empirically valid insights into the role of the episodic dimension in human behavior Rose brings the subject alive with numerous examples of collective behavior, from the panic created by Orson Welles's 1938 Martian invasion broadcast to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Italian earthquake, the Miami riots, the Attica prison uprising, the purges in revolutionary Iran, and the growth of religious cults. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Thermal Transport in Semiconductors Pol Torres Alvarez, 2018-06-28 Starting from a broad overview of heat transport based on the Boltzmann Transport Equation, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of heat transport in bulk and nanomaterials based on a kinetic-collective model (KCM). This has become key to understanding the field of thermal transport in semiconductors, and represents an important stride. The book describes how heat transport becomes hydrodynamic at the nanoscale, propagating very much like a viscous fluid and manifesting vorticity and friction-like behavior. It introduces a generalization of Fourier’s law including a hydrodynamic term based on collective behavior in the phonon ensemble. This approach makes it possible to describe in a unifying way recent experiments that had to resort to unphysical assumptions in order to uphold the validity of Fourier’s law, demonstrating that hydrodynamic heat transport is a pervasive type of behavior in semiconductors at reduced scales. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Race: Individual and Collective Behavior Edgar Tristram Thompson, Everett Cherrington Hughes, 1958 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems Kagan Tumer, David Wolpert, 2012-12-06 Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers. In particular, they can be viewed as such optimizers of functions in extremely high dimensional spaces. Given the difficulty of performing such high-dimensional op timization with modern computers, there has been a lot of exploration of computa tional algorithms that try to emulate those naturally-occurring function optimizers. Examples include simulated annealing (SA [15,18]), genetic algorithms (GAs) and evolutionary computation [2,3,9,11,20-22,24,28]. The ultimate goal of this work is an algorithm that can, for any provided high-dimensional function, come close to extremizing that function. Particularly desirable would be such an algorithm that works in an adaptive and robust manner, without any explicit knowledge of the form of the function being optimized. In particular, such an algorithm could be used for distributed adaptive control---one of the most important tasks engineers will face in the future, when the systems they design will be massively distributed and horribly messy congeries ofcomputational systems. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Simple Heuristics in a Social World Ralph Hertwig, Ulrich Hoffrage, ABC Research Group, 1999-09-30 Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, including food, mates, and status, and where rivals grant the decision maker little time for deep thought, protracted information search, or complex calculations. Yet, the social world also encompasses domains where social animals such as humans can learn from one another and can forge alliances with one another to boost their chances of success. According to the book's thesis, the undeniable complexity of the social world does not dictate cognitive complexity as many scholars of rationality argue. Rather, it entails circumstances that render optimization impossible or computationally arduous: intractability, the existence of incommensurable considerations, and competing goals. With optimization beyond reach, less can be more. That is, heuristics--simple strategies for making decisions when time is pressing and careful deliberation an unaffordable luxury--become indispensible mental tools. As accurate as or even more accurate than complex methods when used in the appropriate social environments, these heuristics are good descriptive models of how people make many decisions and inferences, but their impressive performance also poses a normative challenge for optimization models. In short, the Homo socialis may prove to be a Homo heuristicus whose intelligence reflects ecological rather than logical rationality. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: The Dragon in the Cockpit Hung Sying Jing, Allen Batteau, 2016-03-23 The purpose of The Dragon in the Cockpit is to enhance the mutual understanding between Western aviation human-factors practitioners and the Chinese aviation community by describing some of the fundamental Chinese cultural characteristics pertinent to the field of flight safety. China’s demand for air transportation is widely expected to increase further, and the Chinese aviation community are now also designing their own commercial aircraft, the COMAC C-919. Consequently, the interactions in the air between the West and China are anticipated to become far more extensive and dynamic. However, due to the multi-faceted nature of Chinese culture, it is sometimes difficult for Westerners to understand Chinese thought and ways, sometimes to the detriment of aviation safety. This book provides crucial insights into Chinese culture and how it manifests itself during flight operations, as well as highlighting ways in which Western technology and Chinese culture clash within the cockpit. Science and technology studies (STS) have demonstrated that sophisticated technologies embed cultural assumptions, usually in subtle ways. These cultural assumptions 'bite back' when the technology is used in an unfamiliar cultural context. By creating the insider’s perspective on the cultural/technological assumptions of the world’s fastest growing industrial economy, this book seeks to minimize the accidents and damage resulting from technological/cultural misunderstandings and misperceptions. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Moral Panics Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, 2010-01-19 Packed with new examples and material, this second edition providesa fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demiseof moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which theytake place. Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism,the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flagburning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the “sexslave” scare Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as amajor component of the moral panic Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first editionas well as the moral panics concept itself Written by long-established experts in the field Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics andwider courses on deviance |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Sociology David Popenoe, 1991 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Collective Behavior The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, 2015-06-25 Collective Behavior is the summary of the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Collective Behavior. Participants were divided into fourteen interdisciplinary research teams. The teams spent nine hours over two days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. The composition of the teams was intentionally diverse, to encourage the generation of new approaches by combining a range of different types of contributions. The teams included researchers from science, engineering, and medicine, as well as representatives from private and public funding agencies, universities, businesses, journals, and the science media. Researchers represented a wide range of experience - from postdoc to those well established in their careers - from a variety of disciplines that included science and engineering, medicine, physics, biology, economics, and behavioral science. The teams needed to address the challenge of communicating and working together from a diversity of expertise and perspectives as they attempted to solve a complicated, interdisciplinary problem in a relatively short time. This report highlights the presentations of the event and includes the team reports and pre-meeting materials. |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Readings for "United States Defense Establishment". United States. Dept. of the Army, 1972 |
| collective behavior is easy to study: Advances in the Study of Behavior H. Jane Brockmann, Peter J.B. Slater, Charles T. Snowdon, Timothy J. Roper, Marc Naguib, Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, 2006-12-14 The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior is to serve scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior, including psychologists, neuroscientists, biologists, ethologists, pharmacologists, endocrinologists, ecologists, and geneticists. Articles in the series present critical reviews of significant research programs with theoretical syntheses, reformulation of persistent problems, and/or highlighting new and exciting research concepts. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online of volumes 30 onwards. Elsevier book series on ScienceDirect gives multiple users throughout an institution simultaneous online access to an important compliment to primary research. Digital delivery ensures users reliable, 24-hour access to the latest peer-reviewed content. The Elsevier book series are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in their fields and are selected from across the globe using Elsevier's extensive researcher network. For more information about the Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect Program, please visit: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/ - Published continuously since 1965 - Multidisciplinary across social and life science subject areas - Volume 36 addresses current themes in animal behavior |
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Collective behavior in biological systems emerges from local interactions among individuals, enabling groups to adapt to dynamic environments. Traditional modeling approaches, such as …
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Nov 22, 2024 · level ( 12 , 13 ). One consequence of such emergent evolution for collective behavior is that collective behavior might evolve faster and be more variable between species …
Theories of Collective Behaviour - York University
The Field of Collective Behaviour • Began with G.LeBon and was developed by symbolic interactionists. • Many theories have developed to explain both collective behaviours and …
Learning from Collective Behavior - jennwv.com
ternet and the Web, we initiate a study of the com-putational issues in learning to model collective behavior from observed data. We define formal models for efficient learning in such settings, …
Collective behaviors of a star-coupled system in a …
the study reveals the complex dependency of system stability and synchronization on coupling direction, strength, potential field ... The collective behavior of complex systems manifests in …
Between Individual Brains and Collective Behavior: Multi …
The aim of this study is to investigate whether imposing a collective-level fitness function on a multi-agent system re-sults in observable emergent behaviors, downward causa-tion, and …
Stewardship of global collective behavior - The Kao Lab
which collective action emerges (3–7). It reveals how large-scale “higher-order” properties of the collec-tives feed back to influence individual behavior, which in turn can influence the behavior …
The Ecology of Collective Behavior in Ants - Stanford University
The diversity of collective behavior in ants (69) arises from the same evolutionary trajectories that produced the staggering diversity of morphology and resource use. About 14,000 species of ...
Collective Identification and Social Movement Participation
Determinants of collective behavior, as suggested by the social identity or self-categorization approach and social movement research, were examined in 2 field studies. Study 1 was …
The study of collective behavior mental patients, for example, …
The study of collective behavior within the mental hospital and other similar total institutions has long been a recurring problem to the sociologist.2 Instances of collective behavior among …
Public Action for Public Goods - Massachusetts Institute of …
6See Center for the Study of Developing Societies (1996) for survey questionnaires. Tabulated data for this question were ... Either way, since returns depend on the collective behavior of …
Bat study reveals how the brain is wired for collective behavior
Bat study reveals how the brain is wired for collective behavior August 30 2023, by Kara Manke Highly social Egyptian fruit bats naturally congregate into tightly clustered groups. Credit: …
Disruption of Collective Behavior Correlates with Reduced
Dec 26, 2024 · 7 Group-living organisms commonly engage in collective behavior to respond to an 8 ever-changing environment. How individuals utilize local information to produce such ...
Scalable Learning of Collective Behavior - apps.dtic.mil
Abstract—This study of collective behavior is to understand how individuals behave in a social networking environment. Oceans of data generated by social media like Facebook, Twitter, …
Smelser’s Theory of Collective Behaviour - Springer
Smelser’s point is that collective behaviour necessarily ‘short-circuits’ processes of social change. This is one aspect of his theory that has led to charges of irrationalizing collective behaviour. …
Neglected Characteristics of Collective Behavior - JSTOR
of collective behavior theory, there is the failure to break away from special explanations. These weaknesses are related. Both are perpetuated by the lack of theoretical ties between collective …
Energy saving mechanisms, collective behavior and the …
Energy saving mechanisms, collective behavior and the variation range hypothesis in biological systems: A review Hugh Trenchard1,* and Matjaž Perc2,3 1805 647 Michigan Street, ... and …
Review Paper on Scalable Learning of Collective Behavior
2. Collective Behavior Learning The recent boom of social media enables the study of collective behavior in a large scale. Here, behavior can include a broad range of actions: join a group, …
Discovery and Exploration of Novel Swarm Behaviors given …
capabilities that result in a specific collective behavior, little work has examined the problem of exploring and describing the entire set of collective behaviors that can result from a limited set …
Criticality triggers the emergence of collective intelligence in …
Aug 11, 2017 · behavior of the system at criticality, where a phase tran-sition and a significant amount of information exchange occur, and study how these conditions are related to the …
A Cognitive Computational Approach to Social and Collective …
Though it is widely agreed that the behavior of indi-viduals is the basis of all collective dynamics, many influ-ential models of collective behavior, such as the Vicsek model (Liggett, 1997) or the …
Stewardship of global collective behavior - GitHub Pages
which collective action emerges (3–7). It reveals how large-scale “higher-order” properties of the collec-tives feed back to influence individual behavior, which in turn can influence the behavior …
Collective behavior of swarmalators on a ring - NSF Public …
We study the collective behavior of swarmalators, generalizations of phase oscillators that both sync and swarm, confined to move on a one-dimensional (1D) ring. This simple model …
Leveraging collective effects in externally driven colloidal ...
magnetic fields are relatively easy to generate in the lab, and offer the possibility of three dimensional control of ... trivial boundaries is an exciting direction of study, and ... Collective …
Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: Perspectives …
Commentary Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation Frederick R. Adler,1,2 Alexander R.A. Anderson,3 Abhinav Bhushan,4 Paul …
Innovations in Collective Action in the Labor Movement: …
over, to allow this study to be a more systematic evaluation, I created adatabase of labor news drawing on adaily newsletterproduced by Jobs with Justice, a leading non-profit supporting …
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOLECULAR, BIOLOGICAL, …
behavior—has arguably received the most scientific atten-tion to date, due to the availability of simple models of collective behavior that are easy to simulate on comput-ers, such as the …
THEORY AND Aldon Morris and Cedric Herring - University …
study of 180 protest groups over a 20-year period (1960-1980) using a resource mobilization perspective. The field of social movements is thriving and ... Weherian, collective behavior, …
Collective Behavior and Public Opinion: Rapid Shifts in …
chology and collective behavior sociology most of all tended to study all these phenomena within a social and political context. The last real revival of the twin disciplines took place in the …
The Ecology of Collective Behavior - PLOS
natural collective processes, proba-bly because they have evolved independently under similar pres-sures. Here I consider how three environmental constraints may shape the evolution of …
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective …
police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model Julia Yesberg University College London, UK Ian Brunton-Smith University of Surrey, UK ... In this study, we …
Participatory Cultural Mapping Based on Collective Behavior …
perspective. In order to select collective behavior data, we need to define an appropri-ate granularity for our culture study, i.e., the group of people considered to have the same culture. …
LeetPrompt: Leveraging Collective Human Intelligence to …
user-behavior insights for researchers. On LEETPROMPT, users also have the ability to add new problems, allowing the platform to organically grow. By granting people agency, our platform …
Collective Consciousness Theory in Sociology - Springer
memories, collective traumas, and collective emotions. This chapter is an overview of the seminal works on the collective identity in sociology. These theories include Durkheim’s collective …
Toward Collective Behavior Prediction via Social Dimension …
line surveys. Given some behavior information, the collective behavior can be unraveled by exploiting the network connectivity between actors. Heterogeneous Relations in Social …
Ontogeny of collective behavior reveals a simple attraction …
ECOLOGY Ontogeny of collective behavior reveals a simple attraction rule Robert C. Hinza,b and Gonzalo G. de Polaviejaa,b,1 aChampalimaud Research, Champalimaud Centre for the …
Collective behavior emerges from genetically controlled …
behavior in humans perturb these simple reflexes in individual larval zebrafish and change their emergent collec-tive behaviors in the predicted fashion. Model simulations show that changes …
Modeling collective behavior in groups of mice housed under …
Jul 28, 2023 · tion. In this study, we integrate Eco-HAB recordings with statistical inference to construct models of collective behavior, focusing on the statistics of system states to identify …
Beyond six feet: The collective behavior of social distancing
Sep 13, 2024 · ularly about social distancing as a human behavior or the collective behavior of a population for that matter, as pointed out in a recent article by Vardavas et al. 2021 [60]. In …
Organization Behavior & HR
organizational behavior is the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations. Thus, organizational behavior can be defined as a field of ... organization and …
from a field study - JSTOR
examples of such behavior are bird flocks (3), fish schools (4) and mammal herds (5). Apart from its obvious relevance in ethology and evolutionary biology, collective behavior is a key concept …
NEAR-GROUP THEORY AND COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
operation of collective factors in the nature, causes, and functions of the adolescent violent gang. COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND NEAR-GROUP THEORY Collective behavior comprises the …
Alleviating Political Violence through Reducing Collective …
in the collective consciousness of a large population. It was predicted that group practice of meditation techniques in a series of seven assem-blies held within a 2.25-year period would …
society in american social thought, 1917-1939 - JSTOR
collective behavior and mass society in american social thought, 1917-1939 eugene e. leach In a free-swinging Commentary article of 1956, Daniel Bell attacked a style of thinking about the …
A multi-granularity collective behavior analysis approach
Collective behavior is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, ... it might be theoretically significant to study collec-tive behavior from the perspective of information diffusion. ... efficient, and easy-to …
Collective behavior in animal groups: Theoretical models and …
self-organization, where collective behavior emerges in absence of centralized control. The mechanism of group formation, where local rules for the individuals lead to a coherent global …
Collective behavior study examines how birds of a feather …
Collective behavior study examines how birds of a feather flock together June 7 2023 Brief sketch of the quasi-attraction/alignment algorithm. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2023). DOI: …
2012 Animal Behavior Workshop Report
Collective behavior reveals a new kind of physics . 6. Microbial behavior, experimental evolution,and genomics . 7. Microbial and parasitic motivators of behavior . 8. Behavior, …
Evolution selects for 'loners' that hang back from collective …
from collective behavior—at least in slime molds ... interdisciplinarily makes it very easy to start collaborations and even to 7/8. ... study or research, no part may be reproduced without the ...
Collective behavior in cancer cell populations - ICTS
Collective behavior has long been observed in a number of biological systems, most notably in social insect colonies (Fig. 1A), bird flocks, and schools of fish.(1) The behavior of such …
