Complexity and Emergence
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“Modeling Complexity as Decentralized Information Processing,” with James Reid, presented at the Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems, Cambridge, July 29th.
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“Teaching Complexity as Transdisciplinarity,” forthcoming in Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences, Sage.
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“Explaining the Emergence of Social Order Through a Theory of Energy Processing,” with Mark Goadrich, presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August, 2014.
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“Emerging Patterns of Order and Differentiation: An Agent-Based Model of Social Complexity,” with Mark Goadrich, presented at the meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, March 28th, 2015.
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“Community Organization as Energy: a Theory and Case-Study,” presented at the Couch-Stone Symposium, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Las Vegas, April, 2011.
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Good Energy: Explaining the Emergence of Order and Virtue (manuscript in progress)
KEY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
The Importance of Interaction for Meaning and Affect
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“The Importance of Gossip Across Societies: Correlations With Institutionalization,” with Andrey Korotayev, Cross-Cultural Research, 2015, 49, 3: 297-314.
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“Epistemological Identity Theory: Reconceptualizing Commitment as Self-Knowledge,” Sociological Spectrum, 2007, 24:5.
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“The Social Benefits of Being on Foot: Pedestrian Activity, Interaction, and Sense of Community,” with David Levinger, City and Community, 2003, 2:3: 219-239.
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“A Theory of Knowledge-Based Affect: Cognitive Origins of Good and Bad,” Social Psychology Quarterly, 1993, 56: 136-147.
Culture
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Explaining Culture: The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order, Lexington, 2012
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“Epistemological Culture Theory: A Micro Account of the Origin and Maintenance of Culture,” Sociological Theory, 2002, 20:2:208-226