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Complexity and Emergence

  • “Modeling Complexity as Decentralized Information Processing,” with James Reid, presented at the Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems, Cambridge, July 29th.

  • “Teaching Complexity as Transdisciplinarity,” forthcoming in Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences, Sage.

  • “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.

  • “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.

  • “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.

  • Good Energy: Explaining the Emergence of Order and Virtue (manuscript in progress)

KEY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

The Importance of Interaction for Meaning and Affect

  • “The Importance of Gossip Across Societies: Correlations With Institutionalization,” with Andrey Korotayev, Cross-Cultural Research, 2015, 49, 3: 297-314.

  • “Epistemological Identity Theory: Reconceptualizing Commitment as Self-Knowledge,” Sociological Spectrum, 2007, 24:5.

  • “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.

  • “A Theory of Knowledge-Based Affect: Cognitive Origins of Good and Bad,” Social Psychology Quarterly, 1993, 56: 136-147.

Culture

  • Explaining Culture: The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order, Lexington, 2012

  • “Epistemological Culture Theory: A Micro Account of the Origin and Maintenance of Culture,” Sociological Theory, 2002, 20:2:208-226

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