Looking Backwards into the Future: Mathematical Sociology Then and Now
Looking Backwards into the Future: Mathematical Sociology Then and Now
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回顾未来：数学社会学的过去和现在
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2000
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J. Skvoretz
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J. Skvoretz
我反映了过去30年的数学社会学从我的角度来看，作为一个学生的领域30年前，我如何期望该领域的成长和发展。我讨论了30年前我关心的问题和前景今天仍然相关。特别是，我详细阐述了正式社会学家所面临的智力挫折，需要新的数学来捕捉社会科学的见解，调查的多样性和缺乏统一的数学社会学，以及需要形式主义者提供经验为基础的模型，呼吁一般读者的基础上，他们解释的经验难题。
I reflect on the last 30 years of mathematical sociology from my point of view as a student of the field 30 years ago and how I expected the field to grow and develop. I discuss how the problems and prospects that concerned me 30 years ago are still relevant today. In particular, I elaborate on the intellectual frustrations faced by formal sociologists, the need for new mathematics to capture social science insights, the diversity of inquiry and lack of unification in mathematical sociology, and the need for formalists to offer empirically grounded models that appeal to the general reader on the basis of the empirical puzzles they explain.