David D Mcfarland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 204150 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David D Mcfarland |
| PRENOMES | David D |
| SOBRENOME | Mcfarland |
| ASSINATURA | MCFARLAND D D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Adding Machines and Logarithms
Sociologists of earlier eras had much more limited computational tools available, but even in the founding era, there were slide rules and printed tables of mathematical functions, mechanical calculators were becoming more common, and punched card tabulating equipmentwas being developed. This article focuses on one particular founder, Franklin H. Giddings, and the kind of computations he did or did not do, using or not using various computational…
Spectral Decomposition as a Tool in Comparative Mobility Research
The dominant left eigenvector (sometimes under other names, such as equilibrium distribution or stable vector) has long been recognized as providing important information about the mobility process that is characterized by a particular stochastic matrix describing intergenerational or intragenerational occupational mobility. From its first introduction into the social mobility literature (Prais, 1955a, 1955b), this tool has been found useful in c…
Models of the Distribution of Acts in Small Discussion Groups
The curious pattern of hierarchal communication found in small discussion groups has stimulated a considerable amount of substantive and formal work attempting to explain how this phenomenon occurs. The present paper deals with mathematical models that rely on relatively stable initiating andlor receiving propensities to explain the relative frequency with which small group members address both each other and the group as a whole. After a review …
An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
What is a model? How do you construct one? What are some common models in the social sciences? How can models be applied in new situations? What makes a model good? Focusing on answers to these and related questions, this multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences formulates interesting problems that involve students in creative model building and the process of invention. The book describes models of individual choic…
Models of Marriage Formation and Fertility
Higher order stability conditions in mathematical models of sociometric or cognitive structure
The conditions are found under which the removal of an intransitivity in one triad of a sociometric or cognitive structure may be accomplished without in the process creating new intransitivities elsewhere in the structure. The results are applied to modify and elaborate the theories holding intransitivity to be unstable so that sociometric or cognitive structures become more nearly transitive over time, and also to shed some light on the questio…
Mathematical Sociology
Chains of Opportunity
On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility
David D. McFarland, On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility, American Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Dec., 1974), pp. 883-885
Social Stratification
Effects of group size on the availability of marriage partners
Formulae are derived for the extent to which the size of the group from which marriage partners are chosen affects the availability of marriage partners, under monogamy and endogamy, when group membership and appropriate sex are the only criteria for eligibility, and when males and females are equally likely to become group members. The expected proportion of group members unable to find eligible partners under these conditions decreases monotoni…
Intragenerational Social Mobility as a Markov Process
Trow, Martin 1958 Some implications of the social origins of engineers. Scientific Manpower. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. White, R. Clyde 1952 Thesc Will Go To College. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press. Wilson, Alan 13. 1959 Residential segregation of social classes and aspirations of high school boys.'t American Sociological Review 24 (December) :836-845. Winer, Benjamin J. 1962 Statistical Principles in Experimental…
Theory Construction
On the theory of stable populations
Expositions and elementary proofs are given for the basic theorems of stable population theory: That a population subjected to vital rates (not necessarily constant over time) satisfying certain postulates will eventually “forget” its original age distribution and take on one (not necessarily constant over time) which depends only on its history of agespecific vital rates, a process called “weak ergodicity.” That consequently the subsequent birth…
Measuring the Permeability of Occupational Structures
Methods deriving from information theory are proposed for the analysis of social mobility matrices. They permit us to give quantitative answers to such questionsas, "Given a man's social origin, how much uncertainty is there about what his own social position will be?" Other methods would undoubtedly be more appropriate whenever social positions are measured on an interval scale, but the assumptions they require are often implausible. The methods…
Intragenerational Social Mobility as a Markov Process
Trow, Martin 1958 Some implications of the social origins of engineers. Scientific Manpower. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. White, R. Clyde 1952 Thesc Will Go To College. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press. Wilson, Alan 13. 1959 Residential segregation of social classes and aspirations of high school boys.'t American Sociological Review 24 (December) :836-845. Winer, Benjamin J. 1962 Statistical Principles in Experimental…
Measuring the Permeability of Occupational Structures
Methods deriving from information theory are proposed for the analysis of social mobility matrices. They permit us to give quantitative answers to such questionsas, "Given a man's social origin, how much uncertainty is there about what his own social position will be?" Other methods would undoubtedly be more appropriate whenever social positions are measured on an interval scale, but the assumptions they require are often implausible. The methods…
Effects of group size on the availability of marriage partners
Formulae are derived for the extent to which the size of the group from which marriage partners are chosen affects the availability of marriage partners, under monogamy and endogamy, when group membership and appropriate sex are the only criteria for eligibility, and when males and females are equally likely to become group members. The expected proportion of group members unable to find eligible partners under these conditions decreases monotoni…
On the theory of stable populations
Expositions and elementary proofs are given for the basic theorems of stable population theory: That a population subjected to vital rates (not necessarily constant over time) satisfying certain postulates will eventually “forget” its original age distribution and take on one (not necessarily constant over time) which depends only on its history of agespecific vital rates, a process called “weak ergodicity.” That consequently the subsequent birth…
Models of the Distribution of Acts in Small Discussion Groups
The curious pattern of hierarchal communication found in small discussion groups has stimulated a considerable amount of substantive and formal work attempting to explain how this phenomenon occurs. The present paper deals with mathematical models that rely on relatively stable initiating andlor receiving propensities to explain the relative frequency with which small group members address both each other and the group as a whole. After a review …
Spectral Decomposition as a Tool in Comparative Mobility Research
The dominant left eigenvector (sometimes under other names, such as equilibrium distribution or stable vector) has long been recognized as providing important information about the mobility process that is characterized by a particular stochastic matrix describing intergenerational or intragenerational occupational mobility. From its first introduction into the social mobility literature (Prais, 1955a, 1955b), this tool has been found useful in c…
On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility
David D. McFarland, On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility, American Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Dec., 1974), pp. 883-885
On the theory of stable populations
Expositions and elementary proofs are given for the basic theorems of stable population theory: That a population subjected to vital rates (not necessarily constant over time) satisfying certain postulates will eventually “forget” its original age distribution and take on one (not necessarily constant over time) which depends only on its history of agespecific vital rates, a process called “weak ergodicity.” That consequently the subsequent birth…
Measuring the Permeability of Occupational Structures
Methods deriving from information theory are proposed for the analysis of social mobility matrices. They permit us to give quantitative answers to such questionsas, "Given a man's social origin, how much uncertainty is there about what his own social position will be?" Other methods would undoubtedly be more appropriate whenever social positions are measured on an interval scale, but the assumptions they require are often implausible. The methods…
Effects of group size on the availability of marriage partners
Formulae are derived for the extent to which the size of the group from which marriage partners are chosen affects the availability of marriage partners, under monogamy and endogamy, when group membership and appropriate sex are the only criteria for eligibility, and when males and females are equally likely to become group members. The expected proportion of group members unable to find eligible partners under these conditions decreases monotoni…
Intragenerational Social Mobility as a Markov Process
Trow, Martin 1958 Some implications of the social origins of engineers. Scientific Manpower. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. White, R. Clyde 1952 Thesc Will Go To College. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press. Wilson, Alan 13. 1959 Residential segregation of social classes and aspirations of high school boys.'t American Sociological Review 24 (December) :836-845. Winer, Benjamin J. 1962 Statistical Principles in Experimental…
Theory Construction
Social Stratification
Chains of Opportunity
On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility
David D. McFarland, On the Relationship Between Mathematical Models and Empirical Data, and the Relationship Between Duration of Stay and Subsequent Mobility, American Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Dec., 1974), pp. 883-885
Models of Marriage Formation and Fertility
Higher order stability conditions in mathematical models of sociometric or cognitive structure
The conditions are found under which the removal of an intransitivity in one triad of a sociometric or cognitive structure may be accomplished without in the process creating new intransitivities elsewhere in the structure. The results are applied to modify and elaborate the theories holding intransitivity to be unstable so that sociometric or cognitive structures become more nearly transitive over time, and also to shed some light on the questio…
Mathematical Sociology
An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
What is a model? How do you construct one? What are some common models in the social sciences? How can models be applied in new situations? What makes a model good? Focusing on answers to these and related questions, this multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences formulates interesting problems that involve students in creative model building and the process of invention. The book describes models of individual choic…
Models of the Distribution of Acts in Small Discussion Groups
The curious pattern of hierarchal communication found in small discussion groups has stimulated a considerable amount of substantive and formal work attempting to explain how this phenomenon occurs. The present paper deals with mathematical models that rely on relatively stable initiating andlor receiving propensities to explain the relative frequency with which small group members address both each other and the group as a whole. After a review …
Spectral Decomposition as a Tool in Comparative Mobility Research
The dominant left eigenvector (sometimes under other names, such as equilibrium distribution or stable vector) has long been recognized as providing important information about the mobility process that is characterized by a particular stochastic matrix describing intergenerational or intragenerational occupational mobility. From its first introduction into the social mobility literature (Prais, 1955a, 1955b), this tool has been found useful in c…
Adding Machines and Logarithms
Sociologists of earlier eras had much more limited computational tools available, but even in the founding era, there were slide rules and printed tables of mathematical functions, mechanical calculators were becoming more common, and punched card tabulating equipmentwas being developed. This article focuses on one particular founder, Franklin H. Giddings, and the kind of computations he did or did not do, using or not using various computational…
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