David L Sallach
Biographic Data
| ID | 316951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Sallach |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sallach |
| SIGNATURE | SALLACH D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Causal necessitarianism and the monotonicity objection
Do causes necessitate their effects? Causal necessitarianism (CN) is the view that they do. One major objection—the “monotonicity objection”—runs roughly as follows. For many particular causal relations, we can easily find a possible “blocker”—an additional causal factor that, had it also been there, would have prevented the cause from producing its effect. However—the objection goes on—, if the cause really necessitated its effect in the first p…
Mobilizing for Change: Simulating Political Movements in Armed Conflicts
Theories on the establishment and propagation of political movements through mobilization have emerged and evolved over the last half century. Among the major theoretical frameworks that have been advanced are resource mobilization theory, political process theory, and culture theory. However, despite these developments, relatively few methodological approaches have applied bottom-up computational modeling and simulation in explaining movement de…
Modeling Emotional Dynamics: Currency Versus Field
Randall Collins has introduced a simplified model of emotional dynamics in which emotional energy, heightened and focused by interaction rituals, serves as a common denominator for social exchange: a generic form of currency, except that it is active in a far broader range of social transactions. While the scope of this theory is attractive, the specifics of the model remain unconvincing. After a critical assessment of the currency theory of emot…
Social Theory and Agent Architectures: Prospective Issues in Rapid-Discovery Social Science
This article interleaves two themes: (a) the prospective role of agent simulation in developing a high-consensus, rapid-discovery social science and (b) the use of situation modeling to illustrate how the interaction of social theory and agent architectures may contribute toward such a development. The first theme suggests that computational techniques have the potential to contribute to the advancement of broadly shared social science goals. The…
Classical social processes: Attractor and computational models
Attractor models provide a generalized way to represent processes found throughout science. A fuller articulation of the attractor framework requires that it be addressed qualitatively and conceptually as a nonlinear mathematical order residing between cyclical and random processes. Many significant nonlinear social processes have been identified and analyzed in classical social theory. These include the circulation of the elites (Pareto), cultur…
Computers and democracy: A critique of Parslow
Class Domination and Ideological Hegemony
Sociological theory poses the issue of whether ideational or coercive factors provide the central basls of social order. The former view maintains (and requires) that a value consensus exist in the empirical world; the latter assumes the existence of a ruling class which dominates the ideational institutions of the society. A preliminary scrutiny of available evidence suggests that: (1) a value consensus does not exist, and (2) there is a high co…
Class Consciousness and the Everyday World in the Work of Marx & Schutz
Critical Theory and Critical Sociology: The Second Synthesis
The syntheses of consensus and conflict theory which were developed during the sixties served as a healthy corrective for traditional functional theory but did not exhaust theoretical debate. The identification of such syntheses with empirico-analytic tradition (and dominant control systems) calls forth a second (critical) synthesis which is not complementary, but competing. Despite the fact that both are parallel in many respects, the two theore…
Marxist Theory and Indian Communism: A Sociological Interpretation
Systems Analysis and Sociological Theory
DAVID L. SALLACH Indiana University Historically, models and analogies have been instrumental in the development of sociological theory. Comte, for example, coined the term sociology only because his first choice, social physics, had already been employed by Quetelet. Later, through the work of Spencer, Sumner, Durkheim, and others, the organismic analogy came to occupy a dominant position in early social theory. In social psychology, Lewin's (19…
The Primary Group: A Systematic Orientation
Class Domination and Ideological Hegemony
Sociological theory poses the issue of whether ideational or coercive factors provide the central basls of social order. The former view maintains (and requires) that a value consensus exist in the empirical world; the latter assumes the existence of a ruling class which dominates the ideational institutions of the society. A preliminary scrutiny of available evidence suggests that: (1) a value consensus does not exist, and (2) there is a high co…
Class Consciousness and the Everyday World in the Work of Marx & Schutz
Critical Theory and Critical Sociology: The Second Synthesis
The syntheses of consensus and conflict theory which were developed during the sixties served as a healthy corrective for traditional functional theory but did not exhaust theoretical debate. The identification of such syntheses with empirico-analytic tradition (and dominant control systems) calls forth a second (critical) synthesis which is not complementary, but competing. Despite the fact that both are parallel in many respects, the two theore…
Classical social processes: Attractor and computational models
Attractor models provide a generalized way to represent processes found throughout science. A fuller articulation of the attractor framework requires that it be addressed qualitatively and conceptually as a nonlinear mathematical order residing between cyclical and random processes. Many significant nonlinear social processes have been identified and analyzed in classical social theory. These include the circulation of the elites (Pareto), cultur…
Modeling Emotional Dynamics: Currency Versus Field
Randall Collins has introduced a simplified model of emotional dynamics in which emotional energy, heightened and focused by interaction rituals, serves as a common denominator for social exchange: a generic form of currency, except that it is active in a far broader range of social transactions. While the scope of this theory is attractive, the specifics of the model remain unconvincing. After a critical assessment of the currency theory of emot…
Social Theory and Agent Architectures: Prospective Issues in Rapid-Discovery Social Science
This article interleaves two themes: (a) the prospective role of agent simulation in developing a high-consensus, rapid-discovery social science and (b) the use of situation modeling to illustrate how the interaction of social theory and agent architectures may contribute toward such a development. The first theme suggests that computational techniques have the potential to contribute to the advancement of broadly shared social science goals. The…
The Primary Group: A Systematic Orientation
Marxist Theory and Indian Communism: A Sociological Interpretation
Systems Analysis and Sociological Theory
DAVID L. SALLACH Indiana University Historically, models and analogies have been instrumental in the development of sociological theory. Comte, for example, coined the term sociology only because his first choice, social physics, had already been employed by Quetelet. Later, through the work of Spencer, Sumner, Durkheim, and others, the organismic analogy came to occupy a dominant position in early social theory. In social psychology, Lewin's (19…
Class Consciousness and the Everyday World in the Work of Marx & Schutz
Critical Theory and Critical Sociology: The Second Synthesis
The syntheses of consensus and conflict theory which were developed during the sixties served as a healthy corrective for traditional functional theory but did not exhaust theoretical debate. The identification of such syntheses with empirico-analytic tradition (and dominant control systems) calls forth a second (critical) synthesis which is not complementary, but competing. Despite the fact that both are parallel in many respects, the two theore…
Class Domination and Ideological Hegemony
Sociological theory poses the issue of whether ideational or coercive factors provide the central basls of social order. The former view maintains (and requires) that a value consensus exist in the empirical world; the latter assumes the existence of a ruling class which dominates the ideational institutions of the society. A preliminary scrutiny of available evidence suggests that: (1) a value consensus does not exist, and (2) there is a high co…
Computers and democracy: A critique of Parslow
Classical social processes: Attractor and computational models
Attractor models provide a generalized way to represent processes found throughout science. A fuller articulation of the attractor framework requires that it be addressed qualitatively and conceptually as a nonlinear mathematical order residing between cyclical and random processes. Many significant nonlinear social processes have been identified and analyzed in classical social theory. These include the circulation of the elites (Pareto), cultur…
Social Theory and Agent Architectures: Prospective Issues in Rapid-Discovery Social Science
This article interleaves two themes: (a) the prospective role of agent simulation in developing a high-consensus, rapid-discovery social science and (b) the use of situation modeling to illustrate how the interaction of social theory and agent architectures may contribute toward such a development. The first theme suggests that computational techniques have the potential to contribute to the advancement of broadly shared social science goals. The…
Modeling Emotional Dynamics: Currency Versus Field
Randall Collins has introduced a simplified model of emotional dynamics in which emotional energy, heightened and focused by interaction rituals, serves as a common denominator for social exchange: a generic form of currency, except that it is active in a far broader range of social transactions. While the scope of this theory is attractive, the specifics of the model remain unconvincing. After a critical assessment of the currency theory of emot…
Mobilizing for Change: Simulating Political Movements in Armed Conflicts
Theories on the establishment and propagation of political movements through mobilization have emerged and evolved over the last half century. Among the major theoretical frameworks that have been advanced are resource mobilization theory, political process theory, and culture theory. However, despite these developments, relatively few methodological approaches have applied bottom-up computational modeling and simulation in explaining movement de…
Causal necessitarianism and the monotonicity objection
Do causes necessitate their effects? Causal necessitarianism (CN) is the view that they do. One major objection—the “monotonicity objection”—runs roughly as follows. For many particular causal relations, we can easily find a possible “blocker”—an additional causal factor that, had it also been there, would have prevented the cause from producing its effect. However—the objection goes on—, if the cause really necessitated its effect in the first p…
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