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		<title>Knowledge Structures</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/knowledge-structures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading educational psychology literature on knowledge structures &#8211; a &#8220;representation of a person&#8217;s knowledge that includes both the definitions of a set of domain-specific concepts and the relations among those concepts,&#8221; as Dorsey defines it. The basic premise here is that people not only store various concepts they&#8217;re familiar with, they store an [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/knowledge-structures/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lightning Talk</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/lightning-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just returning&#160;from three back to back conferences: PolNet, hosted by Ohio State University; NetSci, hosted by Indiana University, and Frontiers of Democracy hosted by Tisch College at Tufts University. All three conferences were great, and they all brought together people from various slices of my work at the intersection of political science, network science, [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/lightning-talk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gendered Creative Teams: The Challenge of Quantification</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unpopular Opinions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the privilege of being an invited speaker at the Gendered Creative Teams workshop hosted by Central European University and organized by Ancsa Hann&#225;k, Roberta Sinatra, and Bal&#225;zs Vedres. It was a truly remarkable gathering of scholars, researchers, and activists, featuring two full days of&#160;provocations and rich discussion. Perhaps one of the most [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-the-challenge-of-quantification/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Axelrod’s Cognitive Networks</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/axelrods-cognitive-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before introducing the cultural diffusion model he is now better known for, Axelrod proposed mapping individuals&#8217; reasoning process as a causal network. &#8220;A person&#8217;s beliefs can be regarded as a complex system,&#8221; he argued, and, &#8220;given a person&#8217;s concepts and beliefs, and given certain rules for deducing other beliefs from them&#8221; it is therefore possible [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/axelrods-cognitive-networks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Models of Belief Systems &amp; Cultural Systems</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work on belief systems is similar to the research on cultural systems &#8211; both use agent-based models to explore how complex systems evolve given a simple set of actor rules and interactions &#8211; there are important conceptual differences between the two lines of work. Research on cultural systems takes a maco-level approach, seeking to explain [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-belief-systems-cultural-systems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Models of Cultural Systems</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-cultural-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computational approaches to studying the broader social context can be found in work on the emergence and diffusion of communities in cultural system. Spicer makes an anthropological appeal for the study of such systems, arguing that cultural change can only be properly considered in relation to more stable elements of culture. These persistent cultural elements, [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/04/computational-models-of-cultural-systems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Economics of Matching</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/economics-of-matching/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/economics-of-matching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A canonical problem in graph theory is that of matching &#8211; pairing people (or nodes) based on mutual preference. The classic example of this &#8211; framed, unfortunately, in a cis-heteronormative way &#8211; is known as the marriage problem. Assuming knowledge of the whole population, men have a ranked-order list of appropriate female partners and women [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/economics-of-matching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deliberation in a Homophilous Network</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/deliberation-in-a-homophilous-network/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/deliberation-in-a-homophilous-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The social context of a society is both an input and an output of the deliberative system. As Granovetter argued, &#8220;actors do not behave or decide as atoms outside a social context, nor do they adhere slavishly to a script written for them by the particular intersection of social categories that they happen to occupy. [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/deliberation-in-a-homophilous-network/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Collective Action and the Problem of Embeddedness</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/collective-action-and-the-problem-of-embeddedness/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/collective-action-and-the-problem-of-embeddedness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divergent conceptions of homophily fall within a broader sociological debate about the freedom of an individual given the structural constraints of his or her context. As Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan Watts argue, &#8220;one can always ask to what extent the observed outcome reflects the preferences and intentions of the individuals themselves and to what extent [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/collective-action-and-the-problem-of-embeddedness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Noncooperation and the Latency of Weak Ties</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/noncooperation-and-the-latency-of-weak-ties/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/noncooperation-and-the-latency-of-weak-ties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Centola and Macy summarize, the key insight of Granovetter&#8217;s seminal 1973 work (Granovetter, 1973) is that ties which are &#8220;weak in the relational sense &#8211; that the relations are less salient or frequent &#8211; are often strong in the structural sense &#8211; that they provide shortcuts across social topology&#8221; (Centola &#38; Macy, 2007). While [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/02/noncooperation-and-the-latency-of-weak-ties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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