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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
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DESCRIPTION:Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester.\n\nProcesses a
 nd Theories: Can Agent-Based Modelling Contribute to Our Understanding o
 f Social Networks?\n\nProverbially\, to the person who only has a hammer
 \, everything they encounter begins to look like a nail. Even if this is
  so\, it is not that helpful unless we can find something other than a h
 ammer to offer. This talk considers\, with illustrations\, how the chall
 enge of understanding social networks might look different from the pers
 pective of Agent-Based Modelling which\, I shall try to argue\, is poten
 tially a completely new tool. After a brief scene setting on challenges 
 faced by well known research methods with regard to data\, the topics co
 vered by the talk are: The representation of social process\, the challe
 nges of modelling parallel\, situated and intentional action\, differing
  conceptions of theory/model as a thing that makes sense of data and how
  data potentially “disciplines” these conceptions in progressive social 
 science. The aim of the talk is to promote a more effective debate betwe
 en Social Network Analysis and Agent-Based Modelling about their respect
 ive strengths and weaknesses.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G6\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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