This article looks at 20 years of applications of agent‐based models (ABMs) in sociology
and, in particular, their explanatory achievements and methodological insights. These …

This article provides an overview of the social simulation approach to the study of social
phenomena. We focus especially on the relevance of heterogeneity of social behavior and …

Social Network Analysis and Education: Theory, Methods & Applications provides an
introduction to the theories, methods, and applications that constitute the social network …

Social networks are dynamic by nature. While network research has typically treated
relationships between social actors as static, there has been a surge in literature extending …

This article investigates the importance of the endogenous selection of partners for trust and
cooperation in market exchange situations, where there is information asymmetry between …

Coordination problems resembling weakest-link games with multiple Pareto ranked
equilibria are ubiquitous in the economy and society. This makes it important to understand …

Social networks have recently been widely explored in many fields; these networks are
composed of a set of autonomous social actors and the interaction relations among them …

Longitudinal network data recording the moment at which ties appear, change, or disappear
are increasingly available. Event history models can be used to analyze the dynamics of …

Social influence may lead individuals to choose what is popular over what is best. Whenever
this happens, it further increases the popularity advantage of the inferior choice, compelling …

The tension between individual and collective interests and the provision of sanctioning
mechanisms have been identified as important building blocks of a theory of norm …