e.g., Hiromi's Royalties database- England and Japan kinship networks EXE files
report on a project design (Grade: 10%), present a term project (Grade: 15%) and turn in a term project report (Grade: 55%), plus class participation/discussion (Grade: 10%)
Required readings
Overview William H. McNeill, David Christian ("The Biological Basis of Human History" available on request)
see Chaps 8 and 9 - Human Civilization Complexity and a Complex Transition, in Dynamics of Complex Systems, by Yaneer Bar-Yam,
Douglas R. White, Artemy Malkov and Andrey Korotayev. 2005. World Populations power point Kremer World Pop Data also for China, India, Europe Kremer-Kapitza Kremer-singularity and The Periodic Theory of Elements for World Population for submission to Science and Structure and Dynamics
How metaphor shapes the issues George Lakoff, Linguistics, UC Berkeley e.g., "conservatives use language to dominate politics"
The Vanishing, Jared Diamond review by Malcolm Gladwell (see: Ecology&Art
Guillermo Algaze. 2001. Initial Social Complexity in Southwestern Asia The Mesopotamian Advantage Current Anthropology 42(2):199-233. Discussion by Marcella Frangipane U.S. military destruction at Babylon catastrophic destruction
Arrighi, Giovanni and Beverly J. Silver. 2001. Capitalism and World (Dis)order Review of International Studies 27:257-279
.
Civilizations as Dynamic Networks - New PPT Jan25
White, Douglas. "Hegemonic Change and Long Inflationary Cycles: Do independent observations (Fischer and Arrighi)
establish some links?" html
193 Medieval city data
for viewing only
205zip Medieval city data
new 222zip city data
the civilizations project (background)
Boehm, Christopher. 2000. "Conflict and the Evolution of Social Control," In Journal of Consciousness Studies 7:79-183, Special Issue on Evolutionary Origins of Morality; Leonard Katz, guest editor. see also Variance Reduction and the Evolution of Social Control
Boehm, Christopher. 1993. Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy Current Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 227-254. See also (for blood feud as self-regulation) Exposing the Moral Self in Montenegro: The Use of Natural Definitions to Keep Ethnography Descriptive Christopher Boehm American Ethnologist, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Feb., 1980), pp. 1-26.
Population Dynamics and Warfare: preprint Turchin and Korotayev; Addendum; Supplementary
Peter Turchin Dynamical Analysis of Socio-Economic Oscillations: England, 1100-1900
Turchin's PowerPoint presentation of Dynamical maps (22 MB) of evolution of the state system and metaethnic frontiers in Europe during the two millenia CE. These are PowerPoint slides presented at the Santa Fe Institute working group on Analyzing Civilizations as Dynamic Networks (Complex Macrosystems). C. Nussli, 2002. Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe is the source of the new states/ethnogenesis maps.
Turchin's Cliodynamics site
Artemiy S. Malkov The Silk Roads -- Eurasian Integration through Trade: Ancient, Islamic and 13th Century. See also the ECAI Silk Road online project
Janet Abu-Lughod. 1993. The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor? (xeroxed reprint)
Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Thomas D. Hall. 1997.
Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Paperback - $39. Barnes & Noble HarperCollins.
New Perspectives in Sociology. Hardback - Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
See also Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective
Kremer World Pop Data also China, India, Europe
Kremer World Pop Data Set up For Power-Law Growth Analysis also China, India, Europe
WorldPopKremer.xls
Analysis of City and Empire Size (xls database)
Rein Taagepera, 1997 JStor PDF of Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia? International Studies Quarterly 41: 482-504.
Korotayev, Andrey. 2004. World Religions as a factor of Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. See very end of this web page for more on religion, and for project materials.
2002 [1969] George P. Murdock and Douglas R. White, Standard
Cross-Cultural Sample: on-line. Reprinted with annotations from
Ethnology 8:329-369 World cultures database
ethno-atlas and religion
1977 Douglas R. White, Michael L. Burton, and Lilyan A. Brudner, Entailment Theory and Method: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Sexual Division of Labor. Behavior Science Research 12:1-249. download data from spss excel
One of Two Required : book reports by chapters
Wolf, Eric, and Sydel Silverman. 2001. Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press. ~$25 (paper) Barnes&Noble
Pomeranz, Kenneth L. 2000. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ~$18 (paper) Barnes&Noble
Recommended readings
Co-Evolution of Behaviors and Institutions: The overarching objective is to understand how the complex structures of social interaction defined by markets, gift exchange, inter group bargaining, firms, foraging bands, and other forms of economic organization shape the evolution of individual preferences, norms, and other motivations, and in turn how these motivations shape the evolution of economic organization. To sharpen and discipline the model-building process we will address a few well documented empirical cases as well as the larger empirical puzzle of human sociality itself.Civilizations as Dynamic Networks: The goals are to stimulate significant theoretical and methodological breakthroughs in historical macrosystems research by focusing on new methods of network analysis and complex modeling focused on questions such as the interactive processes entailed in the growth and decline of cities and polities. We are doing this by bringing together world-systems and network analysts with historians, archaeologists and other social scientists concerned with the evolution of macrostructural networks is to explore the synergies than can result from the exchange and integration of datasets, the sharing of modeling and analytical tools across disciplines, and exchanges as to intellectual frameworks and problems.
Arrighi, Giovanni and Beverly J. Silver. 1999. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ~$23 (paper) Barnes&Noble
Hobsbaum, Eric. 1987. "The Centenarian Revolution," Chapter 1 of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914. New York, NY: Vintage Press.
Wolf, Eric. 1982 (2nd edition). Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press. ~$22 (paper) Barnes&Noble
Chernoble: The Ethnography of a Ghost Town; and Reportage on the Ukranian elections Elena reception to 'fictionally presented' reportage
Pomeranz, Kenneth L. and Steven Topik. The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present. M. E. Sharpe: 1999. ~$20 Barnes&Noble
SPSS nations database WVS (Spss 36meg) WVS (Excel1 50meg) WVS (Excel2 26meg)
Myths&GenesMAonly
222 West Eurasian Cities, 12-15th C database (right click to download here) for use with Pajek
Cities database (rite click to download here) for use with Pajek
The IROWS (Chris Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, Dan Pasciuti, Thomas D. Hall) Cities and Empires database
World cultures dbase files for use with GIS:
SCCS1-239.dbf
SCCS2-486.dbf
SCCS3-732.dbf
SCCS4-985.dbf
SCCS5-1289.dbf
SCCS6-1536.dbf
SCCS7-1796.dbf
SCCS8-8.dbf
web files-uci
GIS output from classroom lab
Buddhism, Christianity and Islam in the Old World: Ethnographic Atlas
World Cities: World-System project
To make map
left click ... Events
click Properties
Value Field -- scroll to variable
click Add all Values
click value to remove
click Remove tab
click value to format
etc
World Religions and Social Evolution by Andrey Korotayev is also available to students in prepublication form. It draws on the World Cultural database we use in class, and the world religion as well as other variables. From the publisher's blurbs, written by me: This "is a book of startling simplicity and depth that suggests an empirical solution to viewing the subjectivist/objectivist dilemmas in the social sciences and history. It will have a profound effect on how comparison is done in the future in anthropology, and suggests an answer to why some anthropologists, starting with Geertz, are reluctant to suggest comparison as an adequate method. The Murdockian comparative approach, up to Korotayev, had developed to the point where the nonindependence of cultures was well-recognized, and ways of taking the larger configurations of cultural systems into account had been reckoned to lie, in the latest iteration, along lines of high-order proto-linguistic communities. Korotayev demonstrates the effects of breaking what might be seen as a ritual taboo of Murdockian comparison: Thou Shalt Not Code World Religion. By doing so, Korotayev releases the Murdockian spell that lingers over the comparative approach in anthropology, and goes on to demonstrate the powerful effects of world religious communities - dating from what Jaspers calls the 'Axial Age' (400-600BC) - on the preservation and differentiation of distinctive social and political structures in Eurasia. His introduction and conclusion suggest that an objectivist natural history approach to human history, in which subjective factors are of local importance but fade out in terms of lasting effects over generations, is a valid approach to the 'pre-Axial' condition of human societies, while a subjectivist history of consciousness is a necessary complement to the 'post-Axial' condition. Korotayev succeeds in placing these two complementary approaches in context and showing their linkages in terms of how subjective and religious factors play out in human history alongside objective factors such as demography and ecology, each informing the other. He shows how it is impossible to arrive at valid inferential results from comparative approaches without an integration of the two, a situation he aptly calls 'Galton's opportunity' for those are of century-old critiques of the comparative method. The reader will be surprised at the depth of empirical comparative findings in this short book. Following Murray Leaf's Man, Mind and Science (1974) this work is a major contribution to repair of the material/ideational rift in anthropology." [see koro]
(note that the argument here takes us back to 600-400BCE where the world religious and early philosophical traditions begin. For the 'Axial Age' in the context of a world history
course, see WebChron: The WebChronology Project at
NorthPark)
(To connect with Korotayev's book, compare Korotayev's introduction which characterizes Spencer's
approach to 'evolution' as just one of several types of evolution.)
Korotayev: World Religions (40 pages)
(see also book manuscriptBell: A new model of Middle Eastern Social Structures.(34 pages)
White and Houseman:
The Navigability of Strong Ties:
Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology;
Another model of Middle Eastern Social Structures.(10 pages)
HISTORICAL POPULATION DYNAMICS: A MODEL OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL DEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE Komarova and Korotayev
Korotayev and Komarova: A new model of Chinese dynastic cycles (40 pages)
Rethinking the Hobbesian Metaphor for International Politics - Comparing Ancient China and Early Modern Europe Jack A. Goldstone: Chapter 4, State Breakdown in Early Modern Asia:
White and Spufford:
From Medieval to Modern (4 pages), with slides, GIS and SVG network images John F. Padgett, Christopher K. Ansell, Robust
Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434 American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 6. (May, 1993), pp.
1259-1319.
Wright, Henry. From Chiefdoms to Origins of States and Civilizations
Balasz, Socialism to Capitalism in Hungary
Bearman, Social Movements
2005 Walter W. Powell, Douglas R.
White, Kenneth W. Koput and Jason Owen-Smith. Network
Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational
Collaboration in the Life Sciences. Forthcoming: American
Journal of Sociology 110(4) January
electronic edition
Download: 2005 Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, and Douglas R. White.
Network Growth and Consolidation: The Effects of Cohesion and Diversity on the Biotechnology Industry Network
Submitted Forthcoming in Management Science , Special issue on Complex Systems Across Disciplines.
Download: 1988 Large-Scale Network of World Economy: Social scientists use the CRAY
Interview: Douglas R. White, David A. Smith. Science at the San Diego Supercomputer Center 1987: 27-28
2004 Douglas R. White, Walter W. Powell, Jason Owen-Smith and James Moody.
Networks, Fields and Organizations:
Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings. Computational
and Mathematical Organization Theory 10:95-117.
Special issue on Mathematical Representations for the Analysis of Social Networks within and between Organizations.
Brudner, Lilyan A., and Douglas R. White. 1997.
Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories Theory and Society 25:161-208.
White, Douglas R. 2005.
Ring Cohesion in Marriage and Social Networks
Forthcoming: Social Networks special issue edited by Alain Degenne
Mathematiques, informatique, et sciences humaines Journal of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris
Download:RingCohesionMarriage.pdf
White, Networks, Ethnography and Emergence
Korotayev - world religions and social structure
NSF sponsored
study of Rwandan genocide/policide in space and time
Hui Tin-bor:
The Ottoman Crisis and the Ming-Qing Transition (66 pages) - also his Structural Demography article
SFI-WP2003d.pdf See link to movies at
Barabasi site
Growth_andConsolidation.pdf