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| '''Mathematical sociology''' is a many splendored thing. Should we call it the elegant deployment of mathematical models and analytical googles to describe, dissect and construct sociological phenomena? Is it the glorious sub-set of sociology where sociological imagination set aflight by the magic touch of mathematical reasoning? Though mathematical sociology has few denizens, there is no consensus on the defintion and delineation of the field. Can statistics claim membership in the field of mathematical sociology? Many mathematical sociolgists argue that mathematical sociology is not statistics. But do we dare to say that the entire arsenal of formal statistical and probablisitc models should be kept out of mathematical sociology? What would a mathematical sociologist say to pedestrian social statistics churned out blindly by SPSS, Stata? Mathematically speaking, the very meaning and defintion of mathematical sociology |
'''Mathematical sociology''' is a many splendored thing. Should we call it the elegant deployment of mathematical models and analytical googles to describe, dissect and construct sociological phenomena? Is it the glorious sub-set of sociology where sociological imagination set aflight by the magic touch of mathematical reasoning? Though mathematical sociology has few denizens, there is no consensus on the defintion and delineation of the field. Can statistics claim membership in the field of mathematical sociology? Many mathematical sociolgists argue that mathematical sociology is not statistics. But do we dare to say that the entire arsenal of formal statistical and probablisitc models should be kept out of mathematical sociology? What would a mathematical sociologist say to pedestrian social statistics churned out blindly by SPSS, Stata? Mathematically speaking, the very meaning and defintion of mathematical sociology is a fuzzy set still waiting to be defuzzified. | ||
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Mathematical sociology is a many splendored thing. Should we call it the elegant deployment of mathematical models and analytical googles to describe, dissect and construct sociological phenomena? Is it the glorious sub-set of sociology where sociological imagination set aflight by the magic touch of mathematical reasoning? Though mathematical sociology has few denizens, there is no consensus on the defintion and delineation of the field. Can statistics claim membership in the field of mathematical sociology? Many mathematical sociolgists argue that mathematical sociology is not statistics. But do we dare to say that the entire arsenal of formal statistical and probablisitc models should be kept out of mathematical sociology? What would a mathematical sociologist say to pedestrian social statistics churned out blindly by SPSS, Stata? Mathematically speaking, the very meaning and defintion of mathematical sociology is a fuzzy set still waiting to be defuzzified.