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Revision as of 04:33, 17 April 2006 by Tseeker (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mathematical sociology is a many splendored thing. Should we allude to it as the elegant deployment of mathematical models and analytical goggles to describe, dissect and construct sociological phenomena? Is it the glorious sub-set of sociology where sociological imagination set aflight by the magical 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 and faithfully by SPSS, Stata and ilks? Mathematically speaking, the very meaning and defintion of mathematical sociology is a fuzzy set still waiting to be defuzzified.
Edling(2002) argues that modern mathematical sociology has two fathers, James S. Coleman and Harrison White. Template:Fn
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Template:Fn Christofer R. Edling, "Mathematics in Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 2002
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