Hur beteende sprids : kurs på coursera börjar idag

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Samhällets rörelselag - bloggen om Mikael Sandbergs bok

Om hur samhällen förändras och hur man vetenskapligt studerar det

MARX, DARWIN OCH STATSVETENSKAPENS POLITISERING

Hur beteende sprids: kurs på coursera

börja idag

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I augusti 2018 skrev jag e blogginlägg om en ny bok: Damon Centola, How Behavior Spreads.

The Science of Complex Contagions (Princeton University Press, 2018). Idag kan du gratis delta i

Centolas kurs på Coursera: Network Dynamics of Social Behavior. Hi ills är nästan 9000 redan anmälda. Kursen beskrivs så här:

About this Course

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How do revolutions emerge without anyone expecting them? How did social norms about same sex marriage change more rapidly than anyone anticipated? Why do some social innovations take oﬀ with relative ease, while others struggle for years without spreading? More generally, what are the forces that control the process of social evolution –from the fashions that we wear, to our beliefs about religious tolerance, to our ideas about the process of scientiﬁc discovery and the best ways to manage complex research organizations?

The social world is complex and full of surprises. Our experiences and intuitions about the social world as individuals are often quite diﬀerent from the behaviors that we observe

emerging in large societies. Even minor changes to the structure of a social network – changes that are unobservable to individuals within those networks – can lead to radical shifts in the spread of new ideas and behaviors through a population. These “invisible” mathematical properties of social networks have powerful implications for the ways that teams solve problems, the social norms that are likely to emerge, and even the very future of our society. This course condenses the last decade of cu ing-edge research on these topics into six

modules. Each module provides an in-depth look at a particular research puzzle -with a focus on agent-based models and network theories of social change -and provides an interactive computational model for you try out and to use for making your own explorations! Learning objectives – after this course, students will be able to… – explain how computer models are used to study challenging social problems – describe how networks are used to represent the structure of social relationships – show how individual actions can lead to unintended

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collective behaviors – provide concrete examples of how social networks can inﬂuence social change – discuss how diﬀusion processes can explain the growth social movements, changes in cultural norms, and the success of team problem solving.

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Publicerad av Mikael Sandberg

Jag är professor i statsvetenskap vid Högskolan i Halmstad. Förutom ﬂera lärosäten i Sverige har jag studerat och forskat vid The Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, UN University, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung samt University College London. Visa alla inlägg av Mikael Sandberg