Evolution of Cultural Norms and Dynamics of Socio-Political Change
Abstract
This document is the final progress report for the ARO MURI project on Evolution of Cultural Norms and Dynamics of Socio-political change. The project started in Fall 2012 with kick-off event occurring on February 2013. The project received an extension in2018 and it concluded in Fall 2019. The project brought together a unique mix of world experts in computational science, network science, political science, economics, and decision making together. Many of the central questions related to evolution of social and cultural norms and dynamics of sociopolitical change involve interactions among individuals and groups with different identities, influences and interactions. The understanding of these interactions is crucial for creating a new interdisciplinary science that on the one hand utilizes domain-specific expertise from economics, political economy, political science and sociology, and on the other hand leverages the advances in methodologies driven by the science of networks, systems theory, and computational social science, as well as our understanding of large scale networked systems. Throughout this MURI, our goal has been to create new fundamental theories, analyses, experiments, methodologies, and predictive models that provide insight and understanding for the scientific community, policy makers, and the Army. Contrary to common views of universality that is dominant in the network science literature, our focus on this project was to blend domain-specific knowledge social science theories with mathematics of networks and dynamic interactions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 07, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1203018
Entities
People
- A. Ozdaglar
- Ali Jadbabaie
- D. Acemoglu
- Fotini Christia
- Jon Kleinberg
- Jure Leskovec
- Larry Blume
- M. Dahleh
- Matt Jackson
- Michael Kearns
Organizations
- Cornell University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Pennsylvania