Dear All,
I am looking for simulations which could be said (even loosely) to capture
family behaviour. At present, the obvious areas are microsimulation and the
sort of anthropological simulations of family practice exemplified by the
work of Cathy Small, Dwight Read and others.
My two questions are:
1) Have I missed other areas where I ought to look? Is there any CA
modelling which attempts differentiated social structure? Multi-Agent
models? (Would one say that EOS dealt with families or just
undifferentiated "groups"?)
2) Could people direct me towards any microsimulations that more
specifically deal with family distribution or other "family relevant"
issues? My naive take is that while microsimulation deals with families as
units of analysis, such models delving into family structure are in short
supply. (Probably because microsimulation typically avoids behavioural
assumptions.)
I will summarise findings back to the list.
ATB,
Edmund
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Edmund Chattoe: Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, 3 George
Street Mews, Oxford, Oxon, OX1 2AA, tel: 01865-278833, fax: 01865-278831,
http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk, Review Editor, J. Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation (JASSS) http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/, "So act as
to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in another, always as an
end, and never as only a means." (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles)
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