University of Groningen - People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
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People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
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Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,205 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
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People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
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- Duration 3 weeks
- Weekly study 4 hours
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- This three-week course will help you understand why social processes seem so unpredictable and understand better the basics of social dynamics. It's designed to show you a new interesting way of approaching questions about social behaviour. Throughout, you'll focus on social mechanisms and will explore how models and simulations can help to understand those mechanisms.
- You'll gain an understanding of how the behaviour of individuals can lead to unexpected results on a group or societal level. You'll also explore a new way of looking at social phenomena by focusing on underlying mechanisms, and will investigate how models can help decipher social processes.
- You'll also explore how similar social processes occur across different contexts, and will experiment with a simple pen-and-paper model and a computer simulation of a social mechanism. Finally, you'll identify the opportunities that computational social sciences (CSS), especially modelling and simulations, offer for understanding social processes.
- Throughout the course you will be investigating some simple social processes with the help of models that illustrate how humans behave and how they influence each other. For that we will use examples, animations and game-like tools - no mathematical and programming skills are required!
People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics at FutureLearn Curriculum
People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
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Recipe for revolution - discovering social dynamics
Why are social processes hard to predict?
Organising a protest - investigating a simple model
Between micro-behaviours and social outcomes
Model, modelling and simulations
The universal nature of models
Summary of Week 1
Conformity, friends and networks
Imitation and influence
Grapevine protests - how protest spreads through social relations
Social Network Analysis and the networks around us
Describing social dynamics
Social dynamics and computational models
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