Бакалавриат
2021/2022
Модельное мышление
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Социология и социальная информатика)
Направление:
39.03.01. Социология
Кто читает:
Департамент социологии
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1 модуль
Формат изучения:
с онлайн-курсом
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Третьякова Татьяна Андреевна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
2
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The models covered in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology. Mastering this material will give you a huge leg up in advanced courses. They also help you in life. Here's how the course will work. For each model, there is a short, easily digestible overview lecture. Then, there are technical details of the model. Those technical lectures won't require calculus but be prepared for some algebra. The syllabus based on online course https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
Learning Objectives
- to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet
Expected Learning Outcomes
- help us make better decisions and adopt more effective strategies
- improve our abilities to make accurate forecasts
- improve our ability to design institutions and procedures
Course Contents
- Why Model & Segregation/Peer Effects
- Aggregation & Decision Models
- Thinking Electrons: Modeling People & Categorical and Linear Models
- Tipping Points & Economic Growth
- Diversity and Innovation & Markov Processes
- Lyapunov Functions & Coordination and Culture
- Path Dependence & Networks
- Randomness and Random Walks & Colonel Blotto
- Prisoners' Dilemma and Collective Action & Mechanism Design
- Learning Models: Replicator Dynamics & Prediction and the Many Model Thinker
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Lamb, R., Firestone, J., Schmitter-Edgecombe, M., & Hand, B. (2019). A computational model of student cognitive processes while solving a critical thinking problem in science. Journal of Educational Research, 112(2), 243. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2018.1514357
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Demil, B., Lecocq, X., & Warnier, V. (2018). “Business model thinking”, business ecosystems and platforms: the new perspective on the environment of the organization. M@n@gement, 21(4), 1213–1228. https://doi.org/10.3917/mana.214.1213