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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Scott Archer Boorman is a mathematical sociologist at Yale University. Life His father, Howard L. Boorman, was a Foreign Service Officer in Beijing, China, and he was born there as Chinese Communists troops entered the city. He received no formal education before enrolling at Harvard College, and had largely completed work on his book, The Protracted Game, which was published in 1971.

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Scott Boorman's Published Works

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Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions (1976) (1814)
An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling (1975) (739)
Social Structure from Multiple Networks. II. Role Structures (1976) (621)
Social structure from multiple networks: I (1976) (614)
A Combinatorial Optimization Model for Transmission of Job Information through Contact Networks (1975) (369)
Constructing blockmodels: How and why (1978) (215)
Group selection on the boundary of a stable population. (1973) (170)
Multidimensional scaling of measures of distance between partitions (1973) (137)
The Genetics of Altruism (1981) (132)
On the Volterra and Other Nonlinear Models of Interacting Populations. N. S. Goel, S. C. Maitra, and E. W. Montroll. Academic Press, New York, 1971. viii, 146 pp., illus. $5.50. Reviews of Modern Physics Monographs (1972) (129)
Group selection on the boundary of a stable population. (1972) (115)
Metrics on spaces of finite trees (1973) (104)
An Algorithm for Clustering Relational Data with Applications to Social Network Analysis and Com-par (1975) (43)
A frequency-dependent natural selection model for the evolution of social cooperation networks. (1973) (38)
The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy (1969) (38)
Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social Structure, Perception, and Action, by RONALD S. BURT. New York: Academic Press, 1982. 381 pp. NPL cloth. (2016) (31)
Strategy and National Psychology in China (1967) (23)
The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy. (1970) (15)
Island models for takeover by a social trait facing a frequency-dependent selection barrier in a Mendelian population. (1974) (14)
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (2014) (13)
Blockmodeling complex statutes: Mapping techniques based on combinatorial optimization for analyzing economic legislation and its stress point over time (1983) (13)
Algebraic Approaches to the Comparison of Concrete Social Structures Represented as Networks: Reply to Bonacich (1980) (9)
Mathematical theory of group selection: Structure of group selection in founder populations determined from convexity of the extinction operator. (1978) (9)
Mao Tse-tung and the Art of War (1964) (7)
Chinese Communist Insurgent Warfare, 1935-49 (1966) (5)
Fundamentals of Strategy: The Legacy of Henry Eccles (2012) (4)
The Theory and Practice of War. Essays presented to Captain B. H. Liddell Hart on his Seventieth Birthday. (1966) (4)
The network matching principle: A model of efficient resource allocation by informal social networks in non-profit and other non-market social structures (1982) (4)
Informational optima in a formal hierarchy: Calculations using the semigroup† (1977) (3)
Social Structure from Multiple Networks . 11 . Role Structures 1 (2007) (1)
The Protracted Game. A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy. (1970) (1)
Pitfalls in Social Network Analysis@@@Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social Structure, Perception, and Action. (1985) (1)
3 – Cascade to Takeover by the Social Trait (1980) (0)
1 – The Evolutionary Roots of Sociality (1980) (0)
8 – Alternative Combinatorial Models and the Status of the Hamilton Theory (1980) (0)
Sociobiology@@@The Genetics of Altruism.@@@Sociobiology Examined.@@@Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science. (1982) (0)
7 – Axiomatization of Sib Selection Theories (1980) (0)
10 – Analysis of Group Selection in the Levins E = E(x) Formalism (1980) (0)
6 – General Models for Sib and Half-Sib Selection (1980) (0)
9 – Models of Intergenerational Altruism (1980) (0)
4 – Dynamics of the Cascade Using the Two-Island Approximation (1980) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
11 – Group Selection of Founder Populations (1980) (0)
5 – The Cascade Continued—Initial Conditions and Global Dynamics (1980) (0)
Book Review : The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (2014) (0)
Mathematical theory of group sele( in founder populations determined of the extinction operator (2016) (0)
II. Analogues in the Social Sciences (1972) (0)
A Frequency-Dependent Natural Selection of Social Cooperation Networks (2016) (0)
2 – Mathematical Models for a Simple Cooperative Trait (1980) (0)
NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS (2009) (0)
Communist China, 1949-1969: A Twenty-Year Appraisal.@@@Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China.@@@China's World: The Foreign Policy of a Developing State.@@@Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy: Peking's Support for Wars of National Liberation.@@@Mao.@@@The Protracted Game: A Wei-ch'i Int (1972) (0)

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