Why Actor Models Are Integral to Structural Analysis

Whitmeyer, Joseph M.

doi:10.2307/201861

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“…By combining internal colonial theory with racialized social systems theory we are able to approach the intersection of race, gender and class as a more systematic process where rather than looking for culprits like "workers" or "bosses" who should be blamed for perpetuating domination and oppression, we instead examine the social structure. By structure I mean, the networks of interactional relationships among actors as well as the distributions of socially meaningful characteristics of actors and aggregates of actors (Whitmeyer, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

Patriarchal reversals of black male prestige: Effects of the intersection of race, gender and educational class

Lemelle

2001

Journal of African American Men

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confidence: 99%

Patriarchal reversals of black male prestige: Effects of the intersection of race, gender and educational class

Lemelle

2001

Journal of African American Men

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“…In fact, incorporating an accurate description of the way probabilities are treated into this HAM will depend on development of lower-level models of psychological and even brain processes (see Whitmeyer 1994b). We know that the normative weighted average procedure is not accurate from the work of Tversky & Kahneman and others (e.g., Schmitt & Whitmeyer, 1990).…”

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“…This also facilitates, through co-evolution of theories, the development of theory at all levels (Whitmeyer, 1994b). With human actor models for humans this is not yet possible.…”

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A Human Actor Model for Social Science

Whitmeyer

1998

J Theory Soc Behav

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This article presents a model of the production of human behaviour, grounded in a pragmatist perspective. The model has two components: a small set of considered behaviours, and a set of motivators which I group into four subsets: material, reproductive, and two sets of attributional motivators. The model is based on a minimum principle. A person performs that considered behaviour which comes closest to ideal in light of the person's motivators. I show that both declining marginal utility and satisfying follow as deductions from the model. In addition, especially with the inclusion of attributional motivators, the model accounts for a variety of findings in social science. I also show how it can generate theory and testable empirical predictions.

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“…Although our main focus is on workplaces, a multilevel perspective is used (Wegener, 2011). We conceptualise workplaces as meaningful units since they are physical and social environments, but we take into account that on a lower level, the behaviour and characteristics of individual actors matter (Whitmeyer, 1994). Therefore, we make use of Census data to provide the socio-demographics of carpooling in Belgium and we refer to individual characteristics while discussing differences between workplaces.…”

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