Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics
University of Groningen and University of Warsaw
This course explored the main concepts related to social dynamics and covered basic ideas related to modelling and simulation in the social sciences. The course explored the problem of predicting social behaviour and how models and simulations can help deal with complexity of social processes. It also introduced some basic concepts related to Social Network Analysis and Agent-Based Models.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Agata Komendant-Brodowska, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Warsaw
Anna Baczko-Dombi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Warsaw
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how behaviour of individuals can lead to unexpected results on a group or societal level
- Explore a new way of looking at social phenomena by focussing on underlying mechanisms
- Investigate how models can help decipher social processes
- Explore how similar social processes occur across different contexts
- Describe how modelling works, both with a simple pen-and-paper model and computer simulation of a social mechanism
- Identify the opportunities that Computational Social Sciences, especially modelling and simulations, offer for understanding social processes
Syllabus
- Micro and macro behaviour
- Social mechanisms
- Influencing each other within networks
- Modelling behavioural processes
- Social simulations
Issued on 5th January 2023
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