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yes, you are obviously right. It would be interesting, however, to see more current collaboration along the lines I understood Bettina to be suggesting. Clearly the roots of modern network analysis lay in physics.
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I can't help but point out that Harrison White, argueably the most influential person on modern network theory, was a physicist who applied his knowledge of physics to the social sciences. Here is a paper that discusses that:
http://www.mot.chalmers.se/dept/idy/home/azarian.pdf
White has a number of important papers, perhaps his one on blockmodels is the most influential for network analysis.
-Don
rhoten writes:
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> The idea of collaboration seems like an excellent proposal idea ... I think there could be a fascinating line of work here, merging the sociologists' and physicists' approaches to networks, exploring where lay the convergences and divergences in approaches ... examining opportunities to and obstacles for a network law(s).
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> Diana
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> I agree with Ajay, why not take what the physicist find and check if
> it works. If it does, this can help to explain some facts, that are
> still unsolved, and if not, no damage done. Maybe they also provide
> new methods that could be tested. Wouldn´t it be nice to have a "grand
> unified network law" ;-)
>
> The only sad thing is, that they always make it to center stage (nature, science etc) while those who have been there for a long while, stand in the shadows. Can´t something be done about that? Collaboration etc?
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> Best,
> Bettina
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