REPLY Formation of Societal Norms (SD6102)

[Peter Hovmand phovmand wustl.edu]

Posted by  "Peter Hovmand" <phovmand at wustl.edu>
Dear Stefan,

You might want to check out some of Samuel Jacaobsen's work in sociology since 
he was looking at social norms, organizational change, and using system dynamics 
as a simulation tool to developing sociological theories:  

Samuel, Y., & Jacobsen, C. (1997). A system dynamics model of planned organizational 
change. Computational and mathematical organization theory, 3(3), 151-171.

Jacobsen, C. (1999), The process of crescive legitimation: theory, simulation model, 
and three empirical tests, Adaptive Behavior 7(3-4), 255-267.

Jacobsen, C. and Bronson, R. (1985), Simulating Violators, Baltimore, MD, Operations 
Research Society of America (ORSA).

Jacobsen, C. and Bronson, R. (1989), Thank you for NOT smoking: Simulating the growth 
of a new social norm, in C. Jackson, P. Keys and S.A. Cropper (eds.), Operational 
Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum, London, 531--536.

Jacobsen, C., & Bronson, R. (1987). Defining sociological concepts as variables for 
system dynamics modeling. System Dynamics Review, 3(1), 1-7.

Jacobsen, C. Bronson, R. and Vekstein, D. (1990), A strategy for testing the empirical 
adequacy of macro-sociological theories, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 15 (2), 137--148.

Jacobsen, C. and Bronson, R. (1995), Computer simulation and empirical testing of 
sociological theory, Sociological Methods and Research 23 (4), 479--506.

Jacobsen, C. (1997), Patterned deviance. Chapter 14, pp. 27-42 in Robert Friedmann (ed.), 
Criminal Justice and Criminology in Israel, Albany, NY.: SUNY Press.


Peter S. Hovmand, MSW, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1196
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
Posted by  "Peter Hovmand" <phovmand at wustl.edu>
posting date  Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:36:10 -0600