Members of the Executive Committee

Yoshimichi Sato JAPAN

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters 2002-. Director of the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality 2003-, Tohoku University, Japan. Principal Investigator of the Social Stratification and Social Mobility Project 2004-; Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Cornell University 2000-01. Major organizational experience: President of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology 2005-; Organizer of the First Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium 2005; Board Member of ISA Research Committee 45, 2002-; Organizer of Mathematical Sociology in Japan and in America: A Joint Conference 2000. Three selected publications Intentional Social Change: A Rational Choice Theory. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. 2006. Trust, Cooperation, and Market Formation in the U. S. and Japan, with M. W. Macy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 (Suppl. 3): 7214-20. 2002. Trust, Assurance, and Inequality: A Rational Choice Model of Mutual Trust, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 26 (1-2): 1-16. 2002.

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