Research Committees
RC45 Micro-Macro Modelling
Established in 1990, as Rational Choice. Name changed in 2025.
Objectives
The scientific project of the Research Committee 45 on “Micro-Macro Modelling” is to advance the development of explanatory models connecting the micro and macro levels of social life. This includes the theoretical design of these models as well as the hard work needed to connect them to empirical data. At the micro-level, the Committee is especially interested in the study of decision-making mechanisms as well as in the analysis of the complex ways in which actors’ behaviours are shaped by their embeddedness in social networks. At the macro-level, the committee is open to investigations including a large variety of substantive phenomena among which distributional inequality, segregation patterns, opinion polarization, norm evolutions, diffusion dynamics or long-term historical processes. Although the Committee is especially interested in cutting-edge statistical, computational and experimental techniques to build and test micro-macro mechanism-oriented models, qualitative and quantitative perspectives are both welcome as long as the chosen method and type of data are at the service of the analysis of mechanisms underlying micro-macro dynamics.
Board 2023 - 2027
| President | Gianluca MANZO, Sorbonne Université, France, gianluca.manzo@sorbonne-universite.fr | |
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| Secretary/Treasurer | Yoshimichi SATO, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan, yoshimichi.sato.a5@tohoku.ac.jp | |
| Online Communication Manager | t.b.a. | |
| Board Members | Xiaoguang FAN, Zhejiang University, China Guillermina JASSO, New York University, USA Lucas SAGE, European University Institute, Italy Naoki SUDO, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Rafael WITTEK, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Tobias WOLBRING, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany |
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Program Coordinator for 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 is:
Gianluca MANZO, gianluca.manzo@sorbonne-universite.fr
Membership
Dues for a 4 year period.
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Newsletter
The Agora, a joint newsletter of the Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association and ISA RC45. Published twice a year.
For previous issues click here.