Diversity and Community: The Role of Agent‐Based Modeling |
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Authors: | Alex Stivala |
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Institution: | Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
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Abstract: | Community psychology involves several dialectics between potentially opposing ideals, such as theory and practice, rights and needs, and respect for human diversity and sense of community. Some recent papers in the American Journal of Community Psychology have examined the diversity‐community dialectic, some with the aid of agent‐based modeling and concepts from network science. This paper further elucidates these concepts and suggests that research in community psychology can benefit from a useful dialectic between agent‐based modeling and the real‐world concerns of community psychology. |
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Keywords: | Diversity Community Social networks Agent‐based modeling |
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