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Daniel
DellaPosta
Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
Book Title: Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Author: Thomas Schelling
Selection Statement:
As I was preparing to start my Ph.D. studies, my then-future adviser Michael Macy recommended this wonderful book, which is about how seemingly simple human behaviors often lead to unexpected and counterintuitive social patterns. This insight—demonstrated over and over through a diverse array of cases—taught me to think about the social world in a whole new way and remains just as exciting to me more than a decade later.
Year: 2022