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Burns, Tom; Gomolińska, Anna

doi:10.1023/a:1004884423573

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“…In general, in the perspectives of SGT and IGT, social norms and institutional factors must be an integral part of the description and analysis of game situations and interaction behaviour and provide a reliable basis for explaining and predicting many behavioural patterns (Baumgartner et al 1975(Baumgartner et al , 1977Burns and Gomolinska 2000;. The conceptualizations and analyses in the sociological approaches stress that actors' group membership and group social relationships play a substantial part in how they act and interact in relation to one another.…”

Section: Multiple Norms and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such factors are largely missing from classical theory, although more recently there have been initiatives to introduce such social factors (see later discussion and footnote 8). In general, in the sociological approaches, social institutional and normative factors are an integral part of the description and analysis of any and all game situations (Baumgartner et al 1977;Burns and Gomolinska 2000;Burns and Meeker 1974).…”

Section: Multiple Norms and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These "extensions" so some of what IGT and SGT do-however, they have much of an ad hoc character; a game is not a cultural or institutional object. Its rules are not mathematical objects in the Artificial Intelligence sense as in Burns and Gomolinska (2000) (Gomolinska 2002(Gomolinska , 2004(Gomolinska , 2005 In the extensions, the most of the researchers have typically ignored the more than 100 years of intensive social science research on norms, culture, and institutions, including the IGT and SGT research of the past 40+ years. Sociology and the social sciences arguably do not fit very easily into the classical game theory paradigm with its highly standardized and limited discourses (see "Concluding Remarks" in Appendix A).…”

Section: Key Points and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rule based mathematics provides in a natural manner formal definitions of cultural and institutional forms, games, roles and role relationships, interaction norms and algorithms, etc. (Burns and Gomolinska 2000) (see Appendix A for further specification).…”

Section: Key Points and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Roles and role relationships are the basis in SGT of a series of conceptualizations and analyses (Burns 1994;Burns and Flam 1987;Burns and Gomolinska 2000). Actors have different roles, different positions of status and power, different endowments; also, there is diversity in the major role components: value, model, act, judgment/modality, action determination complex, etc.…”

Section: Social Relations and Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Paradigm Shift in Game Theory: Sociological Re-Conceptualization of Human Agency, Social Structure, and Agents’ Cognitive-Normative Frameworks and Action Determination Modalities

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Abstract:This article aims to present some of the initial work of developing a social science grounded game theory-as a clear alternative to classical game theory. Two distinct independent initiatives in Sociology are presented: One, a systems approach, social systems game theory (SGT), and the other, Erving Goffman's interactionist approach (IGT). These approaches are presented and contrasted with classical theory. They focus on the social rules, norms, roles, role relationships, and institutional arrangements, which structure and regulate human behavior. While strategic judgment and instrumental rationality play an important part in the sociological approaches, they are not a universal or dominant modality of social action determination. Rule following is considered, generally speaking, more characteristic and more general. Sociological approaches, such as those outlined in this article provide a language and conceptual tools to more adequately and effectively than the classical theory describe, model, and analyze the diversity and complexity of human interaction conditions and processes: (1) complex cognitive rule based models of the interaction situation with which actors understand and analyze their situations; (2) value complex(es) with which actors operate, often with multiple values and norms applying in interaction situations; (3) action repertoires (rule complexes) with simple and complex action alternatives-plans, programs, established (sometimes highly elaborated) algorithms, and rituals; (4) a rule complex of action determination modalities for actors to generate and/or select actions in game situations; three action modalities are considered here; each modality consists of one or more procedures or algorithms for action determination: (I) following or implementing a rule or rule complex, norm, role, ritual, or social relation; (II) selecting or choosing among given or institutionalized alternatives according to a rule or principle; and (III) constructing or adopting one or more alternatives according to a value, guideline, or set of criteria. Such determinations are often carried out collectively. The paper identifies and illustrates in a concluding table several of the key differences between classical theory and the sociological approaches on a number of dimensions relating to human agency; social structure, norms, institutions, and cultural forms; patterns of game interaction and outcomes, the conditions of cooperation and conflict, game restructuring and transformation, and empirical relevance. Sociologically based game theory, such as the contributions outlined in this article suggest a language and conceptual tools to more adequately and effectively than the classical theory describe, model, and analyze the diversity, complexity, and dynamics of human interaction conditions and processes and, therefore, promises greater empirical relevance and scientific power. An Appendix provides an elaboration of SGT, concluding that one of SGT's major contributions is the rule based conceptualization of g...

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Section: Multiple Norms and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multiple Norms and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%