Social Physics: how good ideas spread - the lessons from a new science

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Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science (2015, unknown): “When applied to social settings, such a “ social physics ” (Pentland 2014) approach underestimates the possibility that these outcomes are in and of themselves socially constructed and therefore endogenous to the process they are used to evaluate (Berger and Luckmann 1966).”
The neglected complexities of shark fisheries, and priorities for holistic risk-based management (2019, background): “Symbolic or social rewards may also be more effective and 490 efficient at encouraging a desired behaviour than direct economic incentives, particularly in a public 491 goods or social context (Gallus, 2017; Pentland, 2014).”