"Grid-Group Cultural Theory and Behavior in Computer-Mediated Experiments" (Sun-Ki Chai Dolgorsuren Dorj, Kyle Hampton, and Ming Liu). To be submitted to Quarterly Journal of Economics.
"Cross-Culture Comparison: the Grid-Group Approach" (Sun-Ki Chai, Ming Liu, and Min Sun Kim), Beliefs and Values., forthcoming 2009 or early 2010.
"Theories of Culture and Action" in Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Social Science (London, Sage Publications, forthcoming 2010).
Culture and Social Theory, edited by Sun-Ki Chai and Brendon Swedlow, collected writings by Aaron Wildavsky. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998).
"Cultural Change, Party Ideology and Electoral Outcomes" (Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky). In Chai and Swedlow (eds.), Culture and Social Theory, 299-316.
"Culture, Rationality and Violence" (Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky). In Dennis J. Coyle and Richard J. Ellis (eds.), Politics, Culture and Policy: Applications of Cultural Theory (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). Reprinted in Chai and Swedlow (ed.), Culture and Social Theory, 281-98.
"Endogenous Shifts Over Time in Patterns of Contributions in Public Goods Games" (Sun-Ki Chai, Dolgorsuren Dorj, and Ming Liu).
"Role-assignment Algorithm and Behavior in Computer-Mediated Experiments" (Sun-Ki Chai, Dolgorsuren Dorj, Kyle Hampton, and Ming Liu).
"Explaining Social Order and Norms of Cooperation: Nested Hierarchies".
"The Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Change" in Huan Liu (ed.), Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction II (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009), 67-75.
Choosing an Identity: A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
"Endogenous Ideology Formation and Economic Policy in Former Colonies", Economic Development and Cultural Change 46:2 (January 1998), 263-90.
"A Theory of the State and Social Order" (Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter), in Patrick Doreian and Thomas J. Fararo (ed.), The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998). Republished in the journal Homo Oeconomicus 15:1 (1998), 1-26.
"Rational Choice: Positive, Normative, and Interpretive".
"The Varieties of Rational Choice Theory and the Future of Sociology".
"Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling" in Huan Liu, John J. Salerno, Michael J. Young (ed.), Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008), 1-9.
"Rational Choice and Culture: Clashing Perspectives or Complementary Modes of Analysis?" in Richard Ellis and Michael Thompson (eds.), Culture Matters (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997), 45-56.
"Seperatism and Regionalist Movements during the Post-Colonial Period", in David H. Kaplan and Guntram H. Herb (ed.), Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions Vol. 4 (Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 1450-1462.
"Predicting Ethnic Boundaries", European Sociological Review 21:4 (September 2005), 375-391.
"A Theory of Ethnic Group Boundaries", Nations and Nationalism 2:2 (1996), 281-307.
"An Organizational Economics Theory of Anti-Government Violence", Comparative Politics 26:1 (October 1993), 99-110.
"Is The Structural-Hole Thesis Culturally Parochial? A Formal Approach" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee).
"Culture, Rationality and Economic Institutions in East Asia: The Chinese Family Firm" (Sun-Ki Chai and Ming Liu).
"On the Analytics of Resistance Tactics to Korea-US FTA" (Shi Young Lee, Sun-Ki Chai, and Sung Hee Jun). Under review at Journal of East Asian Studies.
"Confucian Capitalism and the Paradox of Structural Holes in Asia" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee), Management and Organization Review, forthcoming early 2010.
"Entrenching the Yoshida Defense Doctrine: Three Techniques for Institutionalization", International Organization 51:3 (Summer 1997), 389-412.
Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), edited by Sun-Ki Chai and John Salerno. (New York: Springer, expected 2010).
The Social Science Approach to Web Mining (a tutorial for Computer Scientists and Engineers) (Sun-Ki Chai, David Chin, Scott Robertson, Kar-Hai Chu, Aaron Herres).
"Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory: A One-Way Street?", Perspectives 27:4 (October/November 2004), 11-12.
"Social Computing: An Opportunity for Mathematical Sociologists". Mathematical Sociologist 12:2 (June 2009).
Web Analyst: Software for Solving Real-World Problems by Understanding Virtual Communities (presentation) (Sun-Ki Chai, David Chin, Scott Robertson, Mooweon Rhee, min-Sun Kim, and Jang-Hyun Kim).
"Software Agent for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web", University of Hawai`i Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development, Awarded United States Patent #7499965, March 3, 2009.
"Exploring the Network Structure of Virtual Communities:
A Web Structure Analysis of a Korean-American Community" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee). Under review at Social Networks.
Erin K. Jenne, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox Of Minority Empowerment, Ethnic and Racial Studies 31:2 (February 2008), 435-436.
Susan Olzak, The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization, Contemporary Sociology 36:5 (September 2007), 489-491.
"Paradigms of Nationalism", a review of Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism and The Antiquity of Nations, Review of Politics 69:2 (2007), 309-312.
Lucy M. Long (ed.), Culinary Tourism, Gastronomica 5:4 (November 2005), 121-122.
Ray Taras, Liberal and Illiberal Nationalisms and Andreas Wimmer, Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict, Perspectives on Politics 2:1 (March 2004), 186-187.
Raymond Boudon, The Origin of Values, Contemporary Sociology 32:1 (January 2003), 116- 7.
Hans Joas, The Genesis of Values, Social Forces, 81:2 (December 2002), 683-4.
Jack Knight and Itai Sened, Understanding Social Institutions, Contemporary Sociology 29:2 (March 2000), 370-1.
Gerald Marwell and Pamela Oliver, The Critical Mass in Collective Action, Social Forces 75:1 (September 1996), 343-4.
Russell Hardin, One for All, and Mark Lichbach, The Rebel's Dilemma, Contemporary Sociology 25:3 (May 1996), 345-7.
Online Social Behaviors and Prediction of their Implications for the Physical World. Office of Naval Research Broad Agency Announcement 09-001 (Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program). Contract N00014-09-1=0805. Principal Investigator, June 1, 2009-November 30, 2011. $1,024,784 awarded.
Developing Cultural Analysis and Sociological Network Theory for Understanding Virtual Communities. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Broad Agency Announcement 2008-3 (Discovery Challenge Thrusts). Contract FA9550-09-1-0261. Principal Investigator, April 1, 2009-December 31, 2013. $854,631 awarded.
Coherence-Based Modeling of Cultural Change and Political Violence. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Broad Agency Announcement 2005-1, Contract FA9550-07-1-0253. Principal Investigator, February 1, 2007-November 30, 2009. $1,611,416 awarded. [an overview presentation].
Integrated Lab for the Computer-Mediated Study Of Culture. Office of Naval Research, FY2005 DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Contract N00014-05-1-0347. Principal Investigator, May 1, 2005-August 7, 2006, $159,131 awarded.
Synthetic Training Environments. Office of Secretary of Defense, Small Business Technology Transfer Grant OSD07-T005, Asymmetric Synthetic Training Environments, Phase I, subcontract with Referentia Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, September 1, 2007-January 25, 2008, $30,000 awarded.
Grid-Group Cm-alpha, Profiling Cultural Factors for Decision Aiding. Air Force Research Laboratory, SBIR Grant AF05-069, Contract FA8650-06-C-6633, Impact of Cultural Factors on Human Performance, Phase II, subcontract with 21st Century Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, May 3, 2006-May 2, 2008, $137,684 awarded.
Multi-National Cultural Difference Modeling. Office of Naval Research, Small Business Innovation Research Grant N03-112, Contract N00014-05-C-0523, Modeling and Simulation of Cultural Differences in Human Decision-Making, Phase I and II, subcontract with 21st Century Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, June 17, 2003-May 16, 2004 and April 28, 2006-July 28, 2007, $169,997 awarded.
"Software Agent for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web", University of Hawai`i Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development, Awarded United States Patent #7499965, March 3, 2009.
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