Wanhong HUANG

A Metamodel for Ontologically Heterogeneous Social Dynamics Part II: Modeling Six Categories of Social Facts

Social inquiry uses entities, relations, events, attributes, states, and processes to articulate different questions about a common situation. This paper develops their representations within the abstract action framework introduced in Part I, with ontological questions suspended...

Modeling the Potential Effects of Historically Formed Relations in the Generative Relational Metamodel

A historically formed relation can retain a potential role in subsequent activity even when its effect remains unrealized. This paper develops a conditional account of that possibility within the generative relational metamodel. It distinguishes candidate histories, retained reco...

Reidentifying Collective Entities after Splitting and Merger in Generative Relational Models

Collective splitting and merger distribute members, practices, commitments, resources, and recognized standing among different successors. This paper develops a method for reidentifying organized collectives through such changes within a generative relational framework. It distin...

A Metamodel for Ontologically Heterogeneous Social Dynamics Part II: Modeling Six Categories of Social Facts

Social inquiry uses entities, relations, events, attributes, states, and processes to articulate different questions about a common situation. This paper develops their representations within the abstract action framework introduced in Part I, with ontological questions suspended...

Reidentifying Collective Entities after Splitting and Merger in Generative Relational Models

Collective splitting and merger distribute members, practices, commitments, resources, and recognized standing among different successors. This paper develops a method for reidentifying organized collectives through such changes within a generative relational framework. It distin...