{"id":1599,"date":"2012-05-22T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1599"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:43:49","slug":"nascar-as-social-scientific-fodder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/05\/22\/nascar-as-social-scientific-fodder\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR as Social Scientific Fodder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Matthew S. Bothner, Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/asq.sagepub.com\/content\/52\/2\/208.short\">&ldquo;Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournament: Evidence from NASCAR Racing,&rdquo; <em>Administrative Science Quarterly<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2007<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/05\/19\/twitter-and-nascar\/\">Cyborgology<\/a> post got us thinking about NASCAR, one of the biggest sports in America. Commenter and RAND scholar David Ronfeldt points us to his own 2000 piece in the online peer-reviewed journal <em>First Monday<\/em> (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/727\/636\">Social Science at 190MPH<\/a>&#8220;) for a look at complexity theory, social network analysis, and game theory on the track, while Chris Uggen suggests this <em>ASQ<\/em> article about competitive crowding and risk taking at work in the straightaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew S. Bothner, Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart, &ldquo;Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournament: Evidence from NASCAR Racing,&rdquo; Administrative Science Quarterly, 2007 A recent Cyborgology post got us thinking about NASCAR, one of the biggest sports in America. Commenter and RAND scholar David Ronfeldt points us to his own 2000 piece in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14907,16378,16087,1877,295,50],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-game-theory","tag-nascar","tag-risk","tag-social-networks","tag-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}