The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems: New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology - Couverture souple

Klüver, Jürgen

 
9789048155149: The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems: New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9048155142 ISBN 13 : 9789048155149
Editeur : Springer, 2010

Synopsis

When I started with this book several years ago I originally intended to write an introduction to mathematical systems theory for social scientists. Yet the more I thought about systems theory on the one side and theoretical sociology on the other the more I became convinced that the classical mathematical tools are not very well suited for the problems of sociology. Then I became acquainted with the researches on complex systems by the Santa Fe Institute and in particular with cellular automata, Boolean networks and genetic algorithms. These mathematically very simple but extremely efficient tools are, in my opinion, very well appropriate for modeling social dynamics. Therefore I tried to reformulate several classical problems of theoretical sociology in terms of these formal systems and outline new possibilities for a mathematical sociology which is able to join immediately on the great traditions of theoretical sociology. The result is this book; whether I succeeded with it is of course up to the readers. As the readers will perceive, the book could not have been written by me alone but only by the joint labors of the computer group at the Interdisciplinary Center of Research in Higher Education at the University of Essen. The members of the group, Christina Stoica, Jom Schmidt and Ralph Kier, are named in several subchapters as co-authors. Yet even more important than their contributions to this book were the permanent discussions with them and their patience with my new and very speculative ideas. Many thanks.

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9048155142
ISBN 13 
9789048155149
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
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ISBN 10 :  0792364430 ISBN 13 :  9780792364436
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
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