Sociophysics A Physicist's Modeling of Psycho-political Phenomena /

• Main Author: Galam, Serge (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Behavioral sciences.; Game theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Economic theory.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Behavioral Sciences.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Do humans behave much like atoms? Sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. But advocating the use of models from the physical sciences to understand human behavior could be...