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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Galam, Serge (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Σειρά: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: Sociophysics: setting the frame
• What is sociophysics about?
• The question: do humans behave like atoms?
• Sociophysics: the origins
• Sociophysics: weaknesses, achievements and challenges
• Part II: Discovering the wonderful (and maybe scary) world of Sociophysics
• Sociophysics: an overview of emblematic founding models
• Universal features of group decision making
• The dictatorship paradox of democratic bottom-up voting
• The dynamics of spontaneous coalition-fragmentation versus global coalitions
• Terrorism and the percolation of passive supporters
• The modeling of opinion dynamics
• By way of caution
• Part III: Democratic voting in bottom-up hierarchical structures: from advantages and setbacks to dictatorship paradoxes
• Highlights of the Part
• Basic mechanisms for the perfect democratic structure
• Going to applications
• Touching on a fundamental aspect of nature, both physical and human
• Dictatorship paradoxes of Democratic voting in hierarchical structures
• Part IV: The risky business of alliances in bottom-up democratic voting with three-choice competition
• Bottom-up democratic voting in a three-choice competition
• So sorry, that's the end of the tour!
• I thank you.