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The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems - New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
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The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems - New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, 29
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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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