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Concepts and Models of a Quantitative Sociology - The Dynamics of Interacting Populations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Concepts and Models of a Quantitative Sociology - The Dynamics of Interacting Populations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics, 14
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While the volumes hitherto published in the Springer Series in
Synergetics have been devoted almost exclusively to the
self-organized formation of structures in physics, chemistry and
biology, the present monograph by Weidlich and Haag deals with the
formation of "structures" (or "patterns") in society. At first
glance it would seem a daring enterprise to deal with the complex
processes in society using concepts and methods first developed in
physics. But over the past decade it has been shown that there is a
large class of phenomena in a variety of fields to which unifying
concepts can be applied. This is particulary true of situations in
which a system composed of many parts or individuals acquires a new
structure on macroscopic scales. Indeed, this is the definition of
synergetics which I formulated more than a decade ago, and which
formed the basis of my survey on the profound analogies in the
behaviour of complex systems, includ ing those of sociology (H.
Haken: Synergetics. An Introduction, Volume 1 of this series). As I
have pointed out on many occasions, the universal validity of these
concepts is neither accidental nor is it caused by a mere extension
of physical rules to other fields, but is instead a consequence of
deep-rooted struc tural properties of systems of interacting parts
which are due to rigorous mathe maticallaws. Generally speaking,
concepts and methods originally used in physics can be applied to
sociological phenomena in two ways."
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