Sociophysics : an introduction /

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible applications of statistical physics tools. Unlike the traditional analysis of the physics of macroscopic many-body or condens...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sen, P. (Parongama), 1963- (Autor), Chakrabarti, B. K. (Bikas K.), 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Physics.
Statistical physics.
Physics
Physique.
Physique statistique.
physics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Figure acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Basic features of social systems and modelling
  • 2.1 Topology of the underlying network structure
  • 2.2 Individual and interactive dynamics
  • 2.3 Modelling social systems
  • 3 Opinion formation in a society
  • 3.1 Important issues studied in opinion models
  • 3.2 Some representative models with discrete opinion
  • 3.3 Important models with continuous opinion
  • 3.4 Other models of consensus
  • 3.5 Logistic map for opinion-dynamics models
  • 4 Social choices and popularity
  • 4.1 Electoral results
  • 4.2 Popularity of scholarly articles: citations
  • 4.3 Popularity of movies
  • 4.4 Popularity of online sites and web items
  • 4.5 Competition and survival of languages
  • 4.6 Universal features
  • 5 Crowd-avoiding dynamical phenomena
  • 5.1 Minority game
  • 5.2 Kolkata paise restaurant problem
  • 5.3 Summary
  • 6 Social phenomena on complex networks
  • 6.1 Opinion formation on special networks
  • 6.2 Spreading processes
  • 6.3 Collaboration networks and their properties
  • 6.4 Social phenomena on coevolutionary networks
  • 6.5 Is it really a small world? Searching post Milgram
  • 7 Of flocks, flows and transports
  • 7.1 Flocking in the animal world
  • 7.2 Travelling patterns of individuals
  • 7.3 Crowding behaviour of humans
  • 7.4 Segregation dynamics
  • 7.5 Mobility induced by transport
  • 8 Endnote
  • Appendix A: Phase transitions and critical phenomena
  • A.1 Common phase transitions
  • A.2 A look back at thermodynamics
  • A.3 Fluctuations, critical exponents and scaling relations
  • Appendix B: Magnetic systems: static and dynamical behaviour
  • B.1 The Ising model
  • B.2 Beyond mean-field theory
  • B.3 Dynamics in the Ising model
  • Appendix C: Percolation and fractals
  • C.1 Percolation theory
  • C.2 Real-space renormalization group for percolation
  • C.3 Fractals.
  • Appendix D: Random walks
  • D.1 Discrete random walk in one dimension
  • D.2 First-passage probability and persistence
  • D.3 Recurrence of unbiased random walks
  • D.4 Lévy walk
  • Appendix E: Monte Carlo simulations
  • E.1 Estimation of critical exponents
  • Appendix F: Some data analysis methods and useful tables
  • F.1 Data analysis methods
  • F.2 Tables
  • References
  • Index.

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