Societies and change

Dynamics of change in multiethnic societies.

Many of us live in large cities of the modern world, which in general are heterogeneous multiethnic societies. Immigrants come to these settlements looking for better living conditions and for work opportunities. Immigrants also tend to stay close to their kinsmen and to people coming from their places of origin, for solidarity purposes, to reproduce a sense of belonging and cohesion, as well a...

Modeling Decentralized Organizational Change in Honeybee Societies

Multi-agent organizations in dynamic environments, need to have the ability to adapt to environmental changes to ensure a continuation of proper functioning. Such adaptations can be made through a centralized decision process or come from the individuals within the organization. In the domain of social insects, such as honeybees and wasps, organizations are known to adapt in a decentralized fas...

Change in European Societies since the 1970s

Simulating Norms, Social Inequality, and Functional Change in Artificial Societies

In this paper, we compare the computational and sociological study of norms, and resimulate previous simulations (Conte and Castelfranchi 1995a, Castelfranchi, Conte and Paolucci 1998) under slightly different conditions. First, we analyze the relation between norms, social inequality and functional change more closely. Due to our results, the hypothesis stating that the "finderkeeper" norm whi...

Media-Technology and the Structural Change of Knowledge Societies

The paper takes the media-technology as an example to investigate the role of technology in so-called societal transformation-situations. That means highly complex historical situations in wich a society is partly changing its character so dramatically that observers later on will state that is no longer the same society that it used to be. Such structural changes of societies are very complex ...