Countries in Central Europe undergo various transformations in society and economics; interpersonal relationships change, and new civic and political structures emerge. All changes take place in a relatively short period, and they are directed to establish the same organisation of public affairs that is common in Western Europe. For this reason we can also see these countries as a natural socio...

The article provides an overview of the state of the art of sociological research on price formation. The dominant trait of the sociological approach to prices is to understand price formation not as the outcome of individual preferences but as the result of the social and political forces operating within the market field. The article proceeds from the concept of market fields and is organized...

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A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modelling (also written modeling). Mathematical models are used not only in the natural sciences (such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology) and engineering disciplines (e.g. computer science, artificial intelligence), but also in the so...

In this paper the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology is completed. The set of 55 basic concepts in the first two papers on basic concepts was mainly determined by considering concepts in relation to social atoms. The concepts that play a role in n-networks form the majority of the concepts added in ...

1 Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3 Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK 4 Medical Genetics Department, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, USA 5 Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego,...

H Wallach began this fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the department as part of UMass Amherst’s interdisciplinary research initiative in computational social science (see related article). Within this new initiative, she is collaborating with new faculty in the departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Mathematics & Statistics. “Computational social science is an emerging re...

In this paper the results are given of an investigation into concepts from Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The goal of this investigation was to find out whether there is a set of concepts that may be considered to be basic to all these five social sciences. The set of concepts found will be modeled in terms of automata, thus providing a way of unify...