As stated in ((25]) and ((12]) the eld of multiagent systems (MAS) (or distributed artiicial intelligence (DAI)) needs ideas from sociology in order to overcome some of the problems researchers are encountering. These problems are most of the time related to the limited (self)reeexivity the actors (agents) are equiped with and the limitations of the architecture of the individual agents. On the...

Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

Iran is the cradle of literature, culture and ethics. Paying attention to ethics has always been considered by sages as an important necessity. There were also some poets who had the sociological look upon the society, in addition to relying on moral and social issues. Saadi is one of those poets whose works has overtaken others. He illuminates and deals with the roots of social problems like a...

due to his nature, man always asks questions about the meaning of things. all branches of knowledge and civilization are the answers he has given to the mystery of being, of his own and of other things. here, the question about the meaning of action is also considerably important. in this study, we are going to analyze the answers given from a sociological view to the question about the meaning...

Following a discussion of activity theory as an approach to human development originally rooted in transformational change, we review the historical context and diverse conceptualizations of social conduct from the field of sociology. The discussion of social conduct is broken into theories of social action, theories of enactment, and contemporary sociological attempts at critical integration o...

A range of scientific works show that sociological intervention is rooted in two main theoretical branches – psychosociology and microsociology. Although the concepts foundations these major are, course, different, their relationships with subject mix proximity self-analysis, resulting an enlightening common factor. Our intention this article not only to identify primary theories deve...

This paper introduces a new direction in formalizing sociological models. Sociological theories are a field of application for computer science, hence sociologists describe a theory in informal ways. These theories are transformed into computational models which can be studied and investigated with formal methods. We have chosen to formalize a common model of sociological theory, the Garbage Ca...

Several recent works have addressed the issue of the origin of religion. Some have linked this occurrence to evolutionary mechanisms, others to sociological processes, and still others to psychological functions. Each position has interest and sheds a different light on a necessarily complex process. The paper examines several of these theories and offers a synthetic perspective which integrate...