| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 270 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development,
1572-8323 ;
v. 15
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Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development ; v. 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction and overview -- Set theory and social reality -- Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language -- Possibility and probability: value, conflict and choice -- Theory, evidence and reality: the mean and median ideals of competing groups -- Social design, ethics and the amount of value -- Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity -- Mathematical psychology -- Models of individual choice -- Mathematical sociology -- Mathematical political science and game theory -- The mathematical economics of social participation; complexity -- Life and history: the speculative pursuit of value -- World history: the growth and distribution dynamics of power, truth and value -- Debating the mathematical science approach to international relations. |
| Summary |
Conflict, complexity and mathematical social science provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The book illustrates how theory and evidence can be mathematically deepened and how investigations grounded in social choice theory can provide the evidence needed to inform social practice. Countering criticism from constructivist viewpoints it shows how discourse is grounded in mathematical logic and mathematical structure. The modelling of social conflict is viewed as an application of mathematical social science and relevant models are drawn from each field of mathematical psychology, mathematical sociology, mathematical political science and mathematical economics. Unique in its multidisciplinary focus the book brings together powerful mathematical conceptualisations of the social world from a wide range of separate areas of inquiry, thereby providing a strong conceptual framework and an integrated account of social situations. It is a vital resource for all researchers in peace science, peace and conflict studies, politics, international relations, mathematical modelling in the social sciences and complexity theory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social conflict -- Mathematical models.
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Social conflict -- Mathematical models. |
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Social conflict. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burt, Gordon. Conflict, complexity and mathematical social science. Bingley : Emerald, 2010 9781849509725 (OCoLC)642289689 |
| ISBN |
9781849509732 (electronic book) |
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1849509735 (electronic book) |
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9781849509725 (hardback) |
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1849509727 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612753008 |
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