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Social dynamics is the study of the ability of a society to react to inner and outer changes and deal with its regulation mechanisms. A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions Social dynamics is a mathematically inspired approach to analyse societies, building upon systems theory and sociology. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Systems theory is an Interdisciplinary field of Science and the study of the nature of Complex systems in Nature, Society, and Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" Sociologists, ethnologists, economists, social psychologists, criminologists, anthropologists and biologists are utilizing it in their studies of systems and behavior. Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "habit custom convention" is the branch of Anthropology that compares and An economist is an expert in the Social science of Economics. Social psychology is the study of how people and groups interact A criminologist is often defined as someone who studies the Etiology of Crime, criminal behavior types of crime and social cultural and media reactions to crime A biologist is a Scientist devoted to and producing results in Biology through the study of Organisms Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship System (from Latin systēma, in turn from Greek systēma is a set of interacting or interdependent Entities, real or abstract Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) refers to the actions or Reactions of an object or Organism, usually

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Society and culture are things to which we are emotionally bound and for which we have no immediate alternative. Sociology and psychology deal with ratings, with subjectivity, they are supposed to provide objective findings to serve subjective needs. (Of course different people have more or less different feelings, goals and opinions, this must be discussed, as cultures found upon least common denominators. ) Cut short, sociology sits on the fence, it is a mix of human and nature sciences, philosophy and politics. As this has stalled the progress of sociology, some people meant to bring new life into it by applying mathematics and systemics to sociology: On a certain level, life and societies are nothing more than systems dealing respectively with genes and culture (for life-like behavior in the latter, see meme). A meme (miːm consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation Therefore we can try to describe social systems by signals which become modified by transmission functions.

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If a society is small, its individuals can come to a fine consensus in a short time, that means that its amplitude error is small and its frequency bandwidth is high. Consensus has two common meanings One is a general agreement among the members of a given group or Community, each of which exercises some discretion in But its absolute amplitude is small, so this society is still dependent on the big amplitude of nature, on the forces of nature. A big society can overcome hunger, disease and poverty, but its political media are hogs; high but lagged and distorted output signal. Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life including food clothing shelter and safe Drinking water, and Political media are Communication vehicles owned ruled managed or otherwise influenced by political entities meant to propagate views of the related entity

More advanced cases introduce feedback, e. Feedback is a circular causal Process whereby some proportion of a system's output is returned (fed back to the Input. g. the cycles between economic boom and recession, whose resonance frequency is mostly ~2-5 years. In Economics, the term boom and bust refers to the movement of an economy through Economic cycles. A recession is a contraction phase of the Business cycle. The U In Physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to Oscillate at maximum Amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the system's The strength of a resonance is measured by the parameter Q (for quality). Calculations become simplified by signal theory. See also Signalling theory, a concept in Evolutionary biology Signal theory is the theory of the Engineering discipline

Another example: Modern societies rely on technology to invent and promote new technology. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt The problem with backpropagation is that it can complicate the system, make it dynamic hence hard to control. As mankind needs to align technology to human needs and needs to foresee the effects of its actions, social dynamics and its scientific relatives is an important field.

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Weidlich, W. Collective intelligence is a shared or group Intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals Dynamical systems theory is an area of Applied mathematics used to describe the behavior of complex Dynamical systems usually by employing Differential Jay Wright Forrester (born 14 July 1918, Climax Nebraska) is a pioneer American Computer engineer, Systems scientist Group dynamics is the study of groups and also a general term for group processes This article is related to the study of self-replicating units of culture not to be confused with Mimetics Memetics is a neo-Darwinian approach Operations Research (OR in North America South Africa and Australia and Operational Research in Europe is an interdisciplinary branch of applied Mathematics and Population dynamics is the study of marginal and long-term changes in the numbers individual weights and age composition of individuals in one or several Populations and Social psychology is the study of how people and groups interact Societal collapse is the large scale breakdown or long term Decline of the Culture, civil institutions or other major characteristics of a Society or a Sociobiology is a neo-Darwinian and Socialism Synthesis of Scientific disciplines that attempts to explain Social behavior Sociocultural evolution(ism is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and Social evolution, describing how Cultures and societies (1997) "Sociodynamics applied to the evolution of urban and regional structures". Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol. 1, pp. 85-98. Available on line: http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/S1026022697000101

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