Modelling the stochastic dynamics of transitions between states in social systems incorporating self-organization and memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 120134
Author(s):  
Dmitry Zhukov ◽  
Tatiana Khvatova ◽  
Carla Millar ◽  
Anastasia Zaltcman
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Dynamics ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Self Organization

Culture, Humanitarian Knowledge and Self-Organization Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-351
Author(s):  
Georgy G. Malinetsky
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Choice ◽  
Development Paths

In the 1950s, Charles Snow wrote about the growing gap between the humanities and natural science cultures. He saw this as a great danger both for science itself and for all humankind. In Russia, it was complemented by a crisis of humanitarian knowledge. The article considers the ways to overcome this crisis and build a bridge between cultures.The solution of these problems is associated with the development of interdisciplinary approaches in general, and the theory of self-organization in particular. Synergetics today represents an approach that lies at the intersection of subject knowledge, philosophical reflection and mathematical modeling. It allows you to solve problems that go beyond individual scientific disciplines. Many of them require an analysis of processes and factors in rational, emotional and intuitive spaces.The article shows that the ongoing humanitarian and technological revolution, the tasks of designing the future, increase the role of humanitarian knowledge. The author substantiates the importance of a civilizational approach to humanitarian culture and considers the cultural issues of the unique civilization of Russia. There is outlined a number of specific steps to overcome the crisis of Russian humanitarian knowledge.The concept of cultural challenge is of particular importance among the problems for which solutions are proposed. The transition from the industrial to the post-industrial phase of the civilization development and the widespread use of artificial intelligence systems will free from work about half of people. The social stability and prospects for the civilization development are determined by the ability of culture to make their life complete, meaningful and creative. The use of interdisciplinary approaches in the education system of Russia is of fundamental importance in the course of the humanitarian and technological revolution. The organizational and financial reforms of the last thirty years have led education to a deep crisis. The interdisciplinary approaches are needed in order to balance the wishes of the programs authors, the opportunities of students and to correlate the training received with the prospects for the country’s development. The revision of the content and forms of education today is becoming a problem not only for teachers and scientists, but also for the entire national culture.The imperative of our country’s cultural development is the image of the future. In the industrial era, there was an idea of universality of the ways of social systems development. In the postindustrial reality, the world becomes more complex, diversity increases. At the current point of bifurcation, several development paths open up. A civilization’s cultural choice, based on tradition, scientific forecasting and the image of the future, becomes fundamental. Interdisciplinary approaches can play a fundamental role in shaping such a cultural choice.

scholarly journals Structural and dynamic features of self-organization of social systems: philosophical and methodological aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
E. S. Ermakov
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Characteristics ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Dynamic Component ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Organization Research

The article is devoted to studying the features of self-organization of social systems and its structural and dynamic characteristics in the context of the post-non-classical paradigm. Key attention is paid to the analysis of the openness of social systems as the most important prerequisite for their self-organization. In this regard, the phenomenon of vitality is proposed as a structural and dynamic component of self-organization, on the basis of which the role of a person in this process as an “observer-participant” is specified, due to the circumstances of human life. Further directions of social self-organization research are suggested.

scholarly journals Emergence of complex structures from nonlinear interactions and noise in coevolving networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Raducha ◽  
Maxi San Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Stochastic Dynamics ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Analytical Description ◽  
Joint Effect ◽  
Pair Approximation ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Analytical Approximations ◽  
Coexistence Phase ◽  
Fragmentation Phases

Abstract We study the joint effect of the non-linearity of interactions and noise on coevolutionary dynamics. We choose the coevolving voter model as a prototype framework for this problem. By numerical simulations and analytical approximations we find three main phases that differ in the absolute magnetisation and the size of the largest component: a consensus phase, a coexistence phase, and a dynamical fragmentation phase. More detailed analysis reveals inner differences in these phases, allowing us to divide two of them further. In the consensus phase we can distinguish between a weak or alternating consensus and a strong consensus, in which the system remains in the same state for the whole realisation of the stochastic dynamics. In the coexistence phase we distinguish a fully-mixing phase and a structured coexistence phase, where the number of active links drops significantly due to the formation of two homogeneous communities. Our numerical observations are supported by an analytical description using a pair approximation approach and an ad-hoc calculation for the transition between the coexistence and dynamical fragmentation phases. Our work shows how simple interaction rules including the joint effect of non-linearity, noise, and coevolution lead to complex structures relevant in the description of social systems.

scholarly journals Response to Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy & David Kennedy. Communicative Competencies and the Structuration of Expectations: the Creative Tension between Habermas’ Critical Theory and Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Loet Leydesdorff
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Social Systems Theory ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Creative Tension ◽  
Special Case

  I elaborate on the tension between Luhmann’s social systems theory and Habermas’ theory of communicative action, and argue that this tension can be resolved by focusing on language as the interhuman medium of the communication which enables us to develop symbolically generalized media of communication such as truth, love, power, etc. Following Luhmann, the layers of self-organization among the differently codified subsystems of communication versus organization of meaning at contingent interfaces can analytically be distinguished as compatible, yet empirically researchable alternatives to Habermas’ distinction between “system” and “lifeworld.” Mediation by a facilitator can then be considered as a special case of organizing historically contingent translations among the evolutionarily developing fluxes of intentions and expectations. Accordingly, I suggest modifying Giddens’ terminology into “a theory of the structuration of expectations.”

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