GO TO Values, World Society and Mathematical Social Science. The introductory chapters to the four books. (file) (38 pages)
The 38 pages contain the introductory chapters for each of the four books, each giving overviews of all the chapters in the book. The four books consist of the three Yearbooks for 2014, 2015 and 2017 and of the book on mathematical social science:
Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2014.
Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2015.
Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2017.
Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science (2010)
Table 1.1 The chapters in Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science
1 Introduction and overview
Modelling
2 Set theory and social reality
3 Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language
Value
4 Possibility and probability: value, conflict and choice
5 Theory, evidence and reality: the mean and median of competing groups
6 Social design, ethics and the amount of value
Society
7 Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity
8 Mathematical psychology
9 Models of choice
10 Mathematical sociology
11 Mathematical political science and game theory
12 The mathematical economics of social participation: complexity
13 Life and history: the speculative pursuit of value
14 World history: the growth and distribution of power, truth and value
15 Debating the mathematical science approach to international relations
Table 1.2 The chapters in Values, World Society & Modelling Yearbook, 2014
1 Introduction and Overview ... Arts and Science
Values
2 Individuals and Societies, Needs and Cultures
3 Individuals: Activities, Happiness and Other Values, Emotion, Personality
4 Relationships: Family and Friends, Care and Therapy, Nurturing Flourishing
5 The Life of an Individual ... Feeling at Home in the World
6 ‘Our Values’: Unanimous? Universal? Exceptional? Good? Safe?
World Society
7 The World Today: Tension and Volatility in a Multi-Level Geopolitical Structure
8 World History: Progress and Destruction, Independence and Incorporation
9 Ukraine: United or Divided? West and East; Living with Others
10 Scotland: ‘Our Values’? Independence? More Varied and Less Distinctive
11 The World Economy: Growth and Inequality
12 Gender: Culture and Psychology, Literacy and Education
13 World Chess 1914, World Football 2014: Performance and Prediction
Modelling
14 Look at Social Reality ... Look at the Universe ... And See Mathematics!
Table 1.3 The chapters in Values, World Society & Modelling Yearbook, 2015
1 Introduction and Overview ... Arts and Science
Values
2 Transcending adversarialism: The John Burton Memorial Lecture 2015
3 Life as a journey
4 ‘Our values’: the Enlightenment … the Prophet
World Society
5 World society in 2015
6 Social and psychological space - geographical variation
7 Time series: social value, violence and population
8 Nigeria, Greece and Ireland: geography and one-dimensional political space
9 Northern Ireland: multidimensional political space and geography
10 The UK general election, 2015: prelude and outcome
11 Democracy: satisfaction? … dissatisfaction? … value space
12 Time series: UK general elections - 1945 to 2015
Modelling
13 Sets and functions; time and space
14 Value spaces; the earth in space and time
Table 1.4 The chapters in Values, World Society & Modelling Yearbook, 2017
1 Introduction and Overview
2 .. World Society in 2017
3 .. Rules in Society: Age, Gender, Ethnicity and Religion
4 .. UK, 2017: Mass and Gravity in Political Space
5 .. Power Trajectories: Western Dominance and Eastern Growth
6 .. Cultural Trajectories: Languages, Religions and Political Cultures
7 Value Trajectories: Wellbeing, Wealth, Health, Peace and the Environment
8 .. Knowledge Trajectories: Fermat’s Last Theorem and Modularity
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