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Article: Nonlinear thermodynamics and social science modeling: fad cycles, cultural development and identificational slips.
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- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Introduction
Many social scientists and historians appear to confuse two kinds of historical change when they study socio-political phenomena.(1) With the advent of nonlinear dynamics metaphors, chaos theory, Prigogine's dissipative structures, spin glass models, Haken's synergetics, Thom's catastrophe theory, and so on, some historians have tended to apply such tools, which are appropriate to dynamics, to the study of developmental processes as well. But the nonlinear phenomena in physics would be at best homologous to only one kind of temporal change, viz., dynamics.
Stated straightforwardly, modeling developmental processes of cultural evolution ...
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