Computational Simulation as Theoretical Experiment
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Computational Simulation as Theoretical Experiment
Formal models have long been used to inform sociological thought. In the past many of these models have often used the language of mathematics. In essence, sets of variables are related to each other via a system of equations, the values of the variables are interpreted in terms of the intensity or amount of a social phenomenon. In sociology such equations have not been taken in a positivist se...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-250X,1545-5874
DOI: 10.1080/00222500590921283