Nomadic Concepts, Variable Choice, and the Social Sciences

Concepts in the Social Sciences

Basic Concepts in Social Sciences I

In this paper the results are given of an investigation into concepts from Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The goal of this investigation was to find out whether there is a set of concepts that may be considered to be basic to all these five social sciences. The set of concepts found will be modeled in terms of automata, thus providing a way of unify...

Basic Concepts in Social Sciences III

In this paper the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology is completed. The set of 55 basic concepts in the first two papers on basic concepts was mainly determined by considering concepts in relation to social atoms. The concepts that play a role in n-networks form the majority of the concepts added in ...

Basic Concepts in Social Sciences II

In this paper an extension is given of the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The modeling is in terms of automata and automata networks. In the first paper on basic concepts the simplest unit, the social atom, stood central. In this second paper social structures and processes are focused upon.

1 Field : Social Sciences / Humanities Session Topic : Social Choice and

1. Introduction We study the problem of allocating a single indivisible object with monetary transfers among a set of individuals who have mutually different valuations over the object. An interesting public economic example is the locating problem of a Not-In-My-Backyard facility among a group of districts. In this situation, each district (individual) has to bear disutility (negative valuatio...