Prophetic social sciences: toward an Islamic-based transformative social sciences

“mathematical Social Sciences;” an Oxymoron?

Be honest. Deep down, most mathematicians probably accept “mathematical social sciences” as an oxymoron. I did — until after examining this area more seriously. Comfortable in my own research emphasizing the Newtonian N -body problem, I probably would respond to news that someone was working in, say, mathematical economics with a polite, “That’s nice,” where this noncommittal comment carried th...

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Artificiality in Social Sciences

The “sciences of the artificial” deal with synthesized things which may imitate natural things, which have functions and goals and which are usually discussed in terms of imperatives as well as descriptives. Imitation with computer is now usually termed simulation and is used to understand the imitated system (Simon, 1996). Artificiality has invaded science over the last thirty years, and physi...

Measures in Social Sciences

In the series Basic Concepts in Social Sciences a list of 79 concepts was given. The last part of that list consisted of 10 concepts concerning measures. Verbal definitions of these measures were considered as a preparation of mathematical definitions. In this paper these mathematical definitions will be discussed.