one of recent developments in modern societies is the evolution in the structure of power division in the family and changes in reciprocal actions between wife and husband. this research aims to study the factors affecting distribution of power in the family by using the theories of: social capital, valuable resources, and sociability of gender. the data has been collected through survey method...

Using a longitudinal approach and content analysis, this article examines the implications of the Internet and social media for collective action and democratic transition in Morocco. The article argues that the impact of the Internet and social media on Morocco’s political scene is an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary one. The new communication tools have certainly empowered oppositiona...

A broad cross-section of the social sciences is increasingly turning to biology and evolutionary theory to help explain human behavior. Political science is a notable exception to this trend, even though there are sound conceptual reasons for expecting biological processes to play an important role in explaining political behavior. While agreeing with the conceptual arguments, the authors belie...

Social Developer Networks are built of complex hierarchical social network which forms relationship information between software entities. Recent research trends suggested many different successful methods on Social Developer Network to analyze its growth and advancement of network structure. Aim is to present brief survey on the analysis, method, algorithm used in developer social network and ...

Online health community can break the limitations of time and space to provide medical and health information for users, meanwhile can promote the formation and evolution of friendships between users. This paper takes the largest diabetes community in China SweetHome as the research, and uses the dynamic social network analysis, which is based on stochastic actor-oriented models, to study the i...

In this paper, we study how an agent’s belief is affected by her neighbors in a social network. We first introduce a general framework, where every agent has an initial belief on a statement, and updates her belief according to her and her neighbors’ current beliefs under some belief evolution functions, which, arguably, should satisfy some basic properties. Then, we focus on the majority rule ...

From Human to Agent Societies There is no (apparent) need to advocate any anthropomorphic principle to reason about agents. Analogy is enough to drive comparisons and possibly help us foreseeing the evolution of agent systems. More than ten thousands years have seen humans evolve as situated, speaking, specialisable, and context-aware entities, co-existing and interacting within societies, deep...

Critics of Darwinian cultural evolution frequently assert that whereas biological evolution is blind and undirected, cultural change is directed or guided by people who possess foresight, thereby invalidating any Darwinian analysis of culture. Here I show this argument to be erroneous and unsupported in several respects. First, critics commonly conflate human foresight with supernatural clairvo...