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The Social Atom

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Mark Buchanan 作者
Bloomsbury USA
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2007-5-29 出版日期
256 页数
USD 24.95 价格
Hardcover
丛书系列
9781596910133 图书编码

The Social Atom 在线电子书 图书标签: 社会学  思维  传播  心理学  Sociology  复杂系统  社会  物理学   


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A brilliant, up-to-date and much needed review of social sciences from a physicist , who knows quite a few things about complex systems and self-organization

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具体描述大众行为中存在的模式。这种模式类似于物理现象。原子 -> 系统 ->模式。很新颖的观点,但缺乏深入的叙述或者论证。

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first week's reading for international development

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啥啊这写的是...

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关于人类行为的统一理论

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The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can "any" economic, social, or political theory be valid? The truth is, none of them really are. Mark Buchanan makes the fascinating argument that the science of physics is beginning to provide a new picture of the human or "social atom," and help us understand the surprising, and often predictable, patterns that emerge when they get together. Look at patterns, not people, Buchanan argues, and rules emerge that can explain how movements form, how interest groups operate, and even why ethnic hatred persists. Using similar observations, social physicists can predict whether neighborhoods will integrate, whether stock markets will crash, and whether crime waves will continue or abate. Brimming with mind games and provocative experiments, "The Social Atom" is an incisive, accessible, and comprehensive argument for a whole new way to look at human social behavior. Mark Buchanan is a theoretical physicist and an associate editor at "Complexus," a journal on biocomplexity. He has been an editor at "Nature" and "New Scientist," and is the author of two prize-nominated books, "Ubiquity: The Science of History" and "Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks." He lives in Cambridgeshire, England. The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? The validity of any economic, social, or political theory comes into question. Mark Buchanan argues that the science of physics is beginning to provide a new picture of the human or "social atom," and help us understand the surprising, and often predictable, patterns that emerge when they get together. Look at patterns, not people, Buchanan argues, and rules emerge that can explain how movements form, how interest groups operate, and even why ethnic hatred persists. Using similar observations, social physicists can predict whether neighborhoods will integrate, whether stock markets will crash, and whether crime waves will continue or abate. "The Social Atom" is an incisive, accessible, and comprehensive argument for a new way to look at human social behavior. "Mark Buchanan is] a theoretical physicist . . . Buchanan argues that one of the basic assumptions of economics--namely, that humans make only reasoned, greedy, self-promoting decisions--is a simplification that calls the whole field into question . . . A former editor of the prestigious science journal "Nature," Buchanan witnessed a growing number of physicists write papers about familiar mathematical patterns cropping up in human behavior. This inspired him to write "The Social Atom." His goal is to consider people 'as if they were atoms or molecules following fairly simple rules' and investigate the idea that 'seemingly complicated social happenings may often have quite simple origins, and that we can discover such simplicity by examining how we too may be subject to laws not unlike those of physics' . . . The book asks] readers to move away from thinking of humans as individuals when it comes to social behavior in a group. We are . . . simple atoms that think alike, copy one another and self-organize according to common mathematical patterns."--Russ Juskalian, "USA Today" "Humans mimic other humans, whether they're clapping or buying mobile phones, writes Mark Buchanan in his beguiling behavioral study . . . Yet the same force may influence bigger decisions in life, like whether to have kids, he says. European birthrates slowed so dramatically between 1950 and 2000 that researchers concluded the trend was 'amplified and exaggerated by peer pressure' . . . A theoretical physicist, Buchanan suggests that sociologists should spend less time scrutinizing individual behavior and more time studying the group. 'Think of patterns, not people, ' he urges, arguing that people are the atoms, or building blocks, of the social world. We imitate each other, cooperate, learn and adapt in a giant feedback system. Writing in lean, fluid sentences, Buchanan clicks through examples ranging from the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management to the slaughter at Srebrenica. He shows patterns at work in phantom traffic jams, stock sell-offs and the trails human feet carve through public parks . . . As promised in the book's subtitle, Buchanan explains 'Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You' . . . Buchanan is] on to something big."--James Pressley, "Bloomberg News" "Likely the "Blink" or "Freakonomics "of 2007, theoretical physicist Buchanan's new book explains how we replicate the behavior of people we admire, and stick close to people with shared fundamental bonds such as ethnic heritage.""--Time Out Chicago" "Everything we think about why we do what we do is wrong because we can't help but think and act like individuals, understanding the world around us with anecdote and simple stories. But as Mark Buchanan brilliantly demonstrates with examples from the world all around us, there's a bigger force at work that explains the world far better. Surprisingly, that force looks a lot like the semi-random statistical model that explained the mysteries of quantum physics a century ago. This is a fascinating glimpse into a new way of understanding human behavior."--Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, "Wired Magazine," and author of "The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of More""" "Seldom has a book so infuriated me yet kept me tightly gripped to each page. This is a first-class attack on the smugness of the Humanities by a brilliant provocateur: a disturbing challenge to all of us who think we understan

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理解事物的唯一方式是对模式进行思考,而不是对人。 自然和社会是一个自我组织。自我组织的本质就是过程A导致过程B,接着过程B再导致更多的A,A又诱发更多的B,如此不断循环下去,形成一个螺旋形的反馈机制。 经济学理论家通常都假设说,一个人的行为从来都不会影响到其他人的...  

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一 布坎南提出一个类比,以人为原子。人为原子,实际上是他提出的一个思考社会学的框架,即以人为原子来研究群体行为。就像最初的机械时代,人们以钟表来比喻人,到了人工智能时代,人们又以计算机来比喻人,人们思考的paradigm在不断shift,布坎南提出,我们考虑社会学或人类...  

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在大街上游行的时候,人群们比肩接踵地在拥挤的人群中挪动步子其实和个人意向没多大关系,而是遵循着简单的法则——当人们为了避免碰撞改变了方向之后,只要发现有人的移动方向和他们的方向是一样的,就不会再往另一个方向走。自然而然地,形成了一定的人流,而这本书要研究的...  

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一 布坎南提出一个类比,以人为原子。人为原子,实际上是他提出的一个思考社会学的框架,即以人为原子来研究群体行为。就像最初的机械时代,人们以钟表来比喻人,到了人工智能时代,人们又以计算机来比喻人,人们思考的paradigm在不断shift,布坎南提出,我们考虑社会学或人类...  

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一维世界的线条虫,很难理解二维世界的擦肩而过。科学界常常以静态的眼光来分析,以获得确定性的结果,比如物理,化学,并取得了不错的成果,今天的科技,无不基于此而来。但这种方法在研究人和人相关的课题的时候却不那么有效,没有一种简单的一一对应关系。人不是物理...  

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