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I had to look up the word 'sociophysics', which isn't used in my part of the discipline, so probably not! There are a lot of physics-derived tools that are comi
by pmyteh 6y ago
I had to look up the word 'sociophysics', which isn't used in my part of the discipline, so probably not! There are a lot of physics-derived tools that are coming into increasing use, though. Half of social network analysis seems to come from sociology, and the other half (the highly computational part, in the main) from physics. I've done bits of network analysis (one of my better-recieved recent papers was applying network partitioning to the problem of identifying the edges of news 'stories' in sets of articles) but I do most of my stuff in the text analysis space where NLP/topic modelling/matrix factorisation stuff is making most of the running, and that's mostly drawing from CS rather than physics.
- NotPavlovsDog 6y agoSociophysics has not been met with a wide welcome in management studies, perhaps due to its approach to proof. It requires a lot more work than popular hand-waving. It will be interesting to see whether physics-derived tools and approaches will lead to improvement in social studies in regards to current critical concerns. It is unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) a far-away in the future area for me, as just applying viewpoints outside of the mainstream to experimental research in management has a lot of low-hanging fruit with potentially significant impact. That could be one of the benefits of the humanities aspect of management studies, it is well justified (though not popular) to take a humanitarian (and thus biased) stance towards improving the well-being of employees.