LEADER 04549nam 22007455 450 001 9910254631803321 005 20240207123909.0 010 $a3-319-39421-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-39421-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000734961 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-39421-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6299098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5591391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5591391 035 $a(OCoLC)953419269 035 $a(PPN)194379140 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000734961 100 $a20160628d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSurvival under Uncertainty$b[electronic resource] $eAn Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution /$fby Dimitri Volchenkov 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 238 p. 55 illus., 44 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aUnderstanding Complex Systems,$x1860-0832 311 $a3-319-39419-3 327 $aIntroduction -- Subsistence in Uncertainty -- Time and Institutions -- Inequality and the Laws of supply and demand -- Decision making under uncertainty -- Capitalization of uncertainty: stochastic theory of advantage -- Doubly stochastic branching process as a model of natural selection -- Human history as a stochastic process -- The stochastic model of social conformity and political instability -- Random walks over political regimes : History seems to never end -- Urbanization failure and a fission chain reaction of states. 330 $aThis book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more interdisciplinary and quantitative approach across very diverse fields of research in the humanities and social sciences. Through the examples treated in this work ? including anthropology, demography, migration, geopolitics, management, and bioecology, among other things ? evidence is gathered to show that volatile environments may change the rules of the evolutionary selection and dynamics of any social system, creating a situation of adaptive uncertainty, in particular, whenever the rate of change of the environment exceeds the rate of adaptation. Last but not least, it is hoped that this book will contribute to the understanding that inherent randomness can also be a great opportunity ? for social systems and individuals alike ? to help face the challenge of ?survival under uncertainty?. 410 0$aUnderstanding Complex Systems,$x1860-0832 606 $aSociophysics 606 $aEconophysics 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aPhilosophy and social sciences 606 $aScience?Social aspects 606 $aComputational complexity 606 $aData-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33030 606 $aSocial Structure, Social Inequality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010 606 $aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E36000 606 $aSocietal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P34000 606 $aComplexity$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T11022 615 0$aSociophysics. 615 0$aEconophysics. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aPhilosophy and social sciences. 615 0$aScience?Social aspects. 615 0$aComputational complexity. 615 14$aData-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. 615 24$aSocial Structure, Social Inequality. 615 24$aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences. 615 24$aSocietal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education. 615 24$aComplexity. 676 $a519.2 700 $aVolchenkov$b Dimitri$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0447809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254631803321 996 $aSurvival under Uncertainty$92517491 997 $aUNINA