Reconsidering Social Dynamics: Fundamentality and Social Simulations

Ioannis Katerelos; Charalambos Tsekeris

doi:10.31269/triplec.v10i1.406

Ioannis Katerelos Athens Panteion University
Charalambos Tsekeris Athens Panteion University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i1.406

Keywords: Human Complex Systems, Chaos Theory, Social Dynamics, Fundamental Laws, Unpredictability, Social Simulations, Agent-Based Modeling, Emergence, Social Networks

Abstract

We live in a ceaselessly changing and inescapably dynamic social world. Given the inherent unpredictability of human complex systems, this brief article seeks to show that agent-based social simulations can possibly approach the ideal of a fundamental law of social dynamics, including all forms or processes of social dynamics, articulated with everyday life and action, individual or collective. This ultimately tends to recover the explanatory potential of social networks and offer an efficient research basis for the creative re-conceptualization of social dynamics.

Author Biography

Ioannis Katerelos, Athens Panteion University

Charalambos Tsekeris graduated with Distinction from Brunel University (West London, UK) and earned his doctoral degree in Reflexivity from Athens Panteion University (Department of Sociology). He is currently lecturing at Athens Panteion University (Department of Psychology) and holding the post of Ass. Professor of Sociology at Hellenic Police Academy. He is also a Member of the Hellenic Sociological Association and the Hellenic Sociological Society (HSS), co-editor of the peer-reviewed Intellectum Journal, and a researcher at the Center for the Psycho-Sociological Research on the Governance of Virtual Communities (OMEGA Research Center). He has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, focused on various fields of work: Social Theory, Networks and Societal Dynamics, Reflexive Behavior and Critical Knowledge, Agency and Structure, Epistemology and Social Research, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural and Gender Studies, Linguistics and Discourse/Textual Analysis, Social Philosophy, Cyberspace and Virtual Communities, Chaos and Complexity Theory, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Technology Studies, Virtuality and Emergence, Creativity and Leadership, Risk and Uncertainty, Public Understanding of Science, Spokespersonship and Posthumanism His most important publications include: * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2010) “Virtual Communities”. In: Ritzer/Ryan (eds) Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Wiley-Blackwell. * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2010) “Technopolitics”. In: Ritzer/Ryan (eds) Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Wiley-Blackwell. * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2010) “Sociology of Scientific Knowledge”. In: Ritzer/Ryan (eds) Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Wiley-Blackwell. * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2010) “Pierre Bourdieu”. In: Ritzer/Ryan (eds) Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Wiley-Blackwell. * Tsekeris, Charalambos & Konstantinos Koskinas (2010) A “Weak” Reflection on Unpredictability and Social Theory. tripleC – Cognition, Communication, Co-operation: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8(1). * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2009) “Reflections on the changing profile of science and knowledge”, Facta Universitatis. Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, 8(1). * Tsekeris, Charalambos (2009) “Advances in Understanding Human Complex Systems”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 3(4). * Tsekeris, Theodore and Charalambos Tsekeris (2009) “Transport Investment and Sustainable Urban and Regional Development”, Facta Universitatis. Series: Economics and Organization, 6(1). * Papastamou, Stamos and Gerasimos Prodromitis and Charalambos Tsekeris. "Committed Social Psychology." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos and Anna Lydaki. "Apophatic Reflexivity." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos and Theodore Tsekeris. "Anarchism and Urban Planning." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos "Virtual Communities." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos and Theodore Tsekeris. "Transport and virtual technologies." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, C. and N. Katrivesis (2008) Ethical Reflexivity and Epistemological Weakness. Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 7(3). * Tsekeris, Charalambos and Ioannis Katerelos. "Spokespersonship." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, C. and N. Katrivesis (2008) “Reflexivity in Sociological Theory and Social Action” Facta Universitatis. Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, 7(1). * C. Tsekeris, “Thoughts on the Nature of the Virtual” (2008) ACM Ubiquity, 9(28). * Tsekeris, C. and I. Katerelos (2008) “Reconsidering the Understanding of Technoscientific Knowledge”, Journal of Social Sciences, 4(2). * C. Tsekeris, “Exploring the Social in Science and Technology Studies” The Social Sciences, 3(7). * Tsekeris, C. and T. Tsekeris (2008) “Anarchist Influences on British Planning before 1940” Occupied London Journal, Issue 3. * Tsekeris, Charalambos. "Technopolitics." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos. "Knowledge Politics." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * Tsekeris, Charalambos. "Performativity." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. * C. Tsekeris, “Technology as Politics” (2007) ACM Ubiquity, 8(37).