Yes, the theories in Psychology and Sociology are
structured around people and their ideas:
We have the Psychology of Freud, the Psychology
of Jung, the Psychology of Skinner, etc.
And there is the Sociology of Weber, the Sociology
of Marx, the Sociology of Goffman, etc.
In order to create a complex theoretical framework,
these reseachers have constructed domain specific
languages to explain a certain aspect of their
science. They divided their complex research object
into different parts to explain them.
Freund for example invented the id, ego and
super-ego model to describe the interactions
of body, self-consciousness and culture.
-J.
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From: "glen e. p. ropella" <[email protected]>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ABMs and Psychology
In contrast, in SoPS, it is too difficult to use that same language to
express the questions and system mechanisms. The logical depth is too
great to formulate, say, "anger" in terms of, say, quarks. So, we hunt
around for languages with which to express SoPS, born of partially-baked
"ontologies" from Freud, Jung, Hobbes, Locke, Keynes, Maslow, etc.
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