Complexity and the Human Experience Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Editor:
| Youngman, Paul A.
Hadzikadic, Mirsad |
| ISBN: | 978-981-4463-27-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2014 |
| Publisher: | Pan Stanford Publishing
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $57.95USD $57.95 |
Book Description:
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With the increased adoption of natural science tools in economics, anthropology, and political science, to name only a few social scientific fields highlighted in this volume, quantitative methods in the humanities are becoming more common. This book offers a tour of quantitative analyses, models, and simulations of humanities and social science phenomena that have been historically the purview of qualitative methods. This is the first book of its kind that deals with computer modeling...
More DescriptionWith the increased adoption of natural science tools in economics, anthropology, and political science, to name only a few social scientific fields highlighted in this volume, quantitative methods in the humanities are becoming more common. This book offers a tour of quantitative analyses, models, and simulations of humanities and social science phenomena that have been historically the purview of qualitative methods. This is the first book of its kind that deals with computer modeling in both the humanities and the social sciences, and thus, simultaneously creates and explores new ground.