Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

By Philip Ball. 2004

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The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics (2010, background): “The study of human crowd dynamics has recently found great interest in many research fields [1,2,3,4,5].”
The Physics of Communicability in Complex Networks (2011, methodology): “Some of the pioneers of statistical physics, like Maxwell and Boltzmann, were inspired by the works of social scientists Buckle and Quetelet; see (Ball, 2004).”
Statistical physics of social dynamics (2007, unknown): “The Advancement-Decline model 42”
Science education for environmental awareness: approaches to integrating cognitive and affective domains (2008, background): “…that we influence what we observe, demolishing the concept of unequivocal objectivity, and complex interactions are inherently impossible to predict in any finite sense, leaving uncertainty and probability as the main way of interpreting complex systems (Kaufmann 1995; Greene 2000; Ball 2004).”
Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability (2007, background): “These are issues now explored in the rapidly growing field of agent-based modelling (Gilbert and Troitzsch, 2005) and in the study of emergent structures (Sawyer, 2005), diversity (Ostrom, 2005) and power law distributions in social phenomena (Ball, 2005).”
Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, unknown): “…makes more sense to assume that cost–benefit decisions are made independently, with conformity potentially among the biases in making those decisions (e.g., Boyd & Richerson, 1985, 2005; Gintis, in press; Henrich, 2001, 2004; Henrich & Boyd, 2001; McElreath, Boyd, & Richerson, 2003; Shennan, 2002).”
Evolutionary games on graphs (2006, background): “Two new disciplines, socio- and econophysics were born, and the already existing field of biological physics got a new impetus with the clear mission to utilize the theoretical machinery of physics for making progress in questions whose investigation were traditionally connected to the social scienc”
Beyond Gaussian averages: redirecting international business and management research toward extreme events and power laws (2007, background): “It turns out that most real life small world networks are scale-free (Ball, 2004) and fractal (Song et al., 2005).”