Sociophysics: a personal testimony

✍ Scribed by Serge Galam

• Book ID: 103881260
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Volume: 336
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.01.009

✦ Synopsis

The origins of Sociophysics are discussed from a personal testimony. I trace back its history to the late 1970s. My 20 years of activities and research to establish and promote the ÿeld are reviewed. In particular, the con icting nature of Sociophysics with the physics community is revealed from my own experience. Recent presentations of a supposed natural growth from Social Sciences are criticized.