Relationship between mathematics and sociology

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Mathematics

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Sociologists’ models show social life because of interactions among people or adaptive agents that influence one another in response to the distortions they receive. In this case, the models enable sociologists to understand ways that familiar global patterns of social structure emanate from predictable and straightforward local interactions between agents. Moreover, mathematics aids in the development of sociological concepts and theory, through the identification of patterns and relationships between variables that influence social phenomena. Simple models have the advantage of presenting a clear view of the world free form cluttered data. The growth and development of the mathematical sociology promote the education research community of theories that view thinking and reasoning as the results of social activities. Moreover, the mathematical formulation of sociological phenomena provides a premise for a very general and integrative theory.

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