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work_tydlfxvurvfqxbvspmtpfndr2i	Philip Ball	The physical modelling of society: a historical perspective	2002.0	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5190	345	64	Keywords: Statistics; History of physics; Statistical mechanics; Social science; Gaussian that chance and randomness in the world of people and politics, far from banishing predictability and making social science oxymoronic, seemed to have laws of Modern physics-based models of social, economic and political behaviour invoke idealizations of human behaviour that might make sociologists blanch. models of social science fail to anticipate such collective behaviour because they ignore the nonlinearities that interactions can produce. Physics-based social modelling is often perceived as a new idea, but in fact it predates Newton. they feature prominently among the pioneers of "social physics", the search for law-like 19th century, laws that applied to Graunt's "social numbers", such as the approximate The term "social physics" was =rst coined by the French political philosopher empirical science of social statistics avoided such imponderables by discovering laws his particles and the individuals in the social censuses that furnished Buckle's statistics:	./cache/work_tydlfxvurvfqxbvspmtpfndr2i.pdf	./txt/work_tydlfxvurvfqxbvspmtpfndr2i.txt