Social Science
Articles
The wisdom of herds: How
social mood moves the world, by John Casti
To see what our world might be like tomorrow, next year or next decade, we need
to spend time and money investigating "social mood".
Books
Designing
Freedom, by Stafford Beer
By advocating a new insistence on variety reducing methods which worked in
a bygone epoch, we advocate precisely the wrong thing, and seal our doom. THIS
is the real threat to all we hold most dear. (pdf)
Videos
History's Hidden Engine, documentary by David Edmond
Moore
With the help of pop songs, news footage and cultural images that are familiar
to everyone, this documentary shows how social mood drives trends in movies,
music, fashion, finance, economics, politics, the media and war.
Links
Socionomics Institute
Socionomics is a new theory of social causality that offers fresh insights
into collective human behavior. Over twenty years of empirical research demonstrates
that social actions are not causal to changes in social mood, but rather changes
in social mood motivate changes in social action.
Socionomics Foundation
The Socionomics Foundation provides education and funds research exploring
socionomic theory and how it can benefit individuals and institutions through
a better understanding of the dynamics of social and cultural change.
Royal Society for
the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
A cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress for over 250
years.
Understanding Uncertainty
Chance, risk, luck, uncertainty and probability.
Virtual Human
Interaction Lab
The dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual
reality simulations.