Social dynamics and the quantifying of social forces

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Social and industrial evolutionary processes were considered to be a sequence of replacements or substitutions: new ideas for old, new labor patterns for old, new technologies for old. The logistic equation was often used to describe population growth processes and replacement processes. It sometimes suffered from contradicting observational data. The deviations were often associated with unusual intermittent events (wars, strikes, economic panics, etc.) and in many cases a few years after the event it could be abstracted as an instantaneous .delta. function impulse. After the event, the evolutionary process continued along its normal course. A formula was derived to use the observational data to determine the strength of the impulse modeling an event.

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