cliodynamics

 

  • [10] The rise of digital history and various research technologies have allowed huge databases to be constructed in recent years.

  • Although the focus is usually on the dynamics of large conglomerates of people, the approach of cliodynamics does not preclude the inclusion of human agency in its explanatory
    theories.

  • Research Areas of study[edit] As of 2016, the main directions of academic study in cliodynamics are: • The coevolutionary model of social complexity and warfare, based on
    the theoretical framework of cultural multilevel selection • The study of revolutions and rebellions[24][19][20] • Structural-demographic theory and secular cycles • Explanations of the global distribution of languages benefitted from the
    empirical finding that the geographic area in which a language is spoken is more closely associated with the political complexity of the speakers than with all other variables under analysis.

  • [15] • Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) o Archaeology[16] o World Cultures[17] • Clio-Infra, a database of measures of economic performance and other aspects of societal
    well-being on a global sample of societies from 1800 CE to the present.

  • [11] Seshat is affiliated also with the Evolution Institute, a non-profit think-tank that “uses evolutionary science to solve real-world problems.”

  • This mathematical description is the model of the system, and one can use a variety of methods to study the dynamics predicted by the model, as well as attempt to test the
    model by comparing its predictions with observed empirical, dynamic evidence.

  • Some prominent databases utilized by cliodynamics practitioners include: • The Seshat: Global History Databank, which systematically collects state-of-the-art accounts of
    the political and social organization of human groups and how societies have evolved through time into an authoritative databank.

  • [4][8][9] Cliodynamics is the application of a dynamical systems approach to the social sciences in general and to the study of historical dynamics in particular.

  • • D-PLACE (Database of Places, Languages, Culture and Environment), which provides data on over 1,400 human social formations.

  • Mathematical modeling of historical dynamics Many historical processes are dynamic, in that they change with time: populations increase and decline, economies expand and contract,
    states grow and collapse, and so on.

  • [13] • CHIA (Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis), a multidisciplinary collaborative endeavor hosted by the University of Pittsburgh with the goal of archiving
    historical information and linking data as well as academic/research institutions around the globe.

  • [43] Criticism Critics of cliodynamics often argue that the complex social formations of the past cannot and should not be reduced to quantifiable, analyzable ‘data points’,
    for doing so overlooks each historical society’s particular circumstances and dynamics.

  • Databases and data sources Cliodynamics relies on large bodies of evidence to test competing theories on a wide range of historical processes.

  • A similar analysis was performed on social media, again revealing strongly periodic structures.

 

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