THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL CONFLICT: SOCIO-ENERGY APPROACH


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This paper examines the possibility of presenting social conflict and some of its features by means of mathematics in terms of socio-energy approach.

This research is extremely important today in connection with the need to create a prognostic device for such phenomena.

Methodology of the article includes methods of mathematical modeling based on nonlinear dynamics, system approach and Wiener processes.

At the beginning of the article the author gives a brief classification of social conflicts, as well as describes the state of the science in this field of knowledge. There are four main types of conflicts classified in several types of their localization and rise conditions according to various persons and their groups.

The paper introduces the basics of socio-energy approach, its instruments and representation of the energy flow through the social system, including a graphical vector imaging. At the core of socio-energy approach there is a nonlinear dynamic model, as well as the elements of fractal geometry to describe intrastructural distributions in the society.

The author considers three main theories on classification of a social conflict: by Coser, Dahrendorf, and Boulding. Two aspects of social conflict are highlighted: they are static and dynamic.

As a result, the author gives certain generalized statements true for most types of social conflicts, as well as mathematically defined concept of social conflict. This description will facilitate further creation of a mathematical model of a social conflict based on stochastic differential equations. Such instrument is able to properly reveal specific basic processes and characteristics of ethnical and social conflicts, and conditions for their generation and localization.

About the authors

Alexandr Yurievich Petukhov

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod

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Email: Lectorr@yandex.ru

PhD (Political Science), Head of Research Center “Modeling of social and political processes”, assistant professor of Chair “History and International Relations Theory”

Russian Federation

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