Chapter
1.2 Boiling points as test-probes
1.3 Basic principles of the physics of mixing
1.5 Physical properties of a mixture as a tool for exploring bonds
1.6 Estimating the correlation length in social phenomena
Appendix Gauging the links between two twinned communities
2 The battle against noise in physics
2.1 Improving the signal to noise ratio in the pendulum experiment
2.2 Noise reduction in the detection of gravitational waves
2.3 Pattern matching: a simulation
3 The battle against noise in the social sciences
3.1 The extreme value technique
3.2 Pattern matching: knowing when and what to observe
3.3 Reducing noise by adding up several realizations
3.4 Confidence intervals and statistical significance
3.5 Upgrading statistical tests
4 Equilibrium and metastable states
4.1 Equilibrium restoring forces
4.2 Probing the strength of equilibrium restoring forces
4.3 Metastable states in physics and chemistry
4.4 Metastability, seeds and forms of post-revolution societies
5.1 The replication process for the Foucault pendulum experiment
5.2 The replication process for cold nuclear fusion
5.3 Biased suicide statistics
5.4 Interactions between Japanese population and occupation forces
5.5 Conclusions and perspectives
Part II Macro-interactions
6.1 Marketing campaigns: shaping the response of consumers
6.2 Public relations campaigns: example of cell phones in cars
6.3 Shaping the Zeitgeist: the promotion of neoliberalism
6.3.1 The Road to Serfdom
6.3.2 Influence of business associations
6.4 Tangible effects of neoliberal policies
6.5 A network perspective
6.5.1 Implication for democracy
6.5.2 Montesquieu and the balance of power
Appendix From Edward Bernays to Isaac Asimov
7.1 Role of the United States in the First Vietnam War
7.3 Identification of interference through the coincidence method
8 The absentee ownership syndrome
8.1 Land reform in Japan under General MacArthur
8.2 How the strength of interpersonal interactions conditions human behavior
8.3 Effects of absentee ownership in Ireland
8.4 Effect of segmentation on the effectiveness of a social system
8.5 Hardship as a side effect of absentee landlordism
8.6 The absentee landlord paradigm in history
8.7 Assessing interaction in settler colonies
8.7.1 Colonization of Normandy by the Vikings
8.7.2 Colonization of Mexico by the Spanish
8.8 Revolutions seen as a way to end absentee landlordism
8.9 Present-day manifestations of the absentee ownership syndrome
Part III Micro-interactions: a network explanation of suicide
9 Effects of a male–female imbalance
9.1 Suicide rates of unmarried versus married people
9.2 Suicide rate in a population with a gender imbalance
9.3 Designing the experiment
9.3.1 An unsuccessful experiment
9.4 Suicide rates as a function of sex ratio in groups of immigrants
9.5 Cross-sectional analysis
9.6 Male–female imbalance induced by war
Appendix Suicide rate in a population with a sex ratio r = 1
10 Effect of weakened marital bonds on suicide
10.1 Suicide rate of young widowers
10.2 Effect of falling marriage rates
10.3 Effect of a sudden upsurge in marriages
10.4 Connection between mean age of marriage and suicide rate
10.6 Cross-sectional analysis
11 Effect of social isolation on suicide
11.1 Effect of major historical events on suicide
11.1.1 September 11, 2001
11.1.3 Weakness of long-range ties
11.2 Effect of social isolation on suicide
11.2.1 Suicide among inmates
11.2.2 Suicide in solitary confinement
11.3 Effect of a rearrangement of social ties
11.4 Effect on suicide of the social disruption experienced by immigrants
11.5 Effect of immigration on suicide rates in the country of destination
11.5.1 Immigrants with high suicide rates
11.5.2 Effect of Hispanic immigration on US suicide rates
11.6 Non-linear mixing relationships
12.1 Apoptosis versus necrosis
12.2 Role of apoptosis in the development of multicellular organisms
12.4 Apoptosis in populations
12.5 Apoptosis in groups of mammals
12.6 Apoptosis in human societies
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