The study and the analysis of the social reality as a relational network could bring to a double point of view. The first one concerns a reading of the social world as a complex multidimensional network of relationships, made of one dimension for each relation. The dimensions aren't strictly distinguished, but they could be seen as a complex unity; the second point of view concerns the classical and recent network analysis approaches, which identify the relations as a set of interactions among differents points in the social space. Is it possible to unify these two approaches? The complex approach and the network one have of course a logic behind them: which is this logic? And there is one logic or different kinds of logic? Is it a problem of data-analysis or are there other kinds of reasons? In our process,reality it is a net of relations: the time, the grounds of the relations constitute the context of reality that dictates the cognitive procedures, that is frame and methodological meaning. The complex structure of the net does shade each individual dimension in the others, the individual times and the individuals spaces of relations, each dimensional characteristic, they interact among themselves.It emerges a contextual place, builder and modifier among, always built and altered, whose "logical" control is autoproduced by the pluridimensional context of the relations, that is vague, provided of characteristics of universal approximation of the functions and with ability of learning of the own indicators in functional analogy with the neural system.
The study of social reality as a relational network: about the context
AMPOLA, MASSIMO
2004-01-01
Abstract
The study and the analysis of the social reality as a relational network could bring to a double point of view. The first one concerns a reading of the social world as a complex multidimensional network of relationships, made of one dimension for each relation. The dimensions aren't strictly distinguished, but they could be seen as a complex unity; the second point of view concerns the classical and recent network analysis approaches, which identify the relations as a set of interactions among differents points in the social space. Is it possible to unify these two approaches? The complex approach and the network one have of course a logic behind them: which is this logic? And there is one logic or different kinds of logic? Is it a problem of data-analysis or are there other kinds of reasons? In our process,reality it is a net of relations: the time, the grounds of the relations constitute the context of reality that dictates the cognitive procedures, that is frame and methodological meaning. The complex structure of the net does shade each individual dimension in the others, the individual times and the individuals spaces of relations, each dimensional characteristic, they interact among themselves.It emerges a contextual place, builder and modifier among, always built and altered, whose "logical" control is autoproduced by the pluridimensional context of the relations, that is vague, provided of characteristics of universal approximation of the functions and with ability of learning of the own indicators in functional analogy with the neural system.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
