[La politique des modèles sociaux des physiciens]
Je donne un aperçu du sujet de ce dossier, les « applications de la physique (statistique) aux sciences sociales en général ». Je présente plusieurs exemples de modèles sociaux simples mis en avant par les physiciens et je discute leur intérêt. Je soutiens que, bien qu'ils puissent être conceptuellement utiles pour corriger nos modèles intuitifs de mécanismes sociaux, leur pertinence pour les systèmes sociaux réels n'est pas évidente. Qui plus est, puisque les physiciens ont toujours eu besoin de « dompter » le monde à l'intérieur des laboratoires pour rendre leurs modèles pertinents, je suggère que la modélisation sociale pourrait être liée au dressage des humains, un projet politique inquiétant.
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I give an overview of the topic of this dossier, the “applications of (statistical) physics to social sciences at large.” I discuss several examples of simple social models put forward by physicists and examine their interest. I argue that while they may be conceptually useful to correct our intuitive models of social mechanisms, their relevance for real social systems is moot. What is more, since physicists have always needed to ‘tame’ the world inside laboratories to make their models relevant, I suggest that social modeling might be linked to human taming, a smashing political project.
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Mot clés : Sociophysique, Politique, Modèle
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author = {Pablo Jensen},
title = {The politics of physicists' social models},
journal = {Comptes Rendus. Physique},
pages = {380--386},
publisher = {Elsevier},
volume = {20},
number = {4},
year = {2019},
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Pablo Jensen. The politics of physicists' social models. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 20 (2019) no. 4, pp. 380-386. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2019.05.016. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2019.05.016/
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