Sociophysics: a personal testimony

Abstract

The origins of Sociophysics are discussed from a personal testimony. I trace back its history to the late seventies. My twenty years of activities and research to establish and promote the field are reviewed. In particular the conflicting nature of Sociophysics with the physics community is revealed from my own experience. Recent presentations of a supposed natural growth from Social Sciences are criticized.

7 pages, no figure, Proceedings of the XVIII Max Born Symposium on Statistical Physics outside Physics, Ladek, Poland, September 2003

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