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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 22: Social Systems, Opinion and Group Dynamics II

SOE 22.1: Talk

Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:15–11:30, GÖR 226

Chemistry of Social Bonds: Cooperation, Integration, Segregation, Aggression — •Juergen Mimkes — Physics Department, U. Paderborn, Germany

Relatives mix like water and wine, enemies separate like water and oil. This chemical model of integration and segregation by Empedocles (490 to 430 BC) is discussed for regular binary solutions like sugar in tea or foreigners in Germany: The amount of sugar that can be dissolved, depends on the temperature of the tea and the cohesive forces of sugar. The amount of foreigners that can be integrated in Germany, depends on the German standard of living and on the cohesive forces of the foreign group due to differences in religion, language, ethnicity, etc. In alloys the model parameters lead to cooperation (NaCl), integration (CuNi), segregation (FePb) or aggression (H2,O2). In societies sympathy leads to cooperation and order, tolerance or indifference to integration and disorder, preference to segregation and ghettos, antipathy to aggression and social conflict. The degree of integration is a thermometer of tolerance of a society. The model has been tested by intermarriage data in different binary societies: Germans and foreigners, Catholics and non-Catholics in Germany and Northern Ireland, Blacks and Whites in USA, Muslims and non-Muslims in Germany and Bosnia.