期刊
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 948, 期 -, 页码 1-148出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2021.10.005
关键词
Multidisciplinarity; Thermodynamics; Statistical physics; Human behaviour; Sustainability
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [JP20H04288, JP21K04545, JP21H03625]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP21H04595]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO grant [JPMJPR20M2]
- National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, China [62025602]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62173065, 11975025, U1803263, 11931015, 81961138010]
- Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation of China [171105]
- Key Technology Research-and-Development Program of the Science and Technology-Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Shaanxi Province, China [2020TD-013]
- Croatian Science Foundation [2018-01-3150 AqADAPT]
- Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0403, J1-2457, J1-9112, J7-3156]
- European Research Council [804744]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [RG90413]
- Health and Medical Research Fund, Food and Health Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [20190712]
- International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA), an initiative - COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
- National University of Singapore
- Ministry of Education Tier 1 grants [WBS R-109-000-270-133]
- East Africa Peru India Climate Capacities-EPICC project, International Climate Initiative (IKI) - Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
In recent years, physics methods have been widely used to study societal phenomena. Social physics examines topics at the core of modern human societies and explores potential threats to society. The future of this field looks promising, with physicists playing an important role in studying social phenomena.
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their traditional domains of interest, but also due to scientists from other disciplines taking from physics the methods that have proven so successful throughout the 19th and the 20th century. Here we characterise the field with the term 'social physics' and pay our respect to intellectual mavericks who nurtured it to maturity. We do so by reviewing the current state of the art. Starting with a set of topics that are at the heart of modern human societies, we review research dedicated to urban development and traffic, the functioning of financial markets, cooperation as the basis for our evolutionary success, the structure of social networks, and the integration of intelligent machines into these networks. We then shift our attention to a set of topics that explore potential threats to society. These include criminal behaviour, large-scale migration, epidemics, environmental challenges, and climate change. We end the coverage of each topic with promising directions for future research. Based on this, we conclude that the future for social physics is bright. Physicists studying societal phenomena are no longer a curiosity, but rather a force to be reckoned with. Notwithstanding, it remains of the
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