Sociology 101Sociology 101This model provides an abstract representation of the attitudes of a population. Modern surveying techniques can use various measures such as the frequencies of certain words in public discourse to gauge the "mood" of a population. This is useful to leaders who might wish to change or respond to the peoples’ mood.
This model consists of two groups – the passive and the aggressive. Individuals can shift from one group to another according to the processes of pacification and feralization, which in turn are affected by the influences on the population. The passive and aggressive populations over time are modeled on the graph to the right.
Simply set the values of the variables to whatever you like, and then press run to simulate a population under those conditions. The data will be displayed on the graph, allowing you to see how changing certain factors changes the population.
As the processes of pacification are made more robust, the passive population will tend to be larger; as the processes of feralization are made more robust, the aggressive population will tend to be larger. However, for any setup the proportion in each class will not remain constant, but rather will shift over time due to long-term processes and random variation.